Peter Lasky (50 results)

Condition: very_good.

Condition: good. Pages are clean with normal wear. May have limited markings & or highlighting within pages & or cover. May have some wear & creases on the cover. The spine may also have minor wear. May not include CD DVD, access code or any other supplemental materials.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gently used, no markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The February 1969 issue of Encounter Magazine. Contents include Mimic, a short story by Alan Sillitoe, later included in his Men, Women and Children collection of stories, An Interview with Andre Malraux, Science and Literature, an article by Nobel Prize winner Peter Medawar, Fertility Rites, a poem by Nigel Dennis, The Sparrow in the Cage (II), the first of a pair of articles by Richard Lowenthal about the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia to suppress Alexander Dub?ek's Prague Spring liberalization reforms, and others. Light wear at the edges. Clean and crisp. A very good copy.

97 pages. V.S. Pritchett (Short story, 1st appearance); P. T. Bauer (Foreign Aid, Forever); J.P. Ward (T-Group); poetry (Michael Langley, Alan Ross, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Elizabeth Jennings); Peter Schmid (Between Mao and Mohammed); George Martelli (Propagandist's Propaganda); Gordon Lee (Quest for Cundu); Laurence Lerner (Samuel Richardson);Chaim Raphael (JJesus or Christ?); Tao Tao Sanders (Ming Mayhem); robert Moss (Chile's Coup and after); Joel Carmichael (German Money & Bolshevik Honour); Sidney Hook (Anyone for Objectivity?);

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence.The quirky tenants-a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by-rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.

Paperback. Condition: New. Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence.The quirky tenants-a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by-rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The August 1968 issue of Encounter Magazine, Contents include R D Laing and the Death Circuit, an article by David Holbrook, The Rise and Fall of Richard Strauss, an article on the arc of the composer's career by Peter Heyworth, Letter From Prague, an article on the "Prague Spring" revolution in Czechoslovakia by John Mander, and others. Light wear at the edges. Clean and crisp. A very good or better copy.

97 pages. Mary Sullivan (Story); Karel van het Reve (Unofficial Russia); Erich Heller (Man Ashamed); henry Gifford (Andrey Sinyavsky); poetry (Jenny Joseph, D.J\. Enright, Pphilip Larkin, Roy fuller, Frank Ormscy, Charles Causley, Alastair Reid, Peter Porter, Laurence Lerner); Flaus Mehnert (From Mao to Marcuse to Marx); M. van Creveld (Beyond the Finzi-Cotini garden); allan Rodway (There's a Hole in Your Beckett) John Bowle (Emile Durkhein), other book reviews; David Markish (Where China begins); Helmut Schelsky (German Dilemma); political pollsters; letter from Sidney Hook, Hans Habe (Thoughts on the Nobel Prize.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Malcolm Bradbury "Composition" (story) / Eric Ashby / Kenneth Hudson / William Letwin / J M Cocking / Golo Mann / Francois Bondy / Robert Skidelsky / D M Thomas / Roy Fuller / Stephen Miller / Donald G MacRae / Max Beloff / Peter Laslett.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Contributors include: Martin Amis / Olaf Ihlau / Peter Schmid / Raymond Aron / David Martin / Ferdinand Mount.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Contains Mutiny on the T. S. Eliot (Purser), Churchill the Crippled Giant (Grigg), The Black Halo (Beer), among other works. Includes the memoir, "My Oxford," by Angus Wilson on page 27. Also has entries by Peter Jay, Philip Purser, Stephen Gardiner, and others.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 7 x 4.25", pict wraps, 155pp, old marker price on moderately worn covers. Rapture #219.

97 pages. Jonathan Power (New Proletariat); P.N. Furbank (Arnold Bennett); John Weightman (Theatre: Tom Stoppard, Bernard Shaw); Constanticen Fitzgibbon (Norman Douglas); Mexx Beloff (Thomas Jefferson); Robert Isbet (Rousseau) Janet Adam Smith (Edwin Muir Letters); E.J. Misban (New Inflation); Roy Fuller (Keith Douglas); Poetry (John Nole, Obert Graves, Anthony Twaite, John Mathias, David Rokzah, David Day, Peter Porter); Golo Mann (Geeration Gap).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy from collection of notable Philly comic artist.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Sidney Hook "The Case Of Alger Hiss" / Vilas Sarang "Musk Deer (story)" / Golo Mann / Robert Conquest / Max Black / Roger Sandall "On The Way To The Pig Festival" / Freda Downie / Olivier Todd "Proudhon Is Dead" / Hermann Lubbe / Peter Porter / John Hargreaves / Fleur Adcock / Jean-Francois Revel "On Political Decomposition".

97 pages. :John Wain (Alternative Poetry); James Chace (Otto Von Bismark & Henry Kissinger); Vladimir Maximov Interview; Gold Mann (Adollph Hitler); Renzo Rosso (Short Story); P.>N. Furbank (Ivy Compton-Burnett) Desmond Stewart (Muhammadheikal); Clive James (Philip Larkin); Richard Lownethal (Conservative Utopia) Poetry (Andrew Waterman, Peter Scuphham, Peter Reading, Geogrey Grigson) Letters (Sigund Freud & Carl G. Jung),

97 pages. Laurence Lerner (Short Story); E.J. Mishan (New Inflation); Joseph Epstein (Anyone For Paranoia?); Julius Gould (Men & Ideas: Shapes Of Things To Come); Poeotry (David Day, Edund Leo Wright, Rodney Pybus, Peter Scupham, Douglas, Dunn, Peter Regrave, Peter Porter, Glyn Hughes, John Matthias); Gerhard Prause (Mystery Of Knossos); Alexander Walker (Film: Exremental Ciema); Peter Schmid (Letter From Cairo); Book Reviews, Max Beloff (Who Shall Guard The Guardian?).

97 pages. John Passmore (Removing The Rubbish: Reflections On Ecological Craze); Natalie Herzen (Daughter Of A Revolutionary * The Akuynin/Nechayev Circle); R.C. Zaehner (Wichedness Of Evil: Charles Manson, Murder & Mysticism); William Trevor (Short Story); Poeotry (Alistair Elliot, Geoffrey Grigson, D.J. Enright, Peter Porter, Peter Readiing, Peter Redgrove); George Camacho (Broadcasting Policy), Herbert Butterfield (Denis Brogan); Gerald Hilton (Mainsprigs Of Discover In Science);

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 100 pages. Theodore Draper "World Politics: A New Era?" / Ralph Robin "In Woods & Fastnesses" / Raymond Aron "After the Barricades - French University Crisis" / David Holbrook "R D Laing & The Death Circuit" / Peter Heyworth "The Rise & Fall Of Richard Strauss" / David Marquand "May Day Illusions" / John Mander "Letter From Prague".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 97 pages. William Trevor "Going Home" (story) / Joel Carmichael "Trotsky's Agony" / Karl Popper "On Reason & The Open Society" / Walter Laqueur "America & The Weimar Analogy" / Douglas Dunn " A Bridge In Minneapolis" Peter Sharratt "Auden Europeanised".

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 2nd printing. Color and b/w graphic art. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 240 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 144 pages. William Trevor, Peter Porter, Gunter Grass, Hugh Thomas, Philip Toynbee, David Lodge, D.J. Enright, Tom Paulin, R.S. Thomas, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Condition: New. In.