Mark lurie (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Interviews with John Morton and John-Roger: Religious Scholars Interview the Travelers This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Paper stock tanned. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £11.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete with the extremities just very slightly rubbed. No chips, creases or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***294 pages. 242mm x 142mm. ***'Alison Stewart Lurie (Sep 3, 1926 - Dec 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel "Foreign Affairs". Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.' (Wiki) ***'What is the truth about Lorin Jones, the beautiful young painter who suddenly disappeared from the New York art world and died mysteriously and more or less forgotten in 1969? --- "The Truth About Lorin Jones" is both a fascinating artistic detective story and a warm, honest an entertaining account of a modern liberated woman's adventures in the post-feminist eighties.' (Quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice collectable condition. ***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. Mark Harrison (Jacket illustration) (illustrator).…

Zustand: New. In English.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How he could now be forgotten seems unfathomable. Lewis Galantière guided Hemingway through his first years in Paris, when the author was unknown and desperate for recognition. He helped James Joyce and Sylvia Beach launch Ulysses; started John Houseman in his theatrical career; and collaborated with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the writing of Wind, Sand and Stars and Flight to Arras. He was a playwright, a literary and cultural critic and an author, Federal Reserve Bank economist throughout the Great Depression, director of the French Branch of the Office of War Information at the onset of World War II, ACLU Director during the McCarthyism-fraught 1950s, Counselor to Radio Free Europe and, at a crucial time in its history, president of PEN America, the writers advocacy organization.Yet, today, few know his name and, to those who do, he is a cipher.And that was precisely his intent. The son of Jewish Latvian immigrants at a time of rampant anti-semitism, Lewis spent his first thirteen years in Chicago's tenements and did not complete grade school. Yet, by his early twenties, Lewis had convinced the world that he was the apostate son of French Catholic parents, and had earned degrees from French and German universities.Galantière, The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man, is both a historical chronicle providing rare insights into the lives of leading twentieth century figures (with previously unpublished personal correspondence from Hadley Hemingway and Alfred Knopf), and a meticulously researched biography. Galantière presents, for the first time, the seemingly magical story of the self-fabricated and fully-realized man, Lewis Galantière.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

25 S., 1 Bl. (Lebenslauf). Gr.-8°. Orig.-Geheftet. Titel sauber gestempelt. ".vorgelegt von Mark Lurie aus Pinsk (Russland)" (Titel, heute Weißrussland), war Schüler auf dem Gymnasium in Lemberg.