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1998ref. Q-0141180234Penguin Classics 1998-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1984ref. Q-006015179XHarper & Row 1984-03-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 28069NY: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 006015179X . Stated first edition first printing. Publisher's full blue cloth gilt lettering on spine publisher's logo blind-stamped on cover. Both the volume and the price-clipped dust jacket show only the slightest shelf-wear; unmarked tight square and clean. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 294 pp . HarperCollins hardcover
1984ref. 81137New York N.Y.: Harper & Row Publishers 1984. First Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Thomas Victor author's photograph. 10 294 pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor fep discoloration bookplate removed Signed by the author Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. The book includes five stories: Him with His Foot in His Mouth; What Kind of Day did You Have; Zetland: By a Character Witness; A Silver Dish; and Cousins. Saul Bellow born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 - 5 April 2005 was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture of entertaining adventure drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act or prevent us from acting and that can be called the dilemma of our age." His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March Henderson the Rain King Herzog Mr. Sammler's Planet Seize the Day Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Bellow was widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors. Bellow said that of all his characters Eugene Henderson of Henderson the Rain King was the one most like himself. This book is a series of histories of personality of self-awakening that the author means to apply to us all. It also represents an important departure from the way stories are being written today in America and its publication was therefore a major event not only in the bountiful career of its author but also in American letters. The author won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature. Derived from a Kirkus review: Here in five short works from the past decade those seemingly contradictory roles-the darkly comic memoirist the thorny essayist-are on more rewarding display occasionally even blending in a richly charming way. One story "A Silver Dish" is the memoirist/family side of Bellow virtually undiluted: a 60-year-old South Chicago businessman reacts exuberantly to the death of his old father-in a memory-montage that showcases Bellow's boisterous visceral ironic warmth. In other pieces chunks of zesty family/friend reminiscence and personal psychology are shaded with cultural musings or implications. The brief fragmentary "Zetland: By a Character Witness" recalls the early life of a Chicago intellectual/bohemian rebelling against his old-fashioned Jewish family; the subtext is a gently mordant view of all intellectual idealism. In "Cousins" the narrator is a law-expert/celebrity who uses his influence to get a light sentence for his gangster-cousin Tanky; here the inability to "extricate myself from the ties of Jewish cousinhood" leads to memories of other cousins to anthropological puzzles to the conflict within a family or within a single personality between the "brainy" and the gutsy. And most effective of all in the weaving of earthy tale-spinning with meditation is the title story: narrator Harry a 65-ish musicologist who's hiding out in Vancouver is writing an apology to the long-ago victim of one of his many cruel wisecracks; he recounts the Balzac-like money/family mistakes which got him into his present mess; and without strain or contrivance this confession/self-analysis winds through such oddly relevant matters as Allen Ginsberg the breeding of pit bulldogs music vs. materialism and Jewish assimilationism. The longest piece here-the novella-length "What Kind of Day Did You Have"-is about an affair between a youngish divorcee and a famous old art critic becomes a frame for wrestlings with Marxism celebrity and intellectual hucksterism. Much of this welcome gathering presents the restless Bellow voice in full cry-taut colorful Talmudic and large-hearted. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
1984ref. 002807Harper & Row 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 265007Harper & Row 1984. Trade Paperback. 294 pages. Uncorrected proof of Bellow's second story collection. Black and red ink notations on front cover else a fine copy in yellow wrappers paperback with publication information printed on the cover. Harper & Row paperback
1984ref. 023324New York New York U.S.A. : Harper & Row 1984. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Mint/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author in black fountain ink on ffep. Kroch's and Brentano's "First Edition Circle" bookmark laid in. Mint unread flawless first edition first printing in blue cloth boards in as new mylar-protected dust jacket. Bellow was the winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for HUMBOLDT'S GIFT and was also named the Nobel Laureate for Literature that year. This is an outstanding collector's copy. Packed carefully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in pristine condition. Not remainder-marked or price-clipped BUND Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 005646Harper & Row 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Uncorrected proof very good in wrappers signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Harper & Row unknown
1984ref. 7344New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1984. First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. Harper & Row Publishers hardcover
1984ref. 33153NY: Harper & Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages; Laid in blue paper review notice. . Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 2038New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1984. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo original yellow wrappers. Association copy inscribed by the author to friend and fellow high school classmate "For Abel Savitsky for old times sake Tuley gym! Saul." In good condition. Saul Bellow is the only author to have received three National Book Awards for The Adventures of Augie March Herzog and Mr. Sammlers Planet in addition to both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. The Sunday Times praised these achievements when it revered "Bellows oeuvre as both timeless and ruthlessly contemporary. Harper & Row Publishers unknown
1984ref. 5354NY: HarperCollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 006015179X . Publisher's full blue cloth gilt lettering on spine publisher's logo blind-stamped on cover. The volume is very lightly sunned along the very top edge only else as new; unmarked tight square and clean. The front interior flap of the unclipped dust jacket is very slightly wrinkled small scratch on front panel else as new. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x 294 pp . HarperCollins hardcover
1985ref. 32838New York: Harper & Row Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 006015179X . First edition/first printing in Very Good condition in Very Good price clipped dust-jacket with a couple small closed tears and light edgewear; A collection of histories of personality of self-awakenings that the author means to apply to us all. It also represents an important departure from the way stories were written in the America at the time; 8vo; FSA . Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
1984ref. 24832New York: Harper & Row 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth dust jacket. 294pp. Very good/very good. 1" jacket chip at head of spine; ownership signature/date on front pastedown; roughly 5" X 6" age-toned spot on front flyleaf from some long-ago newsprint contact -- noticeable but not disfiguring. Tight nice first edition signed by Bellow in black fineline on the front flyleaf. Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 110068New York : Harper & Row 1984. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Review copy with publisher's ephemera and photos of author loosely inserted. ; 294 pages; Description: 294 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Collection of stories - Saul Bellow. New York : Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 2093NY: Harper & Row 1984. First edition first prnt. Signed by Bellow on the front free endpage. Spine bottom edge cloth with small crease; dustjacket spine topedge with tiny closed tear and few small creases. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Bellow's second story collection. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row Hardcover
1984ref. 22zckNew York: Harper & Row 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Family fiction and the fiction-of-ideas are two competing concerns in Bellow's work. Those seemingly contradictory roles-- the darkly comic memoirist and the thorny essayist-- are on display occasionally even blending in a richly charming way. One story "A Silver Dish" is the memoirist/ family side of Bellow virtually undiluted: a 60-year-old South Chicago businessman reacts exuberantly to the death of his old father-- in a memory-montage that showcases Bellow's boisterous visceral ironic warmth. But in other pieces chunks of zesty family/friend reminiscence and personal psychology are shaded with cultural musings or implications. "Zetland: By a Character Witness" recalls the early life of a Chicago intellectual/bohemian rebelling against his old-fashioned Jewish family; the subtext is a gently mordant view of all intellectual idealism. In "Cousins" the narrator is a law-expert/celebrity who uses his influence to get a light sentence for his gangster-cousin Tanky; here the inability to "extricate myself from the ties of Jewish cousinhood" leads to memories of other cousins to anthropological puzzles to the conflict between the "brainy" and the gutsy. And most effective of all in the weaving of earthy tale-spinning with meditation is the title story: narrator Harry a 65-ish musicologist who's hiding out from big legal troubles in Vancouver is writing an apology to the long-ago victim of one of his many cruel wisecracks; he recounts the Balzac-like money/family mistakes which got him into his present mess; and without strain or contrivance this confession/self-analysis winds through such oddly relevant matters as Allen Ginsberg the breeding of pit bulldogs music vs. materialism and Jewish assimilationism. The longest piece "What Kind of Day Did You Have" an affair between a youngish divorcee and a famous old art critic becomes a frame for wrestlings with Marxism celebrity and intellectual hucksterism. But much of this welcome gathering presents the restless Bellow voice in full cry--taut colorful Talmudic and large-hearted. . Harper & Row Hardcover
1984ref. 110051NY: Harper & Row 1984. First edition first prnt. Signed by Bellow on the front free endpaper. Dustjacket with faint small dampstain on rear panel upper edge not immediately apparent. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Bellow's seccond story collection. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row Hardcover
1984ref. 001008New York: Harper & Row 1984 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Saul Bellow directly on the front endpaper. Faint toning to endpapers else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a faint crease to upper spine else fine. Nobel Prize/ Pulitzer winning author and the only author to have received three National Book Awards. Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. COLLECTI007008INEW YORK NY: HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1984. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. ISBN: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. D.J. HAS A COUPLE OF TINY TEARS AT THE TWO CORNERS OF THE FRONT PANELWITH SOME CREASING OF THE REAR FLAP. A VERY NICE COPY. Keywords: STORIES SIGNED INVISIBLE ABCDEF. HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS hardcover
1984ref. P-17986Harper & Row 1984. Hardcover. Fine/First Edition. Octavo. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with no other inscription present. Tiny nick to top corner; else a fine jacket. A superb copy unmarked and unclipped in a Brodart jacket cover. Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 55Dust jacket is in excellent condition with the exception of slight crimp and small mark at the top of the spine. THe book itself is excellent clean crisp and tight no markings and signed by the author. Harper & Row hardcover
1984ref. 38843New York: Harper & Row 1984. Very Good /Very Good . New York: Harper & Row 1984. Stated First Edition. Octavo 24cm; 294pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $15.95 price intact; boards bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket ever-so-slightly bumped. Boards likewise lightly bumped and a bit faded along top and bottom edge. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean; endsheets a bit toned. Altogether Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by the author on first free endsheet. Harper & Row unknown
1985ref. Q-0671552473Pocket 1985-10-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pocket paperback
1984ref. 6124New York: Harper and Row 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on first free end paper. Nice copy. Harper and Row hardcover
