introduction john connell (4 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing octavo hardback. 392 pp. Frontispiece Very Good + condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (tiny nibbles at corners). No inscriptions.

Decorative Hardcover Canvas. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Copyright 1969. 71 pp. SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTOR!!! With inscription! A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light fading on top edge of front cover board. No dust jacket. SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTOR!!!

392 pp, b&w photographic frontispiece, previous owner's name stamped on front end-paper, top edge foxed, spine sunned, else very good copy in like d/j.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WILLIAM STYRON. 245 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket with some toned/foxing and soiling; small chips and several tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right; dj presented in an older mylar protector. Bluish-gray boards; toning at top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with additional foxing to top edge. Light toning to endpapers; small stain at rear free endpaper verso's top left. Two-line ink inscription "To Carson Holloman | William Styron" upon the title page. Slight cigarette order to book which will fade with time. Binding is firm. Contents: Introduction by William Styron; "The Fisherman from Chihuahua" by Evan S. Connell, Jr.; "Last Comes the Raven" by Italo Calvino; "The Conversion of the Jews" by Philip Roth; "Stones" by Samuel Beckett; "The Hundredth Centennial" by Mac Hyman; "Death on the Avenue de Segur" by Antoine Blondin; "The Sun and the Still-born Stars" by Terry Southern; "The Acrobat" by Gerard Kornelis Van Het Reve; "The Engines of Hygeia" by John Phillips; "The Mexican Girl" by Jack Kerouac; "The Fishers" by Hughes Rudd; "In the House Where They Were Born" by Pati Hill; "At the Pool" by William Fain; "The Summer Fire" by Owen Dodson. The inscribee is Curtis Carson Holloman Jr. (1939-1991) who served on the English Department faculty at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi. This book is among a collection of first editions from the Holloman estate with most author signatures acquired at literary events held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.