Author: Price, Reynolds
Title: Things Themselves. Essays & Scenes
Description: New York: Atheneum, 1972, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the author's sixth book, an erudite collection of essays on a diverse and evocatively enlightening array of subjects with indepth critiques of William Faulkner, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, John Milton, a scholarly t reatise on Rembrandt and new scenes from Price's first novel. A Rhodes Scholar and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, Price has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the William Faulkner Award. Author of eleven novels, four volumes of poetry, two memoirs, translations from both the Old and New Testaments, several volumes of essays and plays, television and film scripts, Price is one of America's most protean living writers, even penning lyrics for popular singer J ames Taylor. In an interview, Price commented, "As for me, I claim to have added new levels of emotional complexity and honesty to a prose and verse that's grown increasingly lucid and thus far more accessible. Convinced of that, I face the mille nn i um as a writer in his early sixties who works all day, six days a week, with the blessings of contemporary technology--a writer who hopes to work for many years more with the aid of increasingly intelligent and elegant devices, all of them inve nte d by what I suspect is the ultimate magician: the human brain and the hands it moves." 8vo. 269 pp. Fine in speckled beige cloth covered boards with gilt on the spine and front panel in a fine pc. dustwrapper with a photograph of a youthful Pric e on t he inner rear panel. A truly elusive title in this condition. /Dust Jacket Included.
Keywords: LITERATURE/NONFICTION/AMERICAN SOUTHERN WRITERS/WILLIAM FAULKNER AWARD/ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD/HENRY JAMES/ERNEST HEMINGWAY/WILLIAM FAULKNER/. ELECTRONIC LIST, WINTER
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Title: Things Themselves. Essays & Scenes
Description: New York: Atheneum, 1972, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the author's sixth book, an erudite collection of essays on a diverse and evocatively enlightening array of subjects with indepth critiques of William Faulkner, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, John Milton, a scholarly t reatise on Rembrandt and new scenes from Price's first novel. A Rhodes Scholar and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, Price has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the William Faulkner Award. Author of eleven novels, four volumes of poetry, two memoirs, translations from both the Old and New Testaments, several volumes of essays and plays, television and film scripts, Price is one of America's most protean living writers, even penning lyrics for popular singer J ames Taylor. In an interview, Price commented, "As for me, I claim to have added new levels of emotional complexity and honesty to a prose and verse that's grown increasingly lucid and thus far more accessible. Convinced of that, I face the mille nn i um as a writer in his early sixties who works all day, six days a week, with the blessings of contemporary technology--a writer who hopes to work for many years more with the aid of increasingly intelligent and elegant devices, all of them inve nte d by what I suspect is the ultimate magician: the human brain and the hands it moves." 8vo. 269 pp. Fine in speckled beige cloth covered boards with gilt on the spine and front panel in a fine pc. dustwrapper with a photograph of a youthful Pric e on t he inner rear panel. A truly elusive title in this condition. /Dust Jacket Included.
Keywords: LITERATURE/NONFICTION/AMERICAN SOUTHERN WRITERS/WILLIAM FAULKNER AWARD/ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD/HENRY JAMES/ERNEST HEMINGWAY/WILLIAM FAULKNER/. ELECTRONIC LIST, WINTER
Price: US$ 165.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 12554
- Book number: 12554
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