david r godine publisher inc jaffrey new hampshire (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: NEW. No Jacket. First US Paper. As the 19th Century moves toward its end on the island of Mauritius, young Alexis L'Etang lives a life of privilege. This life comes to an end with his father's death, and Alexis enters the harsh world of privation and shame. Years later, Alexis becomes obsessed with finding the Corsair's treasure on the island, and with it, the lost magic of his youth. Le Clezio won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008, and The Prospector is considered his crowning achievement. Published @ $16.95.

Soft cover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. No Jacket. A Solid Clean Book Signed By Author On The Title Page. Described As ' Part Gothic, Part Fantasy And Pure Rollicking Adventure'. Illustrated Card Covers With Picture Of Two Men Canoeing Through Rapids. Very Minor Shelf And Reading Wear. In Near Fine Condition. By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Homans, Kat y (book design); Moog, Christine N. (book design); Cabarga, Leslie (jacket design); Zinsser, John (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition aqua blue boards, gold and black cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Introduction; Songs by Category; Acknowledgments; Sources; Notes; Picture Acknowledgments; Index of People; Index of Musicals and Movies; Index of Song Titles; Permissions; About the Author and List of Other Books by William Zinsser. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "In this affectionate book, William Zinsser describes his lifelong love affair with American popular song - the thousands of wonderful songs written for Broadway musicals and Hollywood movies during the 40-year golden age that began in 1927 with Show Boat. Today those songs are still the standard repertory for jazz singers and musicians, lodged in the memory of anyone who ever heard them. Who wrote all those songs? What stars and shows were they written for? How were they constructed? What makes them so good? William Zinsser tells that story through the lives of the great composers and lyricists: Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Goerge and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren, Jule Styne, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, John Kander and Fred Ebb, and many others. He also looks at a number of cultural influences that gave the songs their popularity and their emotional power: sheet music, African American jazz, World War II, singers like Fred Astaire, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, and movies like The Wizard of Oz and Casablanca. Zinsser writes from an intimate familiarity with the work of these songwriters, explaining how each of them created a distinctive sound - one that often took the American musical theater in a new direction. The result is a book unlike any other in its authority, its insights, and its knowledge of the songwriter's craft." - from the inner front jacket flap.