Language: English
Published by New Directions (edition Illustrated), 2006
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.
Seller: Zoom Books East, Glendale Heights, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: good. Book is in good condition and may include underlining highlighting and minimal wear. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.
Language: English
Published by New Directions, New York, NY, 2008
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
Seller: Foxtrot Books, Yankton, SD, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good Condition paperback 342 pages.
Seller: Evergreen Goodwill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Good.
Language: English
Published by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2002
ISBN 10: 0393976068 ISBN 13: 9780393976069
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Language: English
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2006
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Cloth Ed. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Goodwill Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: good.
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Language: English
Published by New Directions, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition.
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Language: English
Published by Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 1991
ISBN 10: 0691065497 ISBN 13: 9780691065496
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing. 205pp. Photos sent on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Language: English
Published by New Directions, (New York), 2006
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
First Edition
Condition: Near fine. First Edition. First printing of these collected short diaristic writings and images from the archives of Laughlin, the founder of New Directions. Wraps. Small 4to. Publisher's photographic wraps. A near fine copy. Trace soil to wraps. Bright, clean, crisp throughout. 342 pages.
Published by Harvard University Library, 1986
Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Old price written at top of cover, otherwise Very Good+. Paginated 221-332. [B2:9:5 -- M1:2:1].
Paperback. Condition: Good. The heir to a steel fortune, a notorious ladies man, and the founder of the legendary New Directions Books, James McLaughlin did more than just acquire books. He changed Gertrude Stein's tires, drank beer with Thomas Merton, delivered ballet shoes to Celine's wife, in an extraordinary life that shaped American literature by hand. At his death at the age of 83, he was still at work on his autobiography, a project his son-in-law Daniel Javitch and current editor-in-chief Barbara Epler completes in this ABC format memoir/scrapbook that offers an intimate first-hand encounter with 20th-century Modernism, from a man who helped define it.
Condition: New.
Language: English
Published by WW Norton Publishers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
Seller: INDOO, Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: New. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. New unused first paperback edition. 342 pages, unmarked; DD0224 ASHLF; 7.1 X 1.4 X 9.3 inches; 342 pages.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0691065497 ISBN 13: 9780691065496
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st edition - minor staining to page edge - otherwise a clean like new copy - enjoy.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0691063540 ISBN 13: 9780691063546
Seller: Amazing Books Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Interesting inscription and signed (first name) by author. Tight binding, unmarked and clean pages. Bright dj. Top edge of back dj with a 3 by 1 inch tear, light surface and edge-wear to dj as well. Lh.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0691065497 ISBN 13: 9780691065496
Seller: Hiding Place Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Laid in is a note from the author, presenting the book to Paul Alpers.
Language: English
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2006
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
Trade Paperback. Condition: LIKE NEW.
Language: English
Published by New Directions, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 0811216764 ISBN 13: 9780811216760
Seller: Murphy-Brookfield Books, Iowa City SE, IA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. clean, unmarked copy.
Language: English
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. James Laughlin-poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions-was still at work on his autobiography when he died at 83. He left behind personal files crammed with memories and memorabilia: in "M" he is taking Marianne Moore to Yankee games (outings captured here in charming snapshots) to discuss "arcane mammals," and in "N" nearly plunging off a mountain, hunting butterflies with Nabokov ("Volya was a doll in a very severe upper-crust Russian way"). With an accent on humor, The Way It Wasn't is a scrapbook loaded with ephemera-letters and memories, clippings and photographs. This richly illustrated album glitters like a magpie's nest, if a magpie could have known Tennessee Williams, W.C. Williams, Merton, Miller, Stein, and Pound. In "C": "I wish that nice Jean Cocteau were still around. He took me to lunch at the Grand Vefours in the Palais-Royal and explained all about flying saucers. He understood mechanical things. He would advise me." In "P": "There was not much 'gracious living' in Pittsburgh, where at one house, the butler passed chewing gum on a silver salver after coffee." And: "The world is full of a large number of irritating people." In "H" there's Lillian Hellman: "What a raspy character. When I knocked at her door to try to borrow one of her books (hoping to butter her up) she only opened her door four inches and said words to the effect: 'Fuck off, you rapist.'" Marketing in "M": "I think it's important to get the 'troubadours' into the title. That's a 'buy-me' word." In "G": "Olga asked Allen Ginsberg if he was also buying Pound Conference T-shirts for his grandchildren. She was most lovable throughout." In "L": "Wyndham Lewis wrote 'Why don't you stop New Directions, your books are crap.'" And we find love in "L": "Cicero noted that an old love pinches like a crab." But in The Way It Wasn't James Laughlin's love of the crazy world and his crazier authors does not pinch a bit: it glows with wit and enlarges our feeling for the late great twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated, The Way It Wasn't offers an intimate firsthand encounter with 20th-century Modernism, from the extraordinary man who defined it for America. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Seller: FSS Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition of this soft cover collection of photographs, musings excerpts from the legendary (at least for a while more) poet/editor/publisher/man-about town. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, DJ unclipped, no indications of previous ownership.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0691063540 ISBN 13: 9780691063546
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 1978. Hardcover. Clean copy in original cloth covers with gilt title to spine. Covers showing light shelf wear. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0691065497 ISBN 13: 9780691065496
Seller: Paisleyhaze Books, New Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Princeton University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1991, 1st edition, unused and carefully stored, No marks/tears or other defects, Fine/Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX.
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. STiff crisp square unmarked book in crisp covers with flaps. ; 9 X 7 X 1.40 inches; 288 pages.
Language: English
Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, US, 2007
ISBN 10: 0811216675 ISBN 13: 9780811216678
Seller: Rarewaves USA, OSWEGO, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: New. James Laughlin-poet, ladies' man, heir to a steel fortune, and the founder of New Directions-was still at work on his autobiography when he died at 83. He left behind personal files crammed with memories and memorabilia: in "M" he is taking Marianne Moore to Yankee games (outings captured here in charming snapshots) to discuss "arcane mammals," and in "N" nearly plunging off a mountain, hunting butterflies with Nabokov ("Volya was a doll in a very severe upper-crust Russian way"). With an accent on humor, The Way It Wasn't is a scrapbook loaded with ephemera-letters and memories, clippings and photographs. This richly illustrated album glitters like a magpie's nest, if a magpie could have known Tennessee Williams, W.C. Williams, Merton, Miller, Stein, and Pound. In "C": "I wish that nice Jean Cocteau were still around. He took me to lunch at the Grand Véfours in the Palais-Royal and explained all about flying saucers. He understood mechanical things. He would advise me." In "P": "There was not much 'gracious living' in Pittsburgh, where at one house, the butler passed chewing gum on a silver salver after coffee." And: "The world is full of a large number of irritating people." In "H" there's Lillian Hellman: "What a raspy character. When I knocked at her door to try to borrow one of her books (hoping to butter her up) she only opened her door four inches and said words to the effect: 'Fuck off, you rapist.'" Marketing in "M": "I think it's important to get the 'troubadours' into the title. That's a 'buy-me' word." In "G": "Olga asked Allen Ginsberg if he was also buying Pound Conference T-shirts for his grandchildren. She was most lovable throughout." In "L": "Wyndham Lewis wrote 'Why don't you stop New Directions, your books are crap.'" And we find love in "L": "Cicero noted that an old love pinches like a crab." But in The Way It Wasn't James Laughlin's love of the crazy world and his crazier authors does not pinch a bit: it glows with wit and enlarges our feeling for the late great twentieth century.