De Mott Benjamin (12 results)

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: Bedford Pub Date: 1/1/2001 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 1449 Reprint edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-Library First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Essays about current attitudes and institutions. Dust jacket edgeworn, faint scuffing; spine faded. Otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. vg/g+, dj rubbed. FER; 6544.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($4.50 price intact). Published by Harcourt, 1966. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with edgewear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Very good in blue and white card wrappers. Spine slightly rolled and worn at the edges. Wrappers somewhat discoloured with age and handling. No tears. Contents very good, but please note that there are some pencil annotations and underlinings [see scans]. 230mm x 155mm. 194 pages. ***This issue contains an interesting ten page long contemporary review of the publication of Joseph Heller's 'Catch 22', which includes the following statements: "Since books not worth reading are not worth reviewing, and Catch 22 is worthless, my review needs justification --- before describing the theme of Catch 22 I must make this point which I trust will not be considered trifling - that its author cannot write". The reviewer is anonymous! ***'Dædalus is a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1955 as a replacement for the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the volume and numbering system of which it continues. In 1958 it began quarterly publication as The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The journal is currently published by MIT Press on behalf of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Each issue addresses a theme with essays on the arts, sciences, and humanities. Special features include fiction, poetry, and a notes section. Publication is by invitation only'. [Wiki]***A very good copy of this American journal - this issue devoted to the American Reading Public. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Condition: Good. 1962. No edition remarks. 264 pages. Signed by the author. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over orange cloth. Signed by the author with dedication to front endpaper. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Mild tanning to upper edges. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.

264p, cloth, DW, 1" tear at the top edge of the DW, Nice copy, VG/VG-.

Condition: VG. NY 1951 first edition. octavo wraps. Trilling on "A Communist and his Ideals"; Auchincloss on "Edith Wharton and her New Yorks"; story by De Mott "Dead Writers"; more. VG cover a bit toned; no owner marks.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes The Fabulous Example of Andre Gide by Delmore Schwartz, plus work by Gide and literary and critical writing by other important contributors. Unmarked copy with a bit of outer toning and light wear. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Brown and white wrappers. 329-480pp. Wrappers lightly age-toned, very good or better. Contributions by William Carlos Williams' *The Farmers' Daughter*, Northrop Frye's *The Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens, Louis Simpson, Daniel G. Hoffman, Lysander Kemp, James Wright, John Fandel, Leonard Wolf, A.R. Ammons, James Dickey, Marius Bewley, Robert Martin Adams' *Henrik Ibsen: The Fifty-First Anniversary*, John Holloway, William S. Poster, Kenneth B. Sawyer, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis Simpson, Benjamin De Mott, and Gerald Weales.

Condition: Fine. Boston 1959 first edition. Little Brown. Hardcover octavo. 303p. Fine in Good+ dj. **DJ design by Leonard Baskin. (dj no tears, no chips, light wear, price not clipped.).

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. IED. INGLESE Sovraccoperta mostrante abrasioni ai margini con leggere macchioline di decolorazione ed etichetta di catalogazione precedente al piede. Coperta rigida in mezza tela con titoli impressi in bianco e rosso al dorso. Pagine pienamente godibili anche se già sfogliate e quasi impercettibilmente ingiallite dal tempo; timbro di biblioteca precedente al frontespizio. Testo in lingua inglese. Numero pagine 188.