George Plimpton Peter Matthiessen (168 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8.

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.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Rochelle Feinstein, Randolfo Rocha (illustrator). Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear and spine crease. Contributors: Gary Snyder, Helen Vendler, Chris Adrian, Peter Ho Davies, Elizabeth Gilbert, Joyce Hackett, John Hodgman, Michael Knight, Rob Owen, J. David Stevens, Silvana Paternostro, Alan Ainsworth, Kevin Cantwell, Jennifer Franklin, Rick Hilles, Richard Lamb, Kate Light, Nick Norwood, Mark Scott, Brenda Shaughenssy, Marc Woodworth, Anna Akhmatova, Agha Shahid Ali, Scott Cairns, James Cummins, Edward Nobles, Eric Ormsby, Baron Wormser, Charles Wright. ; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 312 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Wraps have light wear. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First couple pages torn out (front end page, title page) - full text still intact. Stamp on outside edges. Some staining. Cover is worn with some general scuffing and shelf wear. Binding is solid. B000ITQ642.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Betsy Rosenwald, Frank Yamrus (illustrator). Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contributors: Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jane Avrich, Peter Matthiessen, Rick Moody, Kate Walbert, David Foster Wallace, Alo Buzzzi, Elias Canetti. Also more than 25 poems by various authors including John Updike. ; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 296 pages.

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.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2001/Number 160 paperback. Minor shelf wear to covers and edges. Pages are unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Summer-Fall Issue 1960. 138pp. Light wear. Contributors include Boris Pasternak, Robert Frost, Thom Gunn and Gina Berriault. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paris Review 130; Spring, 1994. Cover by Louise Bourgeois; Virgil Thomson recalls Paris between the wars. Interviews with Ken Kesey and W D Snodgrass. Photographs by James Casebere; Poetry by Michael Benedikt, Octavio Paz, William Logan, James Laughlin, others. No marks or writing to book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover. Near Fine, Slight Rubbing, Slight Roll To Spine.

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: Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Leone & Macdonald, Andrew Masul (illustrator). Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear, spine creasing. Contributors: Louis Auchincloss, Robert Gottlieb, Alfred Kazoin, William Gass, Peter LaSalle, Melanie Rae Thon, Paul West, Jennifer Ashton, Claire Bateman, Scott Cairns, Katharine Coles, James Cummins, Kent Gardien, Eileen Hennessy, Stewart James, Galway Kinnell, Timothy Liu, Stephen Leeds, Jeredith Merrin, Sarah Messer, Jennifer Miller, Victorial Schlegel, Stephanie Strickland, Shawn Sturgeon, J. C. Todd, Meredith Trede, Charles Tomlinson. ; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall. 320 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Philip Akkerman (illustrator). Sound binding. Pages clean, bright. Wrappers have handling wear and spine creasing. Contributors: Luisa Valenzuela, Budd Schulberg, John Barlow, Karl Iagnemma, Christoph Keller, Roger Shattuck, many poets. ; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 272 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Lucy McKenzie (illustrator). Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have general shelf wear. Contributors: Richard Powers, Italo Calvino, Brian Evenson, Nell Freudenberger, Shelley Jackson, Richard Powers, Colin Dexter, Michael Dibdin, Evan Hunter, P. D. James, Elmore Leonard, John Mortimer, Harriet Waugh, Michael Cunningham, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, James Lasdun, Nani Power, Joanna Scott, Julia Slavin, Manil Suri, Maria Levitsky, Boris Akunin, Ann Arensberg, Janes Barnes, David Grand, Chloe Hooper, Jonathan Lethem, Tim Parks, Budd Schulberg, Paul West, many poets. ; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 340 pages.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: The Paris Review, New York, 1991. VERY GOOD+ softcover in illustrated wraps, as issued. Features interviews with Harold Brodkey and Reynolds Price, Fiction from Susan Minot.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 318pp, printed wrappers. This thick issue includes a feature on John Barth, interviews with John Guare and Neil Simon, other significant writing. Clean copy, minor marginalia to two pages (one the last interior page), like new otherwise. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Spring Summer 1959 Issue. 141pp. Numerous literary ads. Slight wear. Contributors include Terry Souther, T. S. Eliot, Ted hughes, Robert Bly, John Hollandfer, Louis Simpson. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good or better tray paperback. Contributions by W. S. Merwin, Eugenio Montale, Sharon Olds, and Octavio Paz. Email or call for further information.