John ashbery preface (5 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Alvin Levin reveals that part of New York society that lived in the Bronx but longed to be in the shadow of skyscrapers - with the dance bands, celebrities, and socialites; his characters create mirror worlds of love and sex. This fascinating compendium of Levin's writings - stories, an unfinished novel, sketches - offers a look at the career of an'outsider artist' who was never able to finish a long novel, yet whose fragments are of heartbreaking intensity & amazing social scope. This book also includes correspondence with favorable publishers, revealing a writer who, despite some very well-placed publications, never quite hooked up.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No jacket else About As New in all respects. 1st printing, no others noted. Clean and unmarked. Hebdomeros, originally written in French by Giorgio de Chirico and published in Paris in 1929, was immediately accepted by critics as one of the capital novels of surrealist literature. It should also be said that Hebdomeros is a fundamental document for better understanding the artistic revolution that De Chirico operated in those years with his metaphysical painting. The story does not proceed from event to event, but passes from one image, from one word, from one analogy to another. The singularity of this process lies in its distance from both the dream and the interior monologue, it does not involve the reader, but seduces him with a spectacle of images that smell of hallucination and dreams, of vanishing anguish and frigid rhetorical invention. Browse my books: www.abebooks.com/The-Book-Shed-Benson-VT-U.S.A/602765/sf Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed, an ABE Heritage Seller, has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997 An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.…

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Slightly Frayed. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 726 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy #223. Near fine in bound in publishers white and green cloth with titles in gilt. Artwork reproduced in color and black & white. Preface by John Ashbery. NEAR FINE in publishers thin yellow card stock slipcase with paper cover label affixed; slipcase with trifling soil. A handsome publication. Signed by Illustrator(s).…