Edité par Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993
Vendeur : GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. near fine . Remainder mark on bottom page edges. Fine in Fine DJ. Includes Stephen King. Stephen King Fantasy Hardcover 1 First Printing.
Edité par Algonquin Book, 1993
Vendeur : Rare Reads, Athens, GA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has a few wrinkles; Near Fine condition. A few light spots on edge of pages. Writing on one page. Book in Fine condition.
Edité par Algonquin Books, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0945575718 ISBN 13 : 9780945575719
Vendeur : Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Publisher: Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE- dust-jacket. Remainder marked. Dampstain on upper left corner of dj's front panel. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.
Edité par Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, 1999
Vendeur : Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
First edition. Softcover. Summer 1999. 144 pages. Features contributions by Seamus Heaney, Wendy Ewald, John McPhee, Edward Hirsch, Paul Mandelbaum, Reynolds Price, and numerous others. A clean near fine copy in wrappers.
Edité par Algonquin Books, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0945575718 ISBN 13 : 9780945575719
Vendeur : Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. 502 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Most kids write stories. Only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. But before there was Carrie, there was "Jhonathan and the Witchs." And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota Dealer, there was Manuel Citarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? Editor Paul Mandelbaum asked scores of authors if they - or their mothers - had saved anything they had written as children or adolescents. Forty-two writers went to their attics and dug up all manner of manuscripts - from the eight-year-old Amy Tan's essay "What the Library Means to Me, " to ten-year-old Rita Dove's poem "The Rabbit with the Droopy Ear, " to Norman Mailer's action-packed adventure fantasy "The Martian Invasion, " also concocted at age ten. Each of the forty-two chapters in First Words includes a brief introduction to the author, the juvenilia with commentary by writer and editor linking the childhood and adult work, photographs of the author (then and now), and, in som cases, facsimile reproductions of the original manuscripts and drawings. The result is a funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by today's most celebrated writers - those who are amused by and happy to share their own early efforts. As Paul Mandelbaum says in his introduction to the book, "We pleasantly drift in and out of the knowledge that these young writers are the same people who have come to occupy the places of greatest honor on our bookshelves. Juvenilia reminds us of often forgotten truths: that art takes its nourishment from the common garden of human experience. And that authors are children grown up, still learning, even as they teach us.".
Edité par Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill., Chapel Hill, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0945575718 ISBN 13 : 9780945575719
Vendeur : Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition. forty-two authors show their first stuff.
Edité par Algonquin Books, 2000
ISBN 10 : 1565122720 ISBN 13 : 9781565122727
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
Trade Paperback. Etat : Brand New. revised edition. 241 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Edité par Persea Books, New York, 2005
ISBN 10 : 089255312X ISBN 13 : 9780892553129
Vendeur : Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good+. Cover by Leslie Goldman (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 12300 shelf. Solid trade paperback, beige covers, maroon spine. Light handling. No names, clean text. Writers: Walter Kirn, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gail Godwin, Tobias Wolff, et al 356 p. Book.
Edité par Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, N. C., 1993
ISBN 10 : 0945575718 ISBN 13 : 9780945575719
Vendeur : Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : TXBA
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by Stephen Dixon on page 163, Madison Smartt Bell on page 38, and Amy Tan on page 417. "Each of the forty-two chapters in First Words includes a brief introduction to the author, the juvenilia with commentary by writer and editor linking the childhood and adult work, photographs of the author (then and now) , and, in some cases, facsimile reproductions of the original manuscript and drawings." Ships same or next business day. Book's spine is slightly loose, minor edge wear, small bump on spine tail, very small light tan mark on table of contents page. Pages are tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear, light wrinkles on top left of back cover. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 502 pages.
Edité par Persea, 2005
ISBN 10 : 089255312X ISBN 13 : 9780892553129
Vendeur : BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, Etats-Unis
paperback. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!.
Edité par Algonquin Books, 1993
ISBN 10 : 0945575718 ISBN 13 : 9780945575719
Vendeur : BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!.
Edité par City College of New York, 1940
Vendeur : Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : IOBA
Signé
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. [A massive collection of 186 volumes from the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey, two of which are signed by George Boas.] Printed 1940-2003. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Spines sunned. Occasional tear. Some foxing. Generally clean, with some markings by Macksey. Important articles in this collection include: Reflection on the History of Ideas by Arthur O. Lovejoy; Grundtvig's Philosophy of History by Kemp Malone; Experience and the Non-Mathematical in the Cartesian Method by Alan Gewirtz; Causation and its Application to History by Morris R. Cohen; Existential Philosophy by Paul Tillich; Gulliver and the Moons of Mars by S.H. Gould; Bookburning and Censorship in Ancient Rome by F.H. Cramer; A.O. Lovejoy as Historian of Philosophy by George Boas; The Function of Myth in Plato's Philosophy by Ludwig Edelstein; Nationalist Survival Under Hellenistic and Roman Imperialism by Moses Hadas; Treason and Patriotism in Ancient Greece by Anton-Hermann Chroust; Voltaire's Philosophy of History by Jerome Rosenthal; Nietzsche's Theory of Decadence and the Transvaluation of all Values by George de Huszar; Aristotle's Conception of the Development and the Nature of Scientific Method by Richard McKeon; The Chinese Mind: Its Taoist Substratum by Lin Tung-Chi; Seven Agamemnons by Reuben A. Brower; Galileo and Avempace (I) by Ernest A. Moody; Discussion of Suicide in the 18th Century by Lester G. Crocker; Newton and God by Edward Strong; Mars and Engels as Historians by Leonard Krieger; Leonardo Da Vinci and Modern Science by John H. Randall Jr.; Stoic Idea of Natural Law by Maryanne Cline Horowitz; Galileo's Theory of Indivisibles by A. Mark Smith; Marxist Ecclesiology and Biblical Criticism by Julius Kovesi; Hume on Idolatry and Incarnation by Donald T. Siebert; Eugenics and the Left by Diane B. Paul; Ancient Psychotherapy by Christopher Gill; The Influence of Folk Meteorology in the Anaximander Fragment by Cameron Shelley; In Memory of A.O. Lovejoy by Ludwig Edelstein; On Dante, Hyperspheres, and the Curvature of the Medieval Cosmos by William Egginton; Zen and the Art of Death by Maja Milcinski; The Plot of History from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Eric MacPhail; Zino Against Mathematical Physics by Trish Glazebrook; Montesquieu on Depopulation by David B. Young; Ancient Greek Dialectic as Expression of Freedom of Thought and Speech by Enrico Berti; Scientific Background of Evolutionary Theory in Biology by Maurice Mandebaum; The Salvation of Satan by C.A. Patrides; The Mystical Origins of National Socialism by George L. Mosse; Poetic Inspiration in Greek Literature by E.N. Tigerstedt; Women in Greek and Pauline Thought by Alan Cumming. Contents: Vol. I, No. 1, Jan. 1940; Vol. I, No. 3, Jun. 1940; Vol. I, No. 4, Oct. 1940; Vol. II, No. 1, Jan. 1941; Vol. II, No. 2, Apr. 1941; Vol. II, No. 4, Oct. 1941; Vol. III, No. 1, Jan. 1942; Vol. III, No. 2, Apr. 1942; Vol. III, No. 3, Jun. 1942; Vol. IV, No. 1, Jan. 1943; Vol. IV, No. 2, Apr. 1943; Vol. IV, No. 3, Jun. 1943; Vol. IV, No. 4, Oct. 1943; Vol. V, No. 1, Jan. 1944; Vol. V, No. 3, Jun. 1944; Vol. V, No. 4, Oct. 1944; Vol. VI, No. 1, Jan. 1945; Vol. VI, No. 2, Apr. 1945; Vol. VI, No. 3, Jun. 1945; Vol. VI, No. 4, Oct. 1945; Vol. VII, No. 1, Jan. 1946; Vol. VII, No. 4, Oct. 1946; Vol. VIII, No. 1, Jan. 1947; Vol. VIII, No. 2, Apr. 1947; Vol. VIII, No. 3, Jun. 1947; Vol. VIII, No. 4, Oct. 1947; Vol. IX, No. 1, Jan. 1948; Vol. IX, No. 2, Apr. 1948; Vol. IX, No. 3, Jun. 1948; Vol. IX, No. 4, Oct. 1948; Vol. X, No. 1, Jan. 1949; Vol. X, No. 2, Apr. 1949; Vol. X, No. 4, Oct. 1949; Vol. XI, No. 1, Jan. 1950; Vol. XI, No. 2, Apr. 1950; Vol. XI, No. 3, Jun. 1950; Vol. XI, No. 4, Oct. 1950; Vol. XII, No. 1, Jan. 1951; Vol. XII, No. 2, Apr. 1951; Vol. XII, No. 3, Jun. 1951; Vol. XII, No. 4, Oct. 1951; Vol. XIII, No. 1, Jan. 1952; Vol. XIII, No. 2, Apr. 1952; Vol. XIII, No. 3, Jun. 1952; Vol. XIII, No. 4, Oct. 1952; Vol. XIV, No. 1, Jan. 1953; Vol. XIV, No. 2, Apr. 1953; V. Signed.