Bellow saul foreword (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good dust jacket. Book is bumped at top front corner and has a 1/2 inch scar at top front edge. Dust jacket is bumped and worn along top edges and is less bumped along bottom edges. 233 pages with illustrations. Tall 4to size.…

Zustand: Good. First Edition. The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.; Gave paperback met fris en schoon binnenwerk; omslag wat gelig.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. With a six-page foreword by Saul Bellow. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Please note that there are some pencil linings and notes in the margins that could easily be erased if so wished. Some light foxing to the endpapers, otherwise pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £2.50 net. Edges slightly rubbed and creased. Small closed tear and associated creasing to the top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Corners and head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly rubbed and creased. Colour to spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Edge of rear panel adjoining spine faded. Colours to front panel of dustwrapper bright. ***204 mm x136 mm. 254 pages. ***'In the author's words, Recovery is a novel about 'the disease called "alcoholism". Berryman started writing it in 1970, and had completed all but the final section of the first draft when he died in January 1972. Even unfinished, even without the benefit of the intensive revisions and improvements he applied to all his work, it is still an extra-ordinarily powerful document. ***The main setting of the book consists of the corridors, bedrooms and lecture rooms of an institution; the central character is Dr. Alan Severance, surrounded by a cross-section of American life, housewives, intellectuals, businessmen, and an 'extremely bitter bearded poet'; all suffer scenes of humiliation, self-delusion and self-confrontation. In Severance's repeated and heroic efforts to climb out of the pit can be found not only Berryman's unique wit and verbal wizardry, but also a testament to the courage and strength of the human spirit. ***In a brief foreword, Saul Bellow, who knew Berryman well, paints a portrait of him which brings him vividly and sharply to life.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK edition in its original dustwrapper. ***Of interest to collectors of John Berryman and twentieth century American fiction.***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in slip case. Gray paper over boards with gold lettering on spine. Dated 1975 on title page and copyright page. Limited edition copy 225 of 500. 399 pages. Book and slip case in are in good condition. Covers are clean with minimal wear. Binding is strong. Very light foxing to edges of text block. Pages are free of marks or tears. Overall a good, clean copy. Signed by a Doubleday on limited edition page. Contains the Frank Nelson Doubleday lectures on technology, creativity and collaboration, and explorers from a presentation at the National Museum of History & Technology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First English-language edition. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Translation by Richard Lee Renfield. Octavo. 152pp. Tiny bit of bumping else fine in a moderately worn, very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and tears, and a small chip at the crown.…

First edition, early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard A. Ware, One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully, Allan Bloom September, 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation, which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Stamp of the Earhart Foundation on the front free endpaper crossed out, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Books signed by Bloom are rare. âThe Closing of the American Mind is brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling. . . . An extraordinary bookâ (William Kristol The Wall Street Journal). Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923. …