Published by New Directions Publishing Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1992
ISBN 10: 0811212602 ISBN 13: 9780811212601
Seller: Long Island Book Company, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A TIGHT, SOUND and NICE copy of this wonderful book. A stylistically strenuous, time-and-image hopping, ultimately arresting first novel concerned with the changing inner and outer worlds of a Long Island girl from 1958-1973, and with the raw strength of youthful growth and change. Sheila Gray, from ten to the teens, reports on her surrounds- -from the mall-bound woods and sand-pits around home to her family, who seem to act like moderately predictable aliens: Ma, the prime mover, says things like ``Let's have some action, man,'' and, for her, her (Catholic) religion is ``crap.'' Ma also shouts down grandfather Pop, kicks his suitcase, and he's off on the next plane. (Pop wanted to take Sheila to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage). But when Ma's mother dies, Sheila sees her monstrous anger. Meanwhile, Dad cooks and calls Sheila ``Babe'' and never seems to stand firm for anything. Then there are two brothers and a sister who don't connect much. Connection with Ma, however, is important; Sheila roots for ``mutual memories,'' and throughout she worries about her ``deformity,'' her baggy eyes--an early arrow of anxiety Ma has shot home. Among her adventures with peers (a ``hoodlum'' party, a crush, sex games) and a scary neighbor, events in the nation arrive on the tube with Lucy and the game shows. Throughout, Sheila greedily grabs at clues to behavior and survival--a new way of tossing a head of hair hits her like a missile: ``I had never seen anyone do this and I was waiting for it to mean something [but].it just was.'' An often remarkable approximation of the bombardment of presences, animate and otherwise, upon the dynamic, evolving psyche of a child--in this case, with rapid shifts of perspective, a difficult but mesmerizing style, and some wonderfully playful items (``car car car''--a train going by).
Published by New Directions Publishing company, seattle, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0811217248 ISBN 13: 9780811217248
Seller: Page Turner Books, Fredericksburg, TX, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: As New. binding clean and tight, appears unread; "One of Thomas Merton's best-loved books New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man and to nurture a deeply mystical dimension in our lives. For Merton, "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the soil of freedom, spontaneity and love." One of the best-loved books by a great spiritual authors of our time, with a new introduction by best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1978
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Trade paperback. General wear to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1964
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good/very Good. Contents fine and unmarked. Handling and one crease to wrappers.
Published by New Directions Publishing company, New York, NY, 1957
ISBN 10: 081120068X ISBN 13: 9780811200684
Seller: OddReads, Harper, TX, U.S.A.
Printer Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. 45th printing with light shelf wear, black background with photo of Buddha on front wrapper "This is the kind of book - rare in our age - which takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime. Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma of mn's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disciple's role: he must work out his own destiny and solve his own doubt - tortuous road that carries him through the sensuality of a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggle with his own son, to final renunciation and self-knowledge. The name Siddhartha is one often given to the Buddha himself - perhaps a clue to Hesse's aims in contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception, as a European (Hesse was Swiss), of a spiritual explorer." 122 p. Book.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0811214125 ISBN 13: 9780811214124
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Chü-I, Po; Hinton, David THE SELECT POEMS OF PO CHÜ-I New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Company 1999 FIRST EDITION Fine 201pp. 8vo. Cover does show light shelf wear with light wear along the edges and some bumping as well. Text is clean and binding is strong. Overall book is in fine condition.
Published by New Directions Publishing company, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 081121348X ISBN 13: 9780811213486
Seller: Page Turner Books, Fredericksburg, TX, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Megged, Semadar (cover design) (illustrator). Bread in the Wilderness sets forth Merton's belief that "the Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelous and inexhaustible actuality. They are bread, miraculously provided by Christ, to feed those who have followed Him into the wilderness." Merton's goal in this moving book is to help the reader enter into the Psalms: "The secret is placed in the hands of each Christian. It only needs to be discovered and fulfilled in our own lives." This edition of Bread in the Wilderness faithfully reproduces the beautiful, large-format original 1953 New Directions book, created by the celebrated designer Alvin Lustig and lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs of a remarkable medieval crucifix at Perpignan, France." "What is this book about? For whom is it written? It is about the Psalms. The Psalms are perhaps the most valid forms of prayer for men of all time," are the most significant and influential collection of religious poems ever written. The sum up the theology of the Old Testament. They have been used for centuries as the foundation for Jewish and Christian liturgical prayer. They still play a more important part than any other body of religious text.".
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1951
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robust unmarked hardback. Corners bumped. Pale stain disfigures part of spine.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1951
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Nearly Good. Robust unmarked hardback. Corners bumped. The unclipped dj has wear and tear tol edges.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, New York, 1970
Seller: FESTINA LENTE italiAntiquariaat, Lucca, Italy
First Edition
Paperback. 1st edition. 'New Direction Paperbook' - 305. Designed by Roderick Stinehour. This collection offers to the English-speaking reader access to two great poetic traditions - classic Arabic (500-1200) and Persian (850-1400) - in vivid English versions by Omar S. Pound. Foreword: Basil Bunting. With biographical and bibliographical notes. 80 pag. Size: 20cmx13,5cm.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0811208575 ISBN 13: 9780811208574
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: New Directions Publishing Company, 1983. First edition, 1983. Softcover in very good condition with pencil underlines and scholarly notes in the introduction section only, no names or other markings. Although her name is not written in the book, the book and notes belonged to Pound's former assistant and later English professor Marcella Spann Booth, and offer some additional insights into the poetry. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1987
ISBN 10: 0811210375 ISBN 13: 9780811210379
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 669 pages, 8vo. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers, tanning along edges and spine, small tear along bottom edge of rear cover. DJ in mylar. Tight binding, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company
Seller: GridFreed, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Good condition with wear and markings.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, New York, 1971
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: vg to near fine. First edition. Signed by Denise Levertov on free front endpaper. 8vo. ix, 86pp. Half tan cloth over green paper-covered boards in original pictorial dust jacket. "In her preface, Denise Levertov describes her new collection, To Stay Alive, as "a record of one person's inner / outer experience in America during the '60's and the beginning of the '70's." Looking back on her years of growing involvement in the Resistance movement, Miss Levertov - the wife of Mitchell Goodman, a codefendant in the Spock trial - has traced recurrent political themes that inform her poetry. Thus To Stay Alive includes relevant work from two earlier volumes, Relearning the Alphabet (1970) and The Sorrow Dance (1967), but is largely new material organized into one long multisectioned poem, entitled "Staying Alive." Read as a whole, the book demonstrates the clarity of a personal vision which has arrived at "the knowledge that opposition to war, whose foul air we have breathed so long by now we are almost choked forever by it, cannot be separated from opposition to the whole system of insane greed, of which war is only the inevitable expression." Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was a British-born American poet. Dust jacket in very good, book in fine to near fine condition.