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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. This is "Mary McCarthy" by Willene Schaefer Hardy, a critical assessment of one of the 20th Centuries leading authors and intellectual Lights. Published by Frederick Ungar in 1981, Hardcover Format. THIS IS AN X-LIBRARY BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. From the jacket write-up : "A personal life of great range and many interests has set Mary McCarthy apart since the childhood she recalls so vividly in her unique autobiography "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood". Her sense of her own superiority was not, as the writer acknowledges, always justified. But, as the book shows, there is something of that child in each of McCarthy's fictional heroines. She is well known for candid uses of herself and her acquaintances in her novels and short stories. We also see the moral view of life that gives direction to her funny, sometimes painful, always truthful analyses of the minds and conduct of mid-twentieth century intellectuals. In this introduction to Mary McCarthy, each of her novels is considered in detail, including 'The Group', the sensational best seller that brought the fame and fortune and the stern disapproval of many of her one time admirers; 'The Groves of Academe', the academic novel that is acknowledged as one of the best of the genre; and 'Cannibals and Missionaries', examined at length. There is also a discussion of selected nonfiction, focusing on 'Venice Observed', The Vietnam essays, and the Watergate portraits. We see that in essay and story alike, McCarthy cuts through the pretense and self-deception to expose the less than honorable motives that frequently underlie and sometimes undermine the best actions" X LIBRARY CONTENTS : ** Biography ** "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" : the Author's Early Years ** "Preserve me in disunity" : the Quest for Identity in "The Company She Keeps" ** The Demands of the Ethical and the Quest for Superiority in "A Charmed Life" ** A Brave New Generation : "The Group" ** A Scholarly Maze and a Question of Justice : "The Groves of Academe" ** The Liberal Imagination and the Modern Dilemma : "Birds of America" ** The Author in Her Own Voice : Essays on Diverse Subjects ** The Sons of Adam in and out of Eden : "The Oasis" and "Cannibals and Missionaries" SERIES : Modern Literature Series TITLE : Mary McCarthy AUTHOR : Willene Schaefer Hardy IMPRINT : Frederick Ungar Publications PLACE : New York DATE : (1981) EDITION : First Edition STATUS : Out of Print - OP - Ungar is no longer in business. PROVENANCE : OFFICIALLY DEACCESSIONED - X - LIBRARY BOOK PHYSICAL DETAILS : Series Monograph, published as a trade hardcover; contains a Chronology, a Bibliography, Notes and an Index. viii + 214 pages; 4 3/4" x 7 3/4"; bright blue, textured, paper-covered binding; photo-pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION -- BOOK : GOOD --- DUST- JACKET : GOOD -- This is a clean, deaccessioned library volume (X-LIBRARY) with library stamps, catalog label on spine panel of dust-jacket, card pocket (but no card), discard stamp, attached library mylar, etc.(hence the 'official' condition designation) While there is a bit of shelf rub to the bottom edges of the cover, the book seems to never have been read, with tight binding, clean and presentable with no underlining, no marginalia, no writing. The dust-jacket, itself, while under the mylar, does not seem to be attached.

Buckram. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. This is a 1969 paperback reprint of the classic, an exlibrary copy now bound in the hardcover Heckman maroon buckram . With some pencil underlining in the first few pages, otherwise a VG copy. One of the first studies of the economics of slavery and the slave markets through-out the south with photographs, appendices on the numbers, transactions and values. With an index.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Diaria de Bello Carolino" by Alessandro Benedetti, is a firsthand, eyewitness account of the Caroline War, which is a key document, not only for its detailed account of the war, but also for its insight and description of medicine as it was practiced on the battlefields of the time. Alessandro Benedetti's "Diaria de Bello Carolino" ("Diary of the Caroline War"). Presented with the Original Latin on one page & modern English on the page opposite, and edited and translated by Dorothy M. Schullian. Published in 1967 in New York by Frederick Ungar under the auspices of The Renaissance Society. FROM THE DUST-JACKET WRITE UP : "The triumphant expedition of Charles VIII of France to Naples in 1494 and his forced marches back through Italy the next year have been chronicled by many writers, from varying points of view. They have also described the important battle of Fornovo, at which Charles was opposed by massed troops representing the League formed by the Venetian Senate, Lodovico Sforza of Milan, Maximilian I, Pope Alexander VI, and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain -- the first time since ancient Rome that Italians had united against a foreign invader. The hideous siege of Novara which followed has had a prominent in these accounts. "Alessandro Benedetti holds an important and distinctive rank among these writers. At home in the humanities as well as in medicine, he created in the 'Diaria' a document of unique value both as history and as literature. Benedetti was eyewitness to many of the events that he relates, and he provides for the general historian rich details recorded nowhere else. As physician sent by the Venetian Senate he included medical observations of particular interest to historians of medicine, and for these historians, who have known him heretofore mainly from his purely medical and anatomical works, he provides valuable information about himself. "Benedetti's account of the Caroline War, first published in 1496 by Aldus Manutius, is now issued in its first really modern edition with a faithful English translation facing the Latin original, and with an introduction and commentary by the editor." Dorothy Schullian, at the time of the editing and translating of this book, was the Curator of the History of Science Collections at Cornell University Libraries. She published extensively in the field of medical history as it was revealed in the manuscripts and early printed books of Italy. SERIES : Renaissance Society of America Renaissance Text Series I. TITLE : Diaria de Bello Carolino (Diary of the Caroline War) AUTHOR : Alessandro Benedetti (1452-1512) EDITOR / TRANSLATOR : Dorothy M. Schullian IMPRINT : Frederick Ungar. PLACE : New York DATE : (1967) EDITION : First Edition LANGUAGE : Bilingual Latin & English translation STATUS : OP - Out of Print - Ungar has ceased publishing. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Trade hardcover; has a frontispiece facsimile of part of the original text; Contains an introduction; copious bibliographical and academic notes and an index; viii + 276 pages; approximately 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" (octavo); red cloth with title, etc. in black; top edge dyed black; Pictorial dust-jacket, which has the original price on the front flap. CONDITION : BOOK : VERY GOOD PLUS ; JACKET : VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : : BOARDS : Clean and bright. SPINE : Clean and bright. BINDING : Solid - tight. PAGE EDGES : Clean and presentable INTERIOR : Lightly toned, else clean and presentable with no marking or writing. DUST-JACKET : A small tear to top edge (visible in picture) -- mild surface rub , else else clean and presentable looks very nice under protective mylar AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY.