hemenway robert edited (7 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 2nd Edition. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1984 reprint. 348pp. paperback: near Very Good [top & fore edges show age foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy. A nice reprint of Hurston's (1891-1960) autobiography, originally published in 1942.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Second Edition. The autobiography of the African-American woman writer, discussing her rise from childhood poverty in the rural American South, her entry into writing, her ideas and goals, much more, accompanied by a critical introduction by Hemenway on her life and work, as well as including some previously unpublished chapters. Softcover, appendix, 348pp., some pages show underlinings, notations inside front cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First edition. 255pp. Some toning else about fine in a good only dust jacket with tears, fading on the spine, and a chip on the spine head.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, First printing 1989. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread in AS NEW condition. "This book takes the biographical work done on Bishop and Lowell to a new, much deeper level. With a masterly use of sources no one earlier had had access to, genuine insight and generosity of spirit, Kalstone (with the superb help of Robert Hemenway) has left us a precious book."---Frank Bidart "BECOMING A POET is not only a sympathetic and insightful portrait of one of America's greatest poets, it is a fine introduction to poetry---elegant and remarkably clear even when dealing with the difficult and often elusive matters of how poems work and how they work on each other."---Mark Strand. Pristine copy w/sharp corners & crisp edges, square & tight binding; quite attractive & collectible.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Printing of the First British Edition housed in an equally impressive dust-jacket; Becoming a Poet is a book of essays by David Kalstone. The essays are written by Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, and Robert Lowell. The book is about how these three poets became what they are today.; 8vo; 299 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 255pp. Topedge modestly foxed else fine in a spine-sunned and modestly worn, very good dust jacket with a tiny chip at the crown.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 255pp. Binding slightly cocked with modest spotting along the topedge, very good or better in a spine-sunned, very good dust jacket with short creased tears at the folds.