Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 2007
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Lutz, Tom. Doing nothing: a history of loafers, loungers, slackers, and bums in America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, First paperback edition, ix, 363pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $14.00, one page dog-eared and a few words there marked in ink, otherwise appears little used, two red remainder stripes on bottom foredge. A cultural history of the American attitude toward work cites the pivotal contributions of the Industrial Revolution in the formation of the modern work ethic, evaluating the current divergence between "worker" and "slacker" stereotypes. ISBN 9780865477377.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York 2007, 2007
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n/a (illustrator). Very Good + First Edition Printing Not Spec. 12mo = 7-9" Very Good+ DJ 229 pp Tan hard covers with gold printing on sloth spine. Slight bumping on corners with small imperfection on top front cover. Price clipped on DJ. Very clean. DJ has minor wear marks on front and back. 0-374-10523-5.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 2007
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Armstrong, John, 1966-. Love, life, Goethe: lessons of the imagination from the great German poet. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line, xv, 482pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gently used black and gray hardcover, a few very minor pencil marks in margins, LAID IN: previous owner's post-it notes index on rear endpapers, easily removed. ISBN 9780374299682.
Verlag: Picador.;.Farrar,straus And Giroux 2007,Aug, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0312425074 ISBN 13: 9780312425074
Anbieter: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by Author Photo Endpaper (illustrator). first edition,1p; 13579108642pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION.name tp "Tigard, Or 18 Aug-2007 FJK".else clean, solid, bright ; .GOLD spine titles on WHITE PAPER covers.GREEN & BLUE PEOPLE make Earth Globe cover art. ; 660pg pages; New York Times columnist offers a concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the 9/11 attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [2007], New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374104239 ISBN 13: 9780374104238
Anbieter: James F. Balsley, Bookseller, Williamsburg, VA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. First Edition; First Printing. New book and DJ in as new condition. Not a remainder or book club. ; 1.2 x 9.1 x 6 Inches; 320 pages.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2007) New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374164819 ISBN 13: 9780374164812
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Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket First Printing hardbound Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:26:07 AM.
n/a (illustrator). Very Good + First Edition Printing Not Spec. 12mo = 7-9" Very Good+ DJ 307pp Edited by Edward Baugh. Light blue hardcover with light blue backstrip, silver lettering on spine. Clean interior and exterior, strong and tight binding. Dustjacket is clean, crisp, matte. 9780374260668.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 2007
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Wahl, Mats. The invisible. Translated from the Swedish by Katarina E. Tucker. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, stated First Edition, with 1st printing number line, 186pp., very good dust-jacket, tiniest 1mm tear at top of spine, cover price $16.00, very good gray and black hardcover, fresh copy. A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer. ISBN 9780374336097.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 2007
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998. Collected poems for children. Pictures by Raymond Briggs. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line ending in 1, 259pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $18.00, very good hardcover with illustrated covers same as jacket but book is slightly skewed from shelving at an angle. CONTENTS: Mermaids' purse -- Cat and the cuckoo -- Horrible song -- Meet my folks! -- Nessie the mannerless monster -- Moon-whales and other moon poems -- Under the north star -- From what is the truth? -- Season songs -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines. ISBN 9780374314293.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2007)., 2007
Anbieter: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition, THIRD printing. "First American edition 2007" statement and THIRD printing number code sequence 3 through 10 to the copyright page, $27.50 to the jacket's flap. Adapted to the 2015 Werner Herzog directed film starring Nicole Kidman. A well-researched, in-depth biography of an early independent woman, explorer, mountaineer, poet, linguist, spy, archaeologist, photographer, first hand scholar of Arabia and Arab culture, British intelligence advisor, desert expert, and major contributor in making Iraq it's own nation. Fine in cream-sand boards with black embossed titles to the spine, burgundy-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $27.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.
Verlag: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007., New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374180636 ISBN 13: 9780374180638
Anbieter: Inkberry Books, Niwot, CO, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. (alk. paper) ; x, 259 p. ; 22 cm.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux June 12, 2007, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374112363 ISBN 13: 9780374112363
Anbieter: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, USA
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Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 458 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Minor wear to dust jacket, else a very nice. tight copy. Record # 452865.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007) dj, 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Hardcover first edition - First printing. An incredible first hand memoir on how war looks to a child soldier - at the age of 13, he was involved in the fighting in Sierra Leone, but at 16, he was removed by UNICEF. Chronology. 229 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [2007], New York, 2007
Anbieter: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, USA
paperback. Zustand: Fine Condition. Uncorrected Proof. Bound in the publisher's original color illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007) dj, 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Hardcover first edition - First printing. The sixth collection, winner of the Lenore Marshall award. In writing about these poems, John Koethe said that these are "as artful as those of anyone writing, but it's an artfulness so subtle and skillful that they seem almost artless in their directness and simplicity." 50 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.).
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.) dj, 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Hardcover first edition - First printing. Massive historical epic begins in 1565 when "Suleiman the Magnificant, Emperor of the Ottomans has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada the world has ever seen approaches the Knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the 'Hounds of Hell.' The Knights call themselves 'The Religion.' " Glossary. 618 pp plus a note about the author. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.), 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Massive historical epic begins in 1565 when "Suleiman the Magnificant, Emperor of the Ottomans has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada the world has ever seen approaches the Knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the 'Hounds of Hell.' The Knights call themselves 'The Religion.' " 627 pp plus a glossary. Very near fine in glossy illlustrated wrappers.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 2007
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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PAPERBACK, cover price $12.00, attractive copy, very good, little used if at all. GLÜCK, LOUISE. Averno. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, stated First paperback edition, and 1st printing number line ending in 1, viii, 79pp., . Cover design by Lisa Halliday. "Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present". ISBN 9780374530747.
Verlag: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG), 2007., 2007
Anbieter: Versandantiquariat Markus Schlereth, Berlin, Deutschland
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1 Bl., (6) 215 (1) S., 8°, Opbd. m. OU. Designed by Irene Metaxatos. First edition. - (Joey Pigza series Vol. 4). - Mit eigenhändiger dat. Signatur von Jack Gantos "Jack Gantos 2008" a.Vortit. - Best.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007) dj, 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. A collection of essays "representing twenty years of Thurman's writing, particularly her fascination with human vanity, femininity, and 'women's work' - from haute couture to literature to commanding empires. The subjects are iconic (Jackie, the Brontes, Toni Morrison, Anne Frank) and multifarious (tofu and performance art, pornography and platform shoes, kimonos and bulimia); all inspire dazzling displays of craft, wit, penetration, and intelligence. Here we find explorations of voracity: hunger for sex, food, experience, and transcendence; see how writers from Flaubert to Nadine Gordimer have engaged with history; meet eminent Victorians and the greats of fashion." SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (bottom of spine slightly pushed, but a straight clean copy, appears unread).
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.) dj, 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Hardcover first edition - First printing. A massive book, a novel of the Vietnam War which spans the twenty years from 1963 to 1983. Highly acclaimed and deservedly so, this opens in the Philippines on the day that President Kennedy was killed, and grips the reader from the very first scene. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Quickly went into later printings. 814 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (isbn sticker on front pastedown.).
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.), 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A massive book, a novel of the Vietnam War which spans the twenty years from 1963 to 1983. Highly acclaimed and deservedly so, this opens in the Philippines on the day that President Kennedy was killed, and grips the reader from the very first scene. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Letter from publisher bound in and cd in pocket inside back cover. 814 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.) dj, 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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Hardcover first edition - First printing. A massive book, a novel of the Vietnam War which spans the twenty years from 1963 to 1983. Highly acclaimed and deservedly so, this opens in the Philippines on the day that President Kennedy was killed, and grips the reader from the very first scene. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Quickly went into later printings. 814 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York 2007, 2007
Anbieter: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
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1st edition dust jacket As New octavo x + 259pp., Fighting in Iraq, Samet's former students share what books and movies mean to them--the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Virginia Woolf and J. M. Coetzee, the epics of Homer, or the films of James Cagney. Their letters in turn prompt Samet to wonder exactly what she owes to cadets in the classroom.
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York 2007, 2007
Anbieter: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
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1st edition dust jacket As New octavo 296pp., index, In this eye-opening new book, former CIA division chief Tyler Drumheller explores the gradual erosion of the agency's independence over the past 30 years, witnessing its decline through the prism of his own experiences.
Verlag: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007.), 2007
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
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First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A massive book, a novel of the Vietnam War which spans the twenty years from 1963 to 1983. Highly acclaimed and deservedly so, this opens in the Philippines on the day that President Kennedy was killed, and grips the reader from the very first scene. Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Letter from publisher bound in and cd in pocket inside back cover. 814 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Verlag: Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007), New York, 2007
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First US edition. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page "To Martin / Elizabeth Knox". [14], 449, [1 (blank)] pages. Maps. Blue and white papered boards with blue spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 151mm. A fantasy novel. "The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. On St. Lazarus's Eve, when elite citizens gather at the Rainbow Opera to experience the sweet dream of Homecoming, Laura, determined to show them the truth, plunges them into the nightmare used to control the convict workers. The event marks the first blow in the battle for control of the Place, the source of dreams. Then, when Laura's cousin, Rose, uncovers evidence that the government has been building a secret rail line deep into the Place, Laura follows it to find out what lies at its end. As she struggles to counter the government's sinister plans, a deeper mystery surfaces, a puzzle only Laura can unravel, a puzzle having to do with the very nature of the Place. What is the Place, after all? And what does it want from her?" ; Signed by Author.
Verlag: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux/A Frances Foster Book, 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374309892 ISBN 13: 9780374309893
Anbieter: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 229 pages. Published in 2007. The author's fifth novel. Peter Cameron's enchanting achievement. 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 Peter Cameron's "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You". Promoted as a "Young Adult" title by his publisher, quite successfully so, thus becoming the author's most accessible and popular book. As such, it also completely transcends its YA classification although we are, after all, talking here of literate and intelligent young readers. They - and all serious readers - will warm to and not forget James Sveck, the Holden Caulfield-like protagonist - without that character's short-circuited self-absorption. "Deliciously vital right from the start. A piece of vocal virtuosity, and possibly Cameron's best book. The novel possesses too much emotional complexity and artfulness of construction to exclude adult readers" (The New York Review of Books). "One of America's greatest writers, the living stylist I most revere" (Garth Greenwell). The title is from Ovid, which Cameron uses as the first epigraph. By now, it has become a banality to say of a writer like Peter Cameron that he is underrated and underappreciated, by readers, that is, who should know better because each of his books comes with genuine, sincerely felt praise from fellow writers, who do know better. Jean Vigo, the Italian film production company named after the great Silent Era French auteur, adapted the novel. Directed by Roberto Faenza with an all-star cast in Marcia Gay Harden, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Gallagher, and Toby Regbo in a definitive performance as the charmingly irresistible James Sveck. An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Cameron collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Peter Cameron. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine Souvenir Bookmark of the legendary bookstore which hosted the author's signing event. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of 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, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER CAMERON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374309892. Signed by Author.
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Verlag: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374113793 ISBN 13: 9780374113797
Anbieter: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 60 pages. Published in 2007. The author's sixth collection of poems. One of Henri Cole's finest achievements. 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 Henri Cole's "Blackbird And Wolf: Poems". Evocative yet also declarative, his sonnet-like poems about love and desire. "Combines a delight in the senses with the rueful, the elegiac, the harrowing. Confronts the human need for love, the highest function of our species. He is always opposing disappointment and difficult truths with innocence and wonder" (Publisher's blurb). "The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom). "I don't want words to sever me from reality. / I don't want to need them. / I want nothing to reveal feeling but feeling as in freedom, / or the knowledge of peace in a realm beyond, / or the sound of water poured in a bowl" (Henri Cole). Which, once again, evokes Wallace Stevens' anti-metaphorical injunction for American poetry. An absolute "must-have" title for Henri Cole collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by Henri Cole. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. 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: Henri Cole does NOT do public signings. Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2004 for "Middle Earth: Poems". Regarded by Harold Bloom as a canonical American poet. One of the most brilliant poets of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HENRI COLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374113793. Signed by Author.
Verlag: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393 ISBN 13: 9780374249397
Anbieter: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 625 pages. Published in 2007. The author's breakthrough debut book. One of the most important books on classical music ever published in our time. 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 that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Alex Ross' "The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century". Still his very best book. "A whirlwind tour, from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss' 'Salome' in 1906 to Minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is organized in thematic essays grounded in personalities and places, in a disarmingly comprehensive style. Thus, composers who led dramatic lives, such as Shostakovich's struggles under the Soviet Regime, make for gripping reading, but Ross treats each composer with equal gravitas. The real strength of this study, however, lies in his detailed musical analysis, teasing out, in precise but readily accessible language, the notes that link Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story' to Arnold Schoenberg's avant-garde compositions or hint at a connection between Sibelius and John Coltrane. Among the many notable passages, a close reading of Benjamin Britten's opera 'Peter Grimes' stands out for its masterful blend of artistic and biographical insight. Even avid fans will find themselves hearing familiar favorites with new ears" (Publisher's blurb). "Reads like a sprawling, intense novel, one of utopian dreams, doom, and consolation, with the most extraordinary cast of characters from music and history alike. A great, inspiring ride" (Osvaldo Golijov). Currently the Resident Music Critic of The New Yorker Magazine, Alex Ross succeeded not one but two of the greatest music critics we shall ever read: Andrew Porter and Paul Griffiths, both Brits. His essays are among the reasons The New Yorker Magazine remains necessary reading, nothing less than one of contemporary life's most civilized pleasures (but only for as long as he avoids his more, and seemingly inescapable, ideological bent of late). An absolute "must-have" title for Alex Ross collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: ALL other copies available online have serious flaws (because they were avidly read) or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with vintage photographs. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2008. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEX ROSS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374249393. no.
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