Lasky Mary (22 results)

Condition: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Condition: like_new. Item may have minor cosmetic defects such as marks, wears, cuts, bends, or crushes on the cover, spine, pages, or dust cover. Dust cover is intact and pages are clean and not marred by notes. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges. Item may be missing bundled media.

Condition: acceptable.

Condition: acceptable. The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

Condition: good. Book is considered to be in good or better condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine, cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend, curve or creasing to it. Book should have minimal to no writing inside and no highlighting. Pages should be free of tears or creasing. Stickers should not be present on cover or elsewhere, and any CD or DVD expected with the book is included. Book is not a former library copy.…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence.The quirky tenants-a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by-rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 97 pages. Mary Sullivan (Story); Karel van het Reve (Unofficial Russia); Erich Heller (Man Ashamed); henry Gifford (Andrey Sinyavsky); poetry (Jenny Joseph, D.J\. Enright, Pphilip Larkin, Roy fuller, Frank Ormscy, Charles Causley, Alastair Reid, Peter Porter, Laurence Lerner); Flaus Mehnert (From Mao to Marcuse to Marx); M. van Creveld (Beyond the Finzi-Cotini garden); allan Rodway (There's a Hole in Your Beckett) John Bowle (Emile Durkhein), other book reviews; David Markish (Where China begins); Helmut Schelsky (German Dilemma); political pollsters; letter from Sidney Hook, Hans Habe (Thoughts on the Nobel Prize.…

Wrappers. Condition: Good. First Edition. A good+ copy of the July 1961 editio of Encounter. Previous owner's name atop front cover, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine. Minor weat to the extremities of the cover. A sharp copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Frank Kermode "The Patience of Shakespeare" / Mary McCarthy on The Group / FRENCH AFFAIRS.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. |Periodical issue.7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. VG to VG+, With Mary McCarthy's letter to a Danish translator, going a long way to explain the form and subtext of her "The Group". Useful article. Also Seymour Martin Lipset's "beyond the backlash" regarding the civil rights movement in the US. and more.…

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

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 100 pages. Melvin J Lasky "Africa for Beginners - A Traveller's Notebook" / Theodore Draper "Cubans and Americans" / Nigel Dennis "Sartre & Genet" / C A R Crosland "Public Schools & English Education" / Malcold Muggeridge "The Queen And I" / Mary McCarthy "Americans, Realists, Playwrights" / Marcus Cunliffe "Harvard".…

Softcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Lean, toning, rubbing, a few tiny tears and short creases. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request. Please note that the buyer is responsible for any customs duties, tariffs, or import fees levied by the destination country.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Collection of articles on writing for TV and film by successful members of The Writers Guild of America. The book is spotless and just-like-new inside and out. Its original dust jacket is not price-clipped and is completely clean. It has very light wear to edges including a single 1/8" tear. We will put a clear archival sleeve on the jacket to keep it looking great. (Note: Photos may show a flash reflection.) PayPal always welcome. We pack all our books with care and ship in cardboard boxes. Shipment outside of the United States may require extra funds. Additional photos emailed upon request. G1.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Full periodical issue. 7 1/4 x 10 inches. Includes McCarthy's review of Naked Lunch "crankish courage" "circus like". also Isabella Gardner poem "Sestina", W.H Auden translations, and many "New voices in Russian Writing".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. John McGahern "Parachutes" (story) / George Urban in Conversation with Daniel Bell / Mary Kenny "In the Driver's Seat" / Mary Midgley "Duties Concerning Islands" / Roger Scruton "The Real Stoppard" / Dannie Abse "A Meeting with Robert Graves" / Malcolm Bradbury "Struggling Westward America & the Coming of Modernism (II).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. John Le Carre "The Spy to End Spies - On Richard Sorge" / Arnold Wesker "The House" / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr "On The Inscrutability Of History" / Mary McCarthy "The Inventions Of I Compton-Burnett" / Isaiah Berlin "L B Namier" / Aristide R Zolberg "A Gospel For The Damned" / Stephen Spender "Ise: Voice From A Skull" (poem).…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Condition: New. Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence.The quirky tenants-a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by-rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows.Provoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 18 issues complete, each issued in an edition of only 500 copies, and each cover illustration by Paul Elliman, featuring a Dead Scissor. Small stain and slight crease to the cover of the Kaminsky issue, else about a Near Fine set.