Introduction by john leonard (28 risultati)

Hard cover. Condizione: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 381 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. HC 378.

Condizione: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Softcover in illustrated wraps. Small 8vo. First printing. Fine condition, unread and unmarred. Detailed history of the Ferrari. 160 pp.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reissue edition. 512 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reissue edition. 512 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reissue edition. 512 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. PublicAffairs. xxii, 540 pp. LCC: 2001048469 Very good condition; black ink mark on bottom edges of papers; previous owner's name on inside of front cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 160 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: NF (lightly rounded corners; sunned spine; unevenly sunned front at top). 1st Ed., 2nd Printing/First Edition, Second Printing. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

8vo; black and white pictorial stiff covers; softcover; black and white photographic illustrations; book designed by Burt Kleeger; sunned and edgeworn covers with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW First Everyman's Library Edition (Orig. 2006) Printing Unstated * ABOUT THE BOOK: Seven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of "The Year of Magical Thinking", including the full texts of: "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", "The White Album", "Salvador", "Miami", "After Henry", "Political Fictions" & "Where I Was From". Joan Didion's incomparable & distinctive essays & journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations & their spare, elegant style. The 7 books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 & 2003 are here collected into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood & lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. "The White Album" covers the revolutionary politics & the "contemporary wasteland" of the late 60s and early 70s, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, & Hollywood. "Salvador" is a riveting look at the social & political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In "After Henry" Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, & the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in "Political Fictions"—on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, & "compassionate conservatism," among others—show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in "Where I Was From" Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream. * ABOUT EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, w/ full-cloth cases w/ 2-color foil stamping, decorative end-papers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, & a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 & graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York & began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist & writer. Didion published her first novel, "Run River", in 1963. Didion's other novels include "A Book of Common Prayer" (1977), "Democracy" (1984), & "The Last Thing He Wanted" (1996). Didion's first volume of essays, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", was published in 1968, and her second, "The White Album", was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include "Salvador" (1983), "Miami" (1987), "After Henry" (1992), "Political Fictions" (2001), "Where I Was From" (2003), "We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live" (2006), "Blue Nights" (2011), "South and West" (2017) & "Let Me Tell You What I Mean" (2021). Her memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking" won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism & Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: "An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than 45 years, Didion's distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose & fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers & journalists." In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts & Humanities by President Barack Obama, & the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award. Didion said of her writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." She died in December 2021. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalogue. Small 4to. Introduction by John Bellany. 15pp. 8 items illustrated (7 full page). Pess cutting obituary of the artist and postcard loosely laid in. Stapled card wraps. Near Fine.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 4.75x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 512 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 512 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 303 pages. 8.25x8.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. new edition edition. 352 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 512 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. everyman's library children's classics edition. 1160 pages. 8.50x5.50x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. everyman's library children's classics edition. 1160 pages. 8.50x5.50x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of hardcover edition. Book appears unread; unclipped ($14.95) dust jacket shows a hint of shelfwear. Mailer's dispatches from the 1972 Democratic and Republican national conventions, originally published as a Signet pocketbook in 1972. 229 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

unpaginated Illustrated in color and black and white Nice clean tight bright copy: Fine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 160 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: NF- (Near Fine to Fine inside; mild shelfwear to covers, edges). 1st Ed., 1st Printing/First Edition, First Printing (August 1971). Flat signed by the author at title page. Apart from later limited editions, signed Setright books are scarce. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 400 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. American Imperialism, A Celebration And Obfuscation. Nine Volumes, First 8 Volumes Copyright 1907 And First Editions, Ninth Volume On Alaska Is Copyright 1910, Lacking The 10Th Volume On India. Three Quarter Brown Morocco, Pebbled Black Cloth, Gilt, All Edges Gilt, Marbled Endpapers. Wear At Edges, Fraying At Some Tips, Bindings Sound But Alaska Volume Has Cracked Front Joint. No Marks, Contents Immaculate. Shipping By Media Mail In Us, No International Orders As Insured Shipping Would Be Well Over $155. Engravings And Photographs, Color And B/W, Throughout (illustratore).…

Condizione: Very Good. Second printing, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xvi,402;vi,366, navy cloth, gilt; neat ownership inscription to front free endpapers, offsetting to endpapers, a very good set, in very good price-clipped dust-jackets.

Hardcover. Limited facsimile edition. SIGNED. Elephant folio [58 cm] Thirteen single suites housed in a boxed portfolio, covered in a Bugra laid paper, and created at the bindery of Richard Mayer, Stuttgart, West Germany. The portfolio is in near fine condition, with a previous owner's bookplate on the portfolio's front pastedown. The illustrated suites are in fine condition. The slipcase is in very good condition, with rubbing and light staining. The spine ends are bumped, and the underlying boards are exposed at the head of the spine. Complete. With the publisher's leaflet tucked in. An anatomical portfolio by a major contemporary artist. Signed by Leonard Baskin on the limitation page. This is copy number 1261 in an edition limited to 2800 (2500 single suites) portfolios printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara, Ltd. at the Curwen Press Ltd., London, England, on specially made paper bearing the private watermark of Medicina Rara and manufactured by E. Towgood & Sons, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England. The plates for the printing were produced from thirteen original drawings, commissioned by Medicina Rara specially for this purpose.…

Early printing of this Everyman's Library's compilation of the author's collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard. "I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion's] sentences are better than mine or yours . . . Something about [their] cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interesting than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx" (John Leonard). …