[Literary Essays] Kazin, AlfredBiblio.com
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196224043<p>Boston::: Little Brown & Co 1962. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus unclipped bright dust jacket with some light edge wear to the spine. With this collection of essays Kazin has produced a critical survey of the modern spirit in literature featuring over seventy essays including individual studies ranging from Melville Emerson and Thoreau to James Agee Saul Bellow and James Baldwin. With obscure concepts increasingly clouding today's literary scene the frank common sense of critic Alfred Kazin is a relief. Kazin one of the most influential and widely known American critics abhors literary sham and uses the yardstick of reality as the tool of his criticism. This collection spans literature from the Romantics to the present and Kazin deals with the American writers of the classic tradition - Melville Emerson Thoreau; he evaluates the Continental writers.</p> Little Brown & Co,, hardcover
199627383<p>New York:: Knopf 1996. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In this collection of essays William Gass writes about literary language about history about the avant-garde about minimalism's brief vogue about the use of the present tense in fiction Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future about biography as a form about exile - spiritual and geographical - and he examines the relationship of the writer's life to the writer's work. Gass writes with wit and intelligence as he sifts through cultural issues of our time and contemplates how written language whether a sentence or an entire book is a container of consciousness the gateway to another's mind that we enter for a while and make our own.</p> Knopf, hardcover
193424352Philadelphia::: Centaur Press 1934. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with two lightly bumped corners in a Near Fine glassine tissue Jacket. This collection of seventeen essays by the author of Winesburg Ohio features pieces on: Meeting Ring Lardner Death on a Winter Day Gertrude Stein A Man's Mind Margaret Anderson: Real--Unusual and Prize Fighters and Authors to name but a few. A very uncommon copy of an uncommon Anderson title. Centaur Press,, unknown
197527850Boston :: Godine 1975. First Printing of the First Trade Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This is one of only 3000 copies of the trade edition. The color blue is the most suitable color of interior life.the one color that moves easily through our various states of feeling. Blue pencils blue noses blue movies laws and stockings. The dumps Mondays; the ocean the sky and the deep deep ice. The Whale and the grass in Kentucky. This essay into the "world of blue" is at the heart of Gass’s oeuvre. Godine, unknown
193123482New York:: Liveright 1931. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good plus dust jacket that has shallow chipping to the head & heel of spine. Uncommon in any kind of jacket. "This little book of essays.is an attempt to express in story form partly in broken verse partly in opinions .a growing conviction that modern man is losing his ability to retain his manhood in the face of the modern way of utilizing the maching and that what hope there is for him lies in women." From Anderson's introduction. Liveright, unknown
200229187<p>New York:: Knopf 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass "the finest prose stylist in America" Steven Moore Washington Post. Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative the extent and cost of political influences on writers or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make Gass is always erudite entertaining and enlightening.</p> Knopf, hardcover
198524940<p>New York::: Viking 1985. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The Flower and the Leaf is a collection of short essays that Cowley wrote between 1941 to the early 1980s. The essays cover many literary topics from: authors works intellectual issues and history. They are personal in tone and Cowley's love for books and writers emanates throughout even when he is critically analyzing a work or a writer. Some of the writers he discusses: T.S.Eliot Faulkner Cheever Hawthorne Whitman Stein just to name a few; covers the wide ranging landscape of American literature. Not only does Cowley write about his contemporaries those identified with the lost generation but also those of more recent times and those writers which defined American writing.</p> Viking,, hardcover
198927279<p>New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1989. First Printing of the First US Edition. S Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness and we are reminded above all of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.</p> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, hardcover
198928454<p>New York:: Knopf 1989. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography memoir diaries and correspondence when reviewing books: In reading his reviews we are struck by Maxwell's skill in choosing the one particular the haunting moment that further illuminates our understanding of the power of an individual life. His discernment is equally telling whether writing about literary luminaries such as Virginia Woolf Lord Byron E.B. White Isak Dinesen or delving into the diaries of an unknown Victorian curate with vivid dreams of murder and mayhem.</p> Knopf, hardcover
199527278New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1995. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, unknown
198423396<p>New York:: Persea Books 1984. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. Connolly spent his life immersed in literature and the arts and moved among the giants of modernism--James Joyce T.S. Eliot Huxley Hemingway Gide and Ezra Pound. He was the founder of Horizon magazine and one of the foremost editors and critics of his time. This collection features thirty of his essays broken into three sections: Travel Life and Literature and Satires and Parodies.</p> Persea Books, hardcover
197928602New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with light sunning to the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear and toning to the extremities. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, hardcover
197928906New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with light sunning to the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear and toning to the extremities. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, hardcover
197929244New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with remainder mark on bottom edge in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with sunning to the author's name on the spine. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, unknown
197929419<p>New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner name on flyleaf in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with a small nick to the head of the spine. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.</p> Simon & Schuster, hardcover
197928113New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a touch of sunning to the top edge of the front board which is typical in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light sunning to the head of the spine. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, hardcover
197928153New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with la touch of sunning to the top edge of the front board which is typical in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light toning to the front panel and two faint moisture spots to the bottom egde. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, unknown
197928403New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy with la touch of sunning to the top edge of the front board which is typical in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, unknown
1989168722Sewickley PA: International Images 1989. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Illustrated with 13 color plates. <br /> <br /> Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. International Images unknown
200246829Durham NC: North Carolina Central University Art Museum 2002. Very Good . Durham NC: North Carolina Central University Art Museum 2002. First Edition Wrapper Issue. Quarto 29cm; publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; 199pp.; illus. throughout chiefly full color. Light wear and creasing at wrapper margins else Very Good or better.<br /> <br /> Uncommon exhibition catalog featuring the oils watercolors and drawings of one of the youngest artists of the Harlem Renaissance Malvin Gray Johnson 1896-1934. This exhibit was the first to showcase Johnson's works since his premature death at the age of thirty-eight. North Carolina Central University Art Museum unknown
199229433New York:: Ecco Press 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight hardcover copy in a Fine dust jacket. In Dime-Store Alchemy the poet Charles Simic explores the surrealist art of Joseph Cornell through prose poems and essays creating a literary equivalent to Cornell's mysterious shadow boxes. Simic reflects on Cornell's use of found objects chance and the commonplace to create magic interweaving biography art history and personal meditation on beauty and imagination. The book is praised for its evocative dreamlike quality mirroring the enchanting and enigmatic nature of Cornell's work. Ecco Press, hardcover
105896Yale University Art Gallery. 2002. Yale University Art Gallery New Haven. 2002. First edition. Large 4to hardback with DW. Illustrated. Ownership signature to half title page. A lovely copy with very slightly worn boards in a lightly scratched and very slightly sunned wrapper. The wrapper has a die cut window which displays an illustrated etching mounted to upper board and there is a tiny closed tear to the top left corner of this window. hardcover
198828464New York:: Scribner's 1988. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This volume collects 14 naturalist essays by the author of Arctic Dreams and River Notes. In Crossing Open Ground writer Barry Lopez offers beautiful and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he’s traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the American Southwest recalling the devastating beaching of forty-one sperm whales along the Oregon coast or reveling in the remarkable migrations of wild geese Lopez shows readers the world’s special places its remarkable people and stunning natural events. He thoughtfully explores humankind’s place in this vast natural scheme and opens our eyes to its breathtaking complexity. Scribner's, unknown
198829494<p>New York:: Scribner's 1988. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. This copy is signed and inscribed by Lopez. This volume collects 14 naturalist essays by the author of Arctic Dreams and River Notes. In Crossing Open Ground writer Barry Lopez offers beautiful and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he's traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the American Southwest recalling the devastating beaching of forty-one sperm whales along the Oregon coast or reveling in the remarkable migrations of wild geese Lopez shows readers the world's special places its remarkable people and stunning natural events. He thoughtfully explores humankind's place in this vast natural scheme and opens our eyes to its breathtaking complexity.</p> Scribner's, hardcover
198729090Harrisburg :: Stackpole Books 1987. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This is Rick Bass's second book. The thirteen personal essays in this collection addresses Bass's love for the natural world and his search for the solace that that world provides him. Collectively they tell us much about the relationship between the wildness in ourself and the daily lives we live. Stackpole Books , unknown
