Adam Gopnik (edited by):AMERICANS IN PARIS: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
- signed or inscribed book 2015, ISBN: 9781931082563
Hardcover, First edition
Garden City Park, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. AP3 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust j… More...
Garden City Park, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. AP3 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has corners of the flaps clipped, wrinkling, chipping, crease, small tears, and few moderate tears on the edges and corners, some wrinkling and chipping on the sides, some scattered light smudge and scuffing, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and cover edgewear, lightly moisture soiled, light darkened top page edges, label adhered on the front fixed endpaper, really loose hinge showing net after the front free endpaper, light tanning and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 7.5"x5.25", 316 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Compton Mackenzie (Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie), was an English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party along with Hugh MacDiarmid, RB Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952. Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comic novels set in Scotland: Whisky Galore (1947) set in the Hebrides, and The Monarch of the Glen (1941) set in the Scottish Highlands. They were the sources of a successful film and a television series respectively. He published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography: My Life and Times (1963-71). He wrote history (on the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Salamis), biography (Mr Roosevelt, a 1943 biography of FDR), literary criticism, satires, apologia (Sublime Tobacco 1957), children's stories, poetry and so on. Of his fiction, The Four Winds of Love is sometimes considered his magnum opus. He was admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose first book, This Side of Paradise, was written under the literary influence of Compton. Sinister Street, his lengthy 1913-14 bildungsroman, influenced such young men as George Orwell and Cyril Connolly, who both read it as schoolboys. Max Beerbohm praised Mackenzie's writing for vividness and emotional reality. Frank Swinnerton, a literary critic, comments on Mackenzie's "detail and wealth of reference". John Betjeman said of it, "This has always seemed to me one of the best novels of the best period in English novel writing." Henry James thought it to be the most remarkable book written by a young author in his lifetime. After his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1914, Mackenzie explored religious themes in a trilogy of novels, The Altar Steps (1922), The Parson's Progress (1923) and The Heavenly Ladder (1924). Following his time on Capri, socialising with the gay exiles there, he treated the homosexuality of a politician sensitively in Thin Ice (1956). He was the literary critic for the London-based national newspaper Daily Mail. A novel which ranks with Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four as outstanding political satire but with perhaps more humour is The Lunatic Republic (1959). For the version of English spoken by the inhabitants of Lunamania on the far side of the moon, Mackenzie invented over 150 new words. . First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928, 2.5, Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1980. Primero edicion en Espanol. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [21.25cm / 8.5inches], tela de color negro con estampado policromático completo con sobrecubierta protegida contra mylar, pp. 479. No dude en consultar detalles y / o fotografías adicionales. ... Una Princesa en Berlín ganó el Premio Literario Athenaeum en 1980. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt de The New York Times escribió que "si el propósito de la ficción histórica es decirnos qué no son los hechos, las cifras y los libros de historia, entonces ... Una Princesa en Berlín tiene un éxito admirable "; sin embargo, "el efecto de experimentar la cultura de Weimar a través del espejo del señor Solmssen es un poco como ver las caricaturas de George Grosz tal como las interpreta Norman Rockwell". Todd Walton, también para The Times, escribió que la promesa de "un capítulo inicial nítido y emocionante ... se atasca por falta de acción ... Tal vez si hubiera habido un poco menos de historia y un poco más de emoción". Kirkus Reviews fue más favorable, concediendo a Princess una crítica destacada y afirmando que "Solmssen hace virtuoso el uso del diálogo fragmentado ... y de temblores políticos / económicos meticulosamente detallados, todo ello exponiendo espléndidamente a una sociedad in extremis. Impresionante ficción histórica". La revisión de Donna Bird of Green Man lo llamó una "lectura muy agradable". Ethan Mordden describió una escena en Princess como "impresionante" y "una ópera de tres peniques de la aristocracia". ... Arthur R. G. Solmssen pasó su infancia en Berlín, y su adolescencia y juventud en los suburbios de Filadelfia. Estudió en la Universidad de Harvard, donde obtuvo su título de Bachelor of Arts en 1950, y la Universidad de Pensilvania, donde completó su licenciatura en derecho en 1953 y comenzó a trabajar como abogado en Filadelfia. ... Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], full polychrome-embossed raven-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 479. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A Princess in Berlin won the Athenaeum Literary Award in 1980. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times wrote that "if the purpose of historical fiction is to tell us what the facts, the figures and the history books do not, then ... A Princess in Berlin succeeds admirably"; however, "the effect of experiencing Weimar culture through Mr. Solmssen's looking glass is a little like seeing George Grosz's caricatures as rendered by Norman Rockwell." Todd Walton, also for the Times, wrote that the promise of "a crisp, exciting opening chapter ... bogs down for lack of action ... Perhaps if there had been a little less history and a bit more depth of emotion". Kirkus Reviews was more favorable, giving Princess a starred review and stating that "Solmssen makes virtuoso use of fragmented dialogue ... and of meticulously detailed political/economic tremors, all of it splendidly exposing a society in extremis. Impressive historical fiction". Donna Bird of Green Man Review called it a "very enjoyable read". Ethan Mordden described a scene in Princess as "stunning" and "a Threepenny Opera of the aristocracy". ... Arthur R. G. Solmssen spent his early childhood in Berlin, and his adolescence and later youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He studied at Harvard University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his law degree in 1953 and commenced working as a lawyer in Philadelphia. ., Circulo de Lectores, 1980, 2.5, New York: Pantheon Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1994). First Edition. Hardcover. 067942332X . [nice clean book with no discernible wear, but with the front hinge just barely starting to split at the bottom; jacket shows slight handling wear, minor scuffing to rear panel]. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page; below her signature is what appears to be an undecipherable scrawl, although perhaps to the trained eye it means something. "The story of a young woman's emotional and political education in the last year's of Mao's China." Signed by Author ., Pantheon Books, 4, First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in as new condition. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking."When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as thebirth of the American nation. Indeed, many of the nation's founding fathers had female friends but popular rhetoric held that these relationships were fraught with social danger, if not impossible.Elite men and women formed loving, politically significant friendships in the early national period that were crucial to the individuals' lives as well as the formation of a new national political system, as Cassandra Good illuminates. Abigail Adams called her friend Thomas Jefferson "one of thechoice ones on earth," while George Washington signed a letter to his friend Elizabeth Powel with the words "I am always Yours." Their emotionally rich language is often mistaken for romance, but by analyzing period letters, diaries, novels, and etiquette books, Good reveals that friendshipsbetween men and women were quite common. At a time when personal relationships were deeply political, these bonds offered both parties affection and practical assistance as well as exemplified republican values of choice, freedom, equality, and virtue. In so doing, these friendships embodied thecore values of the new nation and represented a transitional moment in gender and culture.Northern and Southern, famous and lesser known, the men and women examined in Founding Friendships offer a fresh look at how the founding generation defined and experienced friendship, love, gender, and power., Oxford University Press, 2015-02, 5, Houston: Rice University Press, 1991. Hardcover. VG/VG (light dj corner/edge wear, a bit of dj soiling). Black cloth boards with stamped lettering. White and illustrated dust jacket with black and white lettering. 142 pp. BW illustrations. "Immersed in subjects we are taught to avoid in polite society - religion, death, and sexuality - George Krause's images probe the emotive undercurrents in our lives. As book packager Carole Kismaric says, 'George Krause's vision unflinchingly directs each one of us to that void that exists between what we think we know well and what is, perhaps, too disturbing for us to consider. In a time when many in our culture would rather retreat from acknowledging the darker, usually secret side of man's nature, Krause reminds us that it is only by integrating all of our essential drives that we come to realize our full potential as expressive, constructive human beings.'" - from dustjacket., Rice University Press, 1991, 3, Library of America, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to many Americans: a tradition-bound bastion of the old world of Europe; a hotbed of revolutionary ideologies in politics and art; and a space in which to cultivate an openness to life and love thought impossible at home. Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, AMERICANS IN PARIS distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world." American writers came to Paris as statesmen, soldiers, students, tourists, and sometimes they stayed as expatriates. This anthology ranges from the crucial early impressions of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to the latter-day reflections of writers as varied as James Baldwin, Isadora Duncan, and Jack Kerouac. Along the way we encounter the energetic travelers of the nineteenth century: Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, and the pilgrims of the twentieth: Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, Cole Porter, Henry Miller. Come along as Thomas Paine takes a direct and dangerous part in the French Revolution; Harriet Beecher Stowe tours the Louvre; Theodore Dreiser samples the sensual enticements of Parisian night life; Edith Wharton movingly describes Paris in the early days of World War I; John Dos Passos charts the gathering political storms of the 1930s; Paul Zweig recalls the intertwined pleasures of language and sex; and A. J. Liebling savors the memory of his culinary education in delicious detail. AMERICANS IN PARIS is a diverse and constantly engaging mosaic, full of revealing cultural gulfs and misunderstandings, personal and li terary experimentation, and profound moments of self-discovery. As new. unread, first edition, second printing, in new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} BUND, Library of America, 2004, 5<
