Eugene b redmond ed (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition, stated, with full RH numberline. Octavo (21.5cm); beige dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; boards in beige paper and maroon cloth spine with gilt lettering; x,180pp. Jacket is crisp with light edgewear and faint dust-soiling. Boards rubbed at lower corners. Moderate to heavy foxing along edges of textblock, with publisher's remainder stamp at bottom. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Second posthumous collection of Dumas' short fiction. Toni Morrison, then-editor at Random House, praised Dumas' work as "some of the most beautiful, moving, and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read" and that "he had completed work, the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several lifetimes." Dumas was shot by a New York transit officer on a subway platform in 1968 at the age of 33, with the majority of his work yet unpublished.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition, stated, with full RH numberline. Octavo (21.5cm);publisher's cloth-backed boards in green and black dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; xviii,139pp. Jacket is crisp with brief rubbing along edges and some toning to surface; moderate foxing to verso. A few light bumps along edges of boards; spine ends nudged. Foxing along edges of textblock with some toning to endpapers. A few stray spots of foxing to interior, else unmarked. Very Good and sound overall. Random House re-issue of Dumas' first posthumously-published collection of stories, which previously appeared in a smaller run from Southern Illinois University Press in 1970. Toni Morrison, then-editor at Random House, praised Dumas' work as "some of the most beautiful, moving, and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read" and that "he had completed work, the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several lifetimes." Dumas was shot by a New York transit officer on a subway platform in 1968 at the age of 33, with the majority of his work yet unpublished.…