settle elizabeth thomas (11 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1982; blue cloth boards with gold spine title; some light discoloration/markings to boards; no jacket; interior is clean; 155 pages; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 155p. Ex-library. A blue buckram hardcover book in good, sturdy reading condition. Stickers on spine and back cover. Stamps on endpapers, title page, and foredges. Card pocket inside as well. Otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st EDITION. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight. No jacket, the covers are also near fine; absolutely intact in all ways, including perfect color and design. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

Condición: Good. Boston 1982. 8vo., 155pp., blue buckram. Small institution stamp on top and bottom fore-edges, small date stamp and ink numbers at inner edge of title page. Good, inner hinges cracked, no dj.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Slipcase. Color Silkscreen, Tissue-Guarded, Signed By Lou Stovall Ilustrador. 1st Edition. #70 Of 200 Hardbound Copies, A Benefit Production For Pen/ Faulkner Foundation. Gray Cloth. Fine In Fine Slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

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 Room C. 1397391. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First edition. Foreword by Ishmael Reed. Tall octavo. xiii, 155pp. Topedge modestly foxed else fine in navy blue buckram with spine gilt. Issued as part of the series "A Reference Publication in Afro-American Studies," edited by Charles T. Davis and Henry-Louis Gates, Jr.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Illustrated by Lou Stovall Ilustrador. 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.

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. Lou Stovall (signed print, laid in) Ilustrador. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First edition. Fine in full gray calf, in folding cloth box. Fifteen original essays on the title subject read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala. Letter G of 26 lettered 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 an original Signed and numbered silkscreen print by Lou Stovall mounted with ribbons on the front pastedown.