Literary executor (20 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. (Spring 1977); Near Fine/no dj, square 12mo., 20pp booklet, intact 2-staple binding, blue softcover wraps, b&w ill's., text unmarked, the uncommon first issue of this publication.

Hard cover. 579 p. From the Hudson Edition of Irving's Works. Includes "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. " Burgundy cloth binding with gold lettering on spine, gilt top edge of pages. Fabric is rippled around bottom end of spine covering as if by dampness. Copyright date is 1866. No other publishing date listed. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 200. Reginald 01209. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#12146).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Beautiful original publishers bound brown cloth HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD; light wear; gold gilt titles on cover and leather label on spine; top edge gold gilt; tight, square and clean. 579 pp. ILLUSTRATED with ENGRAVING, ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of Washington Irving at front, with tissue. Biographical Sketches include: Captain James Lawrence, Commodore Perry, Margaret Miller Davidson. Reviews and Miscellanies include: Robert Treat Paine, Conquest of Granada, Sleepy Hollow, Conspiracy of the Cocked Hats, The Catskill Mountains, and more. Modern Literature.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Volumes I and III are presented here. Both volumes are stated First Impressions 1913. Both volumes are in like condition, namely Near Fine with some light wear and staining to covers, lightly bumped. Internally, in beautiful condition. Full-Page Frontispiece of Thompson with tissue guard. Printed on beautiful paper elegant rough cut edges. Light foxing to Vol. III. ROBUST SHIPPING.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Etat : New. James F. Weiner is Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National UniversityThis is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology. Heideg.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Hudson edition. Author's revised edition. Copyright 1866, this edition undated [circa 1890]. Attractively bound volume in three quarter tan polished calf leather over marbled boards, dual spine labels in red and black, slightly raised spine bands, gilt decorated bands and compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, tissue-protected frontis engraving, just under 8.5 inches tall. Minor shelf rubbing and scuffing, rubbing to spine ends, spine slightly darkened, gilt bright and clear, firm text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. Single volume from a larger set of Irving's works. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Einband - fest (Hardcover). Etat : New.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-1951) was 13 when he started corresponding with pulp magazine writers H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. But he already had the instincts of a preservationist -- he convinced Lovecraft to stop throwing away his scrawled manuscripts after a story was published; Barlow offered to type the stories and send Lovecraft the typed copies if he could keep the autograph manuscripts. Barlow was attempting to write fantasy tales; Lovecraft -- who traveled to Florida for several extended visits -- undertook to tutor the youth in fiction writing. The two collaborated on six stories, including "The Night Ocean" (which new research has shown to be almost entirely Barlow's.) Barlow went on to write superb short stories without Lovecraft's help, including "A Dim-Remembered Story," "The Root-Gatherers," and "Return by Sunset." The older members of Lovecraft's coterie took offense when they learned he'd named young Barlow -- then 19 -- his literary executor. Barlow donated all the original materials to the John Hay Library at Brown. But Lovecraft disciples August Derleth and Donald Wandrei wanted to collect the master's stories in a book; they were not amused when Barlow published Lovecraft's commonplace book in a letterpress edition of seventy-five copies. They spread rumors that Barlow had pilfered books from Lovecraft's library. The macabre writer and artist Clark Ashton Smith responded by sending Barlow a note: "Please do not write me or try to communicate with me in any way. I do not wish to see you or hear from you after your conduct in regard to the estate of a late beloved friend." Barlow wrote the effect of the letter "was of cutting out my entrails with a meat cleaver," notes Paul La Farge in The New Yorker (March, 2017). He had been exiled from the literary universe that had been the focus of his life. He thought about killing himself, but instead decided to pursue an (apparently unrelated) interest in anthropology, ending up at Berkeley, where he studied under Alfred Kroeber, whose work with Ishi, the last California Stone Age Indian, had made him famous. Barlow's poignant memoir of Lovecraft, "The Wind That Is In the Grass" can be found in "Marginalia" (Arkham House, 1944.) In 1942, when Barlow was finishing his degree at Berkeley, he wrote "Poems for a Competition," which won both the 26th Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize for the best unpublished verse submitted by an undergraduate, AND the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Prize. After accepting a teaching position at the City College of Mexico, where he became a noted expert on the Nahuatl language and was appointed head of the Anthropology Department, he produced a second book of verse, "View from a Hill" (1947.) Lovecraft biographer S.T. Joshi describes both volumes as "scintillating." But where are they? Afraid of being outed as a homosexual by a disgruntled student (he probably would have lost his job, & could even have been prosecuted), Barlow committed suicide in 1951. Though Barlow wrote numerous learned papers, and the book "The Extent of the Empire of the Culhua Mexico" (U. of Calif., 1949), the only books of general interest in his known bibliography are the two slim volumes of verse, "Poems for a Competition" (Fugitive Press, 1942) and "View from a Hill" (Azcapotzalco, 1947). Look for them, and all you'll learn is that "their entire contents are reprinted in 'Eyes of the God,'" a 2002 anthology. Of the originals, no trace. Except that two copies of "Poems for a Competition," on quality paper in brown wraps, turn out to have been neatly hand-taped into boards and stored away in the archives of the University of California, stamped "July 31, 1942," with the words "UNIV OF CALIFORNIA" neatly hole-punched to the title pages. We offer one of those two copies of "Poems for a competition," separately. In some years of looking, that -- and just two 1947 printings of "View From a Hill" -- are the only originals we've ever found. 28 pp., printed on sepia paper.…

Etat : Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original deep midnight blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, duck egg blue title and border lines to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, red and black printed title, (xxiv), 540 pp + x pp catalogue with 3 further monochrome plates throughout. Partially removed book plate to the front paste down, spotting to the closed text block edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

See the Oxford DNB entry for Samuel Butler, which describes his close friendship with Jones ('It has been said that for twenty years they shared the favours (for a consideration) of the same woman, on different days of the week.') and musical collaborations. Signed 'Henry Festing Jones'. 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, on aged and lightly creased paper. As he is 'intending to be out of England by 1 July', he asks him to 'ask Lord Tennyson not to nominate me as Steward of the Royal Literary Fund & assure him that at the same time I am sensible of the honour he proposed'. …

Etat : leido. Hutchinson Publishers, London - ISBN:0091791529, 1995, 1995. hardcover, 6?" x 9?", with dust jacket As a five-year-old, William Graves was taken from England to the magical mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had returned with his new family. William deftly conveys the texture of life in Majorca - the food, the pattern of the seasons, the camaraderie and rivalries within the village, and the growing sense, particularly in the 1960s, that his fragile paradise was under threat. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. a clean 13 volume Knickerbocker edition set which includes, Life & Letters of Washington Irving I, II & III; The Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Biographies and Miscellanies; Tales of a Traveller; Christopher Columbus 3 volumes; The History of New York; Alhambra; Spanish Papers; Bracebridge Hall, strong inner hinges on all 13 volumes with light blue end papers without markings, period signature of former owner on the front fly on each volume, each volume has at least one steel engraving, some chipping to spine edges of all 13 volumes, Spanish Paper volume has a tear to outside lower edge of spine and Life & Letters Volume II rear inner hinge is stretched, many great details too numerous to list: please inquire!, priced to sell, will quote shipping based on destination.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Thunder's Mouth Press. New York. 1989. 155 pages. First edition, first printing. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Black paper-cover boards quarter-bound in copper cloth; titles stamped in gilt. Black endpapers. Original DJ with $19.95 price intact on flap. Most faint, scant foxing (barely) on top page edges. One corner gently pushed; otherwise about fine. DJ is bright and clean. Minimal, faint sunning; barely. Henry Dumas, a man referred to as "an absolute genius" by Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison, has long flown under the radar; yet his seminal contribution to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s is unquestioned. Dumas' poetry blends aspects of the American South, gritty urban America, and ancient Africa. Considered one of the most original black voices of the 1960's, his life was tragically cut short in a case of mistaken identity, at the hands of a transit officer on the platform of a Harlem subway station in 1968. Dumas was only 33 years old at the time of his death. A very attractive copy of the Dumas' uncommon classic; about NF with flaws noted.…

Cloth. Etat : Near fine. First Edition, Third Printing. Octavo, 140pp, [1pp ads]. Green cloth, beveled edges. Title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. The third printing, with advertisements for Whitman books published by McKay on page [141]. Contains corrected "melee" for "m lee" on page 6, and "least" for "last" on page 11. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, light wear to spine ends and corners. (Myerson A12.I.c) (BAL 21430) Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "A first edition / With the compliments of Thomas B. Harned / Literary Executor to Walt Whitman / April 15, 17." Two letters laid in: one is a facsimile copy of a letter from Walt Whitman to a magazine publisher sharing his latest manuscript, and the other is a handwritten letter from Thomas Harned explaining the story of the former letter. Thomas Biggs Harned (1851-1921) was Walt Whitman's third and final literary executor. Harned was 22 years old when he met Whitman, and the two were engaged almost daily in the final years of Whitman's life. Harned received the facsimile letter included with this copy from Dr. Edward Everett Hale. The letter is addressed to Nathan Hale, Jr., Edward Everett Hale's brother, who was editor of the Boston Miscellany. Whitman was writing Hale asking to have his latest manuscript titled "The Angel of Tears" published in the magazine. "The Angel of Tears" was eventually published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in September, 1842. November Boughs by Walt Whitman, inscribed by Whitman's literary executor, Thomas B. Harned, with laid-in letter from Harned to Dr. Andrew A. Gour of Chicago. (illustrateur). Signed.…

8vo, 1 p. Typed and signed in light-blue, beneath green letterhead, and with 'CARL VAN VECHTEN' 'watermark' at centre of page. Text clear and complete. On lightly aged paper, worn and dogeared at extremities. He thanks her for the copy of 'the Academic Observer (Gertrude Stein number) which intererested me so much that I am writing to ask if I may have another copy for a friend of mine, Please.' Autograph note explains that the 'friend' is one 'who also collects Steiniana'. Docketed in pencil on reverse: 'Miss Mallory | Keep this until I call - someday I will. | [signed] M. Lucha'.…

One page (with part of bifolium leaf), 12mo, sl. water-stained, fold marks, small closed tear on central tear, text clear and complete, as follows: "I delayed thanking you for your attention in sending me your work which I am satisfied I shall find highly valuable [elision of word] but I have not received it from the Board of Agriculture. I shall laways be happy to hear from you - I have ordered enquiry to be made at the Board of Agriculture for your work.…

Gebunden. Etat : New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. James F. Weiner is Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National UniversityThis is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology. Heideg.…