matthiessen peter contributors (7 risultati)

Condizione: VERY GOOD. First printing. The 38tk volume in this series of prize-winning stories, this anthology contains short stories by some of the best writers of the mid-20th century - Stories by Martha Gelhorn (who won first prize for 'In Sickness and in Health'), Hortense Callisher (2nd prize), George Steiner, Gina Berriault, Peter Matthiessen ("Travelin Man.") , Elizabeth Enright and others, Introduction by the editor and brief notes on each author. 312 pp. Ex-library with relatively fewl markings, overall tight and clean in a very good unmarked dust jacket.

Condizione: FINE. First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A book which takes us to a beautiful, wild - and endangered - land. Includes a foreword by Jimmy Carter, poem by Terry Tempest Williams and significant long essays by Peter Matthiessen, Fran Mauer, William H. Meadows, and more. SIGNED by the photographer and author Banerjee on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with full color photographs throughout, many full page. Maps. Large square format. 176 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers, with self-flaps.

Condizione: VERY GOOD. First printing. SIGNED by T. C. Boyle at his story "Greasy Lake." Includes interviews with James Merrill and Philip Larkin on the art of poetry, poetry by Merrill, Charles Simic and Tom Disch and others. Fiction by T. C. Boyle, Edmund White, and a section of Selected Letters of Archibald MacLeish. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good+ in stiff illustrated wrappers.

Condizione: FINE. First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. SIGNED by two authors: by Ron Carlson at his story "Keith" - basis for the award-winning film of the same name - and by Houston at his story "Faith." A retrospective collection of works read by participants at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference over the past 12 years - included are prose, poetry and essays by the authors shown above and by others including Richard Ford, Tess Gallager, Carolyn Forche, John Barth, John Edgar Wideman, Tobias Wolff, Robert Stone, Jeanne Houston, Maxine Kumin, George Garrett, Robert Olen Butler, Ray Bradbury and more. A wonderful anthology which includes previously unpublished essays on the reading and writing process. 348 pgs, a slightly oversized format. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Condizione: FINE. First printing. Includes interviews with Mahfouz, a feature section of letters between Delmore Schwarz and James Laughlin, fiction by Scott, Daniel Green and others, poetry by Sarton, Ashbery, Donald Hall, Charlie Smith, Linda Pastan and many others. Frontispiece by William Pene du Bois, cover by Roy Lichtenstein. 246 pp plus advertisements. SIGNED by Joanna Scott at her story 'A Borderline Case', and uncommon thus. Just about fine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers.

First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [20],21-291,[5]pp. Modest external wear, gentle sunning to spine, with light dust-soil to rear wrapper; contents fresh; Very Good+. Contents include an excerpt from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, and contributions by Seamus Heaney ("The Art of Poetry LXXV"), Peter Matthiessen ("Lost Man's River"), Robert Pinsky ("The Art of Poetry LXXVI"), Elias Canetti, Marilyn Hacker, and others. 7818.