Oates Carl (13 results)

hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st ed. NY (Dutton) 1992. Fine in dust wrapper.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. Evanston, Illinois:: Northwestern University, 1995. 6" wide by 9.25" tall. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight. No owner's name or bookplate. Flat, uncreased spine. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. The feature article is TOLSTOY'S AMERICAN MAILBAG: SELECTED EXCHANGES WITH HIS OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENTS by Robert Whittaker (pp. 7-44, with numerous unpublished letters by Leo Tolstoy). Other contributors include Philip Levine [an interview and 4 new poems], John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, Billy Collins, Carl Philips, David Ferry, Alice Fulton, Alicia Ostriker, Richard Chess, Frida Kahlo, etc. . First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition./No Jacket, as issued. 280pp. + 8 pages of ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Clean And Bright, Has Been Taped To Boards. All Pages Clean With Binding Tight.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Inscribed (upside down) "To Richard with highest regards - John Sully, editor". Fine copy (signed upside down) in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 228 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Photos, Maps (illustrator). 1st. Today jet airliners cross the Pacific non-stop --- a far cry from the earliest passenger services over its vast breadth. These were operated by Pan American, using large flying boats with intermediate bases required on the routes to the Far East and south west to New Zealand. Pan Am pioneered services during the late 1930s/early '40s with the Pacific War preventing their full development, although the bases developed were to be important to the US during the conflict. Remote Canton Island was one of the Pan Am bases and the author was stationed there following WWII by the airline. His extremely interesting book traces the history of early flights across the Pacific, the concept and development of commercial routes, the impact of war and the subsequent rapid progress made in airline services. He traverses the history of the island, the people who lived there, visited it, the wild life and environment, the incidents and losses, with many anecdotes giving it a lively personal touch. A well produced and scarce book, meriting inclusion in any aviation library. The publisher specialises in aviation literature. 228 pages including bibliography, references, index, numerous b/w photos. 12 maps. Purple hard covers with gilt spine titles NF, ownership stamp with tiny ink gift note above top corner FFEP, text block otherwise NF. DJ is NF with colour map on white background at front, not price clipped.

Like new, without slipcase. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 5000 8°, hardcover, lacking slipcase.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2005. Very good condition with no wrapper. Five volume set: Troy and the Trojans; Knossos; Babylon; Pompeii & Herculaneum Cities of Vesuvius; and Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans. Light brown cloth with printed illustrations in gilt and black. B/w illustrations, colour plates. Second printing. Spines have caught the sun and faded to a brown/green (only noticeable when removed from the slipcase). Else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and marked but not split. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2005 (all volumes, first thus). Small quarto, five volumes, with numerous plans and many illustrations, plus numerous pages of colour plates, endpaper maps and a folding plan in an end-pocket (in the second volume). Gilt and black-pictorial cloth; a fine set in the near-fine slipcase (slightly dusty). Retrospectively by the above authors, the five volumes are Babylon; Knossos; Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans; Pompeii and Herculaneum. Cities of Vesuvius; and Troy and the Trojans. Each volume features an introduction, the first three volumes by their respective authors, the other two by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and Donald Easton. [5 items].

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Complete in five volumes. Second printing thus. All volumes are as new and housed in an as new slipcase. Still in original shrinkwrap.

First Edition. Playboy Magazine Founder Hugh HefnerĠs copy with his bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and a letter of provenance from the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation laid in. Hardcover, bound in black cloth with the Playboy Bunny logo silver stamped the the front board. Fine copy in original black box. This issue includes a lengthy and candid interview with Robert De Niro, fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, John Updike, Ray Bradbury, Walter S. Tevis, Robert Coover, Vladimir Nabokov, and Joyce Carol Oates; essays, humor, art, and commentary by Jack Kerouac, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Shel Silverstein, Woody Allen, Alberto Vargas, J. Paul Getty, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, David Mamet, Truman Capote, Bruce Feirstein, Cameron Crowe, Buck Henry, conversations with John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, and Jimmy Carter, and more of what Playboy is known for.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a very rare, highly collectible CHAPBOOK for an event (ball) hosted by Lauren Bacall, William Styron and George Plimpton in 1980, "Tenth Birthday Party of Poets & Writers, Inc." In this chapbook, there are 31 famous writers and poets, half of which have signed their name underneath the piece of writing presented in this book. Among the honored poets & writers are 17 signatures including: Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Gail Godwin, John Irving, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Peter Matthiessen, William Meredith, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Grace Paley, Judith Rossner, Louis Simpson, William Jay Smith and John A. Williams on the page of their presented piece of writing. The program in the forefront presents the benefactors, patrons, sponsors and board of directors and in the rear 'Happy Birthday' ads; to list a few: The Swallow Press, Inc., CBS, Inc. The New York Times, The Paris Review, etc. The other 16 authors presented in the program that did not sign are: Paul Bowles, Rita Mae Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Richard Eberhart, John Hawkes, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Carl Rakosi, Samuel Beckett, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, William Stafford, John Updike and Derek Walcott. Roseland, CA, October 22, 1980, 1980 Poet's & Writers, Inc., New York, New York. Helen Handley, General Chair, President, Friends of Poets & Writers, Inc.; Galen Williams, Founder and Executive Director. 4to. Unpaginated ~64pp. RARE. COLLECTIBLE. MORE PICS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST- B.R. Box 162.