Essays Year, Signed (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on inside front cover.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine condition. Excellent condition. Signed by the editor. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xix, 239 pages. Essays in three sections. Part 1: Joseph's Foundational Inspiration; Part 2: Joseph's Radiant Influence; part 3: Joseph's Cultural Outreach.

hardcover. Condition: Used, like new. Like new. Number 75 of 200, signed by author. Large black hardcover, 26pp. Like new. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. ** Purchasing this book supports our town's public library.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 80pp b/w illustrations octavo paper. presentation copy signed "Mike Jones" slight cover wear soiling otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Small Octavo. Orange printed dust jacket, Presentation Copy ink stamp over Publisher's name at title page. Very good, dust jacket darkened at spine and edges, pages slightly agetoned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 198 pages. Published in 2004. The author's fourth collection of literary essays. One of the greatest literary books of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Adam Zagajewski's "Obrona zarliwosci" in the definitive English translation by Clare Cavanagh. The masterly achievement of a poet-genius who writes rare poet's prose. These fourteen essays constitute Zagajewski's "defense": An engaging and witty blend of literary commentary and memoir, it is passionate about beleaguered aesthetic values yet refreshingly free of rancor. "Thoughtful; precise; rhapsodic; rueful; courteous; prone to wonder. Nothing could take the reader in a direction more contrary to today's cult of the excitements of self than to follow Zagajewski as he unspools his seductive praise of serenity, sympathy, forbearance, of the calm and courage of an ordinary life. Indispensable prose" (Susan Sontag). The only American writer of our time who has written a comparable polemic on behalf of literature-as-the ideal life is Cynthia Ozick, and it cannot be an accident that one of her classic books is "Art & Ardor" (1983). An absolute "must-have" title for Adam Zagajewski collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated (in the year of publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "To Heather, Adam Zagajewski [inscription in Polish], September 2004". It is also very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in blue ink-pen by the translator: "9-30-04 To Heather, with very best wishes, Clare Cavanagh". They signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed, publication-year dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest poet/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ADAM ZAGAJEWKI AND WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374136300. Signed by Author.

Vincent Winter (illustrator). ** SIGNED, LOCATED, YEAR, 1ST EDITION ** Hardcover, signed flat first edition, Fine copy with a dust jacket that is also Fine. Dust jacket has some minor rubbing along the spine. Signed by the author on title page with location and year. This copy is simply beautiful, bright pages, sharp page corners, square boards, and tight spine. No other inscriptions and no owner's name, unread, not price clipped, no stickers. The dustjacket is protected in a removable Brodart mylar sleeve. This copy was purchased new and only had one owner. Enjoy!

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 160 pp. Signed by the author on the title-page. Uncorrected proof bound in grey cardboard covers. This book's contents were published under the title Hunting Tigers Under Glass" in 1968 and is not to be confused with the book entitled "This Year in Jerusalem" published in 1994. Extremely scarce with Richler's signature.". Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Signed first edition of Popular Essays on Naval Subjects by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, from the personal collection of Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., a survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Twelvemo, xiv, [15]-166pp. In publisher's original blue patterned cloth, border stamped in blind on covers, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, bumped edges, worn corners, faint dampstain to front cover, visible on front endpapers, toning to spine, foxing throughout text, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, a good example. In custom blue cloth dust jacket, title in gilt on spine, faint wear to edges, a near fine example. Initials of Charles E. Lauriat Jr., or his father, with "December 25 1902" on half title. Inscribed on front free endpaper "from A. Slidell / USN. / to E.C. Ward, Jr. / USN." Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848) was a U.S. Naval officer and avid writer. Mackenzie entered the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1815. In 1841, he was promoted to commander, assuming command of the USS Somers a year later. Upon hearing of a mutiny aboard his brig, Mackenzie arrested three men without proper legal power and decided to execute them at sea. Mackenzie was exonerated, but the controversial choice followed him for the remainder of his life. Charles E. Lauriat, Jr. (1874-1937) survived the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915 and wrote The Lusitania's Last Voyage (1915). The Lauriat family were booksellers owning the Charles E. Lauriat Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Signed.

Illustrated 119pp. Oblong 4to. Condition: Brown cloth. Fine in fine dj. First Edition. First Edition. Illustrated 119pp. Oblong 4to. Inscribed on ffep: "To my friend Emma Amos,/ Sincerely/ Elizabeth Catlett/ 2/21/98." Emma Amos (1937-2020) was a post-modern painter known for critically treating issues of racism and sexism in often-autobiographical work that combines figurative painting, textiles, and printmaking. She was a member of the pioneering African-American collection, Spiral, and of the feminist groups Heresies and Guerilla Girls.