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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. 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.

Condizione: Very good. - Two pages consisting of over 300 words penned in an unknown hand on both sides of a 10-1/8 inch high by 8 inch wide leaf of paper, with an attached blank leaf. This 1841 Connecticut document drafted "At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut" appoints a committee to "bind and repair such records and papers belonging to this State as may be necessary and to prepare suitable indices." The members of the committee consisting of Alfred Smith, Erastus Smith, Epaphroditus Champion Bacon, Royal R. Hinman, and Gideon Welles (the future Secretary of the Navy) are to receive up to $500 for their work. The document is signed by Secretary of State Royal R. Hinman at the bottom of the second page. The State's blind stamped paper seal, with its starburst edges, is mounted with wax to the left of Hinman's signature. Folded several times vertically and horizontally, the document is in very good condition. The author of "Antiquities of Connecticut" and "A Historical Collection of the Part Sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Revolution", Royal Ralph Hinman (1785-1868) was an American lawyer and Antiquarian. A graduate of Yale College and Litchfield Law School, he studied law with David Sherman Boardman and Noah B. Benedict before he was admitted to the bar and practiced law. Hinman was first elected a Connecticut State Representative in 1814 and held various public offices throughout his career, including the post of Secretary of State. He was a member of the Committee to Revise Public Statutes of Connecticut and was later appointed Collector of Customs by the Port of New Haven. Hinman published several historical works and was a member of the Historical Societies of the States of New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

LeatheBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 206. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 9999 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume v. 1 Language: German Pages: 206 Volume v. 1.