William Talcott (42 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. San Francisco, 1992; signed and inscribed by author; illustrated paper covers; minimal shelf wear; 5 1/2 inches tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 49 pages. Signed by Author.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by author on title page. Poetry. The little book you have in your hand shows what can happen to a well brought-up Catholic boy from New England (Andover, Yale etc.) when he moves west. Part of him regresses to the age of 14 browsing through fat dictionaries on the sniff for dirty words. These short poems were written en route to the day job - the commute - the last ditch pen spasm to commute the daily sentence of eight hours in corporate purgatory. Celebrate the shortening attention span of America by turning a few pages. Save the cover price and read the whole thing in the bookstore. Then, if you don't find anything you want to look at twice, what can I say? - take the book to the counter and demand a refund of your time.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Third printing of the 1975 original. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976. 5.5" wide by 8.25" tall. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat, uncreased spine. From the rear cover: "This benchmark book launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning, manifestations, and significance of ethnicity in modern society. The distinguished authors offer a kaleidoscope of facts, ideas, and perceptions, and they tempt inquiring readers to speculations and observations of their own." The contributors are: Harold R. Isaacs; Talcott Parsons; Milton M. Gordon; Donald L. Horowitz; Daniel Bell; William Petersen; Andrew M. Greeley; William C. McCready; Martin Kilson; John Porter; Orlando Patterson; Francois Bourricaud; Milton J. Esman; Ali A. Mazrui; Richard Pipes; Jyotirindra Das Gupta; Lucian W. Pye. Edited, with introduction by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan. Index. . Third printing of the 1975 original. Soft Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket, as issued. ix, 531pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ISTHMUS: [NO. 4]. [San Francisco, Isthmus Press, 1976]. B/w illustrations. Bibliographical references. Stiff white wrappers, printed black; pictorial upper wrapper (slight browning to wrappers), else very good-fine. Contributors include: Jerome Rothenberg, Ira Cohen, Paul Vangelisti, Greg Kuzma, Kathleene Teague, Gordon Craig, Edgar Austin, et al.; plus reviews, etc. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. In pristine condition. 49 pages. INSCRIBED by author: "For Sin / William Talcott / SF 10-7-92." Cover illustration by John Doerper. Project of B.A.C.A.T., the Bay Area Center for Art and Technology. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-81749. Approx. 5 5/8 x 4 1/8 in. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Illustrated wraps, 8vo, 36 pp. 2nd ed. Collection of poetry. One of 100 copies printed at Berkeley's West Coast Print Center. Cover illustration by Helen Ludwig. Photograph by Carol Haagens. Near pristine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B/W Illus (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; red c; w/gilt titles; 197 clean, unmarked (some uncut) pages.top edge gilt.

First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. Other contributors include Gerald Malanga (with a translation of Cesar Vallejo's poems), Jerome Rothenberg, Ira Cohen, Paul Vangelisti and more. This copy was signed twice by William Talcott, once on the copyright page where his name appears as Assistant Editor and at his poem "My Vegetable Soul." Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (some toning and discoloration to the white background.).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good white paperback with spotting to the covers/spine. 141 pages, unmarked ; ECR OV20; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Softcover. 206 p.; 20 cm. (Adventures in faith) Contents: I. Theology and the contemporary sensibility / Thomas J. J. Altizer - A. Thomas Altizer's apocalypse / Richard L. Rubenstein - B. The ambiguities of innocence / Charles H. Long -- II. Theology and language / Jules Laurence Moreau - A. The language game of theology / Joseph A. Johnson, Jr. - B. Experience and verification / Frederick Ferre -- III. The new metaphysics and theology / William A. Christian - A. Whitehead: redevivus? or absconditus? / Stanley R. Hopper - B. Theology and metaphysics / Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr. -- IV. Social science and theology / Talcott Parsons - A. Social science and biblical perspectives on man / Walter Harrelson - B. Questions to Talcott Parsons / Oliver Read Whitley -- V. The public responsibility of theology / Roger L. Shinn - A. Theology in dialogue / Bernardin J. Patterson - B. Toward a theology of public responsibility / Creighton Lacy. VG in orig. red and violet on white wrapper.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Two Near Fine paperbacks in stapled wraps about 8½x11 inches. 22 and 26 pages, unmarked; ECR OVR91 DPEC; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. G, no DJ. Scarce thus - only signed copy on AbeBooks at time of listing. 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on title page. Moderate signs of wear and soiling to exterior, binding solid and straight, interior clean and unmarked. Lightly read, but a very nice copy.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good inscribed first edition. Inscribed by Talcott on the front fly dated: 9-1-88. Very Good stapled wraps bumped at the lower corner. San Francisco, 1987, no edition stated, no additional printings listed. Unpaginated, unmarked. ; T Poe; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Author.

paperback. Condition: As New. 1997; illustrated paper covers; wear around edges; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 59 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 152pp. Contributors include August Kleinzahler (plus an interview), Edward Mycue, Jim Nisbet, and Martha King. Spotting to the edges and wrappers, but Very Good internally.

Condition: New. pp. 970.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 144pp, printed wrappers. Scarce fifth issue of this early 1970s cultural magazine from San Francisco, guest-edited by William Talcott and themed around Aesthetic Madness. Includes work by John Brandi, Alfred Starr Hamilton, and many others. Unmarked copy with light wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 152pp, printed wrappers. Scarce fourth issue of this early 1970s cultural magazine from San Francisco, dedicated to Charles Henri Ford (who contributes Six Sonnets in Prose. Also includes work by Ira Cohen, Harold Norse, Gerard Malanga and many others. Unmarked copy with light outer soil and wear; minor bump to one corner. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, 114pp, printed wrappers. Contributor Thom Gunn's copy, with a correction to one poem in his hand and a marker flag laid in. The first issue of this early 1970s cultural magazine from San Francisco, includes a portfolio of ink drawings by Bruce Conner (5 full page illustrations) and writing from a dizzying range of contributors. Unmarked copy (aside from Gunn's correction) with light toning and wear. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xix, 361 pp. Good condition; moderately faded; touches of wear to top and bottom edges of cover. signed by the editor.

1961. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 363pp. Abbreviations, charts, diagrams, tables, notes. The dust jacket is edgeworn and rubbed, a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper and the title page, and minor underlining in red ink in the text. "Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive survey of the work of Talcott Parsons, America's most renowned social theorist. This singularly important book brings together a distinctive collection of essays on Parsons' writings by an outstanding group of men from various social science departments at Cornell University". Based on the work of Talcott Parson. Contributors include Alfred L. Baldwin, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Edward C. Devereux, Andrew Hacker, Henry A. Landsberger, Chandler Morse, William Foote Whyte, Robin M. Williams. (Ideas, Essays, Social Behavior, Social Sciences, Social Theory).

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Oakland Ca, c 1981, stapled paperback about 8½x11", Near Fine, 44 pages, unmarked. Among the contributors: Tom Clark, William Talcott, Bill Berkson, Anselm Hollo, F. A. Nettelbeck, Jack Foley, Richard Silberg, Neeli Cherkovski, Julia Vinograd, et al. POETRY LITERATURE; G2534 H Poe.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: Good. Hand-written Letter signed, 8.5" x 11", Single Page, Good with marginal tears. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, Thomas Parkinson archive.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (SD, NAP). This was Daniel Bell's book. He contributed an essay titled Ethnicity and Social Change. He did not write his name in the book. He did, curiously, put a parenthetical line beside two paragraphs in his own essay. He did this again only a few times, once on page 306 and 312, and twice on page 313. On the rear flap he wrote '1 +2-- Modernity', and referenced page 306 with the words 'Orlando structured' and page 313 with a word I can't make out. Orlando Patterson was the author of the essay, titled Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance, in which these pages appeared. Glazer and Bell went to college together and taught together. Here's a quote from Glazer's Wikipedia profile: 'When Glazer attended the City College of New York in the 1940s, it was known as a hotbed of radicalism. Glazer fell in with a number of other young Marxists who were hostile to Soviet-style communism. Glazer, Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and Irving Kristol would meet in an alcove of the City College cafeteria, and they spent their days trying to understand how the socialist ideal of political and economic justice had ended in Joseph Stalin's murderous tyranny. As Glazer would later recall, 'one of the characteristics of our group was a notion of its universal competence. Culture, politics, whatever was happening we shot our mouths off on. It was a model created by the arrogance that if you're a Marxist you can understand anything and it was a model that even as we gave up our Marxism we nevertheless stuck with.' Dr. Bell took very good care of the book. The edges and corners are in excellent shape. The spine looks very good, just a little crinkling at the top edge. The page edges are very clean. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are exceptionally clean. I'm not finding any soiling. I'm not finding any conspicuous creasing, no turned-down corners or placeholder creases. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And Dr. Bell's handful of penned margin lines represent the only writing to be found anywhere in the book. I've always had the dust jacket in a fitted protective cover. It looks very clean. I'm not noticing any tears. There's a very small loss at the top rear corner. There is a thin crease coming down from the rear top edge. The flaps are in very good shape, very clean, a couple of tiny crinkles. I've already noted the penned notes on the rear flap which also include '1975.' From the dust jacket: 'This volume launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning, manifestations, and significance of ethnicity in modern society and politics. The authors seek neither to celebrate nor to deplore ethnicity, but rather to examine it as a basis of social organization which in modern societies has achieved a significance comparable to that of social class. Ethnicity indicates that minority groups around the world are no longer doing what society for hundreds of years has expected them to do-- assimilate, disappear, or endure as exotic, troublesome survivors. Instead, their numbers have expanded by immigration, their experiences and struggles mirrored to one another by the international mass media, minorities have become vital, highly conscious forces within almost all contemporary societies. Ethnicity has played a pivotal role in recent social change; it has evolved into a political idea, a mobilizing principle, and an effective means of advancing group interests.'.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 22. Illustrated with one map. Brown textured paper wrap, titles and decorations printed in black, saddle stapled. Wrap nearly split at the spine with cello tape reinforcement, staples oxidized, edges chipped, mellowed creases, owner ink stamp "William B. Newell" on cover and title page. This pamphlet is the result of a meeting held April 14-16, 1890 (followup to the previous year's report) on white relations with natives on the Onondaga, Tonawanda, Tuscarora, Cattaraugus, and Allegany Reservations. Former owner Newell infamously claimed that the Thanksgiving holiday was established in celebration of a massacre of Indians by Pilgrims. Preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.