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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 308 pages. Published in 1987. Book-length study on subject. One of the most important books on the impact of photography on American literature in our time. Review Copy. Review Material laid-in. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Carol Shloss' "In Visible Light: Photography And The American Writer 1840-1940". The single best account on photography's undeniable influence on modern American literature. "Explores the links between Hawthorne and the daguerreotype; Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn; Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Riis; John Dos Passos and Soviet photography; James Agee and Walker Evans; John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange; and Norman Mailer and World War Two photography, notably Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White. Reveals in penetrating detail the values that underpin literature and photography" (Publisher's blurb). If this brilliant study is about one theme (instead of its intertwined two), it is summed up in one thoughtful line in the book, incontestable and cannot be improved upon: "Art and politics are of the same metaphysical substance" (Carol Shloss). The only other book of comparable (though not identical) interest that we know of is Gore Vidal's "Screening History" (1992), which discusses the impact of the visual image, with emphasis on cinema, on his entire life-work. An absolute "must-have" title for Carol Shloss collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Slip is laid-in. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only Review Copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with 40 plates. One of the most brilliant literary-cum-photography critic/scholars of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0195038932.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 32 pages. (SL#31B).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 433 pages. Published in 1984. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important essay collections on music, literature, and the performing arts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Craft's "Present Perspectives: Critical Writings". A magisterial, unsurpassable collection. Previously published in various publications (mainly The New York Review of Books) in slightly or significantly different versions. The essays appear in their final, definitive form in this book. Best-known as Igor Stravinsky's lifelong (and fanatically loyal) friend, colleague, interpreter/conductor, and amanuensis, Robert Craft is also a music and literary critic of the first rank. This collection demonstrates that fact, and covers the stunning breadth of interests of Robert Craft, Renaissance Man, that is to say, the vanishing embodiment of civilized learning and wisdom, now missing in our impoverished contemporary culture. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Craft collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws (because they were avidly read and even used as invaluable reference), are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT CRAFT AND IGOR STRAVINSKY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 039453073X. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 160 pages. Published in 2001. Book-length appreciation and appraisal of subjects. Now considered a contemporary film classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The GREMESE Editore Edition was published simultaneously in Italian-, French-, and English-Language Editions. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents "The Cinema of Paolo And Vittorio Taviani: Nature, Culture, And history Revealed by Two Tuscan Masters". A portrait of Italian film craftsmen as geniuses. The single most thorough study and loving homage to the cinema of Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, the brothers who have worked together as co-filmmakers on some of the greatest films ever made of the 20th century. They have produced at least two full-fledged masterpieces, "Padre Padrone" ("My Father, My Master") and "La Notte di San Lorenzo" (known in the English-speaking world as "The Night of the Shooting Stars"), which have not only endured but prevailed in the sense that the Taviani Brothers' deliberate, rigorous, and austere post-Neo-Realism style (so "un-Italian", as some critics have noted, for their restraint and understated drama) remains the central style of all great European film-making instead of Fellini's more flamboyant, but genuinely great, film style. "Here is the complete oeuvre of two bashful, talented artisans, recognized as pioneers of a uniquely intense cinema. A selection of high-quality essays, brought together and complemented by some of the most beautiful images" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Paolo and Vittorio Taviani collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with stunning images from the films and on location. Two of the greatest film artist of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 8873014666. no.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 277 pages. Published in 2016. Book-length account on subject. One of the best books on aesthetics and criticism ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents A. O. Scott's "Better Living Through Criticism: How To Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, And Truth". A worthy companion volume to Harold Bloom's classic, "How To Read And Why" (2000). About the immediate and lasting relevance of intellectual activity for a more productive and rewarding life, "aesthetics-as-ethics". A. O. Scott is best-known as the film critic of the New York Times. This book demonstrates that his knowledge and expertise range farther and wider than film, and encompasses the entire artistic and philosophical tradition of Western culture. "Critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative, and urgent activities of existence. Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was - and always will be - the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive" (Publisher's blurb). It is because we live in an illiterate, degraded, and degenerate Social Media Age that critical thinking is all-important, not just desirable: "The time for criticism is always now because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away" (A. O. Scott). An absolute "must-have" title for A. O. Scott collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Almost ALL copies available online are in multiple subsequent printings even if their dealers do not say so. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the most brilliant critic/aestheticians of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1594204837. no.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 128 pages. Published in 2020. Retrospective collection of uncollected essays. One of Jean Genet's finest achievements. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. There is NO equivalent edition in the French original. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in its First Edition format, Jean Genet's "The Criminal Child: Selected Essays". His greatest essays in one compact volume, brilliantly translated. "In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radio Diffusion Francaise commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a piece that was a paean to prison instead of the expected horrifying expose. Revisiting the cruel hazing rituals that had accompanied his incarceration, relishing the special argot spoken behind bars, Genet bitterly denounced any improvement in the condition of young prisoners as a threat to their souls. The radio station chose not to broadcast Genet's views" (Publisher's blurb). That is so funny, a characteristically "up yours" gesture from the incorrigible Genet. The Essay on the great artist Alberto Giacometti is the longest and most important piece in the book, hailed when it was first published by such figures as Pablo Picasso as the best piece ever written on Giacometti. An absolute "must-have" title for Jean Genet collectors. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Edition/First Printing (full number line on the Copyright Page) available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws and are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alterrnative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JEAN GENET TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1681373610. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 188 pages. Published in 1999. Book-length account on subject. One of the most brilliant books on the cinematic art and achievement of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Stuart Klawans' text is lavishly supplemented with black-and-white film stills. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Stuart Klawans' "Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order". Film as insuperable ambition, obstinately challenging the logistical and financial constraints of studio production in order to realize a film director's outsized, monumental, and impossible vision. In other words: Film pursued as Wagnerian art. In our Age of Streaming, the auteur-directors in this critical study seem not just "out of order" but unassimilable and downright insane. Yet based upon Klawans' appraisal (in 1999), they are more salient than ever as exemplars for our time - and for the future of cinema in the 21st century. The recent commercial disaster of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" (October, 2024) demonstrates the continuing relevance, importance, and yes, folly of personal filmmaking on a grand scale. "Examines films that are cinematic landmarks and monuments to their directors' hubris, from Griffiths' 'Intolerance' to Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now' and Carax's 'Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'. Explores the changing conditions of the film industry under which figures such as Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, and Max Ophuls got their hands on the full apparatus of studio production while behaving as individual artists. Questions the shape of film history from the viewpoint of these films and advances the notion that a seemingly failed work of art can be more glorious than a success" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for cinephiles and Stuart Klawans collectors. This title is a great text. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws or are the Softcover Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Some of the greatest film directors of the 20th century. One of the most brilliant film critics of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0304700533. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 325 pages. Published in 1996. Retrospective collection of essays. Robert Craft's final collection on music, literature, and the performing arts. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Craft's "The Moment of Existence: Music, Literature, And The Arts 1990-1995". A tour-de-force of cultural appreciations, drawn from essays and reviews by one of the most celebrated writers on music and the arts. Previously published in various publications (mainly The New York Review of Books) in slightly or significantly different form. The essays appear in their final, definitive version in this book. Best-known as Igor Stravinsky's lifelong (and fanatically loyal) friend, colleague, interpreter/conductor, and amanuensis, Robert Craft is also a music and literary critic of the first rank. This collection demonstrates that fact, and covers the stunning breadth of interests of Robert Craft, Renaissance Man, that is to say, the vanishing embodiment of civilized learning and wisdom. "This is how a discerning mind thinks, and every time I read a book by Robert Craft, I can't help but to wonder why other writers lack his clarity of thought or fortitude of conviction. He captures the essence of music, art, and new work. I recommend this book to anyone who often feels on the outside looking in on the arts" (Library Journal). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Craft collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT CRAFT AND IGOR STRAVINSKY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0826512763. no.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This text presents a unique insight into the influential hearing convened in 1908 by the US House Committee on Agriculture regarding the necessity and means to preserve Appalachian forests. The book opens by citing the increasing demand for timber and the adverse effects of deforestation on water sources and presents the key arguments put forth by prominent figures of the time. By delving into the historical context, the author demonstrates how the issue of forest conservation was intricately linked to the country's economic and environmental concerns. The text also examines the potential benefits and challenges of various approaches to forest management, including the possibility of collaboration between the federal government and individual states. Ultimately, the book exemplifies the growing awareness and concern for the preservation and sustainable use of natural resources that characterized the early conservation movement. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 340 pages. Published in 2007. Book-length account on subject. One of the most valuable books on American music and culture ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run by Random House as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Wilfrid Sheed's "The House That George Built: With A Little Help From Irving, Cole, And A Crew of About Fifty". The Golden Age of American music, not just American Song. Preceded only by Irving Berlin, George more or less created and solidified the House, along with an astonishing gathering of musical genuises, a "high-point" feat never to be repeated in American history. Which "embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable melodies out of thin air. A dazzling, authoritative history of the era that tripled the world's total supply of singable tunes. It all began when immigrants in New York's Lower East Side heard Black jazz and blues, and it surged into an artistic torrent nothing short of miraculous. George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Half a century later, Gershwin love songs like 'Someone To Watch Over Me', 'The Man I Love', and 'Our Love Is Here To Stay' are as tender and moving as ever. Sheed also illuminates the unique gifts of the great jazz songsters Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington, conjuring up the circumstances of their creativity and bringing back the thrill of what it was like to hear 'Georgia On My Mind or 'Mood Indigo' for the first time" (Publisher's blurb). "Far and away, our greatest contribution to the world's art supply during the so-called American Century" (Wilfrid Sheed). An absolute "must-have" title for Wilfrid Sheed and George Gershwin collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in red ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "For Gale - Cheers, Wilfrid Sheed". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Wilfrid Sheed's shaky-looking handwriting has always been like that, idiosyncratic in its own way, and NOT a sign of old age or arthritis. The recipient, who is named, was personally known to the British-born, American immigrant-author. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (slight crimping on the bottom hard board corner, but it's there) is still in especially fine condition: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws or are in subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of the 20th century and our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO MICHAEL FEINSTEIN "THE GERSHWINS AND ME" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1400061059. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 340 pages. Published in 1977. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important essay collections on music, literature, and the performing arts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Craft's "Current Convictions: Views And Reviews". All in all, still his best collection. Previously published in various publications in slightly or significantly different versions. The essays appear in their final, definitive form in this book. Best-known as Igor Stravinsky's lifelong (and fanatically loyal) friend, colleague, interpreter/conductor, and amanuensis, Robert Craft is also a music and literary critic of the first rank. This collection demonstrates that fact, and covers the stunning breadth of interests of Robert Craft, Renaissance Man, that is to say, the vanishing embodiment of civilized learning and wisdom, now missing in impoverished contemporary culture. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Craft collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "Robert Craft New York May 1984". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (a ding on top front board corner, but it's there) is still in fine condition: The DJ and every single internal page are clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Craft did NOT do a single public signing during his long and high-profile career as a public intellectual and music authority. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT CRAFT AND IGOR STRAVINSKY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 284 pages. Published in 1998. The author's fourth collection of essays. One of Elizabeth Hardwick's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the softcover "original" called "American Fictions". Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Elizabeth Hardwick's "Sight-Readings: American Fictions". Gathers, in one elegant and generous volume, her magisterial essays on such canonical figures as Margaret Fuller and Gertrude Stein as well as her near-canonical coevals in John Updike, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Richard Ford. "Elizabeth Hardwick stands first among America's most significant literary essayists, and she is surely the most surprising" (Cynthia Ozick). It should be added that very few of America's serious critics have as broad, deep, and rich an erudition on the country's literary heritage as Hardwick did. As such, she was the generalist par excellence, an anomaly in our present time of academic specialists, who know everything about one small thing, and nothing else. Alfred Kazin saw a spiritual, almost mystical grandeur to American literature, which he sought to capture in his procession of books. Elizabeth Hardwick was more interested in - more committed to - the specifics, the minutiae, nuances, modulations, and subtleties that define and set apart the writers she considered. It was hard to expect, for example, that Kazin, a passionate (and truly great) Jewish-American moralist, would have much use for Vladimir Nabokov. Whereas Hardwick once famously described him as a quintessentially American writer. An absolute "must-have" title for Elizabeth Hardwick collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "To - With the good wishes of Elizabeth Hardwick". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is an important American public figure, and cannot be named here. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ELIZABETH HARDWICK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0375501274. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 304 pages. Published in 1984. The author's landmark memoir. The memoir as a sequence of literary and critical essays. One of the most important intellectual memoirs of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Lionel Abel's "The Intellectual Follies: A Memoir of The Literary Venture In New York And Paris". Riveting recollections of and acute commentary about such diverse figures as Nicola Chiaromonte, Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Susan Sontag, and most controversial of all, Hannah Arendt, whom Lionel Abel skewers rather mercilessly, as only an aggrieved fellow Jewish-American could. Their famous tangle was about Arendt's infamous contentions in her account, "Eichmann In Jerusalem" (1963), about "the banality of evil" (to describe genocidal murderer Adolf Eichmann during his "show trial", her mocking words), and much more painfully, about alleged Jewish complicity in and guilt for the Holocaust. According to Arendt, the few wealthy and well-connected Jewish leaders helped to systematically round up and offer up impoverished and defenseless fellow Jews in order to gain favor with Hitler and to spare themselves. After performing such invaluable service, most of them were killed by the Nazis anyway. Both allegations by Arendt, together with her pivotal - and contrary - assertion that the true significance of the Holocaust is Jewish shame (that such a thing could ever happen) will probably be debated for centuries to come. Rightly or wrongly, there is heartbreaking "proof", if that is the word, of Arendt's cruel thesis: Many Jews who either successfully fought back at first, or survived the camps, or somehow managed to escape unscathed eventually committed suicide - which Arendt ascribes to Jewish shame. (On the other hand, Walter Benjamin, the greatest philosopher-critic of the 20th century, and Arendt's close friend, killed himself in order to save fellow Jewish refugees. ) Meanwhile, Arendt herself - first of all, she regarded the actions of the state of Israel itself as illegal - was subsequently ostracized by the New York and European intellectual elite, her hard-earned reputation in absolute tatters (she died shortly afterwards). Intellectual folly indeed. Lionel Abel, fair-minded as always despite their bitter falling out, nevertheless regards Arendt's OTHER achievements as courageous and monumental. "The most intelligent man in America" (Jean-Paul Sartre). An absolute "must-have" title for Lionel Abel collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest intellectual/writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LIONEL ABEL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0393018415. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 232 pages. Published in 1987. Landmark collection of philosophical and critical essays. The companion volume to his "Intellectual Follies" memoir-essay book. One of the best books of its (very rare) kind ever written in the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by Prometheus, a small independent press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Lionel Abel's "Important Nonsense". Simply indispensable essays. Lionel Abel was a cosmopolitan, New York-based writer/playwright/critic of ideas, who helped shape and define many of the urgent debates that flourished during the Golden Age of American intellectual culture. Despite widespread anti-intellectualism, there was a very brief period when the intellectual was nonetheless considered a valuable member of American society. This valuation, of course, has been dead for a long time, killed off in our mass- and social media age of the talking head, the pundit, the "expert", and most pernicious of all, the "influencer". Much of what Abel has to say in these pieces is often provocative, but always intelligent, illuminating, original - and necessary. The eponymous Essay addresses one of the most meretricious - yet seldom called out - aspects of both high and popular culture: That there are ideas (and personalities behind them) which gain currency and pervasive influence - hence "important", impossible to ignore - yet upon closer inspection, are full of it, sheer "nonsense". Developed more fully by Lionel Abel in his great essay, "Important Nonsense" was first articulated by Bertrand Russell about "bad philosophers" (like Derrida and Foucault) whose core ideas, in the great Russell's acute estimation, are utter nonsense. Just because someone is famous (and academically studied to death) does NOT mean that what they have to say and what they represent make sense in any meaningful way. They do not. "The most intelligent man in America" (Jean-Paul Sartre). An absolute "must-have" title for Lionel Abel collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest intellectual/writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LIONEL ABEL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0879753544. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 496 pages. Published in 1996. The author's book-length account on subject. David Denby's finest achievement. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents David Denby's "Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, And Other Indestructible Writers of The Western World". Brilliant Living Author re-enrolls in Columbia University's "core curriculum" course. In preserving the notion of the Western Canon, it has been an unlikely focus of America's ideological "culture wars". "Celebrates his re-discovery and new appreciation of such authors as Homer, Plato, the Biblical writers, Augustine, Boccaccio, Hegel, Austen, Marx, Nietzsche, and Virginia Woolf. Where other universities caved and revised or enlarged the canon, Columbia's course has remained intact. Denby's intention as a writer and protagonist is to record the experience and personal impact of the course" (Publisher's blurb). "Does a Great Books Canon exist? This superb book suggests an answer. Denby, the film critic of New Yorker Magazine, returned to his alma mater after 30 years to re-take the courses, grapple with the world's classics, and regenerate his own lapsed reading habit. It is a heartening portrait of American education, and a substantial, enthralling read. The book's richest moments are when the mature Denby engages with the texts. Reading the tragedy of 'Oedipus Rex', he feels anxious, recognizing the uncomfortable, ironic truth: 'What we avoid, we become' " (Publishers Weekly). Among other mainstream, non-academic writers, only Michael Dirda comes to mind as unapologetically - therefore controversially - committed to the Western tradition at a time when it is under relentless assault from mind-less ideologues. It is easy to miss the real "lesson" of David Denby's nostalgic project: Serious reading is a lifelong engagement with books, with the Great Books. In the end, one pursues learning auto-didactically; being self-taught is unavoidable, not just ideal or necessary. An absolute "must-have" title for David Denby collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated (very shortly after publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "To Beth - Part of an obviously brilliant family. Best, David Denby September 20, 1996". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. David Denby's handwriting is unusually elegant and beautiful. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, publication-month dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (one bump on lower back board corner) is still in fine condition overall: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0684809753. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 645 pages. Published in 2010. Book-length account on subject. One of the best books on ballet ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Jennifer Homans' "Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet". Her deeply moving history of ballet. For Homans, ballet is a metaphor for art itself. Ballet is not dance. Anyone can dance, which is about life's vitality. Ballet demands the exact, mediated opposite: Precision, rigor, purity. In a word, art. Ballet - art - is about transcendence: The high leap we identify with ballet is transcendence itself, about a higher and exalted state of being that we often call grace. "Grace" is now undervalued and rarely invoked in both demotic and hieratic discourse. There is no grace, and a lot of vulgarity, for example, in contemporary culture as well as Ivory Tower academe. Like all great histories, "Apollo's Angels" makes a larger point: A culture that does not have a notion of transcendence is an inferior one, and will not have an enduring legacy. Often described as "Dionysian", "Le Sacre du Printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), the sublime Nijinsky/Stravinsky collaboration that radically changed the course of ballet, is instead "Apollonian", the re-presentation of primitive trance-ritual through ballet's highly formalized movements, steps, and gestures. The virgin sacrifice in "Le Sacre du Printemps" is the primal version of the sacrifice in "Swan Lake" (and countless other ballets) that the prima ballerina-heroine makes. An absolute "must-have" title for Jennifer Homans and ballet aficionado/collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Selected as one of the Ten Best Books of 2010 by The New York Times. One of the most brilliant critic/writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1400060605. no.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 250 pages. Published in 2019. Book-length account on subject. One of Adam Gopnik's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run by Basic Books as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Adam Gopnik's "A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism". The best short book on its subject ever written in our time. In three succinct, eloquent essays, here is the distillation of Adam Gopnik's ongoing reflections on liberalism that the liberal pantheon, from John Stuart Mill to Lionel Trilling, would have admired: "What Is Liberalism"; "Why The Right Hates Liberalism"; and "Why The Left Hates Liberalism". We live in a wretched and hapless time because we are caught between two extreme - and truly evil - ideologies: Right-wing fundamentalism and left-wing radicalism, which are, in the end, two sides of the same coin. Whereas liberalism is not "a political theory applied to life but life applied to political theory". Liberalism, in sum, is pragmatic and grounded in reality yet daring and humane. "Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, from 'Middlemarch' to the Civil Rights Movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: The search for radical change by humane measures. In an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Adam Gopnik collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "Adam Gopnik 2019". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-year dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ADAM GOPNIK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 154169936X. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 278 pages. Published in 2001. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Frank Kermode's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run by The Penguin Press/Allen Lane as a hardcover original only. Despite the inclusion of American subjects and issues by the author, there is NO American Edition. None of the copies was commercially distributed outside the United Kingdom. Presents Frank Kermode's "Pleasing Myself: From Beowulf To Philip Roth". Literary and cultural criticism by a Master Critic. This is practical criticism as aesthetic hedonism, the most misunderstood, most widely attacked - by political correctness, the contemporary version of conformism and censorship - and most valuable philosophical approach to contemporary life. Ranges across a breadth of issues by breaking otherwise insuperable barriers through Frank Kermode's transcendent, prehensile reach. "Kermode has a strong claim to be Britain's most distinguished literary critic. Over the course of a long career, he has written on a enormous variety of literature, most recently William Shakespeare's plays. Should be of keen interest to lovers of literature, and also to those interested in post-war intellectual life. For as much as these essays exemplify the tension, the patience, and the insight of a great critic, in their defense of proportion and clarity, they are also works of ethical importance" (Publisher's blurb). Well, when properly understood and practiced, aesthetics IS ethics. An absolute "must-have" title for Frank Kermode collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Frank Kermode. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: There is NO American Edition. None of the copies was commercially distributed outside the United Kingdom. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest critics of the 20th century and our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FRANK KERMODE TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0713995181. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. Unpaginated. Published in 1989. The photographer's breakthrough collection of celebrity portraits and male and female nudes. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Second Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Volume One of the landmark two-volume set. Each volume was published separately, ten years apart from each other in fact, and by different publishers. The reason they nevertheless work perfectly together is that Greg Gorman maintained full creative control over the production of both. The First Edition is now rare. A stunningly beautiful production by Greg Gorman and Gary Johns: Oversize-volume format. Photographs by Greg Gorman. There is minimal text. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by the legendary Rapaport Printing Company New York to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which utilizes a male nude in front and a celebrity portrait on the back, and white titles on the spine, as issued. Presents "Greg Gorman: Volume I". His finest and most representative images in the two genres that he has excelled and established himself in: The celebrity portrait and the nude. Dramatically lit black-and-white, full-page photographs of celebrities are juxtaposed with spectacular, highly erotic nudes, including the now-classic six-panel fold-out of the model Tony Ward in different Classical Sculpture-inspired, full-frontal nude poses. The celebrity portraits include Al Pacino, David Bowie, Charlie Sheen, Warren Beatty, Madonna, Rupert Everett, Pee-Wee Herman, Kim Basinger, Robin Williams, Andy Warhol, and Michael Jackson, among many others. An accomplished Hollywood and lifestyle magazine photographer who has done commercial work for HBO, Columbia Pictures, Interview Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Playboy Magazine, LIFE, and Tatler, among others, Greg Gorman's true passions are the charismatic personality of the celebrity and the chiseled perfection of the human form, as only the (his) camera can capture. This breakthrough collection offers definitive and ample proof of Greg Gorman's distinctive style and outstanding mastery of his chosen medium. An absolute "must-have" title for Greg Gorman collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the flyleaf by the photographer: "For Dieter, Thanks for coming and also for your interest in my work. I hope we can do more projects together in the future. All my best, Greg Gorman 3/27/90". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Gorman's handwriting is unusually clean, flowing, and elegant. The recipient, who is named, was one of Greg Gorman's most important client/supporters. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing of Volume One available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Gorman did NOT sign most copies of the book. Copies available online have serious flaws yet command more than $500. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GREG GORMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1871681006. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 304 pages. Published in 1984. The author's landmark memoir. The memoir as a sequence of literary and critical essays. One of the most important intellectual memoirs of the 20th century. Review Copy. Review Material laid-in. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Lionel Abel's "The Intellectual Follies: A Memoir of The Literary Venture In New York And Paris". Riveting recollections of and acute commentary about such diverse figures as Nicola Chiaromonte, Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Susan Sontag, and most controversial of all, Hannah Arendt, whom Lionel Abel skewers rather mercilessly, as only an aggrieved fellow Jewish-American could. Their famous tangle was about Arendt's infamous contentions in her account, "Eichmann In Jerusalem" (1963), about "the banality of evil" (to describe genocidal murderer Adolf Eichmann during his "show trial", her mocking words), and much more painfully, about alleged Jewish complicity in and guilt for the Holocaust. According to Arendt, the few wealthy and well-connected Jewish leaders helped to systematically round up and offer up impoverished and defenseless fellow Jews in order to gain favor with Hitler and to spare themselves. After performing such invaluable service, most of them were killed by the Nazis anyway. Both allegations by Arendt, together with her pivotal - and contrary - assertion that the true significance of the Holocaust is Jewish shame (that such a thing could ever happen) will probably be debated for centuries to come. Rightly or wrongly, there is heartbreaking "proof", if that is the word, of Arendt's cruel thesis: Many Jews who either successfully fought back at first, or survived the camps, or somehow managed to escape unscathed eventually committed suicide - which Arendt ascribes to Jewish shame. (On the other hand, Walter Benjamin, the greatest philosopher-critic of the 20th century, and Arendt's close friend, killed himself in order to save fellow Jewish refugees. ) Meanwhile, Arendt herself - first of all, she regarded the actions of the state of Israel itself as illegal - was subsequently ostracized by the New York and European intellectual elite, her hard-earned reputation in absolute tatters (she died shortly afterwards). Intellectual folly indeed. Lionel Abel, fair-minded as always despite their bitter falling out, nevertheless regards Arendt's OTHER achievements as courageous and monumental. "The most intelligent man in America" (Jean-Paul Sartre). An absolute "must-have" title for Lionel Abel collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Material is laid-in. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's label (which is neatly pasted on the title page) by Lionel Abel. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such pre-signed Review Copy (with Review Material) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful signed copy we have ever seen. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest intellectual/writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LIONEL ABEL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0393018415. Signed by Author.

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Leather Bound. Condizione: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1923. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol: - , Pages: - 166, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 166 166.

Condizione: D'occasion - État correct. Printed par Faulkner, Dublin, 2 tomes, 1774. Certaines lettres en français avec traduction en anglais. Reliure plein cuir usagée et usée (mors fendus, coiffes supérieures et inférieures manquantes, bords frottés, avec petits manques sur les plats) pour les 2 volumes, mais se tient. Quelques rousseurs légères éparses, intérieur des 2 volumes en bon état. Envoi rapide et soigné.