Tales I told my mother - Hardcover
- PublisherHill and Wang
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0809091062
- ISBN 13 9780809091065
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages172
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Tales I Told My Mother
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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1969. Hill & Wang. 1st American Edition. Bookplate, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0809091062. 173 pages. hardcover. Jacket drawing - How They Met Themselves by D. G. Rosetti. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The author says that some of these stories began as dreams. Like dreams they are both subtle and crude; they take us along irresistibly and seem - however fantastic - incontrovertible. (And the fantastic in these stories, as in dreams, is not an occasional peak but the ground underfoot). A pleasure of these tales (and of dreaming) is delight in spontaneous storying,' in an invention so free and fertile, a humor so boisterous, that there is never pause for thought. Some of the characters appear in only one story, others come and go. Among them are Currer, who can kill by pointing his finger; Captain Rufus Coate, who keeps his books on the shelves with their titles to the wall; Mr. Midshipman Simple, whose mission to convert the heathen Fuegians employs two ships (the Is and the Was) powered by windword machines' (which turn words into wind) and ends with the extinction of the whole Christian company; and Gerard Benjamin, upon whose buttocks, underneath his cyclist's leathers, is tattooed a letter from the boy-poet Thomas Chatterton, with clues to his death at the eighteen. Robert Nye's style more than meets the demands of his imaginative gifts. His writing is the work of a devoted natural: resourceful, precise as poetry, without a slack place in it. And for all its finish, there is the feeling of extemporaneity. Robert Nye is a young, important, and original writer, already well known in his native Britain. TALES I TOLD MY MOTHER should earn him the admiration of American readers as well. Robert Nye received the James Kennaway Memorial Award for his collection of short stories, TALES I TOLD MY MOTHER. inventory #6677 Bookplate, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z6677
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Worn Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1969. Hill & Wang. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket. 0809091062. 173 pages. hardcover. Jacket drawing - How They Met Themselves by D. G. Rosetti. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The author says that some of these stories began as dreams. Like dreams they are both subtle and crude; they take us along irresistibly and seem - however fantastic - incontrovertible. (And the fantastic in these stories, as in dreams, is not an occasional peak but the ground underfoot). A pleasure of these tales (and of dreaming) is delight in spontaneous storying,' in an invention so free and fertile, a humor so boisterous, that there is never pause for thought. Some of the characters appear in only one story, others come and go. Among them are Currer, who can kill by pointing his finger; Captain Rufus Coate, who keeps his books on the shelves with their titles to the wall; Mr. Midshipman Simple, whose mission to convert the heathen Fuegians employs two ships (the Is and the Was) powered by windword machines' (which turn words into wind) and ends with the extinction of the whole Christian company; and Gerard Benjamin, upon whose buttocks, underneath his cyclist's leathers, is tattooed a letter from the boy-poet Thomas Chatterton, with clues to his death at the eighteen. Robert Nye's style more than meets the demands of his imaginative gifts. His writing is the work of a devoted natural: resourceful, precise as poetry, without a slack place in it. And for all its finish, there is the feeling of extemporaneity. Robert Nye is a young, important, and original writer, already well known in his native Britain. TALES I TOLD MY MOTHER should earn him the admiration of American readers as well. Robert Nye received the James Kennaway Memorial Award for his collection of short stories, TALES I TOLD MY MOTHER. inventory #5888. Seller Inventory # z5888
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with DJ. The DJ has some shelf/edge wear, rubbing wear, a few small tears and chips. The DJ is now protected in archival mylar. Light wear to the book. Lightly tanned pages. Seller Inventory # mon0000198366
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition Thus. New York: HIll and Wang 1969 Hardcover. 0809091062 . First US edition. "The author says that some of these stories began as dreams. Like dreams, they are both subtle and crude; they take us along irresistibly and seem---however fantastic---incontrovertible". 173 pages collecting 9 stories. Good copy with staining top page edges, light wear, in worn and edge-torn Dust Wrapper with a partial sticker/ghost to the front flap with damp staining to its top edge bx140. Seller Inventory # 66402
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Book Description Condition: Very Good. First American edition, Hardcover, near fine cond. in near fine dust jacket, in mylar, 1969. Seller Inventory # 101084
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. Hill & Wang, New York, 1st American Ed., 1969, 8vo., 172pp. Touch of rubbing to tail of spine, else Fine. DJ complete ($4.95) with some scuffing/chipping to head/tail edges. Well packaged, ships with tracking. Seller Inventory # 210130001
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 91443
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