William H Ryan Editors (28 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Worn copy, previous owner's name at top of page, contains work by Aldous Huxley, Wallace Stegner, John Updike et al.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Marked review copy on front end-page and rear wrap. Sound binding, copy tanned. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 160pp; Spine creased, covers lightly creased, corners slightly dogeared, text unmarked, Good+ condition. Literary & arts journal from late-1950s San Francisco. This issue: The Decline of the Left by C. Wright Mills; Genius on Campus: Nathanael West at Brown by James F. Light; Fiction by Evan S. Connell, Jr.; Lillian Hellman on Her Plays by Richard G. Stern; Poetry by Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov & others; more. Illustrated. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Issue dedicated to Kenneth Patchen, contains work by Donald Barthelme, Wallace Stegner et al.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff color illus. wraps. Covers tanned, with modest handling wear, slight dampstaining to top corner of front cover. Binding is a bit stress-creased but firm. Former owner's signature along top edge inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. 160 pp., illus. 1st ptg. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Covers mildly tanned, with light creasing to top back cover corner. 160 pp., illus. CONTENTS include "Decline of the Left" (Mills), "Suicides" (Pavese), "Nathanael West at Brown" (Light), also work by Berry, Connell, Levertov, more. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Covers mildly tanned, with light creasing to top back cover corner. Slight loss/repair to front flyleaf. 184 pp., illus., b&w photographs (portfolio of Louis Armstrong). Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Covers have light edge wear and light rubbing. ; Complete issue, original wrapper. Inclides work by Leonard Baskin, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Wendell Berry, Lillian Hellman, Denise Levertov, Mary Lee Settle, and others. ; 160 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. items by: Eric Hofefer (The Playful Mood), Charles w Sachs (Modern Dance), Earle Birney (Malcolm Lowry, Poetry),seldon Rodman (Some Thoughs Toward "The Insiders"), Jonathan Williams (Out of Sight, Out of Conscience)' Fistion (Donald Barthelme, Sidney Petrson, Wallace Stegner, M. Arkley Carter), Poetry (Wiliam Stafford, Robert Mexey, Leonard E. Nathan, Malcolm Lowry, William Saroyan), Graphics (Edgar Millhauser, Barney Wan, Paula Palmer,jose Luis Cuevas, etc), Writer's & Artists Cookbook (Enid Foster, Kenneth Patcken) Etc.; 151 clean, unmarked pages+ads. B/w (illustrator). …

8vo.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; 157 pages; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; "The San Francisco Collection of New Writing, Art and Ideas"; a Quarterly publication; wraps are rubbed and edgeworn else very good.

Magazine. 128p. includes covers, erotic stories, explicit drawings, lightly bent, else very good digest-size magazine in pictorial wraps.

Paperback. 160p., illustrations, very good trade paperback literary journal in lightly worn blue pictorial wraps.

Paperback. 160p., illustrations, worn trade paperback literary journal in worn blue pictorial wraps, creased black spine, stains on for-edge.

Paperback. 156p., photos, drawings, poetry, fiction, articles, mild toning else a very good first edition journal in trade paperback format, pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 160 pages. Illustrated. (U.P.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; includes 2 microfiche and 6 folded plates in rear pocket; ex-library; minor edgewear w/ w/ several small dents on lower boards; a couple of light stains on one plate where glue from library card on rear pocket "bled through"; o/w in very condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover; owner's stamp; front hinge cracked (reinforced with tape); light foxing of endpages and edges; o/w in good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.

Paperback. First Edition. 160p., photos, drawings, poetry, fiction, articles, lightly worn else good first edition journal in trade paperback format, pictorial wraps. Hellman interview. Mills on The Left. Nathanael West at Brown.

Paperback. 178p., illustrations, photos, lightly worn, good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. Special photo spread on The Human Condition. Huxley on "The Final Revolution". Gorelik on Theatre. "Genesis" a novella by Stegner. Updike parody "What is a Rhyme?".

Paperback. 160p., illustrations, photos, lightly worn, good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. Prepublication excerpts from "Mrs. Bridge" and "Medicine for Melancholy".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; includes 4 folded plates in rear pocket; ex-library; minor edgewear w/ several small dents on lower edge of boards; o/w contents in very good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping might be required for priority mail or international orders. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover; includes 4 folded plates in rear pocket; owner's stamp; corners bumped; light foxing spots on endpages and edges; o/w in good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping might be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; minor shelfwear and light foxing of edges; o/w in very good condition. This is a heavy book; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; minor shelfwear; light foxing of edges; o/w in very good condition. This is a heavy book; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders.

Condition: Good. In pictorial wraps. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. 159 pp.Literary magazine. Includes work by C. Wright Mills, Cesare Pavese, Leonard Baskin, Wendell Berry, Lillian Hellman, Mary Lee Settle and Denise Levertov, among others. A little age-toning to covers and light creasing to spine. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. Very Good+.…

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very good in wrappers.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. First issue of a seminal literary quarterly. Card covers (9 in. x 6 in.) with black and white photograph of a child staring at a fierce looking fish, who is staring back at her. Sewn signatures. Minor shelfwear and a small crease on the rear panel. This premier issue features writing by Ray Bradbury, Evan S. Connell, S.I. Hayakawa ("How to be Sane Though Negro") William Saroyan (reproduction of his working drafts of a new play) ;Alan Watts (a10-page essay entitled: "Zen and the Problem of Control"); William Carlos Williams, who offers "The Contact Story", in which he writes about the original CONTACT magazine in the 1930s, and mentions that in its pages "the American idiom dared at last to challenge Oxford English until T.S. Eliot deserted to the old rules with his ways of writing. He won an overwhelming, if short-lived victory with his verse, and threw us back on our heels for another 30 years, maybe, nearer 40 years." Only today are we beginning to get our feet under us again, finally rid of the Eliot influence." "Contact, in its newest incarnation, is not a San Francisco magazine except that it is puyblished here. We expect to publish work by anybody from anywhere as long as it meets our standards and is written approximately in the English language. Also, Contact does not intend to take sides -- not lilterary sides, not political sides, not moral sides -- except that we are on the side of Humanity, whatever that means. Presumably, however, we would publish an inhuman author should he present us with a magnificent work of inhumanity." (p. 79).…