9780374106607 - At the Bottom of the River von Kincaid, Jamaica (36 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Some rubbing, shelving wear and small tears to the DJ. Binding is tight and square. Pages are very crisp, clean and bright with no markings.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: good. Missing dustjacket, so this item has a different cover than shown in the listing image. A former library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Light sun-fading on the cover. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!

hardcover. Zustand: Good. first printing Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 82 clean, unmarked pages; grreen w/orange-red boards; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar; owner's insc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first printing of the author's first book, a story collection. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The price clipped jacket has a touch of wear at spine ends. A tight, square copy with no names or other marking in or on the book. 0.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Dustjacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1983. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374106606. 96 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Jacket illustration, 'Green Summer' by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1868. keywords: Caribbean Antigua Literature Women America World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naïvely whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partly remembered, partly divined, The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean - family, manners, and landscape - as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision. 'Girl,' the first story in this collection of ten pieces, plays with a particular but typical upbringing: 'Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sundays, try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming.' The catalogue of demands is varied, the refrain repeated, as in a song. In 'Holidays,' a trip to the country is related with the same light touch. The title story, 'At the Bottom of the River,' is a culmination of the themes and imagery that inform most of this short but seemingly limitless book. Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things-a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings-shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place-these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected. inventory #42547.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING. Critically hailed, award-winning Antigua-born author's debut book. 10 short stories. "Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partly remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean-family, manners, and landscape-as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision." 82 pages. Former owner's name on front endpapers. Mild bumping to top and bottom of DJ spine. Waterstain marks to rear interior of DJ and coinciding rippling to rear DJ exterior. MANY OTHER KINCAID TITLES AVAILABLE (all first edition/first printing). LF.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. The author's first book. Stated first printing. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in front endpage. Very good in a very good dust jacket. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. 82p., very good first edition in half-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. West Indian African American novelist's first book.

Hardcover/Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine unread condition first edition/stated first printing hardcover signed/inscribed by author on half-title page. Free of owner's marks with extremely tight binding. Shelfwear includes light bump base spine. Dust jacket price-clipped. In protective archival sleeve. signed and inscribed by author or artist.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the Author on the title page. First Printing, price-clipped jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover w/DJ. Zustand: Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. First Printing. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. 1983. First Printing. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 82 pp. .

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG++. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Edition. Dustwrapper flaps have glue remnants on obverse (not noticeable from the front and now protected in mylar). A tight, clean copy of the first edition of the author's first book. Shows well.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Ownership blindstamp on flyleaf, otherwise very good in very good dj, which has no chips or tears and is not price-clipped. Author's first book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed on the half-title page. With the ownership signature and date ("1984") of Greg Gatenby, longtime director of the Toronto International Festival of Authors on the FFEP. Fine book with a near fine jacket that has a a very faint streak of rubbing where the cloth turns to the paper on the underlying board.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Light toning on endpapers, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with edges lightly age-toned, short tear on spine head. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. The author's first collection of short stories. Winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983.

softcover. Zustand: NF. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: NF. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER by Jamaica Kincaid- Farrar, Straus Giroux NY 1983 HC 1st ed NF in DJ prior owner name neatly written in NFSIGNED.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Very Fine. 1st Ptg. (1st ptg.) Thin book, green cloth spine and sides, orange boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 82 pages. DJ glossy with colorful antique illustration, praise from Derek Walcott on back, two articles front the New Yorker folded inside. DJ has tiny tear at top back edge. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine (price-clipped). First Edition/Later Printing. Second Printing, as an alternative to the first edition. This copy has been SIGNED by Jamaica Kincaid on the title page. A beautiful copy of the author's first book - a magical collection of ten pieces. Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies. Dustjacket praise by Derek Walcott. Winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Starts with her first published New Yorker fiction piece, "Girl," the story with which she felt she found her voice as a writer. An intense one-sentence, three-page story. "Girl" is the first story in the collection. It was originally released on June 26, 1978 in The New Yorker[3] and examines the struggles of growing up young and female on a post-colonial poor Caribbean island. "Girl" is series of instructions, warnings and advice given by a mother to her daughter on how to behave especially in the presence of men. The mother frets about her daughter maturing into a woman, reflective of Jamaica Kincaid's own experiences growing up with her forceful mother in Antigua. The structure consists of a single sentence, punctuated by semi-colons, detailing the advice imparted from mother to daughter. The mother's voice is predominant in the narrative, only interrupted twice by the daughter who makes a feigned attempt to defend herself. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Fine. 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fine condition, author's first book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 82 pages. Published in 1983. The author's breakthrough debut collection of short stories. One of the most important American literary debuts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jamaica Kincaid's "At The Bottom of The River: Stories". Her slim yet spectacular debut, still her best book thus far: Deceptively simple stories that evoke and recreate an Edenic, rural childhood in the West Indies (Antigua) in a way that is fully alive and truly universal. Like every serious reader of literature, a reader from the East Indies (Asia-Pacific) will relate to and relish Kincaid's vivid memories. "More thrilling than any prose I've read in the last few years by a writer from this continent" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Jamaica Kincaid collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Jamaica Kincaid. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws ("price-clipped" is pandemic), are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMAICA KINCAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374106606. Signed by Author.