mccarthy eugene james kilpatrick illustrator (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Kilpatrick. Covers show fading. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 90 pages; Signed by One Author.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition; Second Printing. Illustrated by Jeff MacNelly. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1978). Second Printing. 9.75 x 8 in. 90[6]pp. Aqua boards, spine letters red. Book very good plus condition (tiny split at top rear joint), dj fair (some stains, soil, tears, price-clipped). Signed & inscribed by McCarthy on the half title page, dated Jan 15, 1979. Senator McCarthy had run for president in 1967 and then again in 1972. This "Bestiary" "a witty, trenchant satire on the language of government and bureaucracy" (dj). ISBN 0070443955; 9.75 x 8 inches; 96 pages; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Unclipped. Signed by Eugene McCarthy with inscription to Bill Manley in 1978. First ed., first printing; 92 p., clean and otherwise unmarked on fine paper only mildly age-toned; drawings nearly as witty as the text by Jeff MacNelly; binding tight; blue boards with still bright scarlet gilt lettering on spine perfectly protected by glossy pictorial d.j., clean but somewhat yellowed, with small closed tear at crown of spine; some label ghosts.Sample: "Broad-Based Constituency," pictured as an enormous bird-like creature in overalls seated, spilling over, on a straight-backed chair many sizes too small. "A cow never voluntarily sits down [.]the Broad-Based Constituency, on the contrary, never voluntarily stands up [.] In consequence of its sedentary existence, the Broad-Based Constituency suffers from nerve and muscle deterioration in its lower back and demands to be regularly stroked or massaged." Among descriptions of the ways the BBC becomes a great burden to politicians:"Often they will leave in the middle of a party just to run home and give the Constituency a few biscuits and kibbles and a glass of cold milk.".