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Greenwich 1986 1st Devin-Adair. Poetry. 8vo., 70pp., boards. Signed by Ewald on the front fee blank. Fine, no DJ.
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- PublisherDevin-Adair Pub
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0815972253
- ISBN 13 9780815972259
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages70
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Weapons Against Chaos
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Devin-Adair Pub, 1986
ISBN 10: 0815972253
ISBN 13: 9780815972259
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WEAPONS AGAINST CHAOS
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Devin-Adair, Publishers, Greenwich, 1986
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ISBN 13: 9780815972259
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Weapons Against Chaos
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hardcover. Condition: Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Some wear & tear to the dust jacket. Page edges have minor foxing. Seller Inventory # 230929050
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Weapons Against Chaos
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1986; signed. Purple cloth covered boards with gold titles; jacket has mild tears and discoloration around edges; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Author signature on ffep; Interior is clean and unmarked; 70 pages. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # JK1010
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Weapons Against Chaos
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Devin-Adair, Publishers, Greenwich, CT, 1986
ISBN 10: 0815972253
ISBN 13: 9780815972259
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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First edition. Hardcover. 70 pages. A collection of poems. A tight near fine copy with a small remainder mark to the bottom edge of the pages in an about very good price clipped dust jacket with some sunning to the spine and front panel near the spine. Laid in is a handwritten note from Ewald. Seller Inventory # 146921
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Weapons Against Chaos
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ISBN 10: 0815972253
ISBN 13: 9780815972259
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Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; VG. First Edition. This hardcover book is Fine, being square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is Very Good, with minor edge wear. Now attractively protected in mylar. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Signed and inscribed by the Author on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 003177
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Weapons Against Chaos - poems
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ISBN 10: 0815972253
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Weapons Against Chaos
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Poems Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Schutzumschlag eingerissen, ansonsten sauberer Zustand. Seller Inventory # 65050
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Weapons Against Chaos
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Devin-Adair Publishers, Greenwich, CT, 1986
ISBN 10: 0815972253
ISBN 13: 9780815972259
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. vii, 70 p. Preface by Richard Wilbur. In this work the author has created a series of poems which illustrate and comment upon contemporary philosophy, in this instand, the modern philosophy of language. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has some spine fading and slight wear and soiling. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Seller Inventory # 60949
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Weapons Against Chaos
Published by
Devin-Adair, Publishers, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1986
ISBN 10: 0815972253
ISBN 13: 9780815972259
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Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. vii, [1], 70 pages. DJ has some wear. spoiling, and a small edge tear. Minor edge soiling. Signed by the author on the front free end paper; signature reads: With very good wishes, Mary Ewald. Preface by Richard Wilbur. The author is a Harvard Ph.D. in English philology, who wrote her thesis on scientific method. Her interest in both the history of words and in science is evident in her verse. Chiefly, Mary Ewald uses verse form, like the concept "word," to contrast with formlessness, and she strives for clarity, convinced that obscurity and profundity are not the same thing. She says she likes to read and to write verse because nothing else creates such a surge and release of emotion while at the same time brandishing so brazen an intellectual weapon against chaos. Against evil and confusion, a poem is not worthless. People need to think, and they must think in words. In this work the author has created a series of poems which illustrate and comment upon contemporary philosophy, in this instance, the modern philosophy of language. Mrs. Ewald taught at the universities of Maryland and New Hampshire and Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She studied and translated 17 languages, including Old English and Old Icelandic. One of the first women awarded a Radcliffe teaching fellowship, poet Mary Ewald first became involved in poetry at the behest of one of her sons who needed help on a school project. In 1987 Ewald published the collection of poetry Weapons against Chaos. Jeffrey Hart, a reviewer in the National Review, described Ewald as "a formidably intelligent and learned poet, adventurous in her themes, but the effect of her learning and reason is to startle us with the power of her emotion." In particular, Hart praised her poem "Enchantment" as "one of the great love poems of the twentieth century." Perhaps the most significant of Ewald's writings was the 1990 letter to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, requesting the release of her twenty-five-year-old son, Thomas, who had been captured after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait to be used as a human shield against potential allied air strikes. In her plea to President Hussein, relayed in a U.S. News & World Report, Ewald expressed compassion for the Arab cause, "hoping [Thomas] could help peace between our cultures." A few days after the receipt of Ewald's letter, Thomas was released. In 1989 Ewald was named Poet of the Year by the Hingham Poetry Society of Massachusetts. Ewald's libretto for the opera The Birthday of the Infanta premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in 1993. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Seller Inventory # 81722
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