Hemingway in Our Time

Nicholas,Delbanco: Anywhere Out of the World Essays on Travel, Writing, and Death, Columbia Univers. Press, Mai 2005 ISBN: 0231133847
Nicholas Delbanco-who, John Updike says, wrestles with the abundance of his gifts as a novelist the way other men wrestle with their deficiencies-ventures forth to discover and illuminate various writers and places. In this follow-up to his acclaimed The Lost Suitcase, Delbanco weaves varied reflections to reveal a singular understanding of the relationships among literature, the past, and the world around us. /P P Describing trips to such diverse destinations as Namibia; Afghanistan; Bellagio, Italy; and the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Delbanco conveys the wonder and the apprehension of visiting new places. However, he goes beyond commonplace travelogues, examining our desire to travel and to write and read about distant lands. In the title essay, which surveys the state of travel and travel writing in a world that has grown smaller and less strange, he explores the continuing allure of new locales and the ways in which familiar places change in our imagination over time. /P P Delbanco's reflections on literature look to past writers and literary traditions as a way of enriching the present. Delbanco begins by asking us to reconsider society's infatuation with novelty and proposes the paradoxical notion of imitation as a source of originality. Remembering his friendships with two colorful departed figures, John Gardner and James Baldwin, and celebrating the now somewhat-and regrettably-neglected works of John Fowles and Ford Madox Ford, he pays tribute to these writers' generosity of spirit and commitment to literature. /P P In Strange Type, Delbanco explores his own recent brush with death. Here too, he draws on a range of subjects and reflections, describing his recovery from heart problems via a poem by Malcolm Lowry, the surprising persistence of typos despite advances in word-processing technology, and Ernest Hemingway as literary celebrity. /P

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Hemingway, Ernest: In unserer Zeit. Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1961

Taschenbuch TB, 3.Aufl. 76-85. Tsd. O-Titel: In our Time <dt.> 15 stories.,, BuchNr. d. Verl. 278, 140 Seiten, Zustand: geringe Spuren, mit Namenseintrag

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Edkins, Diana; Russell, John (Introduction). Vanity Fair: Photographs of an Age, 1914-1936. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1985. ISBN: 0517546256

First edition Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) 203 pages with index. The book and dust jacket are FINE. Black & white photo illustrated. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Photographers include: Man Ray, Baron de Meyer, Alfred Stieglitz, Cecil Beaton, Horst, Berenice Abbott, Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, James Abbe, George Hoyningen-Huene, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Imogen Cunnningham, Edward Weston, Maurice Goldberg, Arnold Genthe, Nickolas Muray, E.O. Hoppe, August Sande, Gertrude Kasebier. Dust jacket notes read: 'These portraits are a landmark in the history of human exchange. . . . It is time they were set free to live a life of their own.' John Russell The extraordinary photographs in this collection-portraits of many of the most celebrated American and European writers, artists, musicians, actors, athletes, and public figures of our century-were discovered a few years ago in a locked file cabinet at the offices of Conde Nast Publications. Many were originally published in Vanity Fair magazine between 1914 and 1936 and have been widely reproduced. Others have never been reproduced since their first publication in the magazine and some have never been published at all. The best of this treasure trove is now pre served in Vanity Fair: Photographs of an Age. The magazine Vanity Fair was not in tended to be a "picture" magazine. Yet it is generally agreed now that the portraits that appeared regularly in its pages were its best and most enduring feature. Prank Crowninshield, its editor, had a special flair for recognizing and employing a group of unusual photographers, many of them unknown at the time. As John Russell points out, never before or since has a magazine editor had such an array of talented photographers: Steichen, Man Ray, Muray, Abbott, Sander, Beaton. Crowninshield also had an uncanny ability to recognize a personality who would later become famous. Though the names in this volume are familiar, many of the faces are not, and it is fascinating to see what, for example, Claude Monet, Joseph Conrad, Walter Gropius looked like. Many of the faces are familiar: Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, the Lunts, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Colette, D. H. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Albert Einstein. Some, such as James Cagney, Ernest Hemingway, and Fred and Adele Astaire, were captured well before they had acquired their public image. As Russell says, the readers of Vanity Fair 'must have been impressed subliminally by the fact that again and again what faced them on the pages was a definitive likeness, a likeness never to be bettered, a work of art in its own right.' More than 200 photographs are exquisitely reproduced in Vanity Fair: Photo graphs of an Age. Every care was taken with the choice of paper and the printing process to achieve an image as close to the original as possible. The subjects, the photography, and the reproduction all combine to make this one of the most ex citing and uncommon collections ever assembled. This is a book to be treasured, opened, reopened, and endlessly savored. JOHN RUSSELL is Chief Art Critic for the New York Times and one of the world's foremost art historians. He has published innumerable articles and many books, including Henry Moore, Seurat, Max Ernst, and, most recently, The Meanings of Modern Art. DIANA EDKINS RICHARDSON is the Curator of Photographs at Conde Nast. She has written articles on photography for Vogue and other magazines and has taught the history and aesthetics of photography at the School of Visual Arts, the New School for Social Research, Cooper Union, and the Pratt Institute of Arts. MIKI DENHOF, a recipient of many graphic design awards, has been Associate Editor of House & Garden and Art Director of Glamour magazine. As the Creative Director of Conde Nast Books, she designed, among others, Billy Baldwin Decorates and The Vogue Stay Young Book. Hard Back condition: Fine in Fine dj

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Moorehead, Caroline. Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 2003. ISBN: 0805065539

First edition 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). 463 pages plus 8 pages of black & white photos. The book is in FINE condition. The jacket is in NEAR FINE with minor edge wear. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVINTAGE specializes in the Duke & Duchess of Windsor books, magazines and other curious subjects. The jacket reads: "THE FIRST MAJOR BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY WAR CORRESPONDENT MARTHA GELLHORN, WHOSE LIFE PROVIDES A UNIQUE AND THRILLING PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD HISTORY IN AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. The preeminent-and often the only-female correspondent on the scene, she broke new ground for women in the male pre- serve of journalism. Her wartime dispatches, marked by a passionate desire to expose suffering in its many guises and an inimitable immediacy, rank among the best of the twentieth century. A deep-seated love of travel complemented this professional interest in world affairs. From her birth in St. Louis in 1908 to her death in London in 1998, Gellhorn passed through Africa, Cuba, China, and most of the great cities of Europe, recording her experiences in impressive travel writing and fiction. A tall, glamorous blonde, she made friends easily-among the boldface names that populated her life were Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, H. G. Wells, and Marlon Brando--but she was as incapable of settling into comfortable long-term relationships as she was of sitting still, and happiness often eluded her despite her professional success. Both her marriages ended badly-the first, to Ernest Hemingway, dramatically and publicly so. Drawn from extensive interviews and exclusive access to Gellhorn's papers and correspondence, this seminal biography spans half the globe and almost an entire century to offer an exhilarating, intimate portrait of one of the defining women of our times. CAROLINE MOOREHEAD'S biographies of Bertrand Russell and Iris Origo were both New York Times Notable Books. She lives in London." Hard Back condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

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