2015, ISBN: 9780395736555

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork (detail of a painting'Harvesters' by Edw… Mehr…

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork (detail of a painting'Harvesters' by Edward Stott, courtesy of Sotheby's,Belgravia) illustrated dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Miniscule rubbing to all corners and both head+foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj.Dw/djs' spine/backstrip inevitably but slightly sunned/faded.Top edges very lightly dust-soiled with some minimal grubbing,but generally bright and clean,fore-edges brighterand cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,publisher's original,sharp-cornered,plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate sepia contemporary,historic photographic endpapers. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-204pp [paginated] includes preface,13 chapters - each with a (non- credited) b/w line illustrated chapter headpiece; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and 3 village families' genealogicaltrees to rear of book. Though much of old rural England was swept away by the 20thC, Victorian village life in 'Hedingham' in north Lincolnshire lived on in the memories of those country people - the farmers and labourers, the blacksmiths and serving-girls - who were born there.The author is a grandchild and nephew to many of them,and this is a full and loving chronicle of 'Hedingham' as they knew it,for hisrelatives all lived to a great age and they loved to talk.They talked with frankness,for despite the era their liveswere cheerfully free of Victorian prudery.Grandfather,a struggling tenant farmer,was harsh,ambitious and a great lover of women - he slept with his serving-girls,with his pretty niece Katie and with Cousin Annie who lent him moneyto start farming.The Rector also slept with his maids,pensioning each off as she became pregnant with a generous dowry and a husband.Young and charming Uncle Henry was seduced by the miller's wife on the miller's voluptuous feather-bed.Grandfather's eight children worked in the fields before and after school,without pocket-money or thanks,and with regular thrashings.There were no birthday presents and onlya stocking and a ceremonial kiss at Christmas.Yet their memories are full of the pleasures of a country childhood - poaching,bull-baiting, skating,birds-nesting,flower-collecting.The book is filled with everyday doings - killing the pig,threshing,shoeing a horse,the New Year party; with anecdotes and family jokes; with spirited and entertaining people,each overcoming to an astonishing degree the limitations of village life.It is joyous,stylish and unsentimental,and it captures the delight with which the author's family remembered their youth - 'for on all my uncles and aunts 'Hedingham' made so deep an impression that they were never tired of going back on their tracks and shedding fifty or sixty years to live again in that small,turbulent,vivid community.' Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.CONSTABLE and COMPANY LTD.,1977., 4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 478 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Undeniably one of the most controversial figures of past half century, Norman Mailer has also been one of the most influential. Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, once a candidate for mayor of New York City, and the author of thirty-one books, he has both made the news and commented on it with an originality that has permanently altered America's literary landscape. From the peace rallies of the sixties that lead to The Armies of the Night, to the coverage of the "sex wars" in The Prisoner of Sex, to the study of violence and punishment in The Executioner's Song, Mailer has observed our culture with unmatched insight -- and shaped it as well. Mary Dearborn had unprecedented access to Mailer's friends, relations, and antagonists. With photographs and correspondence never before published, her biography fills in the familiar outlines of his colorful personal life -- the wives and mistresses, the brawls and arrests -- and charts Mailer's brilliant successes and notorious failures. Acclaimed for her biographies of Henry Miller and Louise Bryant, Dearborn comes to her subject uniquely sensitive to Mailer's best and worst sides. Her account is the most clearheaded and balanced evaluation to date. As splendidly told by Mary Dearborn, Mailer's story is, for good or ill, the story of our times., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999, 5<

1999, ISBN: 9780395736555

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Amman, al-Urdun: Maktabat al-Aqsa, 1981. al-Tabah 1. Paperback. Very small, faint ex-libris stamp (and not other markings) else very good+. Tight and clean. A legitimately deaccessioned … Mehr…

Amman, al-Urdun: Maktabat al-Aqsa, 1981. al-Tabah 1. Paperback. Very small, faint ex-libris stamp (and not other markings) else very good+. Tight and clean. A legitimately deaccessioned ex-library copy.. Small octavo in blue and white paper wraps; 51 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Bibliography: p. 77-78. In Arabic. Scarce. Series: Silsilat al-naqd al-adabi al-tatbiqi, 1. // Ka`b ibn Zuhayr. Banat Su`ad. Rera wrapper states title in English translation: Aesthetic Appreciation of the Poem Banat Suad by Kab b. Zuhayr ... by Moh'd Ali Abu Hamdah., Maktabat al-Aqsa, 1981, 2.5, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Norman Mailer is "our chronicler, our critic, our designated male chauvinist, our court jester, our devil's advocate, the thorn in our collective side," writes Mary V. Dearborn. Undeniably one of the most controversial figures of the past half-century, Mailer has also been one of the most influential. Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, once a candidate for mayor of New York City, a best-selling author at age twenty-three with THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, a founder of the 'Village Voice', he has both made the news and commented on it with an originality that has permanently altered America's literary landscape. In part, Mailer's genius has rested on the intersection of his private and public lives. By inserting himself into the seismic events he has described, Mailer has given them immediacy--and demanded that readers apprehend them with equivalent imagination and intensity. Dearborn had unprecedented access to Mailer's friends, relations, and antagonists, who provided key insights to fill in the familiar outlines of the Mailer myth--the brawls and arrests, the wives and mistresses, the brilliant successes and notorious failures. Crossing Mailer's path--sometimes to their peril--is a cast of stellar and diverse characters including Muhammad Ali, John F. Kennedy, Germaine Greer, Jimmy Breslin, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Shelley Winters, Andy Warhol, and many others. As the acclaimed biographer of both Henry Miller (one of Mailer's heroes) and the radical journalist Louise Bryant, Dearborn is uniquely sensitive to Mailer's best and worst sides. Her account is the most clear-headed and balanced evaluation to date. As splendidly told by Mary Dearborn, Mailer's story is, for good or ill, the story of our times. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A71, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999, 5<

1999, ISBN: 0395736552

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[EAN: 9780395736555], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.], JOURNALISTS UNITED STATES MAILER NORMAN 1923 AUTHORS AMERICAN LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLIN… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780395736555], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.], JOURNALISTS UNITED STATES MAILER NORMAN 1923 AUTHORS AMERICAN LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES JOURNALISM LITERARY CRITICISM GENERAL, Literary Criticism|General, Language Arts & Disciplines|Journalism, Jacket, Norman Mailer is "our chronicler, our critic, our designated male chauvinist, our court jester, our devil's advocate, the thorn in our collective side," writes Mary V. Dearborn. Undeniably one of the most controversial figures of the past half-century, Mailer has also been one of the most influential. Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, once a candidate for mayor of New York City, a best-selling author at age twenty-three with THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, a founder of the 'Village Voice', he has both made the news and commented on it with an originality that has permanently altered America's literary landscape. In part, Mailer's genius has rested on the intersection of his private and public lives. By inserting himself into the seismic events he has described, Mailer has given them immediacy--and demanded that readers apprehend them with equivalent imagination and intensity. Dearborn had unprecedented access to Mailer's friends, relations, and antagonists, who provided key insights to fill in the familiar outlines of the Mailer myth--the brawls and arrests, the wives and mistresses, the brilliant successes and notorious failures. Crossing Mailer's path--sometimes to their peril--is a cast of stellar and diverse characters including Muhammad Ali, John F. Kennedy, Germaine Greer, Jimmy Breslin, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Shelley Winters, Andy Warhol, and many others. As the acclaimed biographer of both Henry Miller (one of Mailer's heroes) and the radical journalist Louise Bryant, Dearborn is uniquely sensitive to Mailer's best and worst sides. Her account is the most clear-headed and balanced evaluation to date. As splendidly told by Mary Dearborn, Mailer's story is, for good or ill, the story of our times. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A71, Books<

1999, ISBN: 9780395736555

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Norman Mailer is "our chr… Mehr…

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Norman Mailer is "our chronicler, our critic, our designated male chauvinist, our court jester, our devil's advocate, the thorn in our collective side," writes Mary V. Dearborn. Undeniably one of the most controversial figures of the past half-century, Mailer has also been one of the most influential. Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, once a candidate for mayor of New York City, a best-selling author at age twenty-three with THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, a founder of the 'Village Voice', he has both made the news and commented on it with an originality that has permanently altered America's literary landscape. In part, Mailer's genius has rested on the intersection of his private and public lives. By inserting himself into the seismic events he has described, Mailer has given them immediacy--and demanded that readers apprehend them with equivalent imagination and intensity. Dearborn had unprecedented access to Mailer's friends, relations, and antagonists, who provided key insights to fill in the familiar outlines of the Mailer myth--the brawls and arrests, the wives and mistresses, the brilliant successes and notorious failures. Crossing Mailer's path--sometimes to their peril--is a cast of stellar and diverse characters including Muhammad Ali, John F. Kennedy, Germaine Greer, Jimmy Breslin, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Shelley Winters, Andy Warhol, and many others. As the acclaimed biographer of both Henry Miller (one of Mailer's heroes) and the radical journalist Louise Bryant, Dearborn is uniquely sensitive to Mailer's best and worst sides. Her account is the most clear-headed and balanced evaluation to date. As splendidly told by Mary Dearborn, Mailer's story is, for good or ill, the story of our times. Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. A71, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999, 5<