Robert Elkin (85 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No missing or clipped pages. Spine is a little curled. Front cover and pages are clean. Very slight soiling and speckles of dirt on the back cover. Slight wear to edges of covers and spine. The magazine will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Overrated Masterpieces: In a magically comical (and strangely sad) tour de force, one of America's greatest novelists, fed up with the 'red rant of unearned praise,' compiles a highly personal list of sacred cows unworthy of their status--from Leonardo's you-know-what to Fred Astaire's twinkling toes--lines them up, takes aim, and knocks them down. Hey, there's nothing so convincing as an opinion." -- by Stanley Elkin; "The Last Belle of Beaumont: One of Texas's own First Ladies tells the flamboyant Texas-style tales of W.P.H., Miss ida, and Mamie, the eccentric and colorful inhabitants of the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas" by Liz Carpenter; "Point of Views: Cape Canaille--a cliff in Provence that looms over a tiny fishing village--has been drawing painters to their easels for 150 years. A poet who lived there takes the measure of the results." by Henry Cole; "In the House of Orange: The story of Het Loo, the Dutch royal retreat in which the theatrical splendors of the palace of Versailles met the bourgeois comforts and values of the good burghers of Amsterdam" by Tamara Glenny; "High-Wire Act: Is Thomas Krens, the Guggenheim's ambitious director, a madman who must be stopped or a visionary who is redefining the concept of a museum as we know it?" by Geraldine Norman; "Field of Dreams: A Special Section: Our correspondents around the country, armed with whatever was in their piggy banks, provide the complete summer survival guidde to flea marketing in America"; "International Report: A legal crackdown in Japan and its echoes elsewhere" by Geraldine Norman; "Value Judgments: Will the real Southern sideboard please stand up?" by Emyl Jenkins; "Critic's Notebook: Was surrealist Max Ernst really any good?" by Hilton Kramer; "Inside Story: Man Ray's mirrored look at America's avant-garde" by Hugh Kenner; "Notes from the Editor"; "Contributors"; "Letters"; "Sketchbook" edited by Robert Kenner; "Openings"; "The Market"; "In the Galleries: Nature studies: from cozy to comic" edited by Jed Perl; "Books"; "Queries"; and "Credits".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Robert lewis dj photo (illustrator). first edition,3p; 109876543pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S22.95) DUST JACKET, clean, solid,bright; GOLD TITLES ON WHITE CLOTH SPINE STRIP, blind embossed author's name bottom front cover.Bright Peachy endpapers,DJ cover photo shows car wheel under draped auto. inner dj flap shows 2x3" photo of author ; 292pg pages; hilarious yet moving account of a widow living in a Miami condominium complex who is courted by some most unlikely beaux. Elkin's last before his death in 1995 -- is the winner of the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.includes plot with BUICK LA SABRE CAR.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Condition: Good. 1960. Reprinted. 152 pages. Illustrated jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. First Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Previous owner's name tippexed on front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 1960. First edition thus. 152 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations by Beryl Thornborough. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Front free endpaper missing. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Piano music, circa 1960's, with some wear to cover, some wear to corners and edges, a good clean copy. words and music for piano, Mephistopheles song from the opera Faust, with a new English version. Book.

Trade paperback. Condition: fine Signed by author. SIGNED BY AUTHOR! Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. eb 42.

Condition: Good. 1960. New & Revised Ed. 247 pages. Blue jacket over cloth. B&W photograph plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 416 pages. Terrific issue of this long running literary journal. One of the highlights of this issue is an excerpt from Thomas McGuane's "Ninety-two in the Shade." Features additional contributions by Stanley Elkin, Walter Abish, Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Edson, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and others. A tight very good plus copy in wrappers with some very minor wear and a small sticker shadow to the front cover. Internally a clean copy.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, octavo, minor spotting to the fore-edge else a very good tightly bound copy in a chipped p[pictorial dust wrapper that as some closed tears and repairs to the reverse, the text is clean and free of markings, b&w plates, 192pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover in fair condition. Inscription inside. Ex-Book Club. 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover in fair condition. Inscription inside. Ex-Book Club. 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. BERYL THORNBOROUGH (illustrator). THE DUST JACKET HAS BEEN PRICE CLIPPED, IT HAS CONSIDERABLE SIGNS OF WEAR WITH FOXING, DISCOLOURATION AND A HOLE AT THE BACK. THE BOARDS AND SPINE ARE BUMPED AND RUBBED AND HAVE STAINING AT THE EDGES. THERE IS CONSIDERABLE FOXING AND STAINING TO THE PAGE EDGES, THE FRONT/BACK PASTEDOWNS, FFEP, TITLE PAGE & BACK COUPLE OF PAGES BUT THEY GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE & INCLUDE SOME LOVELY ILLUSTRATIONS. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. GREEN CLOTH BINDING WITH WHITE/BLACK/PICTORIAL JACKET. 160pp. THIS BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME BUMPING TO CORNERS AND FOXING TO EDGES OF PAGES. THE JACKET IS IN FAIR CONDITION WITH MODERATE SHELF-WEAR. BUMPING WITH SEVEARL SMALL TEARS ALONG EDGES. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Size: 8vo. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. price clipped dustjacket, shelf wear to edges, spine sunned, 152 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First edition Import 1955Hardcover. near fine/near fine DJ. Free of any markings and no writing. Previous Owner name inside, For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 192pp. Foreword by Pau Casals. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slight wear on the board edges else near fine in a very good tape repaired dust jacket with slight offsetting, rubbing, and tiny tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 169pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Red cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Pages tanning, plates not affected. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, top of spine bumped resulting in small crease to front cover, no inscriptions, appears unread. 86 pages, illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, new and unused. 86 pages, illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 168pp, numerous black and white photographic plates. Red cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. 8vo. Light soiling to boards. Text block edges tanning. Pages starting to age, plates not affected. Otherwise internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket spine just starting to tan, chipping to edges, price clipped.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Issue 26, Winter 1973. (coover roth mcguane elkin greenburg fine baumbach oates bumpus edson stevick).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 167 pages, illustrated in b&w. "Mr. Elkin traces the public performance of music from the taverns of the 17th century down to the famous St. Jame's Hall in Piccadiily, which lasted into the 20th century." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Previous owner's bookplate is present, signed by Burton Hatheway, London 1972. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

PF. Condition: New.