Lyall h powers editor (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. James's biographer and a leading James scholar provide the definitive edition of the writer's notebooks, which were discovered among his papers by Edel in 1937. Of the material here assembled, much was previously unpublished, including pocket diaries and dictated notes.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with mark to outer edge. Good DJ with light toning.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. An as-new copy in an as-new jacket. A clean, very tight, certainly unread copy with price ($29.95) intact on front flap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition annotated edition. 168 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback First Edition A fine copy 412 pages. Illustrated. Twenty years James's junior, Wharton was just at the outset of her literary career when the friendship of these two expatriate novelists blossomed. James, comfortably settled in London, found in Wharton's company the sustained intimacy which his circle of young, attractive men could not provide. To Wharton, James was "Dearest Cher Maitre," supportive confidant during her frenetic extramarital fling with his longtime friend William Morton Fullerton. The James-Wharton meeting of minds had "a piquant touch of the erotic," as Powers (editor, with Leon Edel, of James's notebooks) observes; James nicknamed her automobile "The Vehicle of Passion." Later, he became an almost avuncular comrade. Wharton, unbeknownst to him, diverted her own Scribner royalties so that James received from the publisher the largest advance of his career. Nearly all of the surviving letters are by James, but we get an exchange as complex, rich and varied as the correspondents' fiction. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). …

Zustand: New.