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Published by Mercury House, 2000
ISBN 10: 1562790374ISBN 13: 9781562790370
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by McSweeney's, 2013
ISBN 10: 1938073452ISBN 13: 9781938073458
Seller: Orphans Treasure Box, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ships quickly. Mild shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.
Published by Mercury House, San Francisco, 1993
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First edition. HB Essays in criticism and autobiography Fine in a jacket with a closed tear, DJ.
Published by San Francisco: Mercury House, 1993, 1993
Seller: Taos Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Condition: Good. Newsprint, folded tabloid format, 24 pp. Reviews of Tom Clark, Robert Pinget, Edward Field, Diane di Prima, Paul Bowles, John Ashbery, et al, and with a Special Supplement: Literature and Sexuality, with reviews of John Rechy, Angela Carter, Philip Roth, et al. Copy addressed to poet Keith Wilson, whose book Thantog is reviewed in this issue by Paul Metcalf. Bumped, creased, dustsoiled, tanned, edgeworn.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1993
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: A Symposium on Pornography, by Linda Williams, Bernard Williams, and Robert Post (responses to Frances Ferguson's defense of Catharine MacKinnon's Minneapolis legislation against pornography). Donald Hall on Edward Arlington Robinson. James E.B. Breslin on Mark Rothko's Chapel. Edward Snow on Jan Vermeer's The Procuress. Fiction by Stephen Dixon, Michael Wen-ta Chen. Poetry by Thom Gunn (Troubador: Songs for Jeffery Dahmer), Alan Shapiro, Michael Atkinson, Michael Chitwood, Bruce Bond, Mary Hower, Philip Levine. Art by Edward Baskin, Jan Vermeer. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; a little foxing to edge of cover. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1993
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: A gallery of photography by Weegee, with commentary by Miny Aloff, Howard Franklin, Thom Gunn, Arthur Lubow, Robert Pinsky,Lisa Mann, Mark Stevens, Daniel Wolff, and Wendy Lesser. Paul Bowles, Letters to Gore Vidal and Wendy Lesser. Lars Eighner on Orwell on Dickens. Luc Sante: Magritte, the Detective. Thomas Lacqueur on The Holocaust Musuem. Fiction by Ellen Hawley, Thanhha Lai. Poetry by Rachel Hadas, Augsut Kleinzahler, Piotr Sommer, Jorge Luis Borges, Jonah Winter. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Berkeley, c1991, paperback, Near Fine (minor cover wear) , 92 pages, LITERATURE ; D1521 R2R.
Published by Wendy Lesser & The Review, Berkeley, 1986
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. 28p. folded tabloid newspaper/literary journal, reviews, interviews, essays on theatre, poetry, books, art, poetry, closed tear, mailing label and lightly toned else very good on newsprint. The Mafia in Palermo, "A Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepard and "Benefactors" by Michael Frayn. Kafka, Agee & Montaigne. Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo" Shepard's "Paris, Texas".
Published by Pantheon (New York), 2004
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine, unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Smoke-free. Book comes with acid-free mylar dust jacket wrap. [C6].
Published by San Francisco: Mercury House, (1993) dj, 1993
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. "In thirty provocative and varied essays. known and new writers address what Randall Jarrell called the 'terrible nakedness' of the critic, who becomes everything and nothing, all-important and invisible, in the act of judging works of art." Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lesser. Among the contributors are Diane Johnson, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Hass, Gayle Pemberton, Amy Tan and many others. xii, 328 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to the spine of the dj).
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1992
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Robert Hass on Wallace Stevens. James Merrill memoir of Roman Days and his opera-going self. Greil Marcus: History Lesson. Herb Kohl: On Not-Learning. Lars Eighner, On-Line. Steve Vineberg contributes an interesting essay on Pauline Kael. Richard Wollheim on Mark Boxer. Fiction by David S. Reynolds, Jane Meredith Adams, Norman Wong. Poetry by August Kleinzahler & Deborah Treisman, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Ricki Thompson, Michael Citwood, Walter Mosley, Sally Ball, Thom Gunn. Art by Joseph Goldyne. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1997
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: A gallery of photos by Dan Weiner, with commentary by W. S. Di Piero, Irene Oppenheim, Frederick Wiseman, Vivian Gornick, Wendy Lesser, Gayle Pemberton. Louise Glück on American Narcissism. August Kleinzahler on Christopher Middleton. Henry Mayer on Ralph Ellison. Greil Marcus: Four Moments of Prophecy. Fiction by Marianne Villanueva, Dale Peck, Mary Ward Brown. Poetry by Belle Randall, Thom Gunn, Christopher Middleton, Terri Witek, Brenda Hillman, Anne Carson, Marcus Cafagña, Christian Wiman, David Ferry. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1999
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Shakespeare's Reality, by John Berryman. James Baldwin and the FBI, by James Campbell. August Kleinzahler on the art of Stanley Spencer. At a Certain Age, by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Arthur Lubow on the films of Todd Solondz. Boxing: Sugar, Muhammad, and Me, by Clifford Thompson. Fiction by Monica Drake, Cornelia Nixon, Meera Nair. Poetry by Anne Carson, Joshua Weiner, Allison Bennis, C.K. Williams, and Virgil (translated by David Ferry). Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1992
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: The Sigmund Freud Antiquties, art essay by Ramsay Bell Breslin. Arthur Lubow on A Victorian Execution. Wendy Lesser on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Fiction by R.C. Scott, Fred Leebron, Michael Murray. Poetry by Thom Gunn, Joy Manesiotis, Louise Gluck, Rachel Hadas, Bruce Murphy, C.K. Williams, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sandy Solomon. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; small stain to cover. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1994
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: A gallery of photos by Dorothea Lange, with commentary by Sigrid Nunez, Lars Eighner, Luc Sante, Frederick Wiseman, Wendy Lesser, Lisa Mann, Gayle Pemberton. Five Miniature Essays, by Adam Zagajewski. Henry Roth on James Joyce. Memoir: The Last Happy Occasion, by Alan Shapiro. John D. Wagner: A Vietnam Journal. August Kleinzahler on the Collected Poems and Shelf Life by Thom Gunn. Vijay Seshadri on One Art by Elizabeth Bishop. Laura R. McNeal on Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively. Lynne Sharon Schwartz: Absence Makes the Heart. Fiction by Thanhha Lai, Lisa Chen. Poetry by Robert Pinsky, Thom Gunn, Howard Levy, Tony Hoagland, Tom Sleigh, Kim Addonizio. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1991
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Robert Duncan as Romantic Modernist, by Thom Gunn. Lars Eighner on Dumpster Diving. A Short Visit to Poland, by Mark Dow. Translated Milosz, by Robert Hass. Memoir by Josip Novakowich: Rock, Twenty Years Later. Memoir by Steven Saylor. Fiction by David Reynolds, Sigrid Nunez. Poetry by Mark Rudman, Sara Blake, Dianne Thomas, Czeslaw Milosz, Mary Kinzie. Craig Seligman reviews Todd Haynes film, Poison. Art by Max Beckmann. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; some age-toning to covers; cover fragile along the fold. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1999
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Opera: Peony Pavilion: with commentary by Peter Sellars, Robert Chi, Wendy Allanbrook, Carol Christ, Summer Brenner, Kristine Harris, Robert Polito, and Francie Li. Anne Carson: The Idea of a University ((lecture delivered at McGill University). Henk Romijn Meijer on the Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. Evelyn Toynton on William Trevor. Michael Ryan on T. S. Eliot. A. S. Byatt: Arachne. Clifford Thompson: On Jazz. Fiction by Daniel Wolff, Kathryn Ma. Poetry by C. K. Williams, from Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation, Ruth Fainlight, Thom Gunn, Dean Young, Martin Taylor, Peter Sacks, Carolyn Kizer, Hayden Carruth. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear. Very good.
Published by Pantheon Books, 2004, New York, NY, 2004
ISBN 10: 0375422382ISBN 13: 9780375422386
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. A rich collection of essays by authors who write in English although it is not their mother tongue, with insights of influences their writing styles & very choice of words. Editor Wendy Lesser encouraged the invited writers "to be as authobiographical as they wished." The resulting anthology is an excursion into the land of literature, travel, memoirs, but above all, into the different universes of discourse that separates one language from another. 241 pgs. The guest writers & their native tongues are: Bharati Mukherjee (Bangla); Amy Tan (Chinese); Josef Skvorecky (Czech); Bert Keizer (Dutch); Luc Sante (French); Thomas Laqueur (German); Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu); Nicholas Papandreou (Greek); M.J. Fitzgerald (Italian); Ha-yun Jung (Korean); Louis Begley (Polish); Gary Shteyngart (Russian); Jame Campbell (Scots); Ariel Dorfman (Spanish); and, Meonard Michaels (Yiddish).
Published by Anchor Books, 2005
ISBN 10: 1400033233ISBN 13: 9781400033232
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 241 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by Wendy Lesser & The Review, Berkeley, 1980
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. 28p. folded tabloid newspaper/literary journal, reviews, interviews, essays on theatre, poetry, books, art, poetry, lightly toned else very good on newsprint. Also: Irene Oppenheim on Political Theater; Erwin Piscator & Bertolt Brecht. Sacred & profane Iris Murdoch. Maupin on Union W.A.G.E. for Union Maids (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality). Maupin was a member of the SWP until 1962.
Published by Wendy Lesser & The Review, Berkeley, 1981
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. 28p. folded tabloid newspaper/literary journal, reviews, interviews, essays on theatre, poetry, books, art, poetry, lightly toned, mailing label on front page else very good on newsprint. Also: Irene Oppenheim on "Empire Strikes Back. Sam Shepard's Western: Wendy Lesser's review of "True West" at The Magic. Lew Welch's Letters. "The Fisherman From Chihuahua" by Connell.
Published by Wendy Lesser & The Review, Berkeley, 1981
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Newspaper. 28p. folded tabloid newspaper/literary journal, reviews, interviews, essays on theatre, poetry, books, art, poetry, lightly toned else very good on newsprint. Also: Irene Oppenheim on "Ragtime", "Reds", "Heaven's Gate". The Music of John Coltrane. Stansky on William Morris & George Orwell.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1981
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
24 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Literary Gangsters revisted, by Gore Vidal. Mona Simpson interviews Leonard Michaels. Steve Wasserman on Art: The Russian Avant-Garde. Laura Leivivk on Ballet. Thom Gunn reviews new poetry books. Poetry by Aaron Shurin, Daniel Langton, Timothy Steele, Gary Soto, Belle Randall, Hillel Schwartz. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; cover fragile along the fold. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1981
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
28 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Wendy Lesser interviews Susan Sontag. Arthur Lubow reviews Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Jeremy Larner on Film: Making Novels into Screenplays. Reviews of the Letters of Evelyn Waugh, etc. Poerty by Paul Morris, Richard Stansberger, Brenda Hillman, Belle Randall, Douglas Chambers, Ramona Weeks, Paul Lake. Luara Hoving talks with Lucas Hoving. Misha Berson talks with David Edgar. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; cover fragile along the fold. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1981
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
28 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Points in Time, fiction by Paul Bowles. Paul Lake reviews Ronald Johnson's Ark. Alan Brown interviews Lanford Wilson. randal Crouch: Art - Ezra Pound's Visual Aesthetic. Patti Meagher on Black Tap. Eric Bentley: Theater - Two Hundred Years of Macheath. Poetry by Raymond Oliver, Don Bogen, Janet Lewis, Jon Anson, Rusty Standridge, Thom Gunn. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; cover fragile along the fold. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1982
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
28 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Thomas Lacqueur on Medicine and History. A Conversation bewtween Leonard Michaels and Diane Johnson. Susan Jeffers on Frida Kahlo's Sculpture. Steve Wasserman interviews Jacobo Timerman. Wendy Lesser reviews Stanley Cavell's Pursuits of Happiness. Poetry by Ruth Fainlight, Bruce Eastman, Lynda Yates, Clive Wilmer, Alan Shapiro, Jeff Knight, and Thom Gunn (Song of a Camera, for Robert Mapplethorpe). Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; cover fragile along the fold. Very good.
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1989
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
36 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Christpher Hitchens: In Defense of Daniel Deronda. Memoir by Edith Jenkins. Review of C.D. Wright. I'm Having Trouble with My Relationship, by Leonard Michaels. Fiction by Ernest J. Finney, Nicole Stansbury. Poetry by Alan Shapiro, Thom Gunn, Rachel Hadas, Shirley Kaufman, Mark Dow, Stephen Berg. Art by Fletcher Benton. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; mild toning and some foxing to covers. Very good.
Published by San Francisco: Mercury House, (1993) dj, 1993
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. "In thirty provocative and varied essays. known and new writers address what Randall Jarrell called the 'terrible nakedness' of the critic, who becomes everything and nothing, all-important and invisible, in the act of judging works of art." Edited and with an Introduction by Wendy Lesser. Among the contributors are Diane Johnson, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Gore Vidal, Sigrid Nunez, Robert Hass, Gayle Pemberton, Amy Tan and many others. SIGNED by Lesser on the title page. xii, 328 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (few spots to top edge of textblock.).
Published by The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, 1980
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
28 pp. One of the great American literary journals, with essays, reviews, poetry, fiction, and art. Includes: Leonard Michaels interviews Thomas McGuane. Robert Peters reviews I Remain: The Letters of Lew Welch. Wendy Lesser on Sam Shepard's True West. John Kadavy on the works of Walker Percy. Fiction by Evan S. Connell. Poetry by Thom Gunn, Chris Buckley, Charles Bolton, Lewis Hyde, Andrew Schelling, James A. Powell. Irene Oppneheim reviews Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Tabloid newsprint, folded for mailing. Light shelfwear; cover fragile along the fold. Very good.