Block irving editor (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Nick Block (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Contemporary signature of Macksey on fep. Scattered underlining and markings. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good clipped dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Very minor wear to edges of clipped dust jacket. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. xii, 322pp. Black cloth-covered boards, silver lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed on edges, gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Some spotting on text block edges. Previous owner's name on front paste down; another, obliterated on front free endpaper. Some rounding and minor corner creasing to lower leading corner of text block. Occasional signs of handling. Original laminated and illustrated dust wrapper, rubbed & bumped at edges, shelf worn, couple of short closed tears from edges, minor loss on corners.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 188 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Nick Block (illustrator).

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 244 pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in silver, dust jacket. A near fine copy. Cambridge, Massachusetts; The MIT Press. A collection of thirteen previously unpublished essays by an array of eminent philosophers on the intellectual legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The distinguished list of contributors includes Michael Dummett, Brian McGuinness, Anthony Kenny, and G.E.M. Anscombe, amongst others. A review copy, with the publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted.…

Limited Edition. Small Quarto. From the library of Joseph D'Ambrosio. 44(1) pp. Vignette title page, an introduction by Harry Stone and published in honor of the 25th anniversary of California State University, Northridge (1958-1983). Limited to 300 copies. The present copy is #122 signed by both Harry Stone and Irving Block. This is a remarkable and perplexing work. This piece of short fiction, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1868, near the end of Dicken's career, differs strikingly from the loosely knit, happily ended novels like Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist with which Dickens achieved his early reputation. Its neurotic, insecure first-person narrator seems less like Esther Summerson, Pip and David Copperfield than like Dostoevsky's underground man and Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the narrative technique of this work "Dickens . . . reveals his bleakest view regarding self-extrication from guilt, because he seems to say that once the prosecutor has moved wholly within the accused's mind, there may be no possible extrication. A fine copy bound in blue cloth centrally stamped and lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt. [Deborah A. Thomas].…