Editor Robert Schwartz (108 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Mildly Edgeworn. First Edition. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 10 p. Audience: General/trade.

paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Great. Dust Jacket Condition: Good w Protective Coverin. Later Printing. Pages are tight in binding with some minor yellowing. A Previous owner has placed her name in pen on the top right corner of the title page. Dust jacket has some foxing and tears. There is a yellowing old price sticker on the front of the cover that has not been removed to prevent damage. Dust jacket is in a protective cover Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B&w Photos (illustrator). 1st. 1st thus edition; foreword by Karl Shapiro; 384 clean, unmarked pages; An intimate account of the sudden rise to literary fame and long, inexorable decline of Delmore Schwartz, a complex and deeply troubled man who was keenly aware of his own inner contradictions, as revealed by his correspondence. [10] p. of plates.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In 1969, Ayn Rand gave a series of informal lectures on the art of nonfiction to a select group of friends and associates. Rand, guided solely by a brief outline, discussed all aspects of creating effective nonfiction, a skill she believed could be learned and mastered by any rational person. Now, for the first time, the edited transcripts of these remarkable sessions are available to readers and writers This book, an essential companion piece to Ayn Randâs The Art of Fiction, is at once a probing philosophical discourse on the art of creation and an invaluable guide â" from preparing an outline to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style. Index. 192p.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Diana Ejaita "Cultivated" Cover Art; Meredith Southard, Benjamin Schwartz, Edward Steed, Mick Stevens, Lonnie Millsap, Robert Leighton, Liana Finch, Emily Flake, Etc (illustrator). 1st. 78 clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: Poetry (Billy Collins, Ishmael Reed), Masha Green (Letter from Riga: Russia's Independent Media0; Alayssa Brandt (Shouts & Murmurs); Molly Fisher (brave New World Dept.; Infant Formula & Nutrition); Eachel Aviv (Profiles: Agnes Callard & love); ; William Finnegan (Local Correspondents: Can Penn Station Ever be Fixed?); Rivka Galchen (short Story); Talk of the Town; Music, Theatre, Book Reviews, Etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B&w Photos (illustrator). 1st. foreword by Karl Shapiro; 384 clean, unmarked pages; An intimate account of the sudden rise to literary fame and long, inexorable decline of Delmore Schwartz, a complex and deeply troubled man who was keenly aware of his own inner contradictions, as revealed by his correspondence. [10] p. of plates.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Ontario Review Pr., Princeton, NJ, 1984. FINE hardcover book in VERY GOOD+ mylar-protected dust-jacket. Closed tear on DJ's front panel. Spine of DJ faded. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing of 1st edition. From a private collection. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; text clean; shelfwear minimal. An all-around very nice copy. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book has mild rubbing to covers, partial barcode sticker to back, mild wear to edges, slight bubbling to top edge of front endpaper. otherwise in great condition, strong binding, bright and unmarked pages; some light cosmetic wear but an overall sturdy copy with clean interiors.

paperback. Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: W. W. Norton, New York, 1993. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new. Pristine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; 143 clean, unmarked pages.19 essays (bagatelles) including such topics as the meaning of existentialism, the abominations of the telephone, fear of having one's picture taken, theories of Hamlet's behavior and Don Giovanni's promiscuity; seven were previously published, the rest were discovered amon the poet's papers at Yale:

hardcover. Condition: As New. Looks almost new, tight and solid. Very clean with no markings or writing. 100% Money Back Guarantee on all Items. We believe in providing accurate grading on used books and excellent customer service.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Second printing; first printing, February, 2001. Lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers--now available for the first time in print. Culled from sixteen informal lectures Ayn Rand delivered to a select audience in the late 1960s, this remarkable work offers indispensable guidance to the aspiring writer of nonfiction while providing readers with a fascinating discourse on art and creation. Based on the concept that the ability to create quality nonfiction is a skill that can be learned like any other, The Art of Nonfiction takes readers through the writing process, step-by-step, providing insightful observations and invaluable techniques along the way. In these edited transcripts, Rand discusses the psychological aspects of writing, and the different roles played by the conscious and unconscious minds. From choosing a subject to polishing a draft to mastering an individual writing style--for authors of theoretical works or those leaning toward journalistic reporting--this crucial resource introduces the words and ideas of one of our most enduring authors to a new generation. 192 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. [Milledgeville, GA]: [Georgia College & State University]. Fine. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Printed wrappers [about 7" x 10"], 181 pages plus ads at the rear. Fine copy. 150.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 311 pp. First published in 1988 in Daedalus and MIT Press; this copy, Stated: "First MIT Press edition, 1988" with '3' in number line. Contents divided into 14 Essays: [1] Seymour Papert, "One AI or Many?"; [2] Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E Dreyfus, "Making a Mind versus Modeling the Brain: Artificial Intelligence Back at a Branchpoint"; [3] Robert Sokolowski, "Natural and Artificial Intelligence"; [4] Pamela McCorduck, "Artificial Intelligence: An Apercu"; [5] Jack D. Cowan and David H. Sharp, "Neural Nets and Artificial Intelligence"; [6] Jacob T. Schwartz, "The New Connectionism: Developing Relationships Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence"; [7] George N. Reeke, Jr. and Gerald M. Edelman, "Real Brains and Artificial Intelligence"; [8] W. Daniel Hillis, "Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior; or, The Songs of Eden"; [9] David L. Waltz, "The Prospects for Building Truly Intelligent Machines"; [10] Anya Hurlbert and Tomaso Poggiio, "Making Machines (and Artificial Intelligence) See"; [11] Sherry Turkle, "Artificial Intelligence and Psychoanalysis: A New Alliance"; [12] Hilary Putnam, "Much Ado About Not Very Much"; [13] Daniel C.Dennett, " When Philosophers Encounter Artificial Intelligence"; [14] John McCarthy, "Mathematical Logic in Artificial Intelligence". Glossy illustrated wrappers. to places for minor bumps on lower front cover edge (NO text impacted: no tears and nugatory echoing through just a few pages at one bump on lower right. Solid copy: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. NEW YORK: Norton (1993). First edition, first printing (indicated by full number sequence, including the 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Remainder line lower edge. A tight, clean copy, which appears unread. NOT price-clipped.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. wear/soil. W/full markings, bookplate and/or pocket. Has some wave to pages from improper storage. Ex-Library Size: 4to. Ex-Library.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. Includes contributions by James Merrill, Octavio Paz, John Peck, Mark Strand, John Malcolm Brinnin, James McMichael, Robert Lowell, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Margo Lockwood, Nicholas Christopher, Constance St. John Marchiel, Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, Alice Mattison, Richard Howard, Jonathan Galassi, Barry Spacks, Helen Vendler, Frank Bidart, David Ferry, F.R. Leavis, Eugenio Montale, Peter Taylor, Donald Gertmenian, Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Kaplan, Todd Boli, Horace, William Nestrick, J.V. Cunningham, Robert Pinsky, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Eliot, Proust, Stein, and Dante and more - mostly poetry but some essays including Brinnin on first meeting Auden, and David Gertmenian on Rereading Howl. Illustrated with collages by Ralph Hamilton. Notes on contributors. 249 pp plus ads. Very good in cream wrappers (some toning to covers, light crease to front cover, short tear to lower corner of rear cover).

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Magazine. 48p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, reviews, news, ads, cartoons, photos, very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on Shanghai. Robert Patrick very astute and interesting study of four gay playwrights named Wilson; Lanford Wilson, Doric Wilson, Robert Wilson and Tom Wilson. Crisp on the Divine Miss M.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 481 pp., xiii. NAP. Following the Preface and Introduction: "Soviet Area Studies and the Social Sciences: Some Methodological Problems in Communist Studies", Contents divided into 20 Essays in three Sections: I. METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN COMMUNIST STUDIES: Introductory Note; (1) H. Gordon Skilling, "Soviet and Communist Politics: A Comparative Approach"; (2) Robert C. Tucker, "On the Comparative Study of Communism"; (3) Paul Shoup, "Comparing Communist Nations: Prospects for an Empirical Approach"; (4) D. Richard Little, "Communist Studies in a Comparative Framework: Some Unorthodox Proposals"; (5) T.H. Rigby, " Crypto-Politics"; (6) Erik P. Hoffman, "Methodological Problems of Kremlinology"; II. CONCEPTUALIZATION IN COMMUNIST STUDIES: Introductory Note, (7) Allen Kassof, "The Administered Society: Totalitarianism without Terror"; (8) T.H. Rigby, "Traditional, Market, and Organizational Societies and the U.S.S.R."; (9) "Symposium on Comparative Politics and Communist Systems" : [A] Alfred G. Meyer, "The Comparative Study of Communist Political Systems"; [B] John H. Kautsky, "Communism and the Comparative Study of Development"; [C] Dan N. Jacobs, "Area Studies and Communist Systems"; [D] Robert S. Sharlet, " Systematic Political Science and Communist Systems"; [E] John A. Armstrong, "Comparative Politics and Communist systems: Concluding Remarks"; (10) Paul Hollander, "Observations on Bureaucracy, Totalitarianism, and the Comparative Study of Communism"; (11) Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., "Toward a Reconceptualization of Political Change in the Soviet Union: The Political Leadership System"; (12) Robert S. Sharlet, "Concept Formation in Political Science and Communist Studies: Conceptualizing Political Participation"; (13) Milton Lodge, " 'Groupism' in the Post-Stalin Period'; III. SOCIAL SCIENCE THEORY AND COMMUNIST STUDIES, Introductory Note, (14) H. Gordon Skilling, "Interest Groups and Communist Politics"; (15) Joel J. Schwartz and William R. Keech, "Group Influence and the Policy Process in the Soviet Union"; (16) William A. Welsh, "Toward a Multiple-Strategy Approach to Research on Comparative Communist Political Elites: Empirical and Quantitative Problems"; (17) John A. Armstrong, "Sources of Administrative Behavior: Some Soviet and Western European Comparisons"; (18) Erik P. Hoffman, "Communication Theory and the Study of Soviet Politics"; (19) Roger W. Benjamin and John H. Kautsky, "Communism and Economic Development"; (20) William A. Welsh, "A Game-Theoretic Conceptualization of the Hungarian Revolt: Toward an Inductive Theory of Games"; Contributors, pp. 466-468; Author Index, pp. 469-473; Subject Index, pp. 474-481. Shiny brown wrappers with title lettering in red and white lettering in a column at right middle front cover, adjacent to illustration on left of a solid white abstract human profile, with a brown curvilinear outline of a basketball in the cranium of the profiled individual, with a superimposition of the traditional red hammer and cycle symbol of the Soviet Union upon that "basketball"; editor name lettering in small white letters over brown at top right front cover. 4 3/4" diagonal crease at lower right front cover (strips of clear mailing tape have been applied, leaving cover flat and as strong as if never creased: solid); rubbing wear across spine ends and thin intermittent lines down spine edges; spine slightly sunned with red lettering of editor's name slightly less intense than red applied to front cover (All lettering still sharp and distinct, eminently readable); sewn signatures glued to paper spine: binding overall tight, with a few pages of first signature slightly stretched (NOT cracked); soft creases echoing through top right of some pages (ostensibly, incurred at time of book manufacture); cover corners are nearly square (hint of outward curls; NO bumps); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Classic readings in remarkable condition for more than 50 years old.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Black & White Photographs/Diagram (illustrator). Working copy, but in pretty good condition, textblock is clean and tight. Some small tearing to head and foot of spine and slight edge wear. 98pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" 12" Tall. Paperback.

Stapled Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Ten & 3/4-inch x Fourteen & 1/4-inch; Folio; very good overall; contents include: Elvis Costello; The Flesh Eaters; Lydia Lunch; The Neats. (48 pages).

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper. The top edge of the dust jacket is slightly chipped with a couple of small tears and the jacket's spine is faded. xxii, (1) - 384 pages, with a section of 10 pages of illustrations inserted. Very good. First edition.

First edition Fine and very bright in like dustjacket with crisp unread text. Short line to bottom edge. Very attractive edition.

x, 276 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Green dust jacket toned at spine; some chips and tears at edges; small stain to front panel; front flap is not price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green cloth. Two-line ink ownership inscription at front free endpaper's top right; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Features fourteen essays. "Language of Gods and Language of Men; Remarks on Some Indo-European Metalinguistic Traditions" by Calvert Watkins; "In Defense of Euhemerus" by Kees W. Bolle; "Comparative Legal Reconstruction in Germanic" by Stephen P. Schwartz; "The Indo-European Component in Germanic Religion" by Edgar Palome; "The 'Kingship in Heaven' Theme" by C. Scott Littleton; "The Threefold Death: An Indo-European Trifunctional Sacrifice?" by Donald J. Ward; "The Threefold Death in Finnish Lore" by Jeannine E. Talley; "Indo-European Elements in Baltic and Slavic Chronicles" by Robert L. Fisher, Jr.; "Aspects of Equine Functionality" by Jaan Puhvel; "The Divine Victim: Aspects of Human Sacrifice in Viking Scandinavia and Vedic India" by James L. Sauve; "The Separate Functions of the Indo-European Divine Twins" by Donald J. Ward; "Reflections on Yaozda, with a Digression on Xvaetvadaoa" by Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin; The Three Functions of Indo-European Tradition in the Eumenides of Aeschylus" by Udo Strutynski; "Some Possible Indo-European Themes in the Iliad" by C. Scott Littleton. ISBN 0520015878.