Phillips William Philip Rahv Wright (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. "Partisan Review" was a leading Political and Literary Journal, with articles and literature by some of the leading intellectual lights of the day. This is the Spring 1962 issue."Partisan Review", originally, was definitely left-leaning, but became "staunchly anti-communist" when Stalin took power. It remained, through its 69 years of publication (1934 - 2003) a forum for intellectuals and many of the world's top thinkers and authors contributed to its pages. This issue is, indeed, filled with top-level writing, incisive and thought-provoking, including a piece by Doris Lessing, and a letter from Paul Tillich on "Nuclear Morality". CONTENTS ** John Strachey: Communist Intentions ** Doris Lessing: From the Black Notebook ** Steven Marcus: The Novel Today ** David Riesman: New Malcontents - the Intellectuals and the Discontented Classes ** Wright Morris: Man on the Moon ** John Henry Raleigh: The Truth - Sinclair Lewis as Everyman ** Richard Wollheim: London Letter : England's Two cultures POETRY ** Frederick Seidel ** David Cornel DeLong ** Byron Vazakas REVIEWS ** Joseph Frank's Alexander Herzen ** R. W. Flint's Poetry Chronicle ** Lewis Coser's Choosing to Conform OTHER VOICES ** Soviet Comment on PR's Special Russian Issue CORRESPONDENCE : ** Paul Tillich on "Nuclear Morality" PARTISAN REVIEW - SPRING 1962 - Vol. XXIX, No. 2 Published by THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR CULTURAL FREEDOM - NEW YORK EDITED BY WILLIAM PHILLIPS & PHILIP RAHV Quarterly Periodical, small journal format; 6" x 9", decorated wraps (paper covers) ; this issue contains volume pages 171 - 312 plus 8 pages of advertising (150 pages) CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned item which remains clean and serviceable , with the following particulars noted: FRONT COVER : Mild wear, including a small spot, mild rubbing and light smudging, -- else clean and presentable. REAR COVER : Mild smudging , else clean and presentable. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Mild signs of use --basically nice and clean throughout.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this 1962 issue, includes work by Doris Lessing and contributions from a range of important writers. Unmarked copy, light outer spotting and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of this 1962 issue, includes a story by James Merrill and interesting contributions from a range of important writers. Unmarked copy, light outer soil and wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 108pp, printed wrappers. Double issue, begins with a piece on Hemingway written just after his death, and includes poems by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, et al. Unmarked copy, light cover wear and soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes illustrations by Kurt Seligmann and contributions from Saint-John Perse, Robert Lowell, many others (including a contemporaneous review of an Orwell essay collection). Unmarked copy with a bit of toning and soil to covers and light bump to one corner. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Includes James Baldwin's essay Many Thousands Gone (on Richard Wright's Native Son; later collected in Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son). This original appearance shows the early context of Baldwin's work within currents of postwar intellectual culture. Issue also includes an advance chapter of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March and other interesting work. Light pencil fill-ins to front cover (no other markings); a bit of spotting and wear to covers and some spine lean. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Scarce and historic early issue, includes a reconsideration of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry by Horace Gregory, and contributions from other important writers. Unmarked copy with some toning and wear to the acidic wrappers. Not Signed.