Werner Irving (73 results)

Condition: Good. NOTE TO PREVIOUS OWNER ON INSIDE TITLE PAGE paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: New. The theme uniting the characters in these stories is ambition--not in terms of extravagant goals, but the simple and basic wants for their lives and those close to them. These elementary concerns deal with love, death, fidelity, fleeting time, the desire to comprehend their journey, a reassessment of their lives, and others of more modest dimensions but no lesser importance. Sometimes they want the nominally impossible, as in the harrowing Elsa , and at others the most mundane, as in the lighter Kickbacks . Sometimes, as in The Pharmacist , there is the shock of learning of the dichotomies that reside within those with whom we share our everyday lives. These stories illustrate the ways in which the characters are thwarted, often the instruments of their own defeats, how they try to compensate for these failures, and how in so doing they learn things about themselves that they might otherwise not get to know--or want to. Although, as in all stories, the intentions are ultimately serious, often traced through veils of loneliness, the interweaving of humor is not precluded.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Dancing Down The Street: And Other Stories. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 316 pp. Trade paperback format. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine. Cover by Honi Werner. While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant. But what if the donor's widow demands visitation rights with the hand? Size: 8vo. Honi Werner; (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 316 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Minimal external wear. Slight burn on bottom edge of spine. Barbara M. Bachman (Book Design); Honi Werner (Jacket Design); Stern Imaging (Jacket Photo); Jane Sobel (Author's Photo) (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Good solid copy, mild to moderate reading/age wear, no DJ if issued, may have some light markings or exowner inscription. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition white boards, white spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Irving; Author Dedication and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "When I feel like being a director, I write a novel." - John Irving, from My Movie Business. "John Irving's memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist, and includes Mr. Irving's incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen - for four different directors. Mr. Irving also writes about the failed effort to make his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, into a movie; about two of the films that were made from his novels (but not from his screenplays), The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire; about his slow progress at shepherding his screenplay of A Son of the Circus into production. Not least, and in addition to its qualities as a memoir - anecdotal, comic, affectionate, and candid - My Movie Business is an insightful essay on the essential differences between writing a novel and writing a screenplay. The photographs in My Movie Business were taken by Stephen Vaughan, the still photographer on the set of The Cider House Rules - a Miramax production directed by Lasse Hallstrom, with Michael Caine in the role of Dr. Larch. Concurrently with the November 1999 release of the film, Talk Miramax Books will publish John Irving's screenplay." - from the inner front jacket flap. Lambert, J.K. (book design); Werner, Honi (jacket design); Vaughan, Stephen (jacket photograph) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 537 pp. Stated first edition and first printing! Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Minimal highlighter markings on text/marginalia. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Honi Werner (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Octavo. 366pp. Perfectbound. Color illustrations. Toning on the spine and light offsetting on the rear wrappers, near fine. Several notable writers feature their work including: Howard Roman ("Bloom and the Dryad"), Harris Downey ("The Hand and Head of Molly Glass"), May Sarton ("A Village Tale"), Adrian Mitchell ("The Beggar"), and George Steiner ("The Retreat From the World"). Additional contributors include Alfred Werner, Roy Harvey Pearce, Vivian Mercier, Constantine FitzGibbon, William S. Pechter, James McCormick, Philip Booth, Hilary Corke, William Dickey, Irving Feldman, Nathan A Scott. Jr., Anthony Ostroff, John Thompson, Geoffrey H. Hartman, and J. A. Bryant Jr.…

Condition: New. In English.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback. Vol 1. No. 3, July 1967. 80pp. Colour and b+w photographic plates. Small loss to tail of spine, covers slightly worn. A rather pleasing copy. (bs118).

Condition: New.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 110 S. ; 8 gutes und sauberes Exemplar Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 350.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Reliure Rigide Illustrée. Condition: Très Bon État. collection " qui - pourquoi ? " - 48 pages en format 20 - 28 cm - photogaphies en couleurs et dessins. Anne - Lies Ihme et Gerd Werner (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition beige boards, red spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Irving; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote from E.B. White's Stuart Little; Acknowledgments and About the Author. "The Fourth Hand asks an interesting question: "How can anyone identify a dream of the future?" The answer: "Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love." While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion: millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimounious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsisn wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand - that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy. This is how John Irving's tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving's previous novels - including The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year - or his Oscar-winning screenplay of The Cider House Rules. The Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving's seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author's recurring themes - loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change." - from the inner front jacket flap. Werner, Honi (jacket design); Stern Imaging (jacket photograph) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 83p., vignette sketch illustrations with a nice stylized one at the colophon. Hardbound in 7x4.5 inch raw-linen boards with printed paper spine label; the very first book from Jack's Greenwood Press, no. 182 of 250. The soft, tactile linen is faintly toned with small faint smudges, the printed spine label is faded to dimness and has a small chunk torn away from one corner. Boards a bit edgeworn with tiny linen chips missing from head and tail of spine; otherwise, a little fray at corner-tips. Quite clean within, with a good square textblock.…

tapa blanda. Condition: 2ª Mano. 2ª Mano. Limusa. 1992. algunos subrayados, marca cello por forro. Mexico, Editorial Limusa Noriega. Libro.