2007, ISBN: 9780375424168

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Firm binding, c… Más…

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. Another copy available. CONTENTS: A fire in the brain: Lucia Joyce; Blocked: writer's block; True confessions: Italo Svevo; Quicksand: Stefan Zweig; The frog and the crocodile: Simone de Beauvoir; Becoming the emperor: Marguerite Yourcenar; A hard case: Primo Levi; European dreams: Joseph Roth; The neapolitan finger: Andrea de Jorio; The saintly sinner: Mary Magdalene; After the ball was over: Vaslav Nijinsky; Heroes and hero worship: Lincoln Kirstein; "Sweet as a fig": Frederick Ashton; American dancer: Jerome Robbins; Second act: Suzanne Farrell; The soloist: Mikhail Baryshnikov; The flame: Martha Graham; Dancing and the dark: Bob Fosse; The bottom line: Twyla Tharp; On the contrary: H. L. Mencken; After the laughs: Dorothy Parker; Feasting on life: M. F. K. Fisher; Finding Augie March: Saul Bellow; Piecework: Sybille Bedford; The spider's web: Louise Bourgeois; Assassination on a small scale: Penelope Fitzgerald; The hunger artist: Susan Sontag; Counterlives: Philip Roth; Perfectly frank: Frank O'Hara; Devil's work: Hilary Mantel; Burned again: Joan of Arc.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Pantheon Books, 2007, 3<

2007, ISBN: 9780375424168

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Firm binding, c… Más…

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. CONTENTS: A fire in the brain: Lucia Joyce; Blocked: writer's block; True confessions: Italo Svevo; Quicksand: Stefan Zweig; The frog and the crocodile: Simone de Beauvoir; Becoming the emperor: Marguerite Yourcenar; A hard case: Primo Levi; European dreams: Joseph Roth; The neapolitan finger: Andrea de Jorio; The saintly sinner: Mary Magdalene; After the ball was over: Vaslav Nijinsky; Heroes and hero worship: Lincoln Kirstein; "Sweet as a fig": Frederick Ashton; American dancer: Jerome Robbins; Second act: Suzanne Farrell; The soloist: Mikhail Baryshnikov; The flame: Martha Graham; Dancing and the dark: Bob Fosse; The bottom line: Twyla Tharp; On the contrary: H. L. Mencken; After the laughs: Dorothy Parker; Feasting on life: M. F. K. Fisher; Finding Augie March: Saul Bellow; Piecework: Sybille Bedford; The spider's web: Louise Bourgeois; Assassination on a small scale: Penelope Fitzgerald; The hunger artist: Susan Sontag; Counterlives: Philip Roth; Perfectly frank: Frank O'Hara; Devil's work: Hilary Mantel; Burned again: Joan of Arc.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Pantheon Books, 2007, 3<

2007, ISBN: 9780375424168

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Tight, clean co… Más…

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: A fire in the brain: Lucia Joyce; Blocked: writer's block; True confessions: Italo Svevo; Quicksand: Stefan Zweig; The frog and the crocodile: Simone de Beauvoir; Becoming the emperor: Marguerite Yourcenar; A hard case: Primo Levi; European dreams: Joseph Roth; The neapolitan finger: Andrea de Jorio; The saintly sinner: Mary Magdalene; After the ball was over: Vaslav Nijinsky; Heroes and hero worship: Lincoln Kirstein; "Sweet as a fig": Frederick Ashton; American dancer: Jerome Robbins; Second act: Suzanne Farrell; The soloist: Mikhail Baryshnikov; The flame: Martha Graham; Dancing and the dark: Bob Fosse; The bottom line: Twyla Tharp; On the contrary: H. L. Mencken; After the laughs: Dorothy Parker; Feasting on life: M. F. K. Fisher; Finding Augie March: Saul Bellow; Piecework: Sybille Bedford; The spider's web: Louise Bourgeois; Assassination on a small scale: Penelope Fitzgerald; The hunger artist: Susan Sontag; Counterlives: Philip Roth; Perfectly frank: Frank O'Hara; Devil's work: Hilary Mantel; Burned again: Joan of Arc.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Pantheon Books, 2007, 5<

2007, ISBN: 9780375424168

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Firm binding, c… Más…

New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. xvii, 524 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Collected essays originally published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. CONTENTS: A fire in the brain: Lucia Joyce; Blocked: writer's block; True confessions: Italo Svevo; Quicksand: Stefan Zweig; The frog and the crocodile: Simone de Beauvoir; Becoming the emperor: Marguerite Yourcenar; A hard case: Primo Levi; European dreams: Joseph Roth; The neapolitan finger: Andrea de Jorio; The saintly sinner: Mary Magdalene; After the ball was over: Vaslav Nijinsky; Heroes and hero worship: Lincoln Kirstein; "Sweet as a fig": Frederick Ashton; American dancer: Jerome Robbins; Second act: Suzanne Farrell; The soloist: Mikhail Baryshnikov; The flame: Martha Graham; Dancing and the dark: Bob Fosse; The bottom line: Twyla Tharp; On the contrary: H. L. Mencken; After the laughs: Dorothy Parker; Feasting on life: M. F. K. Fisher; Finding Augie March: Saul Bellow; Piecework: Sybille Bedford; The spider's web: Louise Bourgeois; Assassination on a small scale: Penelope Fitzgerald; The hunger artist: Susan Sontag; Counterlives: Philip Roth; Perfectly frank: Frank O'Hara; Devil's work: Hilary Mantel; Burned again: Joan of Arc.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo., Pantheon Books, 2007, 3<