Lesser Wendy Editor (15 results)
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Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, U.S.A.Abacus Bookshop
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hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 241 pp.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing.
Published by San Francisco: Mercury House, 1993 1993
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Language: English
Published by Mercury House, San Francisco, California 1993
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Seller: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, U.S.A.Kenneth A. Himber
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Hardcover. Condition: Almost Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket has slight tear on top corner edge of back cover side.
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light wear on dust jacket, price clipped.
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography.
Lesser, Wendy, editor; Berger, John, Harold Brodkey, and others, contributors.
Language: English
Published by Mercury House, San Francisco 1993
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- First Edition
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, U.S.A.Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams)
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Add to basketCondition: FINE. First printing. "In thirty provocative and varied essays. known and new writers address what Randall Jarrell called the 'terrible nakedness' of the critic, who becomes everything and nothing, all-important and invisible, in the act of judging works of art." Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lesser. Among…the contributors are Diane Johnson, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Hass, Gayle Pemberton, Amy Tan and many others. xii, 328 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to the spine of the dj).
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 241 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by New York 1980
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Newsprint, folded tabloid format, 24 pp. Reviews of Tom Clark, Robert Pinget, Edward Field, Diane di Prima, Paul Bowles, John Ashbery, et al, and with a Special Supplement: Literature and Sexuality, with reviews of John Rechy, Angela Carter, Philip Roth, et al. Copy addressed to poet Keith Wilson, whose book Tha…ntog is reviewed in this issue by Paul Metcalf. Bumped, creased, dustsoiled, tanned, edgeworn.
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Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, U.S.A.100POCKETS
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Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. A rich collection of essays by authors who write in English although it is not their mother tongue, with insights of influences their writing styles & very choice of words. Editor Wendy Lesser encouraged…the invited writers "to be as authobiographical as they wished." The resulting anthology is an excursion into the land of literature, travel, memoirs, but above all, into the different universes of discourse that separates one language from another. 241 pgs. The guest writers & their native tongues are: Bharati Mukherjee (Bangla); Amy Tan (Chinese); Josef Skvorecky (Czech); Bert Keizer (Dutch); Luc Sante (French); Thomas Laqueur (German); Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu); Nicholas Papandreou (Greek); M.J. Fitzgerald (Italian); Ha-yun Jung (Korean); Louis Begley (Polish); Gary Shteyngart (Russian); Jame Campbell (Scots); Ariel Dorfman (Spanish); and, Meonard Michaels (Yiddish).
The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues (Mint First Edition)
Wendy Lesser editor (Luc Sante, Amy Tan, Ariel Dorfman, Leonard Michaels, etc.)
Published by Pantheon (New York) 2004
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- First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine, unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Smoke-free. Book comes with acid-free mylar dust jacket wrap. [C6].
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography.
Lesser, Wendy, editor; Berger, John, Harold Brodkey, and others, contributors.
Language: English
Published by Mercury House, San Francisco 1993
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, U.S.A.Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams)
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Add to basketCondition: FINE. First printing. "In thirty provocative and varied essays. known and new writers address what Randall Jarrell called the 'terrible nakedness' of the critic, who becomes everything and nothing, all-important and invisible, in the act of judging works of art." Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lesser. Among…the contributors are Diane Johnson, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Hass, Gayle Pemberton, Amy Tan and many others. SIGNED by Lesser on the title page. xii, 328 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (few spots to top edge of textblock.).
The Threepenny Review: #4, Winter 1981: Leonard Michaels Interviews Thomas McGuane
Lesser, Wendy, editor & publisher, Irene Oppenheim, theatre editor, Thomas, McGuane, Leonard Michaels, Evan S. Connell, William Bennett Turner, Lew Welch, Sam Shepard, Thom Gunn, et al.
Published by Wendy Lesser & The Review, Berkeley 1981
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- Periodical
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerNewspaper. 28p. folded tabloid newspaper/literary journal, reviews, interviews, essays on theatre, poetry, books, art, poetry, lightly toned, mailing label on front page else very good on newsprint. Also: Irene Oppenheim on "Empire Strikes Back. Sam Shepard's Western: Wendy Lesser's review of "True West" at The Magic. Lew Welch'…s Letters. "The Fisherman From Chihuahua" by Connell.
The Threepenny Review: #3, Fall 1980: Thom Gunn on James Purdy
Lesser, Wendy, editor & publisher, Irene Oppenheim, theatre editor, Thom Gunn, Leonard Michaels, Grace Paley, Joyce Maupin, et al.
Published by Wendy Lesser & The Review, Berkeley 1980
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- Periodical
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerNewspaper. 28p. folded tabloid newspaper/literary journal, reviews, interviews, essays on theatre, poetry, books, art, poetry, lightly toned else very good on newsprint. Also: Irene Oppenheim on Political Theater; Erwin Piscator & Bertolt Brecht. Sacred & profane Iris Murdoch. Maupin on Union W.A.G.E. for Union Maids (Women?s Al…liance to Gain Equality). Maupin was a member of the SWP until 1962.
- Hardcover
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, U.S.A.BennettBooksLtd
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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
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- First Edition
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Seller: The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, U.S.A.The Threepenny Review
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed first edition of the Threepenny anthology, containing such essays as John Berger's "Her Secrets," Lars Eighner's "On Dumpster Diving," Thom Gunn on Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Hardwick on Gertrude Stein, Robert Hass on Wallace Stevens, Natal…ie Kusz's "Vital Signs," Greil Marcus on The Manchurian Candidate, Christopher Ricks on Bob Dylan, and other classics from the first fifty issues of The Threepenny Review. Signed by Author(s).
