Sontag susan signed (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed and dated, "Houston X.22.01." Near fine book with one minor bend on the upper outside corner of a group of about 10 pages, interrupting the smooth outer text block face just slightly. In a near fine jacket that has light streaks of rubbing on both panels where the cloth turns to paper on the underlying boards.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [10], 419pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. The first printing, with "First printing, 1992" on copyright page. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $22.00 retail price on front flap. With Kroch's & Brentano's of Chicago First Edition Circle belly-band around dust jacket. Signed by Susan Sontag on the front free endpaper. A historical novel set principally in Naples, centered on Sir William Hamilton, Emma Hamilton, Lord Nelson, and the eruption of Vesuvius. This was Sontag's first novel in twenty-five years, following Death Kit in 1967. Signed by Susan Sontag, the first edition, first printing of The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag. (illustratore). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [xii], 351pp, [3]. Black hardcover, title in white on green cloth spine. Stated "First edition, 2001" on copyright page. Solid text block. In the publisher's dust jacket, $27.00 retail price on front flap, a fine example. Signed by Susan Sontag on the half title. Signed first edition of Where the Stress Falls: Essays by Susan Sontag. (illustratore). Signed.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, xv, [1], 446pp. White and black cloth binding, title in silver on spine. Light cracking to hinges, otherwise solid text block. A near fine copy. Housed in the publisher's matching slipcase, light shelf wear along sides. One of 350 copies, this one numbered 277. Signed by Susan Sontag on the limitation page. Signed limited edition of A Susan Sontag Reader by Susan Sontag. (illustratore). Signed.…

Full leather. Condizione: Near fine. Signed Limited Edition. Octavo, [xx], 419pp, [3]. Full blue morocco, gilt decorations to covers. Three raised bands, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt, blue silk bookmark sewn-in. Marbled endpapers. Solid text block, thin scratch to bottom of gilt. A nearly fine example. Signed by Susan Sontag on the limitation page at front. From the Franklin Library, a signed limited edition of The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag. (illustratore). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [x], 131pp, [3]. Cream hardcover, title in silver on brown spine. Full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $20.00 retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, near fine. Signed by Susan Sontag on the half title page. Signed first edition of Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag. (illustratore). Signed.…

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. An association copy, inscribed in purple ink on the half-title page: "For Oliver [Sacks]--with deep affection and admiration--Susan."Sacks and Sontag were friends and both wrote with deep sophistication about illness, one as a public intellectual and philosopher, the other as an accomplished physician. This book is a short story that originally appeared inThe New Yorkerwhich describes a group of friends after they discover a close friend has AIDS. A wide octavo or small quarto in wraps with French flaps, illustrated with fold-out color etchings by Howard Hodgkin. Thirty pages exclusive of the etchings. A really handsome production, a fine copy, and an important association. Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist that theNew York Timesdubbed "the poet laureate of contemporary medicine." He spent the bulk of his medical career as a professor of neurology at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. There he began to write about some of his neurology patients (he burned the manuscript of his first book,Ward 23, in a fit of anxiety about his new direction). He went on to publish fourteen books from 1970 to 2015, the year he died also of cancer, most of them with a focus on highly researched clinical anecdotes, including such lauded works asThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat(the main case study of which is a man with "face blindness," something Sacks also suffered from, and which deeply impacted his social interactions) andThe Island of the Colorblind. .…