Phillips mary lou (7 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Black & white illustrations by Eric Lobbecke. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 208 pages.

Hardcover. Limited Edition #45/200. Octavo, 115 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition slip case. Spine is grey with black lettering. Slip case has light fraying at corners and along closed-end head edge and faint brown smudges along head edge and spine. Boards have light creasing along rear head joint and mild sun-fading along spine. Textblock has a faint brown smudge along fore edge pp.87-108. Signed by each author on the author page preceding their story. Contains an original silkscreen print signed by Lou Stovall [Artist], protected by publisher's glassine paper. Shelved in Room Z. 1397391. Special Collections - Upstairs. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Issued without dust jacket. First Edition. Fine in publisher's slipcase. Issued without dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies signed by each author. Original SIGNED silkscreen print by artist Lou Stovall held in place on the front pastedown at corners with silk ribbons. Fifteen original essays on the title subject, "obsession," read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala, October 2, 1993 in Washington, D.C. Stovall, Lou (ilustrador). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Slight loss to the ink of the front and spine titles. ; This is a compendium of 15 tiny essays, by 15 authors, written on the topic of "obsession." These were read aloud from the stage of the 1993 benefit gala for the PEN/Faulkner Literary Foundation, the money raised going to fund their awards for fiction. Each essay is preceded by a title page, signed in ink by its contributor, and the authors and their obsessions are as follows: Louis Begley: Brooms and sweeping; David Bradley: Obsession itself, but very jumbled thoughts about that; Robert Olen Butler: Karen Granger and her Mary Jane clad feet in the 1955 X-ray machine in the shoe store; Thomas Flanagan: The varying definitions of obsession in various dictionaries; Ernest Gaines: His buried ancestors on family land; Barry Hannah: Saying goodbye, especially in death; Maureen Howard: Secrets of life and the heart, in diaries; Jayne Ann Phillips: An impoverished, abused boy in her childhood; George Plimpton: Major pyrotechnics and fireworks; Francine Prose: The obsessions of obsessive people; Vikram Seth: Dwelling on the possibility of impending death; Mary Lee Settle: The process of falling in love; Ntozake Shange: One of her books' characters obsessing over her hair; Elizabeth Spencer: A mule trader, obsessed with mules; Scott Spencer: The application of the term "obsession" in popular culture. Includes a separate, original, silkscreened, polychrome print of a Bearded Iris, signed by the artist and printmaker Lou Stovall. His use of intense colors and his unique technique of creating thin, delicate lines is well-represented in this print. This tissue-guarded print is held inside the front cover by silk ribbons at the corners. Stovall's print is apt for this book, as he served on the board of the PEN/Faulkner literary foundation. This is copy 91 of a limited edition of 200 hardbound, slipcased copies. Printed on cream colored, mould made fine paper. This 8vo book is 8 3/4" x 6". Paginated [13],14-115,[blank],[1]. In light gray cloth over boards, the front cover with title embossed in black and the PEN logo blind stamped. The plain slipcase also in light gray cloth over boards. Published by esteemed booksellers Allen and Patricia Ahearn under their Quill & Brush imprint. Both book and slipcase are in clean, and in Near Fine condition.; Silk screen; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 117 pages; Signed by All Authors. Illustrated by Lou Stovall (ilustrador).…

First Edition. First edition. Fifteen original essays on the title subject, "obsession," read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala, October 2, 1993. One of 200 copies, SIGNED BY EACH OF THE CONTRIBUTORS: Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer and Scott Spencer. AND WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED SILKSCREEN PRINT by prominent Washington, D.C., artist Lou Stovall held in place on front pastedown at corners with silk ribbons. 8vo gray cloth boards with PEN/Faulkner insignia in blind on front and titling in black on front and spine. Fine, as issued, in publisher's cloth slipcase (also fine). Signed. …

Hardcover with slipcase. Limited Edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. A frontispiece, of sorts, which is a limited print by Lou Stovall, signed and numbered in pencil, is bound by elastic to the inside of the front board, under a tissue guard. Bound in gray cloth with black lettering stamped on front board along with the blindstamp of the PEN emblem, black lettering on spine. In the matching gray cloth slipcase. Light stains on cloth, light loss to lettering on spine. Laid in is a "PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction" notecard on which is written "Lot of Love / Kay". Each author has signed his or her contribution. Of 44 deluxe copies, this is one of 18 that are numbered (this being number 16). The book is composed of short pieces addressing the subject of "obsession" that were read by prominent authors at the annual PEN gala in Washington, DC in 1993. Lou Stovall (signed print, laid in) (ilustrador). Signed.…

[1] pp.; 35.7 x 12.7 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Single sided flyer / announcement published in conjunction with show held May 10 - 31, 1957. Artists include Calvin Albert, Rhys Caparn, Rudolph Condon, Ralph Dorazio, Mary Frank, Sidney Geist, Sidney Gordin, Vance Hunt, Alice Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Gabriel Kohn, Herbert Lent, Israel Levitan, Marguerite, Edgar Negret, Louise Nevelson, Blanche Phillips, James Rosati, Avram Schlemowitz, Carol Cook Smith, George Spaventa, Richard Stankiewicz, Jim Steinhardt, George Sugarman, Lou Trakis, Ruth Vodicka, Wilfrid Zogbaum. Very Good. Hand addressed mailed copy, folded in three as issued, with mailing marks and wear including torn closure sticker and gentle bend to lower left corner when folded. Light discoloration of paper due to the age of the paper, otherwise Fine. …