Maxwell william 1908 2000 (22 résultats)

hardcover. Etat : Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, cover price $35.00, fresh attractive copy, fine condition hardcover with blue spine and gray boards, glued binding. WELTY, EUDORA, 1909-2001 / MAXWELL, WILLIAM, 1908-2000. What there is to say we have said: the correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell. Edited by Suzanne Marrs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 1st printing number line starting with 1, 499pp., . Traces the celebrated literary friendship through their personal letters to each other, a correspondence that reflected their worries, literary opinions, and major events, while offering insight into their relationships with their contemporaries. - CONTENTS: Introduction -- "Never lose letters from an editor": 1942-1943 -- "Wonderful to be a writer. Wonderful to grow roses. Wonderful to care": 1943-1954 -- "Similar discoveries": 1954-1959 -- "Stubborn enough to be a writer": 1960-1966 -- "Your heart down on paper": 1966-1970 -- "So much honor coming down on my head": 1971-1980 -- "What there is to say we have said": 1981-1996. ISBN 9780547376493.…

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : FINE. First printing. A collection of his stories spanning 50 years of writing, selected by Maxwell himself. He was the New Yorker fiction editor for more than 40 years, and the recipient of the American book award. These 23 short stories and 21 "improvisations" are the ones that he deems worth saving. All the tales from "Over by the River and Other Stories" (1977) and from "Billie Dyer and Other Stories" (1992) are included, as are 16 of the 29 improvisations originally published as "The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales" (1966). This also includes the first book appearance of eight other storie. The contents of the stories range from his experiences as a boy in Lincoln, Illinois where he was born, to time spent in France and in New York City. Includes a brief preface by Maxwell. x, 415 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.…

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 311 p. 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0394435222; 9780394435220 LCCN: 75-136342 ; OCLC: 153218 ; LC: CS71.M465; Dewey: 929.2/0973 ; gold cloth with silver lettering and designs ; no dustjacket ; ex-library, stamps, label ; history of the Maxwell famil y of Lincoln Illinois ; G. Book.…

Softcover. First edition. Octavo, 415 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good slipcase. Slipcase in cream and blue paper, black print; mild edge wear. Spine is blue with gold print. Cover is cream and blue with black print. Signed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401683. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Known as the fiction editor for 40 years at The New Yorker, Maxwell set high standards for authors such as Nabokov, Updike, Salinger and Cheever and carried them into his story writing. This collection of 23 stories and 21 improvisations covers his writing career from 1952 to 1992 and reflects his view of life in NYC and rural Illinois. This copy is in excellent condition, a first printing with a tight, straight binding. The dustjacket is in clear, mylar protection and the book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for shipping.…

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Softcover. 12x20cm., 2007, 6a.ed., 205p., Sprache: Spanisch, Rústica. / Buen estado. Para el niño de ocho años Bunny Morison su madre es una presencia anglical sin la cual nada parece tener vida; para su hermano mayor, Robert, su madre es alguien a quien debe proteger, especialmente desde que la gripe ha comenzado a asolar su pequeña ciudad del Medio Oeste norteamericano; para su padre, James Morison, su mujer Elizabeth es el centro de una vida que se desmoronaría sin ella.[Extracto texto solapa] [Literatura USA]. ** 10% DESCUENTO/RABATT/DISCOUNT PRIMAVERA * excl. New German Books * * * * 11,70 (original price 13,00) **.…

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 119 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is grey with black print. Dust jacket in mylar; slight peripheral toning. Price unclipped: "$18.00". Boards quarter bound with grey cloth to spine and grey paper to boards; slight wear to spine caps, slight toning to top edge. "Review Copy" slip inserted between mylar and rear panel of dust jacket. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401330. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Octavo, 135 pages. In Good plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is white and green with grey print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "£10.95". Boards in black cloth. Text block has glue remainder from removed label on front pastedown; light age toning to paper. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1405074. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Il racconto di MAXWELL occupa 20 pagine, trad. di Maria Martini. Giornalista e autore di 6 romanzi, 5 raccolte di racconti oltre a saggi e libri per ragazzi affrontando temi spesso autobiografici e la dura vita nel rurale Illinois. Il volume in-8° (cm. 22,5x15,3), è completo delle sue 194 pagine + 12 TAVOLE f.t. anche a colori (dipinti USA fine '700) e contiene inoltre: 1) Emilio CECCHI. Note su William FAULKNER, 13 pagine. 2) Elwyn Brooks WHITE. Il secondo albero all'angolo. Racconto di 6 pagine dello scrittore di celebri romanzi per ragazzi (Mount Vernon 1899 - Brooklin 1985), trad. da Eugenio Vaquer. 3) Sei lunghe POESIE di: Daniel G. Hoffman, Howard Moss, John Hall Wheelock, testo inglese e versione it. a fronte di Margherita Guidacci e Glauco Cambon. 4) 10 pagine di Francis Steegmuller sul grande collezionista di arte italiana (117 dipinti, dai primitives del X secolo al '600) James Jackson JARVES. Inoltre il critico inglese Peter Quennell sulla lett. USA, la scienza e l'uomo ecc. Cartoncino edit. con GRAFICA bicolore di Rudolph DE HARAK, presentaz. tipografica di Alvin LUSTIG.…

Paperback / softback. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

A MAXWELL sono dedicate 19 pagine, di cui 6 di COINDREAU (profilo critico) e 13 ai suoi due racconti, tradotti da Coindreau. MAXWELL "fiction editor a "The New Yorker", spesso evoca autobiograficamente la dura vita rurale), ebbe poi nel 1982 il National Book Award per la narrativa. Il fasc. in-8° (cm. 24x17), bross, edit., p completo delle sue 172 pagine e contiene inoltre: 1) Jules ROY, "Le métier dea armes", racconto di 21 pagine; ROY, aviatore dapprima per Pétain, ma dal 1942 per De Gaulle, effettuò 35 incursioni di bombardieri con la Royal Air Force sulla Ruhr; questo gli ispirò "La Vallée heureuse" che gli valse il Prix Théopraste Renaudot 1946", e questo racconto. In Indocina nel1953 trovò poi disononorevoli i metodi dell'aviazione francese e si dimise. 2) G. M GILBERT, "RIBBENTROP et FRANK devant leur JUGES", 14 pp. di interrogatori al ministrodegliEsteri diHitker e all'efferato governatore della Polonia registrate al Processo, ma qui anche nei colloqui individuali con gli altri capi Nazisti (che si accusano a vicenda) nelle celle, dallo psichiatra USA a Norimberga. 3) 9 pp. sul PIANO MARSHALL. 4) 10 pp. sulla piaga sociale delle PRIGIONI. 5) Paul JULIEN, "Les secrets de l'Afrique noire, sorprendenti relazioni di un medico e antropologo olandese in Sierra Leone ecc. sugl'incantatori di serpenti, la "Borfimah", le società della pantera, gli uomini coccodrillo. E molto altro. Un fascicolo di eccezionale interesse.…

Hardback. Etat : New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.