Isbn: 9780394566252 - Metaphor and Memory (29 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.…

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is in clear plastic sleeve, though does still display some general wear and scuffing from age and use. Hardcover. LW.

Hardback. Condition: Good. From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. minor wear and tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ivory boards with cloth spine and gold lettering. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. Light soiling to top outer page edges. Stated first edition. Very good to fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good condition with just light surface soiling.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st. 8vo. 283pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition. Crisp and unmarked with lightly rubbed upper corners, NF/NF. Quarter cloth binding. 283pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - minor staining to dust jacket and closed page edge - otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred A Knopf, 1999. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with slight spine lean. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Condition: FINE. First printing. A collection of essays, many on writers - including Italo Calvino, William Gaddis, Coetze, Henry James and more - and others which are an exploration of Jewish thought. 283 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition stated 1989, first printing. Published by Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, corners not bumped, no edgewear, no shelfwear, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ new, no shelfwear, no tears, no chips, price not clipped (19.95). 8vo, 283 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. (1st) Sturdy book, cream covers, very bright gilt lettering on front and spine, 283 pages. Essays on Connolly, Gaddis, Calvino, Levi, Bellow, Dreiser, Steiner, Agnon and Aleichem, among others. DJ beneath mylar, glossy purple front and spine, white back with praise from David Lehman, Katha Pollitt and others. DJ and book, both As New.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Knopf, 1989. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($19.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A collection of essays, many on writers - including Italo Calvino, William Gaddis, Coetze, Henry James and more.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Signed by author on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket (DJ). DJ is VG-, book is VG+. DJ has some surface scratching; light parts of DJ yellowing; bottom-back edge of DJ has some bumping, causing crease lines. DJ corners bumped. Light edgewear - small rip on top of DJ near spine. Light bumping on top/bottom edges of hardcover boards and corners. Top of text block heavily speckled. Some minor dings in fore edge of text block. Pages clean and clear of writing/markings. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Personalized inscription signed by author on half-title page. Gently read hardback with jacket. Light wear. No owners' labels. Text is clean, unmarked. Stated first edition. (Shelf: A5) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof poly and boxed to prevent damage during transit. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Good condition hardback in a very good, protected dust jacket. Library discard with library markings. A nice, lower-priced collectible.

Condition: Near Fine. dj. First Edition. Inscribed first edition, review copy, of this collection of literary essays on postmodernism, translation, and the work of fellow writers such as Calvino, Gaddis, Coetzee, and Bellow - from the library of noted American book collector Rolland Comstock. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter white cloth over cream paper boards, lettered in gilt to front board and spine. In original unclipped ($19.95) color typographic jacket designed by Gun Larson. Machine deckle fore edge. xii, 288 pages. Inscribed by Ozick on title page: "To these two 'M's, add a third: / a MYSTERY, / which is what Rolland Comstock, Esq., / is to me! / With warmest good wishes, / Cynthia Ozick." Publisher's printed card and review slip laid in. Bookplate of Rolland Comstock mounted to front paste down. Jacket with trace shelfwear, small strip of offsetting to verso. Book with top board slightly bowed, else crisp and clean. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "July 1989 For Rolland L. Comstock, always in appreciation of his having Taken Note - Cynthia Ozick." Stated First Edition. "Here is Cynthia Ozick on writing in all its guises - as art, as imagination, as culture." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Spine is slightly skewed and loose. Moderate edge wear. Bumps on top corners. Small bumps on spine ends. Overall, pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear. Slightly yellowed on flaps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages; Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 283 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine dark blue with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$19.95." General shelf wear to dust jacket. Foxing to head and tail of book spine, edges and corners of boards, and edges of textblock. Signed flat by Ozick on title page. Shelved in Essay & Memoir. 1397496. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. …

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 283 pages. A collection of essays on literary subjects. A very near fine and tight copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Ozick on the title page and she has added an additional sentiment as well. A very nice copy. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 283 pages. Published in 1989. The author's second collection of essays. One of the finest literary collections of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Cynthia Ozick's "Metaphor & Memory: Essays". Thirty essays by Cynthia Ozick, ample proof, if proof were ever needed, that the author is not only a great novelist and short-story writer, but also one of America's best literary critics. Includes essays on Henry James (her single greatest obsession), Chekhov, Cyril Connolly, Italo Calvino, William Gaddis, Saul Bellow, J. M. Coetzee, and some of the most acute essays on Jewish culture, identity, and heritage ever written. An Ozick essay is always cause for celebration. She writes piercingly and critically, but always with an unself-conscious and unindulgent sympathy for her subject, against her better judgment, and even while she is tearing him or her to shreds. She is writing in three literary traditions simultaneously, all of them at the most profound level imaginable: The ancient Jewish, the modern European, and the Jamesian American. Hence, the dazzling allusiveness, poignant beauty, and sheer intensity of her work. Her prose style - imbricated, brachiate, and filigreed, to borrow three of her own favorite words - is a paradox: The rush of metaphors arrives at and realizes a work of luminous beauty. "Sympathy can be an offense against the truth" (Cynthia Ozick). An absolute "must-have" title for Cynthia Ozick collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Cynthia Ozick. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for "Fame & Folly". Finalist for the National Book Award in 1997 for "The Puttermesser Papers". Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 for "Quarrel & Quandary". Recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CYNTHIA OZICK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0394566254. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Signed by author. Signed by Author(s).