Late Soon, Signed (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original paperback, SIGNED by Moldaw, has mild reference wear. Main flaw is slight curve/wave to book from improper storage. Solid and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stated first edition, signed on title page, jacket has some chipping and small closed tears, but has been placed in a mylar sleeve, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, Black x marked on the bottom edges. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'Lee, here is a Manhattan of my own devising, with people whose concerns are, I hope, universal. With fond regards' by the author on the title page. Stated 1st edition, no number line (1st printing). Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 328 p. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket has rubbing, soft creases, and minor edgewear. Book is essentially as new except for mild bruising to the base of spine. By the author of 'The Rectory' and 'Sight Lines'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 2018. No Edition Remarks. 276 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Colour photographic plates to centre of book. Flat signed by author to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing. Water staining to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed on the title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A few passages highlighted in yellow, possibly by the author, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Card laid in from the author to Tony ward-winning actress Marian Seldes sending the book and suggesting she would be an excellent choice to play the lead character if the novel was dramatized.

8°. Volume I.: VIII, 280 pages / Volume II: 247 pages / Volume III: 77 pages / Volume IV: 193 pages / Volume V: 423 pages. Three Volumes in original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar / One Volume in Softcover / One Volume in Hardcover. Very good condition. From the library of Paul de Man. Especially the Durling - Volume of interest. Inscribed by the author: "For Paul de Man with fond regards - Bob". Volume I includes essays by Durling on "Ancient and Medieval Influences", Two Roman Poets, Chaucer, Petrarch, Four Renaissance Epics: Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser. Volume II includes for example the following essays: The Poetics of Becoming: Paul de Man in the Fifties / Poetics, Metaphysics, Temporality: Paul de Man and Martin Heidegger / Language, Nature and the Absence of Being: Paul de Man's Romanticism etc. Volume III is a first edition, signed and inscribed by american poet and editor, Theodore Russell Weiss. Volume IV includes essays like "The Literary Reputation of Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti" / Langston Hughes's Works Translated into Spanish / etc. Volume V inscludes many different and important essays by Harry Levin, like: "Why Literary Criticism is not an exact Science" / A Dialogue with Arthur Lovejoy / Memoirs of Scholars (Milman Parry, Fernand Baldensperger, Renato Poggioli, Perry Miller) / An Introduction to Ben Jonson, On the Earl of Rochester, William Carlos Williams and the Old World etc. etc. Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 December 21, 1983), born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist. At the time of his death, de Man was one of the most prominent literary critics in the United Statesknown particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory. Along with Jacques Derrida, he was part of an influential critical movement that went beyond traditional interpretation of literary texts to reflect on the epistemological difficulties inherent in any textual, literary, or critical activity. This approach aroused considerable opposition, which de Man attributed to "resistance" inherent in the difficult enterprise of literary interpretation itself. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

Painfully appropriate words ('The old friends leave us soon or late'), set to music within days of the composer's death. Among Weatherly's many lyrics are 'Danny Boy' and 'Roses of Picardy'. See his obituary in the Oxford DNB, and Löhr's three-page obituary, with portrait, in the Musical Herald, London, February 1889. Löhr was the father of the composer Hermann Löhr (1871-1943). 2pp, 4to, on the facing pages of a bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged, with a couple of closed tears unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. At head of first (left-hand) page: 'Friends. / [at left] words by / Frederic E. Weatherly. / [at right] music by / Frederic N. Löhr'. Signed by Löhr upwards in bottom right-hand corner of second page: 'Frederic N. Löhr | Novr. 20th. 1888.' Around forty bars long. Not on printed music paper; Löhr has ruled out the twenty-four staves (arranged in the customary grouping of three) in pencil himself. The song is complete and consists of around forty bars of music. Löhr has set to music a poem by Weatherly, divided into three six-line stanzas, each with the same four-line chorus, the first stanza reads, with the chorus: 'The old friends leave us soon or late, The old life changes for us all: And some must go, And some must wait A-lone, a-lone till even fall. A trembling grasp of loving hands, A broken prayer, a whisper low. And they are gone to other lands, But they are ours where'er they go. [Chorus.] New lands and other skies, New scenes and other ties, But let them wander where they will We know we have thieir old hearts still [bis]' The lyrics of the last two stanzas are written out in the usual way at the foot of the second page beneath the score.