john williams franz kafka (8 risultati)

Condizione: New. pp. 601.

Condizione: New. pp. 601.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: No jacket. First Edition. [LITERATURE]. Ed. James Laughlin. Contributors: Maya Deren, Tennessee Williams, Octavio Paz, Franz Kafka, Kenneth Rexroth, Paul Goodman, Henry Miller, Alex Comfort, William Carlos Williams, Paul Eluard, Jacques Barzun, Boris Pasternak, John Berryman, et al. "New Directions Number 9: An Annual Exhibition Gallery of Divergent Literary Trends." Norfolk, CT: New Directions. Printed by Vail-Ballou Press in Binghamton, NY, 1946. First edition. English language. Hardcover with tan cloth boards stamped black and orange on spine, lacking jacket. Collection of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, from canonical luminaries of twentieth-century literature, including six black-and-white illustrations and editor's notes. 9 1/4 x 6 inches. 27 oz. xxiv, 416 pp. No jacket. Wear, toning, age on boards. Light spotting on spine. Paper abraded on front free endpaper. Toning. Text clean. Good Plus. No ISBN. OCLC: 764717392. ASIN: B004TU3OBO. "Laughlin, the aging heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, was a publishing legend. In 1936, at the age of twenty-two and at the advice of Ezra Pound, he founded New Directions, which quickly became the premier avant-garde publishing house, almost synonymous with literary modernism in the US. Early on, Laughlin adeptly presented Random House as the commercial foil to New Directions in frequent attacks that he published, such as James T. Farrell?s 'Will the Commercialization of Publishing Destroy Good Writing?' in New Directions 9. Laughlin?s strategy was clever. Not only was he filling, with his front and backlists, a market niche prepared by Random House?s publication of books like James Joyce?s 'Ulysses' and Gertrude Stein?s oeuvre, but his attacks themselves were a commercial tactic. They made his brand. Laughlin was 'disavowing an interest in marketing while constantly trying to think up new marketing techniques.' It is a familiar gambit, to claim authenticity by differentiating oneself from a sell-out, then to use that authenticity to profit.".

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes a poem by Tennessee Williams, two essays relating to Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize, plus Eleanor Clark on Jean Genet, Robert Warshow on Franz Kafka, other interesting content. Tight copy, remnants of pencil emphasis to cover (no other markings), light outer soil and wear. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Bound together in a single volume in black cloth hardcover. Good. Wear at corners of boards, with some fraying. A couple of inked notations on the cover of Wake 5, no other marks. Wake 5 is the only cover included, the Partisan Review covers are not present, however Alexander Calder's double spread "Designs" (as well as the Morris Graves and David Smith illustrations) in the Summer issue is. Short tear to the top of Wake 5 "Contents" page and some mild toning to margins. Contents otherwise in very decent shape. Binding is solid.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Jacket art by Reiner. Modest foxing on endpapers with faint foxing on page edges, very good in a very good dust jacket with tiny chips, toning and modest foxing. Written pieces by Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Tennessee Williams, John Ashbery and more.