Editor Dwight Macdonald (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Solid VG softcover. Clean, spine not broken. This edition has a new introduction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boston: Little Brown and Company [ 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 310 pages, Playboy interivew with Paul Carroll, appendix: A biographical chronology, A checklist of Mailer's published work. Very good with edge wear, dust soiling to page edges in edge worn jacket with a few short edge tears. bx315 .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Likely First Edition, First Printing, with no additional printings listed, 1968. Clean and tightly bound with metal spiral binding. This anthology includes contributions by Muriel Rukeyser, Gary Snyder, Gilbert Sorrentino, Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Louis Zukofsky, Jim Harrison, et al. Slight shelf wear and very minor ink offsetting to one margin, a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st Modern library (Stated); dj w/moderate chippping and tears, unclipped price, in mylar; 574 clean, unmarked pages+catalog; solid red c w/gilt runner on front, gilt titles.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 9.00x6.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 72 pages. Peter Ustinov "Crisis In The Theatre" / Antony Bourne "Where Shall John Go? III - U.S.A." / Sidney Janis "Contemporary American Primitive Painting" / Alyse Gregory "Denis Diderot" / Stephen Claude "'The Door That Leads To Nothingness'" / Diana Witherby "No Breaking Point" / Jack Lindsay "The Future Of Democratic Values: A Reply To Dwight MacDonald" / Poetry by Louis MacNiece / Reproductions Of Paintings By American Primitive Artists.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. main edition. 320 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 568 pages. dj chipped & worn, name ffep, front hinge weak.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Text is clean. Cover shows light wear. Dust jacket shows some shelfwear and chipping at spine ends. DJ price clipped. Previous owner gift inscription on front free endpaper. ; Toledano binding style 'G6', blank endpapers, Dust Jacket style 'Gh2'. ; Modern Library Giant; Vol. 93.1; 8.30 X 5.90 X 1.70 inches; 574 pages.

(1960). First edition. Narrow band of fading to lower edge front cover, light dust-soiling to top page edges, else a near fine copy in russett cloth lettered in gilt to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with very mild edgewear. A nicer copy than usually encountered. Collection of barbed literary impressions that manage to be both diverting and edifying--Benchley is here, of course, and Beerbohm, as advertised, but so are James Joyce and Coleridge! With an introduction and appendix by Macdonald.

Mass Market PaperBack. Condition: Very Good. Darkening & foxing to spine & margins. Dust stained textblock edges. Clean, unmarked interior pages. (308 pages & four page list of available Anchor titles.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated first Modern Library edition. Compiled with an introduction and notes by the famed essayist Dwight MacDonald. A fine, clean and unmarked copy with price intact, with only minor rubbing and very slight wear to the bottom of the jacket spine. Archival Mylar jacket cover included.

[1960], 6th printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 574pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Appendix, index. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge and the cover is lightly spotted. (Humor, English Literature, Humor, Parodies).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Anglais.Summary;The german catastrophe.We are responsable.Areport on Germany.Travel notes.The Essen hunger survey.Some personal letters.An intellectual writes.A socialist writes."What we want is to learn"."What i miss most is the fuehrer".32 p.Poids 120 gr.Format 28 x 22 cm.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 752 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed and marked, top edge lightly marked. Clean throughout. Good to very good. Book.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Anglais.Summary;U.S.A. v U.S.S.R. The music purge.On soviet literature.Empire or free Union? Soviet Panslavism.Life in the Soviet Union today.U.S.S.R.A layman's reading list of basic books on Russia also Memory and Childhood Amnesia.In distrust of merits .Page 74 a 144.Poids 200 gr.Format 28 x 22 cm.

Mass Market PaperBack. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 16mo. (Four & 1/8th-inches x Seven & 1/8th-inches); Darkening of spine & margins.Dark stain back cover panel and small surface tear bottom edge of same panel. Rubbing and another small stain front cover panel. Includes 'A long excerpt from: Lolita.' and 'On a book entitle Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov'; also preface to Lolita by F.W. Dupree. Darkened/dust stained top textblock edge.(308 pages & four page list of Anchor titles.).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [A massive 46 volume set] Interesting provenance, previously owned by Owsei Temkin, and later Owen and Caroline Hannaway. Mixed set with mostly softcovers, printed 1959-1978. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Bookplates of Temkin inside hardcovers. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Contents: Vol. 3, 1959-1960; Vol. 6, 1962-1963; Vol. 11, No. 1, Autumn 1967; Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1968; Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring 1968; Vol. 11, No. 4, Summer 1968; Vol. 12, No. 1, Autumn 1968; Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter 1969; Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring 1969; Vol. 12, No. 4, Summer 1969; Vol. 13, No. 1, Autumn 1969; Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 1970; Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 1970; Vol. 13, No. 4, Summer 1970; Vol. 14, No. 1, Autumn 1970; Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter 1971; Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring 1971; Vol. 14, No. 4, Summer 1971; Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1971; Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 1972; Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring 1972; Vol. 15, No. 4, Summer 1972; Vol. 16, No. 1, Autumn 1972; Vol. 16, No. 2, Winter 1973; Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 1973; Vol. 16, No. 4, Summer 1973; Vol. 17, No. 1, Autumn 1973; Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 1974; Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring 1974; Vol. 17, No. 4, Summer 1974; Vol. 18, No. 1, Autumn 1974; Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1975; Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1975; Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1975; Vol. 19, No. 1, Autumn 1975; Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 1976; Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 1976; Vol. 19, No. 4, Summer 1976; Vol. 20, No. 1, Autumn 1976; Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 1977; Vol. 20, No. 3, Spring 1977; Vol. 20, No. 4, Summer 1977; Vol. 21, No. 1, Autumn 1977; Vol. 21, No. 2, Winter 1978; Vol. 21, No. 3, Spring 1978; Vol. 21, No. 4; Summer 1978. Interesting articles in this collection include: The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Intelligence by Arthur J. Jensen; On the Treatment of Stimulant Abuse by Pierre Renault and Charles R. Schuster; The Normal, and the Perils of the Sylleptic Argument by Edmond A. Murphy; The Interdeterminacies of the Brain by Donald O. Walter; The Prometheus Experiment by Bernard L. Strehler; Scientific Medicine and Historical Research by Owsei Temkin; The Origins of Life by Hans Gaffron; Viruses and Evolution by E.A. Evans Jr.; Observations on the Comparative Anatomy of the Avian Brain; Frederick Gowland Hopkins by Joseph Needham; Eugenics in Evolutionary Perspective by Sir Julian Huxley; Critical Brain Size and Language by John C. Lilly; Linguistic Habits of Science by Irwin D.J. Bross; The Evolution of Modern Cardiology by Werner Forssmann; Some Possible Genetic Implications of Carthaginian Child Sacrifice by Nathaniel Weyl; In Search of Homunculus by George T. Jacobi; Experimental Tumor of the Interstitial Gland of the Testicle by Robert Courrier; Differential Evolutionary Patters of Experimentally Induced Ovarian Tumors by Alexander Lipschutz; Delight in Evil by Orville T. Bailey; The Origins of DNA by M. Sluyser; Darwinian Evolution and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Theodosius Dobzhansky; Fallacies and Errors in the Wonderlands of Biology, Medicine, and Lewis Carroll by Dwight J. Ingle; A Case of Recurrent Pseudocyesis by C. Knight Aldrich; Medicare in Utopia by Ilza Veith; Malignant Transformation of Cells by Viruses by Howard M. Temin; Natural Selection and the Origin of Life by Gordon Allen; Lasting Biological Effects of Early Influences by Rene Dubos; A Cell Is Not an Island Entire of Itself by Paul A. Weiss; Some Genetic Aspects of Plantations Slavery by Nathaniel Weyl; The Possible Vascular Regulation of Luteal Function by Bruce B. Pharriss; Race, Reality, and Experimental Psychology by Clyde E. Noble; Divine Humor by E. Gellhorn; The Discovery of Serotonin by Irvine H. Page; Lessons from the Discovery of Modern Diuretic Therapy by Karl H. Beyer Jr.; On the Nature of Consciousness and of Physical Reality by David L. Wilson; The Potential of Negative Pions for Cancer Radiation Therapy by Richard Madey; Trends in Current Research on the Metabolism and Storage of Mammalian Semen; Lingua Adamica Resituta by Macdonald Critchley; The Relation of Genetics to Control of Human Fertility; Bitter Fruits from the Tree of Knowledge: Remarks on the Current Revulsion from Science by Edwin Chargaff; Reproductive Biology and Human Welfare by John D. Biggers; The Art of Dying by Russell Noyes Jr.; Abortion, Ethics, and Biology by Jan Wind; A Short History of Conception by Stuart A. Copans; Relativity and the Origin of Consciousness by Kate Flores; Freud against Himself by Hans Steiner; Vegetative Reproduction by Budding in Hydra: A Perspective on Tumors by Stanley Shostak; A Bioanthropological Overview of Addiction by Doris F. and A. David Jonas; Beyond Atomism and Holism: the Concept of the Holon by Arthur Koestler; The New Foundations of Science by Carlo Sirtori; The Samaritan Movement in Great Britain by George Day; Medical Experimentation on Prisoners by Simon Black; Streaming Potentials: Their Genesis and Role in Biology by R.I. Duncan; and The Regulation of Plant Communities by the Food Chains Exploiting Them by Stephen D. Fretwell. "Owsei Temkin was a director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Temkin was known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. He published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine, including the history and philosophy of Greco-Arabic medicine. His book, The Falling Sickness, a study of views on epilepsy through the ages, has achieved wide renown. Temkin received the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." - Johns Hopkins Medical Institute From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic ma.