Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Zeno's

Princeton. 2005. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691123578. 240 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literary Criticism Jazz America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from them by appropriating the style, tones, and innovations of jazz, and demonstrating that the poetics of jazz has both been assimilated into, and deeply affected, the development of twentieth-century American literature. Yaffe explores how Jewish novelists such as Norman Mailer, J. D. Salinger, and Philip Roth engaged issues of racial, ethnic, and American authenticity by way of jazz; how Ralph Ellison's descriptions of Louis Armstrong led to a ‘neoconservative' movement in contemporary jazz; how poets such as Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane,… Read More

Tokyo. 1983. Kodansha. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0870115650. Translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt. 152 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Amy Reichert. keywords: Literature Translated Japan Asia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - With her Australian husband and three fine sons around her, what more can Betty-san be looking for? How can she have the outward form of a life and yet, ultimately, emptiness? In the title story - a compelling fictional portrait of a Japanese war bride - Michiko Yamamoto delves deeply into the experience of foreignness. Her sparing yet vivid prose conveys the harshness of the Northern Territory landscape and climate as seen through Betty-san's eyes, her longing for the home on which she turned her back twenty years before, her desperate eagerness for the visits of Japanese fishing boats to port, and the poignant rewards of her own family. Beneath the exotic surface of her setting, the author uncovers personal truths which anyone who has ever felt foreign… Read More

New York. 1996. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Water-Stained Dustjacket. 0374290202. 278 pages. hardcover. Jacket art - 'Like a Leopard on Ecstasy' by Cora Yee. keywords: Literature Hawaii Women America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In her exuberant first novel, Lois-Ann Yamanaka tells the story of young Lovey Nariyoshi in Hilo, Hawai'i, on the big island of Hawai'i. Lovey`s best friend is effeminate and endearing; her father at once loving and brutal; and her entire family is caught in a cultural gap between East and West. WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS embraces an array of familial issues as Lovey forges an identity of her own in a world where Japanese-Americans find no facsimile of themselves in pop culture or media, no trace of their inner lives in the stories they read, and where the unpalatable is served on a plate of uncertainty. At once a bitingly funny satire of ‘white' happiness and a moving meditation on what is real, ugly at times, but true, WILD… Read More

New York. 1996. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 0374290202. 278 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Hawaii Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In her exuberant first novel, Lois-Ann Yamanaka tells the story of young Lovey Nariyoshi in Hilo, Hawai'i, on the big island of Hawai'i. Lovey`s best friend is effeminate and endearing; her father at once loving and brutal; and her entire family is caught in a cultural gap between East and West. WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS embraces an array of familial issues as Lovey forges an identity of her own in a world where Japanese-Americans find no facsimile of themselves in pop culture or media, no trace of their inner lives in the stories they read, and where the unpalatable is served on a plate of uncertainty. At once a bitingly funny satire of ‘white' happiness and a moving meditation on what is real, ugly at times, but true, WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS crackles with the language of pidgin - Hawaiian Creole -… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2016. October 2016. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780822944676. Drue Heinz Literature Prize. 240 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Joel W. Coggins. keywords: Short Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Many of these richly layered stories juxtapose the miracles of modern medicine against the inescapable frustrations of everyday life: awkward first dates, the indignities of air travel, and overwhelming megastore cereal aisles. In Go Forth, an aging couple attends a kidney transplant reunion, where donors and recipients collide with unexpected results; in Hounds, a woman who runs a facial reconstruction program for veterans nurses her dying dog while recounting the ways she has used sex as both a weapon and a salve; and in Consider this Case, a lonely fetal surgeon caring for his aesthete father must reconsider sexuality and the lengths people will go to have children. Melissa Yancy's personal… Read More

Pittsburgh. 2016. October 2016. University of Pittsburgh Press. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822944676. Drue Heinz Literature Prize. 240 pages. paperback. Cover design by Joel W. Coggins. keywords: Short Fiction. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Many of these richly layered stories juxtapose the miracles of modern medicine against the inescapable frustrations of everyday life: awkward first dates, the indignities of air travel, and overwhelming megastore cereal aisles. In Go Forth, an aging couple attends a kidney transplant reunion, where donors and recipients collide with unexpected results; in Hounds, a woman who runs a facial reconstruction program for veterans nurses her dying dog while recounting the ways she has used sex as both a weapon and a salve; and in Consider this Case, a lonely fetal surgeon caring for his aesthete father must reconsider sexuality and the lengths people will go to have children. Melissa Yancy's personal experience… Read More

Austin. 1971. University Of Texas Press. Pan American Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0292701314. Illustrated by Julio Prieto. Translated from the Spanish by Ethel Brinton. TEXAS PAN AMERICAN SERIES. 332 pages. paperback. Cover art by Julio Prieto. keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - TIME: The eighteen-month period immediately preceding the Mexican Revolution of 1910. PLACE: A remote Mexican village in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara. SETTING: A village where one's whole existence is a never-ending Lent, where to feel a sense of happiness is to feel a sense of guilt, where the only outlets for old and young, men and women, are the pious societies - most important of which are the Association of the Good Death and the Daughters of Mary, whose black-robed young women exercise a rigid discipline over dress, movements, speech, thought, and feeling. Rich and poor alike lead the same humdrum lives, sternly ruled over by Father Martinez, the parish priest… Read More

Austin. 1968. University Of Texas Press. 1st American Edition. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/Some Small Tears. 0292783841. Illustrated by Alberto Beltran. Translated from the Spanish by Ethel Brinton. TEXAS PAN AMERICAN SERIES. 328 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Alberto Beltran. keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - What was it that flew over with such a terrifying roar? Was it, as many said, the devil, or was it that thing a few had heard of, a flying machine? And those electric lights at Jacob Gallo's farm, were they witchcraft or were they science? The theme of this harshly powerful novel is the impact of modem technology and ideas on a few isolated, tradition-bound hamlets in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The old ways are represented by Epifanio Trujillo, the cacique of the region, now ailing and losing his grip on things; by ancient Madre Matiana, the region's midwife,… Read More

Austin. 1968. University Of Texas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0292783841. Illustrated by Alberto Beltran. Translated from the Spanish by Ethel Brinton. TEXAS PAN AMERICAN SERIES. 328 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Alberto Beltran. keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - What was it that flew over with such a terrifying roar? Was it, as many said, the devil, or was it that thing a few had heard of, a flying machine? And those electric lights at Jacob Gallo's farm, were they witchcraft or were they science? The theme of this harshly powerful novel is the impact of modem technology and ideas on a few isolated, tradition-bound hamlets in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The old ways are represented by Epifanio Trujillo, the cacique of the region, now ailing and losing his grip on things; by ancient Madre Matiana, the region's midwife, healer, counselor, and oracle; by penniless Romulo and his wife Merced.… Read More

New York. 1988. Routledge. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0415027608. 1022 pages. paperback. Cover painting; A Grandee's Litter (lithograph from Sir Richard Burton's Pilgrimage - El Medinian). Royal Geographical Society, London. �. keywords: Travel Reference Quotations. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation is a fascinating and wide-ranging anthology answering the question 'Who said what about where?' 10 000 quotations celebrate places and people across the globe and reveal the joys and perils of travel itself. Selections taken from journals and letters, verse and song, travel writing, fiction, journalism, history and drama are all presented here, and a careful chronological arrangement within the entries displays the changing experiences and evolving attitudes of the traveller through history to the present day. Drawing together well-known comment and less familiar extracts, from the reports of the earliest explorers to the epigrams of… Read More

New York. 2001. May 2001. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0375411593. 276 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Muade Schuyler Clay. keywords: Literature America Southern. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1902, in a small community deep in the Mississippi Delta, nearly a generation after the end of slavery, events obscured by time but impossible to forgive or forget echo in the lives of blacks and whites alike. As bound together by history as they are separated by mutual distrust, the citizens of Loring face present tensions as they look toward an uncertain future. Into this charged atmosphere rides Tandy Payne - prodigal son of a prominent planter and brother of the current mayor, and a dissolute gambler looking to reclaim the family estate. When he takes advantage of a perceived slight from the town's black postmistress, the ensuing clash with his principled brother results in a harrowing confrontation. Fueled by dark and brutal memories, their familial dispute quickly spreads… Read More

New York. 1958. November 1958. Fawcett Crest. 1st American Edition. Good in Worn Wrappers With a Piece Coming Off Near The Bottom Spine. Paperback Original. 158 pages. paperback. 253. keywords: Mystery Vintage Paperbacks. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This was Lolly. Barney had spent four years trying to burn away memories of their past. Now fate had trapped them together in a whirlwind of vioelnce and terror. A FOOTSTEP WHISPERED BEHIND HIM. But even as he spun around he knew it was too late. Something heavy and hard jolted his wrist and slid along his arm until it caromed off the side of his head. He sank to his knees on the dirty cabin floor. ‘You were rear careless, Sport,' came a whisky-thick voice from the darkness. ‘You shouldn't have interfered. I know Lolly's here with you. Now I've got to do it all over again. Only this time I hate to kill you, too.' Suddenly and silently a shadow had moved like a wraith behind the man. A blade, thin and lethal, glinted dully. Barney… Read More

Santa Rosa. 2001. Black Sparrow Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 1574231685. Including a selection of uncollected and previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Allan Campo. Introduction by David Carpenter. Afterword by Bill Hotchkiss. Afterword by Judith Shears. 169 pages. paperback. keywords: America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this collection of surreal, dreamlike prose vignettes John Yau explores the territory first laid out in his Forbidden Entries (Black Sparrow, 1996). Yau's startling journey takes us across wastes of cities fluttering with lost ghosts and asks the question what are you doing now that you're here?. inventory #41735 ISBN: 1574231685.

New York. 2000. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684807270. 426 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume X: Later Articles and Reviews is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes. Later Articles and Reviews consists of fifty-four prose pieces published between 1900 and Yeats's death in January 1939 and benefits from the notes and emendations of Yeats scholar Colton Johnson. The pieces collected here are occasional, and they reflect the many interests and engagements of Yeats in his maturity. No longer a reviewer or polemicist, Yeats is an international figure: a senator in the fledgling Irish state, a defining modern poet, a distinguished essayist. And… Read More

New York. 1989. Macmillan. 1st of This Particular Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0026327015. Edited by Richard J. Finneran. 105 pages. hardcover. Front jacket art by Oskar Kokoschka #48. from National Museum Wales. Front jacket design by Marek Antoniak. keywords: Poetry Ireland Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XII: John Sherman and Dhoya is part of a fourteen-volume series overseen by eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. The series includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, with authoritative and explanatory textual notes. First published in 1891, John Sherman and Dhoya was Yeats's third separate publication. The stories were revised and reprinted in the 1908 Collected Works in Verse and Prose but not published again in Yeats's lifetime. John Sherman, Yeats's only completed attempt at realistic fiction, details the title character's dilemma: He must choose between life in London and… Read More

New York. 1989. Macmillan. 1st Printing of This Edition. Some Foxing to Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0025925512. Edited by William H. O'Donnell. 370 pages. hardcover. Jacket art: ‘Anna Liffey,’ a woodcut printed in 1907 by Elizabeth C. Yeats's Cuala Press. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. keywords: Poetry Ireland Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate's entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats's literary and cultural interests. Writing of fairies, ghosts, and witches in his introduction to Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Yeats discovers that they were still extant in Ireland, at least in 1888,… Read More

New York. 1989. Hudson River Editions/Macmillan. 1st Printing of This Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0026329425. Selected by Mrs. W. B. Yeats. 452 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Ireland Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Explorations is a collection of important, long-out-of-print prose works of the great Irish poet and playwright. It includes Yeats's writings that make up ‘The Irish Dramatic Movement: 1901-1919,' an explanation and passionate defense of the principles that guided Yeats and his collaborators in their work for an Irish ‘People's Theatre.' Yeats records here his penetrating observations on acting and scenery, plays and playwrights, censorship and morality, and the need for reform in the theatre. This volume also includes ‘Fighting the Waves,' Yeats's reworking in prose of ‘The Only Jealousy of Emer,' one of his ‘plays for dancers'; revealing introductions to four of his plays; selections from ‘On the Boiler,'… Read More

New York. 1999. Scribner. 1st Printing of This New Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684807289. Edited by William H. O'Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald. 560 pages. hardcover. keywords: Ireland Literature Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides a vivid series of personal accounts of a wide range of figures, and it describes Yeats's work as poet and playwright, as a founder of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, his involvement with Irish nationalism, and his fascination with occultism and visions. This book is most compelling as Yeats's own account of the growth of his poetic imagination. inventory #26325 ISBN: 0684807289.

New York. [1956]. Macmillan. 25th Printing of This Definitive Edition With The Author's Final Revisions. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Chipping and Tears. 0026326906. 480 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Ireland Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Definitive Edition with final revisions by the Anglo-Irish poet who began writing when but 17 years of age. inventory #27112 ISBN: 0026326906.

New York. 2001. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684857235. Edited by David R. Clark & Rosalind E. Clark. 956 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Ireland Literature Drama. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume II: The Plays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts and with extensive explanatory notes. The Plays, edited by David R. Clark and Rosalind E. Clark, is the first-ever complete collection of Yeats's plays that honors the order in which the plays first appeared. It provides the latest and most accurate texts in Yeats's lifetime, as well as extensive editorial notes and emendations. Though best known as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, from the beginning of his career William Butler Yeats understood the… Read More