gardner john edited (19 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 297 pages. A posthumously released book on writing. Edited by Stewart O'Nan and with an introduction by novelist Charles Johnson. A fine and tight copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a near fine dust jacket with a crease to the front flap.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st printing. 302pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition w/slight crinkling to bottom front cover's edge, o/w unmarked. "Gathered posthumously from The New York Times Book Review and other publications, this compilation of essays and reviews solidifies John Gardner's legacy as a consummate teacher and controversial critic with a provocative sense of humor. Writing about his fellow craftsmen, John Gardner offers piercing insights into those whose works he admired and those whose works he didn t. In exacting unapologetic evaluations upon writers such as Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, John Cheever, Larry Woiwode, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike, Gardner separates genuine fiction from fakery, careful not to spare his own writings in the process, and in doing so, he displays his influences and wide-reaching observations of the literary life. [] Refreshingly unpredictable and self-aware, this collection lays bare the core qualities of lasting fiction and is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature." [publisher copy] In addition to Charles Johnson's introductory memoir/elegy & Gardner's nonfiction, included are a late unpublished short story "Julius Caesar and the Werewolf" & his notebook's "General Plan for The Sunlight Dialogues," his early masterpiece, offering great insight into his writing drafts. "For Gardner, fiction is real and earnest. The reader who takes it equally seriously will get much from this book."--New York Times. "Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1982, insisted that fiction should be moral and life-affirming. These 29 essays and reviews, gathered from the New York Times Book Review, Antaeus, Saturday Review and elsewhere, are sprinkled with sharp put-downs. For example, Gardner calls John Updike's characters 'hypersensitive whiners,' deems Walker Percy's novel Lancelot 'typical bad art . . . pompous' and labels Graham Greene's The Comedians as entertainment that 'makes a casual pass at art.' Gardner is refreshingly unpredictable, admiring such writers as William Gaddis, Italo Calvino, John Fowles, William Gass and Lewis Carroll. His high critical standards and gimlet insights shine through. Included are a prickly autobiographical sketch ("Cartoons"), the marvelous essay 'What Writers Do' and a short story 'Julius Caesar and the Werewolf.'"--Publishers Weekly. Near Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges (mostly), a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. In protective mylar cover. (US history, presidents, politics).

First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A posthumously released book on writing. Edited by Stewart O'Nan and with an introduction by novelist Charles Johnson. A near fine copy in printed wrappers with some very minor wear. Uncommon in this format.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Extremities lightly worn, else near fine. Interview with John Gardner and Irwin Shaw. Also, featuring Andre Dubus, Peter Handke, Mary Morris, James Salter, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Octavio Paz, Jayne Anne Philips, Mary Morris, Joyce Carol Oates, and more.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Cloth and printed papercovered boards. Fine, lacking the original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 250 copies Signed by both editors, this copy unnumbered and marked "Review.".

First edition of "the father of campaign finance reform", John W. Gardner's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mariam and Andrew - affectionately, from their friend John W. Gardner." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Herb Weitman. John William Gardner served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson and was the founder of two influential national U.S. organizations: Common Cause and Independent Sector. He authored several books on improving leadership in American society including the present volume which focuses on the broad and fundamental questions: How may large-scale organizations be made to serve man rather than diminish him? What are the requirements for leadership in our society? and What are the values that represent the best in American tradition?

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Cloth and boards in unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Fine. One of 250 copies Signed by both editors, this copy out-of-series and unnumbered.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Pages a little browned else a fine copy in wrappers. Author John C. Gardner's copy with his ownership signature. Gardner is best known for his novels which include *Grendel*, *Nickel Mountain*, *October Light*, and *The Sunlight Dialogues.* From a group of books purchased from his former wife.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Limited edition. Thick octavo. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light internal foxing and short tears on spine ends, and housed in a very good purple cloth covered clamshell box with faint dampstain. Number 93 of a limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by contributors Karl Edward Wagner, Simon Clark, Christopher Burns, Brian Lumley, David S. Garnett, David Langford, Roger Johnson, Fred Chappell, Brad Strickland, Gardner Dozois, Joel Lane, Jovan Panich, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, John Gordon, Steve Sneyd, W.H. Pugmire, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Wayne Allen Sallee, Joe R. Lansdale, Daniel Wynn Barber, Ron Wolfe, William F. Nolan, Dennis Etchison, Michael Reaves, Charles Wagner, John Brizzolara, Leonard Carpenter, William F. Wu, David B. Silva, John Alfred Taylor, Charles L. Grant, Jack Dann, and Ramsey Campbell.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. 125-232pp. Corners lightly bumped, spine ends edges age-toned, faint crease on rear wrapper, very good. Contributions by Dock Wilson Adams, T. Weiss, John Hawkes, Daniel G. Hoffman, Lewis Turco, Thomas McAfee, Pete Hoefer, Frances Crary, Tracy Thompson, Norma Klein, Ralph Robin, Alberta T. Turner, Emilie Glen, and Don Geiger.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Wrappers. 125-232pp. Corners lightly bumped, spine ends edges age-toned, faint crease on rear wrapper, very good being Daniel Hoffman's copy with a typed letter laid in and addressed to contributor and poet Daniel Hoffman Signed by unknown. Contributions by Dock Wilson Adams, T. Weiss, John Hawkes, Daniel G. Hoffman, Lewis Turco, Thomas McAfee, Pete Hoefer, Frances Crary, Tracy Thompson, Norma Klein, Ralph Robin, Alberta T. Turner, Emilie Glen, and Don Geiger.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Text mostly in Russian. Lightly worn, a very good plus copy in wrappers. Author John C. Gardner's copy with his ownership signature. Gardner is best known for his novels which include *Grendel*, *Nickel Mountain*, *October Light*, and *The Sunlight Dialogues.* From a group of books purchased from his former wife.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. VOLUME TWO ONLY (of 2). Fine in lightly worn, very good plus dustwrapper. Author John C. Gardner's copy with his ownership signature. Gardner is best known for his novels which include *Grendel*, *Nickel Mountain*, *October Light*, and *The Sunlight Dialogues.* From a group of books purchased from his former wife.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. William Kaufmann / Bryn Mawr College Library January 1981 Binding: Hardcover VERY GOOD ONE OF AN EDITION OF 1995 NO JACKET AS ISSUED STILL IN PUBLISHERS CARDBOARD SHIPPING CONTAINER.

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the authors. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Tommy Arnold illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated with story headings and full page colour plates by Tommy Arnold. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the burgundy cloth slipcase with titles in gilt to the side and backstrip. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies, this example is numbered 78 and signed by the contributing authors. Titles include "The Return of the Pig" by K. J. Parker; "Community Service" by Megan Lindholm; "Flint and Mirror" by John Crowley; "The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable" by Matthew Hughes; "The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror: Chapter Two: Jumping Jack in Love" by Ysabeau S. Wilce; "Song of Fire" by Rachel Pollack; "Loft the Sorcerer" by Eleanor Arnason; "The Governor" by Tim Powers; "Sungrazer" by Liz Williams; "The Staff in the Stone" by Garth Nix; "No Work of Mine" by Elizabeth Bear; "Widow Maker" by Lavie Tidhar; "The Wolf and the Manticore" by Greg Van Eekhout; "A Night at the Tarn House" by George R. R. Martin; "The Devil's Whatever" by Andy Duncan; "Bloom" by Kate Elliott; "The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril" by Scott Lynch. The editor Gardner Dozois contributes the introduction and is the only contributor not to have signed (as issued). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.