Edited Robert Silvers (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 9.10 X 5.59 X 0.75 inches.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 2nd printing. Small folio in stiff paper covers. Color illustrations. Fine condition. Pages: xii, 82.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Owl Book Edition. 2nd Printing per number line. Soft cover in very good condition with a beautiful pictorial cover. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Book has a magnifying glass inside back cover. * From the book, "The breathtaking photomosaics in this book are pieced together from thousands of tiny photographs. Held at arm's length, the pages seem to compose themselves, revealing the image of an Owl, or Darth Vader, or Marilyn Monroe. And held close up, they explode in a riot of color and movement and exquisite detail.".

Condition: Very Good. 1998. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1998. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. . . . .

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. David Levine (Ilustrations); Andrea Barash (Cover Design) (illustrator). 290 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

golden yellow 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). iii+193p. b&w illustrations. notes on contributors. notes on the illustrations. history of science. biology. psychology. ~ In this collection of original essays, five world~renowned writers explore forgotten and neglected aspects of the history of science. Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks, and Daniel Kevles show how some scientific ideas emerge with great promise, only to be dismissed or forgotten, and then, in different form, become accepted as important years later. Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould discuss the way words and images used by scientists and popularizers alike, from the murals on the walls of natural history museums to such ubiquitous terms as "adaptation" and "environment," reflect deep and largely unacknowledged distortions in the way we conceive both individual organisms and the natural history of the world. Together, these five essays show that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood.".

Advance Reader's Copy of Uncorrected Proof of 1st edition in paperback, 296pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition w/slight crinkle to upper corner of front cover o/w unmarked. "Many of the contributors to The New York Review of Books have written about intense, even transforming, personal and intellectual relationships they have had with fellow poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists. THE COMPANY THEY KEPT brings together twenty-seven of these memoirs of extraordinary friendships. [] Seamus Heaney's remembrance of Thomas Flanagan has all the melancholy affection of a bereft and beloved son. Susan Sontag writes admiringly of Paul Goodman though they never really got along, while Derek Walcott recalls his parting of the ways with Robert Lowell and their bittersweet reconciliation. Larry McMurtry recounts how his former classmate Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters would show up years later on his doorstep, unannounced, and throw his family and neighborhood into hilarious chaos. Robert Oppenheimer tries to dispel the clouds of myth surrounding Albert Einstein: 'As always, the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful.' [] From Anna Akhmatova's dreamlike memories of wandering through Paris with the impoverished Amedeo Modigliani to the young Joseph Brodsky's first encounter in London with the rapid-fire conversation of Isaiah Berlin, these essays offer tantalizing glimpses of people whose inspiring originality and enlivening presence led to unforgettable friendships." [publisher copy] "An extraordinarily striking, moving and delicious collection of short essays. . . The writing in most of these essays is dazzling, the anecdotes and insights even more so. It is a superb collection of vignettes, and their variety throws more light on the diversity and possibilities than a treatise could." -The Financial Times. "This book will give hours of pleasure to those who love literature."--The Jewish Herald Voice. Read the pencils illustrating the cover for more of the line-ups. NF paperback ARC w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket. CD is missing. 2000. Bright and attractive copy.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 298pp. Pictorial wrappers. Tiny tear at the crown, else near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 298pp. Slightly cocked spine else near fine in a fine dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. viii, 119 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Topedge and foredge lightly bumped, spine modestly sunned, very good. Reviews from W.H. Auden, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Robert Lowell and more.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First paperback issue. Near fine with owner label inside front cover. Includes articles by Budd Schulberg, Frank Yerby, C.P. Snow, Kingsley Amis, and others.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. ix, 107 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly rubbed, near fine. Reviews from W.H. Auden, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Robert Lowell and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Small octavo. ix, 107 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps moderately rubbed, very good. Reviews from W.H. Auden, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Robert Lowell and more.

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in jacket 2001. 23x14cm. x+120 pages. Clean & tight. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref RTBJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 178pp. Binding slightly cocked, tiny nick at the crown, about near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small nicks and tears, creases, and toning. Includes articles by Budd Schulberg, Frank Yerby, C.P. Snow, Kingsley Amis, and others.