2012, ISBN: 9780415280211

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London, England: Chatto & Windus, 2008. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. London, England: Chatto & Windus, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Ed… Mehr…

London, England: Chatto & Windus, 2008. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. London, England: Chatto & Windus, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 165 pages. The author's ninth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition. It should also not be confused with abundant copies signed on a bookplate, which Toni Morrison did for both the British and American Editions. The American Edition is nice, but the British is even better in terms of production values: Maroon cloth boards, thick uncoated stock paper, and a DJ design that brilliantly utilizes two evocative photographs by Marcus Lyon. Presents Toni Morrsion's "A Mercy". Her prequel to "Beloved". Morrison's novel is spare (just as "Love" was before, "Home" and "God Help The Child" after it), the work of a novelist who has arrived at the highest level of her art: Poetic compression of the novel, a sprawling narrative form. "In just 167 pages, shorter than her first novel, 'The Bluest Eye' (1970), Morrison, who has written so powerfully of catastrophe, cruelty, and horror, adds to the song of tragedy equally thrilling chords of desire and wonder, which in their own way are no less tragic. Whereas 'Beloved' ends with the cathartic exhaustion of an exorcism, 'A Mercy' concludes with an ambiguous kind of prayer, redolent with possibility and yearning, but inspired by despair. A welding of poetry and history and psychological acuity" (The Washington Post). An absolute "must-have" title for Toni Morrison collectors. <b><i> This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Toni Morrison. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a bookplate, as many other copies available online are. Morrison's signature is clean and elegant, not rushed or indecipherable, as are some signed copies we have seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: This British First Edition is the true first, preceding the American by several weeks. Signed Toni Morrisons escalate in value rapidly and this will be no exception. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Toni Morrison's "Beloved" was selected by The New York Times panel of writers, editors, and critics as the most important work of American fiction of the last 25 years. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor in 2012. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TONI MORRISON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0701180455., Chatto & Windus, 2008, New York: Random House. Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth with red lettering, 231 pp, stated first printing. Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Stamp on front end paper 'Loaned to the Crew by The American Seamen's Friend Society', 'ASFS' stamp to top edge, no other markings. Pastedown detached across from title page, exposing the webbing. A little browning but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, minor edge wear but heavy along back flap crease, a few small tears along edges. Some chipping, primarily at top and base of spine, to a lesser extent at top and bottom of flap creases. Some darkening. Photo of the (very) young author on back panel. A solid copy of Capote's first book. "Mr. Capote's first novel expresses a delicate and highly personal fusion of the familiar, the everyday, the realistic, with the strange, the perilous, and even the ghostly. On the surface, it is the narrative of a young boy's experiences in a desolate Sourthern rural community during one long and lowering summer, as he moves painfully and at times terrifyingly into emotional maturity. Below and beyond the surface, it is rich in poetic meanings and metaphorical intimations; it abounds in the imagery of solitude, doubt, and fear, of discovery and love."; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall ., Random House, 1948, New York City, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 240 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "La Orgia perpetua" in a felicitous English translation. The culmination of the author's lifelong obsession with Flaubert and his masterpiece. "Deals with the story the novel tells and the sources it uses, the way in which it transforms itself into time and language. Examines the 'added element' Flaubert joined to his perceptions of reality: His humanizing of objects, obsession with pairs, and manipulation of fictional time and narrative. Finally, focussing on such issues as the anti-hero and interior monologue, the author discusses the place of 'Madame Bovary' in the development of the modern novel" (Richard Kuczkowski) . Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase) . An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. <b><i> This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374230773., Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986, 2002-08-02. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2002-08-02<

2002, ISBN: 0415280214

[SR: 6332032], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780415280211], Routledge, Routledge, Book, [PU: Routledge], 2002-06-14, Routledge, 275068, History & Criticism, 275070, Children's Literature Studies, 275… Mehr…

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