Farber Thomas, Signed (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, first printing . Signed and dated December, 1980 by Farber on the title page. Very good in black paper covered boards over a black cloth backstrip with copper-foil lettering. Light foxing on the edges of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket showing some light handling. 12mo. 144pp. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'For Don Ellis, publisher extraordinaire, companion in El Leons' madness, friend--with all best wishes' by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 208 p. Audience: General/trade. By the Guggenheim Fellowship-, National Endowment Fellowship-, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship-Fulbright Scholarship-, and Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize-winning author of 'Here and Gone' and 'Brief Nudity'. Scarce signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by author on title-page, else clean & unmarked; tight & square. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. One of 500 copies printed in Monotype Dante at Poltroon Press. A Fine copy in blue sewn wrappers. With a typed note signed by publisher Peter Howard presenting this copy to Nikolai Goodman, son of noted poet Denise Levertov. This work deals with the death of Farber's mother.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First edition. Fine in Very Good+ Glssy Pictorial Dust Jacket with original price ($22.00). Flat signed by author on title page. After a long silence, Farber (A Lover's Question; Curves of Pursuit) turns out a new novel, about a middle-aged writer's affair with a beautiful, sexy, married young art history scholar, offering a substantial investigation of illicit pleasures. Having first met informally to discuss a manuscript, the writer and the student fall deeply in lust after several brief, clandestine encounters, and the lovers "all the pleasures prove" with great abandon. They take Polaroids of each other, in increasingly erotic poses, all elegantly described in the book's pages, a smart metaphor for their awareness of their own violation and the pleasure they take in it. Grey paper over boards, black cloth backstrip, gilt titling on spine. Dust Jacket shows light wear. Interior is clean, crisp, tight & bright, except as noted unmarked. 193 pp. Approx. 6" x 8.5". Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Ask all questions; glad to respond.

First Edition, 1988. A Fine hardcover copy in tan cloth and paper boards, in a glossy white, lavender and yellow dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 176pp. SIGNED by Farber on the title page under his name.

First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Laid in is a typed note SIGNED by Farber.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. [36] pages. 6-1/4 by 9 inches. One of 30 numbered copies signed by the author, out of an edition of 350. Poems. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in red, sewn wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author on the limitation page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good in good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has edgewear, a closed tear, and a tiny stain. 127 p. Audience: General/trade. By the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize-, Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship-, Fulbright Scholarship-, Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment Fellowship-winning author of Here and Gone and The Beholder. A rare book, especially signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Original red wraps. 40 pages. Oblong 8vo. One of 30 signed and numbered copies, hand-set and printed by Alastair Johnston. Further thoughts on the epigrammatic Evolutionary psychology argues that excessive self-knowledge can be . a hindrance. If people perceive you as good and benevolent, they are more likely to accede to your desires. A good way to get others to believe that you are good and benevolent is to believe it yourself. Oliver Morton AS readers of The Price of the Ride (1996) have seen, the afterthoughts and repercussions of that short book did not exhaust my interest in brevity, paradox, or foible. Nor did these half-truths requite my desire to encourage the reader to risk the distance from premise to conclusion. As Jesse Green argues, the reader must "work out, and usually backward, what trajectory led from takeoff to landfall. . :' Though Green believes such a task is created with "more than a hint of sadism," I confess only to be asserting that this is the world we live in, the tongue of understanding. Using the enchantment of language to express . oh, aspects of disenchantment, brief briefs about or against what we profess to hold to be true.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. One of 300 casebound copies, not numbered but artist copy in photographer s hand and SIGNED BY BROWN at colophon. Folio, 72 numbered pages, photographic reproductions, publisher s half cream cloth and white papered boards stamped in metallic purple (note with bibliographic information tipped-in at front paste-down, toning and wear to edges of boards, internally tight and clean, very good). Plain translucent dust jacket (toning, edge wear including tiny chips and creases, some moisture rippling visible to rear panel, else good). Originally issued with a silver print photograph, which is not present. Signed by Author(s).