Editor Melvin Lasky (31 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Includes work by Martin Amis and Christopher Levenson also an essay on Adorno.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 97 pages. Henry Kissinger on World Affairs / Mervyn Jones "Five Days By Moonlight" *story).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Herbert Luethy "Culture and the Cold War" / Alistair Buchan "Insecurity" / Nadine Gordimer "Censors" / Alfred Sherman "Satirists".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 97 pages. John Betjeman "poem) / Ferdinand Mount "The Literary Spirit in Politics" / Justus George Lawler "The Prisoner of Fat" / John Mander *St Patrick's Purgatory" / Edmund Burke on "The Irish Question" / Bernard Lewis "The Study of Islam" / Michael Polanyi "Genius in Science" / Michael hanks "The English Sickness".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Robert Graves "Juana Ines De La Cruz" / D H Lawrence "Letters to S S Koteliansky" / Geoffrey Gorer "English Ideas About Sex" / Arthur Waley "Hymn of the Soul" / Melvin J Lasky "A Sentimental Traveller in Japan (II)" / J MacLaren-Ross "Monsieur L'Abbe - A Memoir" (U.P.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. FIRST EDITION in paperback wraps; a Paperback Original. GOOD price sticker removal on the cover; spine is faded. Includes a lengthy excerpt from Nabokov's LOLITA, before it was published in the U.S.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Extensive water damage to dj, cover. 318 pages (6) leaves of plates : illustrations, map, plan, portraits.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good +/Good. New York, NY: Frederick A. Praeger. Good +/Good. 1957. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 318 pp., dust jacket shelf wear, edges lightly rubbed and creased, corners and spine tips small tears and chips, spine sunned/dust jacket age-toned, very light foxing to reverse side, otherwise good; cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, spine tips and corners bumped, some fading to rear panel, otherwise quite good; text block age toned at margins and first and last few pages, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Plates & Illus. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Printing. 308+pp. Original yellow wraps, lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. One leaf dog-eared. Otherwise, contents very nice.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 97 pages. *This issue includes first publication of a four page short story by Ian McEwan entitled 'Without Blood'. ***'Ian McEwan's first book of stories, "First Love, Last Rites", has recently been published by Jonathan Cape' [Quote taken from Author Notes section at the back of the magazine] ***'The collection ["First Love, Last Rites"] is McEwan's first published work and was regarded by the author [along with his second collection of short stories, "In Between the Sheets"] as an opportunity to experiment and find his voice as a writer. In an interview with Christopher Ricks in 1979, McEwan commented, "They were a kind of laboratory for me. They allowed me to try out different things, to discover myself as a writer." As a piece of work that portrays McEwan, the writer, at his youngest, it is perhaps fitting that the dominant theme is that of adolescence, of the blurry and perilous divide between childhood and adulthood; in addition themes of sex, perversion, and the grotesque in its many forms feature throughout.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, light soiling to covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition, sporadic marks and foxing, illustrated, soiling to cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 96 pages illustrated. VG Very good with no previous ownerhip markings and no creases. A magazine of Books & writers. Includes A Diary (Herzen), The Abuse of Psychiatry (Miller), The Abomination of Moab (Conquest).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First US Edition. Cloth in DJ; First US Edition; 318pp; DJ slightly edgeworn with chipping to rear panel, stain to spine & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG/Good+ condition. Story of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 as recorded in documents, dispatches and eyewitness accounts. Introduction by Hugh Seton-Watson. Illustrated with photos. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in Germany. Date on the title page. First Printing. Published for the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Editor's Note, Historical Background (Hugh Seton-Watson), Illustrations, Maps, Epilogue (François Bondy); 318, [2], pages. The original black cloth is in excellent shape, with only one corner a bit bumped; gilt lettering on spine as bright as if just issued. The interior is creamy-bright and completely clean, despite a narrow line of toning at the endpapers. The original pictorial dust jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with minimal signs of wear. [Please see my five images of the actual book.] This 'White Book' "includes not only the best British and American reports sent by correspondents from Budapest during the dramatic October and November days, but also new documentary contributions which have been translated from the Hungarian, French, Italian, Yugoslav, Polish, German, and Russian. In the exciting newsreel of events here recorded, the reader will find much that is unpublished and little known."---from the rear dust jacket panel. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking. …

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.).

Paper wrappers. Condition: Good+. 25cm, pp. [144] + b/w illustrations. Illustrated paper wraps. Creasing to spine, 1cm closed tear/flap to spine head. Tanned edges, toned pages, else, clean. Contributors include: William Trevor, Peter Porter, Gunter Grass, Hugh Thomas, Philip Toynbee, David Lodge, D.J. Enright, Tom Paulin, R.S. Thomas, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. …

Wraps. 96 p. Includes illustrations. From Wikipedia: "Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published in the United Kingdom, it was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal, originally associated with the anti-Stalinist left. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-center publication" intended to counter the idea of cold war neutralism. The magazine was rarely critical of American foreign policy, but beyond this editors had considerable publishing freedom. Spender served as literary editor until 1967, when he resigned due to the revelation that year of the covert Central Intelligence Agency funding of the magazine, which he had heard rumored, but had not been able to confirm. Thomas W. Braden, who headed the CIA's International Organizations Division's operations between 1951 to 1954, said that the money for the magazine "came from CIA, and few outside the CIA knew about it. We had placed one agent in a Europe-based organization of intellectuals called the Congress for Cultural Freedom." Roy Jenkins noted that earlier contributors were aware of U.S. funding, but believed it came from philanthropists including a Cincinnati gin distiller. Encounter celebrated its greatest years in terms of readership and influence under Melvin J. Lasky, who succeeded Kristol in 1958 and would serve as the main editor until the magazine closed its doors in 1991. This issue as articles on Bernard Berenson, Television. Bolshevism (by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ); and a Soviet show trial. From Wikipedia: "Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (8 October 1925, Moscow 25 February 1997, Paris) was a Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher. He frequently wrote under the pseudonym Adam Tertz. Good. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some pencil marks in the margins and some underlining noted. Presumed first edition/first printing of this issue. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. CLASSIC LITERATURE - paperback. This is number 2 from this series of books. / With essays, poetry & reviews by various authors including:-F. W. Dupee, Nabokov (The first appearance of any of Lolita in America, a 90-page extract from the novel which preceded the original American presses by a year), W. H. Auden, H. R. Trevor-Roper & others. /// This is a 1st edition paperback in good condition-the cover is creased & rubbed. (308 pages & 7 pages of introduction & 4 pages of book advertisements).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12 issues Jan to Dec inclusive. Full year Very good copies with no previous ownership markings.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12 issues Jan to Dec inclusive. Full year Very good copies with no previous ownership markings.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12 issues Jan to Dec inclusive. Full year Very good copies with no previous ownership markings.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 478 pages. 9.02x5.98x1.30 inches. In Stock.