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20218375New York: W. W. Norton 2021. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing with the appropriate number line beginning with 1.on the copyright page. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. Huge at 898 pages with photographs notes and index. The definitive portrait of the literary titan. This is a copy of the controversial novel that was dropped by W.W. Norton following accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against its author. The New York Times article about the Norton decision and finding a new publisher laid in.As new. Unread. Ships in well-padded box. . W. W. Norton Hardcover
20212212207New York: Norton 2021. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket first edition a rare copy of the withdrawn edition. Complete row of numbers to 1 on the copyright page. In April 2021 Bailey was dropped by his agency the Story Factory following allegations of sexual misconduct made in the comments section of a literary blog; Bailey denies the allegations. In a statement to the Associated Press on April 21 by W. W. Norton & Company the publisher announced that it decided to pause the shipping and promotion of Philip Roth: The Biography "pending any further information that may emerge. On April 28 W. W. Norton announced that it was taking the book out of print. Norton hardcover
20211-1510769722Skyhorse Pub Co Inc 2021. Paperback. New. 960 pages. 9.25x6.12x2.40 inches. Skyhorse Pub Co Inc paperback
2021Pv3349<p>First Edition/First Printing of the Bailey's controversial bio of Roth. Shortly after publication WW Norton publisher of the biography in the US announced that it was temporarily suspending the book's shipping and promotion as it emerged that Bailey faced allegations of sexual harassment and abuse which he denied. A week later Norton confirmed that it was withdrawing the book from sale and pulping remaining copies. A tiny nick to the front jacket flap and the tiniest spots on paper edges--else a new unread book. Book #Pv3349. $55. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand history and science.</p> Norton hardcover
20211002842New York: Norton 2021. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. Unread. Blake Bauley's controversial biography about Philip Roth. After sexual assault allegations about the author surfaced Norton stopped shipping the book and pulverized the remaining copies.Light bunping to spine ends and bottom corners. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Norton Hardcover
201423068New York City NY: W. W. Norton & Company 2014. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. New York City NY: W. W. Norton & Company 2014. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 255 pages. The author's debut memoir. One of Blake Bailey's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Blake Bailey's "The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait". Fathers sons and brothers: A literary elegy for family brotherhood and life itself. "Author of acclaimed biographies of Richard Yates 'A Tragic Honesty' John Cheever 'Cheever: A Life' and Charles Jackson 'Farther And Wilder' Blake Bailey once remarked that his aim in writing such books was 'to reconcile the paradox of a highly compartmentalized personality'. This memoir suggests that Bailey's fascination with compartmentalized people and his explicating the simultaneous bleakness and beauty of their lives stems from personal experience. Bailey's older brother Scott careened from one disaster to the next bewildering and disappointing everyone around him. Though Scott has functional moments including a stint in the Marines during which he became a Master Sharpshooter such moments become footnotes to a larger pattern of wrecked cars jail time and intoxicated self-pity. Their father an upright Oklahoma attorney tries to wash his hands of his son as Scott becomes increasingly unhinged. As his own life begins to blossom Bailey remains an ambivalent participant in this sad family saga torn by his antipathy for his brother yet aware of all that they share" Brendan Driscoll. "You can hate a person with all your heart and soul and still long for that person" Blake Bailey. An absolute "must-have" title for Blake Bailey collectors. This copy is very prominently neatly and beautifully signed dated shortly after publication and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "To Rita Thanks for coming Best Blake Bailey 3.14.14". It is signed directly on the page itself not on a tipped-in page. The recipient who is named obtained the signature during a public signing event. Then she apparently put the copy away as it remains in brand-new condition. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know this is the only such signed post-publication dated and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean crisp and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws are subsequent editions or are remainder-marked. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. SEE ALSO OTHER BLAKE BAILEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG. ISBN 0393239578. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
Q-0393239578W. W. Norton & Company 2014-03-03. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
201483022New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2014. First Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Robert Devriendt Jacket Art and Marlies Bailey. 10 254 4 pages. Frontis illustration. Signed by the author sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. Blake Bailey born July 1 1963 is an American writer. Bailey is known for his literary biographies of Richard Yates John Cheever Charles Jackson and Philip Roth. He is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever's stories and novels. In an interview with The New York Times published on November 17 2012 Philip Roth said that Bailey was his official biographer and at work on that project.7 While Roth was alive he gave Bailey exclusive access to papers friends and family and made himself available for extensive interviews This work won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Splendid Things We Planned is Bailey's darkly funny account of growing up in the shadow of an erratic and increasingly dangerous brother an exhilarating and sometimes harrowing story that culminates in one unforgettable Christmas. Though a memoir this literary biography reveals the gripping true-life novel at the core of the author's own experience. A brother's lament a hard-won clear-eyed view of one family's tortured history The Splendid Things We Planned is everything we hope for in a modern memoir. Blake Bailey's triumph here is both personal and literary: A beautiful book rising out of the ruins. Meet the Baileys: Burck a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion's Citizen of the Year in his tiny hometown of Vinita Oklahoma; his wife Marlies who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Village as a pretty young German immigrant fresh off the boat; their addled son Scott who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake the younger son trying to find a way through the storm. You're gonna be just like me a drunken Scott taunts him. You're gonna be worse. Blake Bailey has been hailed as addictively readable and praised for his ability to capture lives compellingly and in harrowing detail. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: It seems fitting that biographer Bailey tells the story of his own life by chronicling his brother Scott's alcoholism and drug addiction which causes him to descend into violence and madness. Told in chronological order starting with the marriage of his straight-laced lawyer father to his bohemian German-immigrant mother Bailey's story captures the contradictions and tensions that simmer just below the surface of the family as they try to live a normal suburban life in Oklahoma. But as Scott goes from being a self-absorbed teen to a pothead college dropout and junkie the family dynamic unravels breaking up the marriage as the author himself heads toward alcoholism debauchery and ennui—though not to his brother's depths. But this is Scott's story and Bailey tells it wonderfully in a tragicomic tone that slowly reveals the true depths to which his older brother has sunk. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover
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1946336H0933New York: Editorial Publications 1946. Magazine. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pages 73-136. Features: Cover illustration of carved panel from 1600's oak chest; Needlework portrait of George Washington; Accent on Washingtoniana - The Yale-de Lancey Kountze Collection at Mount Vernon; Burnap Collection of English Pottery - Part 1; Seventeenth-century Window Lights; Antiques in California - a Record of a Loan Exhibition; A Note on Emanuel Leutze; A Battle Painting; American Silver Tongs - from the collection of Francis M. Rosenfeld; A Cross-Section of Valentineship 1946 1846 1746; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Covers loose but present. Above-average wear. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Editorial Publications Paperback
18011227331801. London : Dalla Stamperia di Gul. Bulmer 1801. <br /> <br /> Thick 4to 2 1 1-721 pp. Printed in English and Italian. Contemporary red straight-grained goatskin flat spine banded with double gilt rules single gilt rule to the margins of the boards all edges gilt some foxing to the preliminaries binding repaired and refurbished still showing some scratches and stains but still an attractive copy.<br /> <br /> § Only edition of absolute rarity three copies recorded none at auctionone in the marketplace bought by Yale. Maggs wrote of this copy: "Written by an associate of William Blake this is a profoundly eccentric production full of the revolutionary spirit of the times combining mysticism philosophy electricity and magnetism. One of an unknown number of copies privately printed for the author without a title page by George Bulmer all of them intended for presentation to the author's friends this copy bearing the 19th Century ownership inscription 'Girdlestone' for whose identity there are several candidates none completely convincing.<br /> <br /> It is in two parts the first "An Investigation into Principles" written in English is a series of reflections on the nature of elements gravitation "the pressure of the general ethereal fluid against our orb" time "Look for time in the vast expanse Eternity will start to view and time revolve no more" tides earthquakes and the lack of salt in rain when raised into the sky by waterspouts it is sweetened by the action of electricity. His logic is baffling at times demonstrating the wisdom of a forward five year old or of an experienced haschischan : for instance he observes that gravity isn't all that Newton cracked it up to be since water "from a known principle in hydraulics" rises to the top of mountains which truth he derives from the fact that rivers never run dry. "On the Barleycorn" is a dialogue between Mata and Ata based on a conversation with George Finch Earl of Winchilsea concerning wisdom folly genius reason the individuality and the faculty of the soul.<br /> <br /> The second part is titled "On the Soul. On Magnetism. Magnetic Productions." and comprises the transcripts of Avena's automatic writings see below in Italian many with English introductions and some untranscribed writings dismissed as "too confused to merit attention". There are a total 51 sessions in the first year dated to "Alessandria 1796" 52 in the second year and 27 in the third and last year. The last two years have almost no English narrative.<br /> <br /> In researching this book we Maggs rely heavily on the intoxicating and brilliant essay by Marsha Schuchard "Blake's Healing Trio: Magnetism Medicine and Mania" published in Blake an Illustrated Quarterly Vol 23 Issue 1 which explores Blake's relationship with the "eclectic network of illuminés which included Swedenborgians Freemasons and Cabalists who shared his interest in animal magnetism spirit-communication and erotic trances". George Baldwin was one of these and is included as "Baldwin of Egypt's Lake" in a vicious later 1808 - 1811 poem attacking their lack of commitment to his studies.<br /> <br /> Baldwin born in 1744 was an author and diplomat who became very wealthy in the later years of the 18th century establishing trade links for the East India Company with Egypt owning a monopoly of the British trade route through Suez demonstrating remarkable prescience about the importance to British trade of this route to the east. He was British Consul-General in Egypt from 1786 to 1796 in which position he warned the British Government of French plans to take over Egypt a warning which was largely ignored. When the French invaded Egypt in 1798 he left the country for Italy leaving behind substantial property in Alexandria which was seized by the French. He was of considerable help in the planning of the British counter invasion returning to Egypt in 1801 with the British forces and claimed the credit for the decision to breach the canal in Alexandria and flood Lake Mareotis to hinder French navigation which played a significant role in the recapture of Egypt - this is what Blake refers to when he mentions "Baldwin of Egypt's Lake." It is attractive to think of a time in which a man could be a senior servant of the state as well as indulging in such arcane personal tastes.<br /> <br /> Baldwin's wife Jane Malpass a famous Greek beauty sat for her portrait to Sir Joshua Reynolds and to Richard Cosway who introduced Baldwin to English devotees who believed in healing by magnetism which although he was a popular figure in English society made him the subject of some ridicule. Some Blake scholars believe that Jane Malpass is one of the figures in Blake's 'Vala' manuscript. Baldwin had come across what he claimed were many cures in Egypt using magnetism and experimented on himself with he said considerable success. His Magus so to speak was an itinerant poet one Cesare Avena di Valdieri who passed on his gifts to Baldwin during magnetic sleep. The 'Principles' begins in English with a history of the development of Animal Magnetism then turns to Italian and intertwines the further exploration of the theme with the story of Baldwin's 'contact' with the spirit of his lost first love through the mediumship of Valdieri in a magnetised trance. Both Blake and Baldwin believed that the same Muse that dictated spirit writings to them also inspired Milton in the writing of 'Paradise Lost'. <br /> <br /> Baldwin was in London from 1781-6 where he must have first encountered the English school of Animal Magnetism a fashionable science begun largely by Franz Anton Mesmer who was for a while very successful as a practitioner in London society. It is highly likely that Baldwin made the acquaintance of Blake during these years. Mesmer was soon eclipsed by his disciple Dr. John Bonniot de Mainaduc who became a very rich man treating the great and the good of British society from Royalty downwards. Mainaduc published in 1798 a series of lectures with a frontispiece by Cosway where much of the phraseology bears a striking resemblance to the writings of Blake. Baldwin was back in Egypt in 1786 from where he ordered many publications on Animal Magnetism and on his interest in 'native' medicines with their use of magic and trance states. He set himself up as a practitioner and claimed much success as a healer - it is thought that a drawing from Blake's notebooks showing a cloaked man wearing a turban treating a young crippled girl represents Baldwin. Baldwin even claimed to be able to heal the plague rife in Egypt at the time mainly by the use of massage with olive oil. <br /> <br /> This publication originated with Baldwin's meeting with Valdieri and his consequent magnetisation of the poet who poured forth the verse printed here dictated to him by spirits. In 1797 Baldwin was visited in Egypt by the art connoisseur Thomas Hope a devotee of Animal Magnetism. The copy of this book in Emory University Library is inscribed to Hope's brother Henry a wealthy banker and disciple of Mainaduc. The inscription reads 'To Henry Hope Esq from his humble servant George Baldwin author of the English part of this work and editor only of the Italian'. Baldwin himself categorises the principles of the title as 'the discovery of a spiritual influence on the physical temperature of man'.<br /> <br /> Worldcat reports only two copies in institutions worldwide Emory University and the University of Chicago but a deeper poke reveals a mis-catalogued copy in the British Library. Not in Crabtree Animal Magnetism early hypnotism and psychical research an annotated bibliography. 1766-1925."<br /> <br /> DNB notes: "Baldwin was welcomed into London society as an exotic newcomer. He was described by Wright as 'lolling on oriental cushions amid strange hangings' T. Wright Life of William Blake 1929 2.31 and had some interesting pictures to share. Baldwin became intrigued by Cosway's keen interest in the therapeutic powers of magnetism as expounded by John de Mainauduc. Baldwin's presence was noted in William Blake's lines:<br /> Cosway Frazer and Baldwin of Egypt's lake<br /> Fear to associate with Blake<br /> This life is a warfare against evils<br /> They heal the sick he Blake casts out devils."<br /> Bentley BBS 495 p. 404. unknown
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