Under Sign Saturn by Sontag Susan, First Edition (59 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First edition. First printing. A collection of essays on Paul Goodman, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Roland Barthes, Elias Canetti, and Leni Riefenstahl, by the late, author, critic, and intellectual. Small marker mark on bottom text block, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. dj: none. book: as new unread trade pbak.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Remainder mark. Light edge wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Minor wear & age toning to dust jacket. Black pen mark to lower page edges, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in clipped dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. Good Hardcover w/ Fair Dustjacket; black spine with red lettering; board show some fading and shelf wear but otherwise clean; DJ has some fading, discoloration and tears at top and bottom edges and small tear on spine; binding tight; text block has discoloration and an ink mark on top edge; 204 pp. 1346792. FP New Rockville Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Jim Harter (cover) (illustrator). First Thus. 7 essay by Sontag covering 204 pages. UNillustrated. `Approaching (Antonin) Artaud' comments on his writing, his poetry,and his theater. `Fascinating Fascism' is a commentary on the film making of Leni Riefenstahl. She (Sontag) sees a fascist ethic in even Last of the Nuba by LR. The title piece is a commentary on the solitary life-style and secretiveness in the literary life of Walter Benjamin. Born under Saturn. His best known work is: `The Origin of German Trauerspiel'. Sontag writes from Paris. Cond : Paper wrapper is off-white with (white or) purple lettering. Front cover graphic involves a German city, a pocket watch, and the planet Saturn. Light general soiling, wear similarly light. P/O name on ffep. Minor marginalia. Tight in binding. Excellent reading copy ! ! Quote (p.21) : " He can barely afford the traditional complaint of all the great mystics that words tend to petrify living thought and turn to the immediate, organic, sensory stuff of experience into something inert, merely verbal. Artaud's fight is only ._._._. ." Size: 12mo.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. (essays).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Constance Fogler (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and brigh, but has some rubbing and nicking to the spine ends and corners, along with some beginning toning to the white portions. This is a book of essays, including: On Paul Goodman, Approaching Artaud, Fascinating Fascism, Under the Sign of Saturn, Syberberg's Hitler, Remembering Barthes, and, Mind as Passion. This particular book was printed in a small initial run. "Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 December 28, 2004) was an American writer, film-maker, teacher, and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, and In America. Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Although her essays and speeches sometimes drew controversy, she has been described as "one of the most influential critics of her generation." " (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The first edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Owner's name and date. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked in jacket showing mild edge wear. A sound and handsome copy, very neat.

Hardbound. 1st Edition. NF/VG, slightly chipped dust jacket.

Condition: FINE. First printing. A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot).

Condition: FINE. First printing. A collection of essays by this award winning author, many of which are "commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti and others" 204 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. remainder stripe.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG in VG dw. 8vo, [xiv]+210pp, crimson cloth-backed slate boards with spine stamped in silver, printed dustwrapper. Stated first edition, first printing copy of this essential Sontag volume (Poague & Parsons A15). Includes essays on Fascism, Artaud, and Barthes, This copy has the cipher ownership inscription of a noted scholar to the front free endpaper and a remainder mark to top edge (else unmarked), dustwrapper is price-clipped and has light staining. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 204 Pp. Red Cloth, Gray Boards. First Printing Stated. Near Fine (Crease On Dedication Page) In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $10.95. No Marks.

Sontag, Susan., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980, c1980 , 1st Edition, boards & cloth (hard cover), remainder mark on bottom edge o/w vg-fine with like dj, 204 pp, 8vo, ".brings together her most important critical writing of the last decade.".

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (arts, modern, literature, history).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper price clipped with some light staining, rubbing.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 24.95 S GENDER - Sontag T1170. First Edition. First 1980 Edition/Printing. Good hardcover with dust jacket. GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (pc). First Edition. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustjacket (mylar protected). An extremely fresh copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+++. UK Edition. 203pp. Brown cloth boards with bright gilt title on spine and front board. Pictorial Dust Jacket slightly rubbed on flap edges. Susan Sontag [January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004]. Hard Cover.

1st. ed.not read or opened. new. d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1980). 8vo. 1st edition. Black remainder mark to textblock bottom edge. Faint soiling to textblock edges. Faint writing in pencil to f.f.e.p. Old Strand price sticker on front pastedown. Slight discoloration, bumping, and wear to edges, forecorners, and spine ends of gently rubbed boards. Uneven darkening to edges of toned dust jacket verso. Bumping, wear, slightest chipping, and scraping to edges, forecorners, and spine ends of rubbed and faintly marked d.j. with dark dampstain along rear board top edge. VG/VG.

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge moderately foxed, a couple neat ownership signatures (same person) on the front endpaper, otherwise good in good dustjacket with some small professionally closed tears and a bit of wear along the top edge,($ price intact on flap) . Attractive jacket design by Constance Fogler. Essays on politics and culture.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 204 pages. F/NF.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Printing Hardcover Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 203 pages. A collection of seven essays from this acclaimed writer. Sontag would go on to win a National Book Award for "In America."A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and with a remainder mark to the top edge of the pages and in a very good dust jacket with some toning to the edges and a few small edge tears and other minor edge wear. Signed by Sontag on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket; The book examines the concept of Saturn in relation to the individual and society. It draws on classical and contemporary sources to argue that the planet has a pervasive, if often unacknowledged, influence on our lives.; 8vo; $6.00.