Modern Occasions by Rahv Philip Editor (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cloth.; Octavo.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [10], 369 pages ; 21 cm. Contents; Foreword -- The elbow / Thalia Selz -- The vanity of human wishes / Robert Lowell -- The aporias of the avant-garde / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Peak / A.R. Ammons -- Passage / A.R. Ammons -- Self-portrait / A.R. Ammons -- Zone / A.R. Ammons -- Going to New York / Mordecai Richler -- The new American playwrights / Robert Brustein -- A lip service to departures / Robert Brustein -- Waiting tables is a profession / Robert Brustein -- Perfect days / Jascha Kessler -- Practicing for death / Jane Cooper -- The later thought of Jean-Paul Sartre / Maurice Cranston -- Weissburg of Arabia / Irvin Faust -- Gan Chayim / Harold Schimmel -- All on a Saturday afternoon / Harold Schimmel -- Some younger poets in America / Stephen Donadio -- Test borings / John Barth -- On a picture by Vincent Canadé / William Bronk -- The elms dying / William Bronk -- Back to back / Peter Spielberg -- In Turgenev's hometown / Karel Van Het Reve -- Entropy / Stephen T. Sohmer -- Worlds / P.N. Furbank -- My spy story / Henry H. Roth -- How to marry a hummingbird / Paul West -- Notes on contributors. Subjects; 1900-1999. American literature 20th century. American literature. Civilization. United States. United States Civilization 20th century ; Literary collections. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Label remnant on DJ spine. DJ has a small creased tear to the front upper outer corner and creasing to the top spine end.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [10], 369 pages ; 21 cm. Contents; Foreword -- The elbow / Thalia Selz -- The vanity of human wishes / Robert Lowell -- The aporias of the avant-garde / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Peak / A.R. Ammons -- Passage / A.R. Ammons -- Self-portrait / A.R. Ammons -- Zone / A.R. Ammons -- Going to New York / Mordecai Richler -- The new American playwrights / Robert Brustein -- A lip service to departures / Robert Brustein -- Waiting tables is a profession / Robert Brustein -- Perfect days / Jascha Kessler -- Practicing for death / Jane Cooper -- The later thought of Jean-Paul Sartre / Maurice Cranston -- Weissburg of Arabia / Irvin Faust -- Gan Chayim / Harold Schimmel -- All on a Saturday afternoon / Harold Schimmel -- Some younger poets in America / Stephen Donadio -- Test borings / John Barth -- On a picture by Vincent Canadé / William Bronk -- The elms dying / William Bronk -- Back to back / Peter Spielberg -- In Turgenev's hometown / Karel Van Het Reve -- Entropy / Stephen T. Sohmer -- Worlds / P.N. Furbank -- My spy story / Henry H. Roth -- How to marry a hummingbird / Paul West -- Notes on contributors. Subjects; 1900-1999. American literature 20th century. American literature. Civilization. United States. United States Civilization 20th century ; Literary collections. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 8 X 5 X 2 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Printing. DJ has some slight general wear.

157p., softbound journal in 9x6 inch stylized wraps, bit of shelfwear, else in very good condition.

Magazine. Pp.461-647, softbound journal in 9x6 inch stylized wraps, find a tiny inked squiggle (and a touch of dust) on front cover, an else near-new copy: sound, else clean and unmarked. Interviewee this issue is William Styron. Find Roth on Nixon, unimpressed reviews of Norman Mailer's Prisoner of Sex and the pusilanimously delayed publication of Plath's Bell Jar. Sartre's "Class Consciousness in Flaubert" (part II, continued from Spring 1971) is probably the most formidable essay here; Sartre had no alimonies to pay (Mailer racked up six) and no suicidal tendencies.

Very Good in wraps with staining at spine. Interior unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper price clipped. Pages clean. Cover clean and solid. Dustwrapper clean.

Paperback. Covers scuffed. Pages tanned otherwise Reading Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Philip Rahv. Foxing on the foredge thus very good in near fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed slip affixed to front fly.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Ex-library with the usual markings, good only in a good only dust jacket with flaps taped to boards. "New Fiction Poetry Drama and Criticism by 21 Writers.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; bound in wraps. Some toning, foxing/staining and edge wear to exterior. Interior is evenly toned throughout with slight foxing at page edges. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo. 9"h x 6"w.

Magazine. First four issues, serially numbered to page 647, essays, articles, poetry, fiction, interviews, politics, lightly-worn trade paperback journals in wraps. Contents include stories by Philip Roth, poetry by Robert Lowell, articles by Jean-Paul Sartre, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Campbell, Saul Bellow, Juliet Mitchell and others.