Bruccoli matthew j preface (5 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois, 1968. 268 pgs. First, thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The force and beauty of H. D. s prose brings the stories in Palimpsest brightly to life, particularly in her sense of place: Rome about 75 B. C. , post-World War I London and Egypt at the time of the Tutankhamon tomb excavations. The use of the palimpsest motif gives the reader the impression that one story has been superimposed on the other ad that the protagonist is always the same woman -in essence H. D. Herself. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

First Edition. [Posthumous anthology] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all edges red. In the red faux leather slipcase. Gilt dulled to spine. Light bumping to slipcase. A near fine copy.…

Hardcover. Collector's Edition. Octavo, xiv, 428 pages. In Near Fine condition. Bound in teal genuine leather, with green, black, and gilt decoration; spine paneled with gilt titling; text block edges gilt, with silk moiré endpapers and bound-in ribbon bookmark. Negligible shelf and edge wear to boards. Text block edges show very light scuffing and wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A. 1407124. Special Collections.…

First Edition. Only Printing, one of 150 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); light brown stiff paper wrappers; all edges untrimmed; [16]pp. Very light tanning, else Near Fine. Written in 1925 for Pottsville Journal. "'A Cub Tells His Story' is the only surviving example of his apprentice journalism. The file of the paper for those years has been lost, and we have this article because somebody heeded his statement that 'This, you know, may one day be a valuable story" (see preface). Published two years prior, Bruccoli's bibliography on O'Hara includes "Journalism / 1924-1926 Reporter for the Pottsville Journal. No file of the paper for these years has been located". (see Bruccoli, John O'Hara: A Checklist, Appendix: Compiler's Notes). BRUCCOLI (1978) A35.1. [84851].…