Search Results: Legendary Authors / Bellow, Saul from Books Tell You Why, Inc.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0060148497 . A most attractive first edition/first printing in Fine in dust jacket with minute browning along edges, otherwise Fine; Albert Corde, a prominent Chicago university dean begins his story in a bleak and apocalyptic Romania. The depths of an East European winter made even colder by the omnipresent Communist dictatorship seems nearly as leaden as the plum brandy he sips in the decaying parlor of his wife's ailing mother, Valeria. As the old woman, once a favored Communist official, now a sweetheart of an aging underground of pale faces and flowery dresses, slips into the slow throes of an early death, Corde is emotionally consumed; 8vo; [viii], 312 pages .

New 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 .

New York: The Viking Press, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Near Fine first edition/first printing in alike dust-jacket. Some foxing to cloth spine and a little edgewear to dust-jacket; Collected here are six short stories by Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Each unique character tells his own story and proves once again that Bellows understands the mysteries and complexities of the human experience; 8vo .

New York: The Viking Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Collected here are six short stories by Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Each unique character tells his own story and proves once again that Bellows understands the mysteries and complexities of the human experience; 8vo .

New York: The Viking Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. A first edition/first printing in Fine condition, blue top stain in equally Fine dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Saul Bellow on the title page; Mr. Artur Sammler, a survivor of the Holocaust, haunted by memories of his literal escape from the grave, is living out his days in New York City. An intellectual who once thrived on the great works of Western literature and philosophy, he now occasionally lectures at Columbia University. He records the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul; 8vo ; [vi], 313, [1] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: The Viking Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. A stunning first edition/first printing in pristine, unread condition, Fine or better, in alike dustjacket; Mr. Artur Sammler, a survivor of the Holocaust, haunted by memories of his literal escape from the grave, is living out his days in New York City. An intellectual who once thrived on the great works of Western literature and philosophy, he now occasionally lectures at Columbia University. He records the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul; 8vo ; [vi], 313, [1] pages .

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0826201652 . An unread first edition/first printing in about Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; M. Gilbert Porter works from a formalist stance to capture Bellow's artistry through analysis of the various forms the Nobel Prize winner employs ; 8vo .