Editors George Plimpton Peter Matthiessen (38 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good soft cover, without writing,marks. Soft cover corners lightly bumped. 294 pps. Humor issue with interviews Woody Allen, Garrison Keillor, Calvin Trillon. Fiction by John Barth, T C Boyle. Poetry byJohn Updike, Lucile Clifton.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Laurie Simmons & Terry Winters etc. (illustrator). 1st Printing. Very good soft cover magazine, light coverwear, creasing at spine, else clean & unmarked. Illustrated, 266 pages + ads. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial blue wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped & slightly rubbed at the extremities. 251 & [5] pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including 8 pages of portraits by David McDermott and Peter McGough. Near fine. Among the contents of this issue are interviews with Harold Brodkey and Reynolds Price; fiction by Susan Minot and Paul West; an article by Donald Hall about his teachers Archibald MacLeish and Yvor Winters; and poetry by Zbigniew Herbert, Charles Tomlinson, April Bernard and Kuroda Saburo.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. Includes interviews on the art of fiction with Hortense Calisher and William Gaddis, poetry by W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Octavio Paz, Stephen Dunn, Robert Pinsky and others, fiction by Ben Okri and Paul West; art by Joseph Kosuth and more. Illustrated. Notes on contributors. 228 pp plus ads. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Near fine in stiff silver wrappers.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. Owner inscription, slight corner bump & edge foxing, a crisp unread copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small octavo in stiff paper wraps. Contains interviews with Marianne Moore & Ilya Ehrenburg, poetry by Boris Pasternak, Ossip Mandelstam & others, and an essay by Norman Mailer. Condition: light soiling to wraps; the first leaf containing ads has been removed; stain to back cover; else a good copy. Pages: 167 and ads.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. very light wear, looks to be unread. Interview with Anthony Powell by Michael Barber who would later write Powell's biography. Also includes a reproduction of a page of typescript which appears to be a draft for The Acceptance World. Lilley E.11 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Trade paperback. We speialize in the works of and about Anthony Powell. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. SIGNED by T. C. Boyle at his story "Greasy Lake." Includes interviews with James Merrill and Philip Larkin on the art of poetry, poetry by Merrill, Charles Simic and Tom Disch and others. Fiction by T. C. Boyle, Edmund White, and a section of Selected Letters of Archibald MacLeish. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good+ in stiff illustrated wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 192+pp. Original wraps, moderately soiled w/ mild edge wear. "E-9-10" written in pencil on rear cover. Light foxing to edges of text block. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.

Condition: FINE. First printing. Includes interviews with Mahfouz, a feature section of letters between Delmore Schwarz and James Laughlin, fiction by Scott, Daniel Green and others, poetry by Sarton, Ashbery, Donald Hall, Charlie Smith, Linda Pastan and many others. Frontispiece by William Pene du Bois, cover by Roy Lichtenstein. 246 pp plus advertisements. SIGNED by Joanna Scott at her story 'A Borderline Case', and uncommon thus. Just about fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good softcover, no writing or marks. Wear to cover, especially at spine, crease to bottom front cover. Contents include an interview with Lillian Hellman; fiction by R.V. Cassill, Jeremy Larner, Man Ray, etc; art portfolio by Avigdor Arikha; poetry by Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, George Oppen, Galway Kinnell, etc. 176 pages. M04666.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine wraps/paperback. Light, if not very light water-spotting to spine and trivial 'dusting'/spotting to top edge of block. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use: primarily to front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine 200 page wraps/trade paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use: primarily two light, if not very light reader's creases running from head to heel of spine and trivial, if not barely noticeable wear to fore-edge corners.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine wraps/paperback. Lower edge of block has a 3.5 inch black felt-tipped pen line. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine 334 page wraps/trade paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine 329 page wraps/trade paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Nerar fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use: primarily trivial, if not barely noticeable rippling to covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine wraps/paperback. Bottom of block has a 3 inch black felt-tipped pen line. Only trivial additional signs of age//wear/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine wraps/paperback. Two removed staples from top edge of front cover near fore-edge corner. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use: primariy to covers and spine.

Softcover. First Edition 135, 9 pp., Drawings Contributions by Hughes Rudd, Pati Hill, Terry Southern, Victor Chapin, Thornton Wilder, Henry Michaux (with Mescalin drawings), A. Alvares, et al., drawings by various artists. Moderate wear at spine, o/w good +.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine 230 page wraps\/trade paperback. Only trivial signs of age\/wear\/previous use.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Near fine plus, if not fine 246 page wraps/trade paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use.