Wallenstein barry editors (5 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Covers show user wear with rubbing on surfaces, corners, and edges; 1/8" inked out spot on front cover; foxing to page edges. ; 5 1/4 x 8"; 446 pages.

Card Wrappers. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 150pp. Includes a 30pp. essay by Mottram on Duncan, 25pp of Griffiths' original & translated poetry & 23pp. on his work by Bush. A little bumped at head & cover edges slightly age-toned.

8vo. 448pp. A very good hardback copy in lightly rubbed dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VERY GOOD CONDITION. First Edition. (6) + 7 - 448 PAGES. THERE IS MINOR EDGE WEAR OF THE DUST JACKET, OTHERWISE THE DUST JACKET CONDITION WOULD BE IN FINE CONDITION. THE PRICEOF $7.50 IS ON THE FRONT FLAP OF THE DUST JACKET. THE DUST JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE MYLAR WRAPPER. THIS ANTHOLOGY CONTAINS SELECTED EXCERPTS FROM THE EXCEPTIONAL WRITINGS OF 65 NOTABLE AMERICAN AUTHORS OF THE 1930'S. THE EDITORS WERE INSPIRED BY JAMES T. FARRELL TO PRODUCE THE ANTHOLOGY. THEY CONTRIBUTE THEIR COMMENTS AND CRITICISM ON THE SELECTED EXCERPTS. ONE OF THEIR CHOICES IS JAMES T. FARRELL'S 1935 BOOK " A NOTE ON LITERARY CRITICISM" THAT RAISED A SIGNIFICANT CONTROVERSY AMONG AUTHORS AT THE TIME. THE TITLE OF THAT SECTION IS " JAMES T. FARRELL AND THE LITERARY LEFT." THE CON OPINION IS TITLED "SECTARIANISM ON THE RIGHT" BY ISADOR SCHNEIDER. THE PRO OPINION IS PROVIDED BY GRANVILLE HICKS AND IS TITLED "IN DEFENSE OF JAMES FARRELL." AND OF COURSE, "REBUTTAL" IS OFFERED BY JAMES T. FARRELL. OTHER AUTHORS WAGED A PRO AND CON LITERARY WAR APPROVING AND/OR CONTESTING FARRELL'S POINT OF VIEW ON LITERARY CRITICISM. THEY EXCHANGED THEIR ERUDITE OPINIONS IN SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATIONS THAT CAUSED A FARRELL REBUTTAL TO SCHNEIDER'S CRITICISM. THE ANTHOLOGY CONTAINS THE BEST OF FICTION, POETRY, POLITICS, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND OF COURSE LITERARY CRITICISM OF THE 1930'S. Size: 5 1/2" X 8 1.4".…

Hardcover. 8vo. Light green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 448pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only. A tight, quite attractive first edition of this broad anthology that (to cite front jacket flap) "offers a wide range of stories, songs, poems, and plays, as well as examples of photographs, cartoons, and paintings of the period." This copy with choice and relevant autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is an Autograph Note Signed from a writer represented in this gathering -- Archibald MacLeish, whose poem "Invocation to the Social Muse" appears on page 239-40. 1p (lettersheet), 4 3/4" X 7 3/4", Conway, MA, 18 May n.y. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Near fine. Single light horizontal fold. On letterhead of Boston's Ritz-Carlton, MacLeish writes this old friend in black ballpoint sending "Thanks for taking the time and trouble to write me. I appreciate very much your good wishes: may I send my own back to you," boldly signed in full. Undated, but likely contemporaneous with this book's publication. MacLeish (1892-1982) was a versatile poet, playwright, writer and man of letters awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 1933, 1952 and 1958; he also won a National Book Award and numerous other honors and was appointed Librarian of Congress in 1939 despite lack of a library science degree; in his spare time he was an attorney and Harvard writing professor. …