Creative Present Notes Contemporary (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. tear in fore-edge of front jacket flap, ex-library with usual markings, corners bumped, damage to pastedowns. Commentary on modern writings like Updike, Norman Mailer, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac and more.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. ex libris.

Hard Cover. Condition: good-. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. xx + 265 pp; some paper remnants from dust jacket adhering to bottom corners of cover; dust jacket is moisture stained with chips & tears to edges. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Edge Wear & Lightly Rubbed.

Very Good black cloth with moderate rubbing & shelfwear & toning at pagination edges in a Very Good just dust jacket with moderate edgewear & some soil rubbing at rear panel. Name penned at front endpaper else bright & unmarked interior.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Cloth. In print for $40.00.; Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. very good hardcover with dust jacket. 1963.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 265 pp. , xx. NAP, NO number line: assumed reprint. Dark gray cloth with brilliant silver lettering on spine; beveled fore-edge. Contents divided into 10 Essays: (1) Harvey Breit, "James Baldwin and Two Footnotes"; (2) Donald Barr, "Ah, Buddy: Salinger"; (3) "Alan Pryce-Jones, "The Fabulist's Worlds: Vladimir Nabokov"; (4) Mark Schorer, "McCullers and Capote: Basic Patterns"; (5) Robert Gorham Davis, "The American Individualist Tradition: Bellow and Styron"; (6) Diana Trilling, "The Radical Moralism of Norman Mailer"; (7) Alan R. Jones, "The World of Love: The Fiction of Eudora Welty"; (8) David L. Stevenson, "James Jones and Jack Kerouac: Novelists of Disjunction"; (9) Granville Hicks, "Generations of the Fifties: Malamud, Gold, and Updike"; (10 John Chamberlain, "The Novels of Mary McCarthy"; Bibliographies, pp. 257-262; Contributors, pp. 263-265. Shiny dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.95) with Title lettering in white letters across top front cover, superimposed over a black band, above a grid of 12 squares on remainder of front cover, each with an Essay and its Author printed, except for top right two squares in orange for Subtitle, other squares in black orange, dark red or lavender. Thin lines of wear across front cover and a bit more wear at spine ends and corners and front cover corners only; 1/2" tear down top edge at 1" from top right corner (Archival tape backing now in place); slight offsetting on endpapers opposite vertical lines of dw panels against inside covers: describes worse than it, but there you have it. Now in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives all trespasses. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or cracks); NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Way to read a Literature Classic more than 50 years-old.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($4.95 price intact). Published by Doubleday, 1963. Octavo. Book is very good, toning on vertical page ends. Dust jacket is very good, tears on bottom of spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Bottom corners bumped, faint stains on cloth, very good in a very good dustwrapper with closed tears on spine ends. Ten well known critics evaluate seventeen leading American authors like James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Styron, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, Jack Kerouac, Updike, and others.…

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

Condition: BUONO. Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company cm.14x21,5, pp.XX,(2),265,(1), legatura ed.in tutta tela, titoli al dorso. (firma di appartenenza e data al II risguardo cancellati con bianco coprente.).

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. Da revisionare INGLESE Pagine leggermente ingiallite dal tempo e sporadicamente fiorite ai bordi esterni. Testo in lingua inglese con timbro vi biblioteca precedente al frontespizio ai bordi esterni ed alla controguardia e pagine di guardia posteriore. Sovraccoperta illustrata presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini con leggere abrasioni agli stessi e minime tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti; coperta rigida con leggere gore ai piatti. Piccole macchioline marroni alla controguardia ed alle pagine di guardia. Numero pagine 265.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0877521581.…

Cloth. Condition: Good+. A pleasing association copy from the library of author V. S. Pritchett, to whom it is inscribed. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. Blotching to boards, edges tanned. Pritchett's posthumous book label to front pastedown, inscribed by Balakian in blue pen to ffep: "To V. S. Pritchett,/ With highest esteem and warmest regards. Nona Balakian. Dec. 1963." Else, clean. Good+ Nona Balakian (1918-1991) was an Armenian American literary critic, essayist and editor of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Balakian included an essay about V. S. Pritchett in her later essay collection, Critical Encounters (1978). The book label, which includes a facsimile signature, was added posthumously to books in V. S. Pritchett's library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. BALAKIAN, Nona, SIMMONS, Charles [265] pp. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1963 First Edition 8 3/8" x 5 5/8" Stamped on FFEP: From The Library of Truman Capote Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin Ten well known critics evaluate seventeen leading American authors like James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Styron, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, Jack Kerouac, Updike, and others.…

Condition: good. NOT FIRST EDITION. A former library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Missing dustjacket. The pages appear unmarked. Light staining on the cover. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller.…