Safire William Leonard Safir Compilers (4 results)

hard. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st. ISBN: 0-671-67536-2. Indexed. From ABC's of Leadership to Zero-sum Gain. near fine, nf dj, brown cloth w/ oatmeal bds, clean text, tight 258 pgs. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Monic Sheehan (Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition, 7th Printing. Text/NEW & Bright. 1992 First Edition, 7th Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Treasury of some notable 2,000 quotations of advice, sayings, ancient & modern in source, compiled by two celebrated Romanian-American brothers --- William Safire (1929 - 2009) & older brother Leonard Safir ( - 1992). Younger William, Pulitzer Prize winning author, columnist, journalist, fascinated w/popular etymology of new & unusual usage, added an "e" to his surname for clarity of pronunciation. Older brother Leonard, feature writer for the Daily News, television producer leaving his mark on both NBC's "Today" & "Tonight" shows, is a "quotations anthologist" who chose to keep the original spelling of the family's last name. First published 1982 by Times Books; this is the 1992 Edition. Horace said: "Whatever advice you give, be short" as indeed this book exemplifies. 415 pgs, quotations arranged alphabetically by subject w/Index to rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Julie Metz (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. xv, [1], 400 pages. Quotations. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. The compilers were brothers who spelled their last names differently. Leonard Safir was a veteran radio and television producer who was a public relations executive. In 1952, he became the first associate producer of the early morning "Today" program at NBC-TV, where he originated many of television's first live remote telecasts. Mr. Safir had become known as a quotations anthologist, collaborating on four books with Mr. Safire. William Lewis Safir (December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009) better known as William Safire, was an author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and the author of "On Language" in The New York Times Magazine, a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics from its inception. He joined The New York Times as a political columnist in 1973. In 1978, Safire won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. In addition to his political columns, Safire wrote a column, "On Language", in the weekly The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death. Many of the columns were collected in books. According to the linguist Geoffrey Pullum, over the years Safire became less of a "grammar-nitpicker," and Benjamin Zimmer cited Safire's willingness to learn from descriptive linguists. Another book on language was The New Language of Politics (1968), which developed into what Zimmer called Safire's "magnum opus," Safire's Political Dictionary. Tidbits of writing advice on everything from Action to Writers Block by the masters of the craft fill this essential reference for wordsmiths compiled by a New York Times columnist. Writers over the decades speak out on the art (and task) of writing, as collected by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times language columnist William Safire and Leonard Safir. A feast for wordsmiths and a must-have handbook for writers of all stripes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. xv, [1], 400 pages. Quotations. Index. Inscribed on half-title page by Leonard Safir. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. The compilers were brothers who spelled their last names differently. Leonard Safir was a veteran radio and television producer who was a public relations executive. In 1952, he became the first associate producer of the early morning "Today" program at NBC-TV, where he originated many of television's first live remote telecasts. Mr. Safir had become known as a quotations anthologist, collaborating on four books with Mr. Safire. The first book, titled "Good Advice," was published by Times Books in 1982. Simon & Schuster published "Words of Wisdom -- More Good Advice" in 1989, "Leadership" in 1990 and "Good Advice for Writers" in November, 1992. William Lewis Safir (December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009) better known as William Safire, was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and the author of "On Language" in The New York Times Magazine, a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics from its inception. He joined The New York Times as a political columnist in 1973. In 1978, Safire won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary on Bert Lance's alleged budgetary irregularities. In addition to his political columns, Safire wrote a column, "On Language", in the weekly The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death. Many of the columns were collected in books. According to the linguist Geoffrey Pullum, over the years Safire became less of a "grammar-nitpicker," and Benjamin Zimmer cited Safire's willingness to learn from descriptive linguists. Another book on language was The New Language of Politics (1968), which developed into what Zimmer called Safire's "magnum opus," Safire's Political Dictionary.