Breit harvey editors (6 risultati)

paperback. First Edition. Some spine color fading, else near fine. Signet 1234, 1st printing Sept, 1955. Stories by Faulkner, Sartre, Thurber, Cheever, O'Faolain, Pratolini, McCarthy, Sansom, Huxley & Shaw.

Mass Market Paperback. First Edition. Very good first printing, includes stories by: William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, James Thurber, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Vasco Pratolini, Mary McCarthy, William Sansom, Aldous Huxley and Irwin Shaw. Ink price to the cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 265 pp. , xx. NAP, NO number line: assumed reprint. Dark gray cloth with brilliant silver lettering on spine; beveled fore-edge. Contents divided into 10 Essays: (1) Harvey Breit, "James Baldwin and Two Footnotes"; (2) Donald Barr, "Ah, Buddy: Salinger"; (3) "Alan Pryce-Jones, "The Fabulist's Worlds: Vladimir Nabokov"; (4) Mark Schorer, "McCullers and Capote: Basic Patterns"; (5) Robert Gorham Davis, "The American Individualist Tradition: Bellow and Styron"; (6) Diana Trilling, "The Radical Moralism of Norman Mailer"; (7) Alan R. Jones, "The World of Love: The Fiction of Eudora Welty"; (8) David L. Stevenson, "James Jones and Jack Kerouac: Novelists of Disjunction"; (9) Granville Hicks, "Generations of the Fifties: Malamud, Gold, and Updike"; (10 John Chamberlain, "The Novels of Mary McCarthy"; Bibliographies, pp. 257-262; Contributors, pp. 263-265. Shiny dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.95) with Title lettering in white letters across top front cover, superimposed over a black band, above a grid of 12 squares on remainder of front cover, each with an Essay and its Author printed, except for top right two squares in orange for Subtitle, other squares in black orange, dark red or lavender. Thin lines of wear across front cover and a bit more wear at spine ends and corners and front cover corners only; 1/2" tear down top edge at 1" from top right corner (Archival tape backing now in place); slight offsetting on endpapers opposite vertical lines of dw panels against inside covers: describes worse than it, but there you have it. Now in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives all trespasses. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or cracks); NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Way to read a Literature Classic more than 50 years-old. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in a Very Good price-clipped dj. Edited by Harvey Breit & Margerie Bonner Lowry. First Edition, First Printing. A nice copy - clean text, tight binding, and a clean and bright dj. Dj covered in protective mylar. 459pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Book has ink gift inscription at top of FFE and color fading on the edges of the spine ends. DJ has chips on spine ends, corners and on back panel, large closed tears on folds at top of spine, smaller closed tears on both panels and spine ends, wear to both folds. Breit writes: "The letters are remarkable in at least two major ways. They reflect with agonizing completeness the artist at bay, cornered as it were by poverty, the world's indifference, and his savage inclination to alcohol. And they also reflect an awareness, a minute knowledge, of what he was up to in his work." The letters surrounding the writing and publication of "Under the Volcano" are also fascinating. Includes a chronology, appendices (mostly of letters to Malcolm and Marjorie Lowry) and an index. He wrote interesting letters as well as interesting works of literature.…

8vo, 459pp. A very good paperback copy in edgeworn dust jacket with pen mark to rear. Stain to lower edge. Proof copy of Lowry's letters, best known for his novel Under the Volcano.