Readies (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1930, Bob Brown predicted that the printed book was bound for obsolescence. The time has come, he insisted, to rid the reader of the cumbersome book. He invented a machine that would allow one to read books and any text extremely fast and in a hyper abbreviated form. He called these abbreviated texts, with em dashes replacing words: readies. He envisioned sending the condensed texts through wireless networks. The Readies, describes these eponymously named abbreviated texts and his plans for a reading machine, but since he printed only 150 copies, the volume is practically unknown outside of a small circle of scholars. With this new edition, Craig Saper hopes to introduce Bob Brown's Roving Eye Press books to a new generation of readers.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorRobert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) was an American author, journalist, publisher, and collector. Born in Chicago. Brown wrote pulp fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, avant-garde publications, and experimented wit.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorRobert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) was an American author, journalist, publisher, and collector. Born in Chicago. Brown wrote pulp fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, avant-garde publications, and experimented with a boo.

Zustand: New. 2019. Critical. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available for the first time since 1931- Restores a rare but highly influential modernist anthology to print in a new critical facsimile edition- Provides extensive scholarly commentary, analyses, and newly discovered biographical information, setting the anthology in its broader cultural context- Offers the first collection of avant-garde writing designed to be read on a 'reading machine' invented by the American expatriate poet Bob Brown- Includes both Craig Saper's new Introduction and a separate chapter on the Contributors and their readies. Saper is the leading scholar of Bob Brown's work as well as an important scholar of experimental writing, media, publishing, and artThis new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eugène Jolas and Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford and Sidney Hunt.Providing extensive scholarly commentary, analyses and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential resource for those interested in print and book history, the politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading machine's impact on reading, writing and literacy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. cri fac edition. 244 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Printed green wrappers. Advertising leaf for the book laid in. Age-toning, crease on front wrap, modest erosion and professional repair at the spine and front joint, a good or better copy. An important anthology with contributions by many expatriates including Paul Bowles, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Kay Boyle, Nancy Cunard, and others. One of 300 copies. Paul Bowles' first book appearance. *Miller* B1.…