roger wescott (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Rebound in hardcover. A library discard. Clean, unmarked, tightly bound. Moderate exterior wear. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Quest Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 308pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (17/6).

paperback. Zustand: Gut. Seiten; 9780850309553.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Zustand: Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. Slim 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black. Pushing to spine ends, slight lean to spine. Edges tanned. POI to ffep. Else, clean and tidy. In Furse's illustrated dust jacket: a little rubbed, wear and chipping to spine ends and corners, small loss to bottom edge of rear panel. Very good/ very good. A pleasing copy of Glenway Wescott's WWII novel. Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was an American poet and author, and a feature of the expatriate literary community in Paris. He appears briefly in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises as Robert Prentiss, "a rising new novelist," while in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Stein has Toklas observe, acerbically: "There was also Glenway Wescott but Glenway Wescott at no time interested Gertrude Stein. He has a certain syrup but it does not pour." Wescott's partner was American publisher and MOMA's first Director of Exhibitions, Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988); in the first decade of their the relationship the couple formed a ménage à trois with the photographer George Platt Lynes, lasting until the latter's death in 1955. Wescott's second novel The Grandmothers won him critical acclaim and the Harper Novel Prize of 1927. Despite being commercially successful, Household in Athens the story of a Greek family during the German occupation was his final novel, with only a collection of essays following two decades later. Roger Furse (1903-1972) was a lauded British costume and theatre designer, who also worked as a book illustrator.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 297p paperback with illustrated cover, light wear to edges, laid in as a supplement is a complete, corrected version of Chapter Six due to the publisher's error in prematurely passing the uncorrected sheets to the printer, also a 4 page typescript entitled 'A Language Origins Overview' dated July 31 1973, Drew University: Wescott's account of the contributions of the 14 participants in the Toronto Symposium Language: English.

Firenze, (1965) 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 108/112. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : ?extract? or ?excerpt? means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from? ?to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Decorated printed wrappers. Owner's name on the front fly, a little toning on wrappers, near fine. Inscribed by the author referring his poem on page 30, dedicated to the recipient's late husband.