Evan Connell Introduction (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. box 06 5ĵ"x8"; 352 pages; The Library of America Series; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Thus. Creasing to back lower corner. Light edge wear and rubbing. Used Book.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WILLIAM STYRON. 245 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket with some toned/foxing and soiling; small chips and several tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right; dj presented in an older mylar protector. Bluish-gray boards; toning at top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with additional foxing to top edge. Light toning to endpapers; small stain at rear free endpaper verso's top left. Two-line ink inscription "To Carson Holloman | William Styron" upon the title page. Slight cigarette order to book which will fade with time. Binding is firm. Contents: Introduction by William Styron; "The Fisherman from Chihuahua" by Evan S. Connell, Jr.; "Last Comes the Raven" by Italo Calvino; "The Conversion of the Jews" by Philip Roth; "Stones" by Samuel Beckett; "The Hundredth Centennial" by Mac Hyman; "Death on the Avenue de Segur" by Antoine Blondin; "The Sun and the Still-born Stars" by Terry Southern; "The Acrobat" by Gerard Kornelis Van Het Reve; "The Engines of Hygeia" by John Phillips; "The Mexican Girl" by Jack Kerouac; "The Fishers" by Hughes Rudd; "In the House Where They Were Born" by Pati Hill; "At the Pool" by William Fain; "The Summer Fire" by Owen Dodson. The inscribee is Curtis Carson Holloman Jr. (1939-1991) who served on the English Department faculty at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi. This book is among a collection of first editions from the Holloman estate with most author signatures acquired at literary events held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover. Number 5 of 300 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. Evan Connell has signed, in pencil on the last page of text. Laurie Simmons has signed below her photograph on the last page. This was the eighty-fifth publication of the press, issued on the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's publication in 1959. The prospectus calls this a quiet masterpiece of mid-twentieth century fiction.Evan Connell (1924-2013) has long been considered the overlooked master of the American novel, with Mrs. Bridge and its companion, Mr. Bridge among the notable achievements of his early career. They go on to say that Connell's reputation has been a puzzle to his legions of admirers. A writer of talent and dedication who has published twenty books yet is nevertheless absent from the literary pantheon of his generation. According to Mark Oppenheimer, author of the introduction, this novel "is probably the great feminist novel written by a man." Of the 68 photographs in this book by well known photographer, Laurie Simmons, 34 are in black and white and 34 are in color. The illustrations are unexpectedly and creatively of domestic scenes with miniature furniture and small dolls representing Mrs. Bridge. Bound in full yellow Iris cloth with color photographs by Simmons on the front and back covers and black title on the spine. Printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in Binny type. Designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem. Accompanied by the prospectus. In fine condition. Measures 8 x 10.5 inches. 274 numbered pages and 68 unnumbered pages for the photographs. PRI/112024. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Laurie Simmons (illustrator). The book is large octavo in format, page size 10-1/2 by 8 inches, and consists of 274 numbered pages and 68 unnumbered pages for the photographs. The type is Binny, composed and cast in Monotype, 12 point for the text. The printing of the text is by letterpress. The photographs are printed by offset photo-lithography. The paper is Mohawk Superfine. The binding is full yellow Iris cloth, with color photographs by Laurie Simmons on the front and back covers. The edition of the book is limited to 300 numbered copies for sale, signed by the author and the artist. Published in 1959, Mrs. Bridge is a quiet masterpiece of mid-twentieth-century fiction, and this edition celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. A novel of the American heart-land, it takes up familiar themes, set in a comfortable middle-class Midwestern family in the decades before World War II. At the same time, it is experimental in form, a work that unobtrusively advances the art of the novel. The book includes 68 photographs, half duo-tone and half color, by Laurie Simmons. Simmons is a leading American artist who uses photography to explore the role of women in the domestic sphere. Beginning in the mid-1970s when she took photographs for a toy company catalog, Simmons has been fascinated with the artifacts of the household. During the remaining years of that decade she used dolls and doll house walls, furniture, and fixtures to make set-ups for photographs. These works established her as one of the most important artists in photography in the United States. The images in this book were selected from that series. Evan Connell (1924-2013) has long been considered the overlooked master of the American novel, with Mrs. Bridge and its companion volume, Mr. Bridge, published in 1969, among the notable achievements of his early career. These apparently straight-forward accounts of an uneventful marriage, told from the wife's and then the husband's perspective, are breathtaking in their psychological acuity, social insight, wit, and compassion. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.