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Published by New Directions Publishing Co., NY, 1964
ISBN 10: 0811200671ISBN 13: 9780811200677
Seller: Long Island Book Company, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback. Some minor underlining in pencil. Second Skin is a lyrical, difficult but ultimately rewarding novel. It focuses on Skipper, the narrator, who simply tries to survive a series of life tragedies ranging from being the victim of a mutiny to losing his wife and daughter to suicide. To say these things is not to give away the plot. Because Skipper does not tell his story in a linear fashion, we know what will happen from the beginning. The pleasure is in listening to the narrative voice tell his "naked history" (as Skipper calls it). John Hawkes is an under-appreciated writer and a brilliant prose stylist. For anyone who loves to read beautiful sentences, this book is highly recommended.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, New York, 1967
ISBN 10: 0811202380ISBN 13: 9780811202381
Seller: Neil Shillington: Bookdealer/Booksearch, Hobe sound, FL, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good+. Owner's Name Inside; 291 pages.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1992
ISBN 10: 0811212602ISBN 13: 9780811212601
Seller: Long Island Book Company, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A TIGHT, SOUND and NICE copy of this wonderful book. A stylistically strenuous, time-and-image hopping, ultimately arresting first novel concerned with the changing inner and outer worlds of a Long Island girl from 1958-1973, and with the raw strength of youthful growth and change. Sheila Gray, from ten to the teens, reports on her surrounds- -from the mall-bound woods and sand-pits around home to her family, who seem to act like moderately predictable aliens: Ma, the prime mover, says things like ``Let's have some action, man,'' and, for her, her (Catholic) religion is ``crap.'' Ma also shouts down grandfather Pop, kicks his suitcase, and he's off on the next plane. (Pop wanted to take Sheila to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage). But when Ma's mother dies, Sheila sees her monstrous anger. Meanwhile, Dad cooks and calls Sheila ``Babe'' and never seems to stand firm for anything. Then there are two brothers and a sister who don't connect much. Connection with Ma, however, is important; Sheila roots for ``mutual memories,'' and throughout she worries about her ``deformity,'' her baggy eyes--an early arrow of anxiety Ma has shot home. Among her adventures with peers (a ``hoodlum'' party, a crush, sex games) and a scary neighbor, events in the nation arrive on the tube with Lucy and the game shows. Throughout, Sheila greedily grabs at clues to behavior and survival--a new way of tossing a head of hair hits her like a missile: ``I had never seen anyone do this and I was waiting for it to mean something [but].it just was.'' An often remarkable approximation of the bombardment of presences, animate and otherwise, upon the dynamic, evolving psyche of a child--in this case, with rapid shifts of perspective, a difficult but mesmerizing style, and some wonderfully playful items (``car car car''--a train going by).
Published by New Directions Publishing Co., 1966
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. THE SCRIPT! Not so pretty. ACTING EDITION SCRIPT will serve as a useful Starving Student Edition when you need an extra! Some shelf wear and edge wear to the covers. Economically priced ACTING EDITION for your performance needs. This Acceptable THEATER SCRIPT has LIBRARY CARD IN BACK. Book.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co (1975), New York, 1975
Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.
PB. Condition: good+, wraps (softcover). 184pp ISBN 0811205738.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1978
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Trade paperback. General wear to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
Published by NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CO, NY, 1968
Seller: ARD Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. N/A (illustrator). 1st Edition. A VERY WELL PRESERVED COPY SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED SIX POEMS BY THIS MASTER OF 1960S POETRY NO BENDS FOLDS OR CREASING AN EXCELLENT COPY.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, New York, 2007
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Raskin, Ellen (woodcuts) (illustrator). 52 pages, woodcuts in blue ink "With lovely poetic lilt, this simple tale captures the child's-eye view and an adult's warm remembrance of the time of presents, good things to eat, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow." small black line on bottom edge of pages. ; 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 ".
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, NEW YORK, 1957
ISBN 10: 0811201627ISBN 13: 9780811201629
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
PAPERBACK BLACK. Condition: GOOD-. 17TH PRINTING. New Directions Paperbook. Pictorial cover: mild wear, rubs, corner bumps, light soiling. Interior: pages lightly age toned/tanned. Back cover excerpt, "This book offers a compact yet representative selection of Ezra Pound's poems and translations." DATE PUBLISHED: 1957 EDITION: 17TH PRINTING 184.
Published by New Direction Publishing Co., New York, NY, 1997
ISBN 10: 0811213420ISBN 13: 9780811213424
Seller: a2zbooks, Burgin, KY, U.S.A.
Book
Softcover. Condition: Good. Light Shelf and corner wear. Some minor markings. Text only. Binding is in good sturdy condition. Looks nice. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 4. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0811213420. ISBN/EAN: 9780811213424. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561013779. Presumed to be 1st as edition is unstated.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1964
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good/very Good. Contents fine and unmarked. Handling and one crease to wrappers.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1990
ISBN 10: 0811211207ISBN 13: 9780811211208
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Spotting to top edge of pages.
Published by New Directions Publishing company, New York, NY, 1957
ISBN 10: 081120068XISBN 13: 9780811200684
Seller: OddReads, Harper, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Printer Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. 45th printing with light shelf wear, black background with photo of Buddha on front wrapper "This is the kind of book - rare in our age - which takes root in the heart and grows there for a lifetime. Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he ultimate answer to the enigma of mn's role on this earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but cannot be content with a disciple's role: he must work out his own destiny and solve his own doubt - tortuous road that carries him through the sensuality of a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggle with his own son, to final renunciation and self-knowledge. The name Siddhartha is one often given to the Buddha himself - perhaps a clue to Hesse's aims in contrasting the traditional legendary figure with his own conception, as a European (Hesse was Swiss), of a spiritual explorer." 122 p. Book.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1982
ISBN 10: 0811208362ISBN 13: 9780811208369
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co., Toronto, 1966
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Chipping at head and tail of spine, corners bumped. One corner has open tear, scuffing to all edges and spine. Wrap is scuffed and glossy finish starting to fade. Binding solid, notes and questions in back.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, US, 2001
ISBN 10: 0811214915ISBN 13: 9780811214919
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Four stories by one of the most popularand critically controversialyoung writers to emerge from post-Glasnost Russia. "Hermit and Six Toes"; "Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream"; "The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII"; and "Tai Shou Chuan USSR" are four characterstic stories by the young Russian virtuoso Victor Pelevin, here collected in a New Directions Bibelot edition. With a deadpan and cooly ironic voice that speaks of the phantasmagorical, the surreal, the grotesque and the absurd just as affectingly as Gogol did in his day, Victor Pelevin writes of the dark chaos of the New Russia. In one story, a public toilet attendant discovers in her tiled hovel the entranceway to an alternate reality; in another, a man walks through a city at night with a companion he isn't entirely sure isn't his own shadow. This slim volume offers first-time Pelevin readers a compelling taste of his bleakly comic genius.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, New York, 1957
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 5. Very good in wrappers. Book has minor rubbing of spine, edges, and corners of cover, yellowing of cover, foxing of foredges, slight yellowing of pages. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, under the direction of the Holland Society of New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0806310332ISBN 13: 9780806310336
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 8vo. Hardcover; black cloth, no dj, as issued. Vg+ condition. Prev. owner's name-label & name-stamp on front endpapers; Contents bright, crisp & clean, appears unread. ix, 87 p.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, US, 2005
ISBN 10: 0811215660ISBN 13: 9780811215664
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. This muscular, starkly impressive novel from Guatemala's premiere young wri ter fiercely addresses the seemingly endless violence of Latin America. A y oung man, Juan Luis Luna, is kidnapped in Guatemala City and held at the bo ttom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. T he kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The kidnappe rs threaten to cut off his son's foot and still hear nothing. They then sli ce off one of Juan Luis's toes and send it to his father, who still refuses to act. So the next day. The Good Cripple obsessively focused, chilling, allegorical is stunningly explosive. With its enigmatic beginning, however , and its circular relentless structure, the novel is also dense with ideas : can one be whole after mutilation? Can the injured transcend violence? Ro drigo Rey Rosa's style is of a lithe pristine clarity, but beneath that cal m surface cruelty, revenge, and diffidence churn darkly away. The Good Crip ple is an astonishingly intense book, and as unforgettable as the sight of "the place where the foot had been severed, where a circle of red flesh, no w a little black along the edges, could be seen, with a concentric circle o f white bone that was both milky and glassy.".
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, US, 2003
ISBN 10: 0811215474ISBN 13: 9780811215473
Seller: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia. As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel-Roberto Bolano's first work available in English-recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and a conservative literary critic, a sort of lap dog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Junger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei (to study "the disintegration of the churches," a journey into realms of the surreal); and ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned-after the destruction of Allende-the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, By Night in Chile marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0811214125ISBN 13: 9780811214124
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Chü-I, Po; Hinton, David THE SELECT POEMS OF PO CHÜ-I New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Company 1999 FIRST EDITION Fine 201pp. 8vo. Cover does show light shelf wear with light wear along the edges and some bumping as well. Text is clean and binding is strong. Overall book is in fine condition.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1951
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Robust unmarked hardback. Corners bumped. Pale stain disfigures part of spine.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co. 1992, 1992
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
inscribed and signed by the author ed. paperback very good condition.
Published by New Directions Publishing Company, 1951
Seller: Shadow Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Nearly Good. Robust unmarked hardback. Corners bumped. The unclipped dj has wear and tear tol edges.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, 1967
ISBN 10: 0811201007ISBN 13: 9780811201001
Book
Paperback. Condition: Used: Very good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Poetry By Individual Poetsgood or better copy, may contain creasing, may contain minor underlining.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, 1997
ISBN 10: 0811213668ISBN 13: 9780811213660
Book
Paperback. Condition: Used: Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Contemporary FictionVery Good. Little creases. Clean pages.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, 1970
ISBN 10: 0811202208ISBN 13: 9780811202206
Book
Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Plays, Playscripts: GOOD TRADE PAPERBACK, MINOR NICKS AND CREASES, SOME TIPS BUMPED, CLEAN PAGES, PROMPT SHIPPING WITH TRACKING.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, 2002
ISBN 10: 0811214842ISBN 13: 9780811214841
Book
Hardcover with. Condition: used: good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Literature: History & Criticism; good hardcover with dust jacket, PROMPT SHIPPING WITH TRACKING.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, 2001
ISBN 10: 0811214591ISBN 13: 9780811214599
Book
Hardback. Condition: Used: Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Contemporary Fiction Good ex-library hard cover with dust jacket, glued or taped to boards, pocket, stamps and labels. Prompt shipping with tracking.
Published by New Directions Publishing Co, 1971
ISBN 10: 0811201805ISBN 13: 9780811201803
Book
Paperback. Condition: good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Asian Literature Anthologies; Good trade paperback with creasing, gift inscription on front free end page, stained front and back cover, nicked, and prompt shipping with tracking.