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ARTS AND LETTERS
by White, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1573441953
- ISBN 13
- 9781573441957
- Seller
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Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. In these 39 lively essays and profiles, best-selling novelist and biographer Edmund White draws on his wide reading and his sly good humor to illuminate some of the most influential writers, artists, and cultural icons of the past century: among them, Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, George Eliot, Andy Warhol, André Gide, David Geffen, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Whether he's praising Nabokov's sensuality, or critiquing Elton John's walk ("as though he's a wind-up doll that's been overwound and sent heading for the top of the stairs"), or describing serendipitous moments in his seven-year-long research into the life of Genet, White is unfailingly observant, erudite, and entertaining. 360 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Ed Smith Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15260
- Title
- ARTS AND LETTERS
- Author
- White, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1573441953
- ISBN 13
- 9781573441957
- Publisher
- Cleis Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- essays, profiles, literary, Marcel Proust, Catherine Deneuve, George Eliot, Warhol, Andre Gide, David Geffen, Robert Mapplethorpe
Terms of Sale
Ed Smith Books
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About the Seller
Ed Smith Books
Biblio member since 2009
Bainbridge Island, Washington
About Ed Smith Books
Ed Smith Books specializes in better condition modern literary first editions, signed books, photographic monographs, screen and theater related material and pop culture. We offer appraisals for books and photographs. We are located a short ferry ride from downtown Seattle, WA on Bainbridge Island. Since 1985 (ABAA since 1995). Two authors we specialize in are Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson. Open by appointment.
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