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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982
ISBN 10: 0374278474ISBN 13: 9780374278472
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Very Good. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover in Very Good+ dust jacket. Light wear. Nice condition overall.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1983
ISBN 10: 0374518041ISBN 13: 9780374518042
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Second Printing. A bit of edge wear to card covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.
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Published by Andre Deutsch, 1988
ISBN 10: 0233983260ISBN 13: 9780233983264
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.71.
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Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 0374278474ISBN 13: 9780374278472
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. NEW YORK: FSG, 1982. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A tight clean copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Slight edge wear. Sale sticker on jacket flap. F600A.
Published by Seabury Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0816493359ISBN 13: 9780816493357
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.25.
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Published by New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1983
ISBN 10: 0374518025ISBN 13: 9780374518028
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. viii 268p paperback with tan and orange cover, very good condition, little to no wear, tight binding, pages clean and bright like new, a very good copy Language: English Weight (g): 413.
Published by Picador, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0330314602ISBN 13: 9780330314602
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. This second volume, of the author's autobiography,provides a background to Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s; his passion for his first wife, Veza, and his admiration for his Viennese mentor Karl Kraus. Along the way the voices of " . Brecht, Isaac Bable, George Grosz, and many others."  from rear panel blurb. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with very light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Fading to the left hand edge front panel. Creasing to the top right hand corner of the front panel. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 3 - 371, [6] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0330314602. ISBN/EAN: 9780330314602. Inventory No: 0289986.
Published by Picador, London, 1991
ISBN 10: 0330322087ISBN 13: 9780330322089
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. This third volume, of the author's autobiography,provides a background to Vienna in the years 1931 and 1937 " . when the European catastrophe, already Keith anyone with eyes to see, was approaching its inevitable and tragic climax. To this great intellectual and spiritual self-reported Cannetti adds wonderful portraits of his friends and rivals: Herman Broch, Robert Musil, Fritz Wortuba, Alban Berg and Alma Mahler."  from the rear panel blurb. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with very light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Fading to the left hand edge front panel. Creasing to the top right hand corner of the front panel. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], the - 371, [6] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0330322087. ISBN/EAN: 9780330322089. Inventory No: 0289987.
Published by Andre Deutsch, London 1979, 1986
ISBN 10: 0233978615ISBN 13: 9780233978611
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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22.0 x 14.0cms, 102pp, very good hardback & dustwrapper Canetti presents 50 ironic paradigms of human behaviour to demonstrate how man's individual and social being frustrates psychological and sociological categories.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983, 1983
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
Published by Picador 1989, 1989
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Picador 1982, 1982
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Granta Books, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083560ISBN 13: 9781847083562
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very faint wear. fore-edge, head and foot of books have very faint wear and light toning.
Published by The Seabury Press 1979, 1979
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Andre Deutsch, London,, 1988
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First UK edition: hardcover, octavo; red boards with gilt spine titling; 268pp. Minor wear; browned and spotted text block edges; one or two tiny little scratches on slightly rippled dustwrapper (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Continuum Books/The Seabury Press, New York NY,, 1979
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First edition. Octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine titling; 268pp. Minor wear; covers mildly rubbed; text block edges spotted. Dustwrapper sunned along the spine panel; a little rubbed and edgeworn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0374518041ISBN 13: 9780374518042
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Softcover. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. Very Good in wrappers. ; 8.98 X 5.91 X 0.94 inches; 384 pages.
Published by Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1989
ISBN 10: 0233984348ISBN 13: 9780233984346
Seller: Gareth Roberts, Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo, CARMS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. An Ex-Library Hardback with dust jacket, officially withdrawn, usual library stamps and markings. Light tanning to page edges otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 39G*.
Published by New York City, NY: Continuum/Seabury Press, 1979, 1979
ISBN 10: 0816493340ISBN 13: 9780816493340
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 246 pages. Published in 1979. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Elias Canetti's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Elias Canetti's "Das Gewissen der Worte" in the definitive English translation by Joachim Neugroschel. Canetti, the novelist, dramatist, aphorist, and memoirist as literary essayist. Written between 1962 and 1974, the collection includes the full text of "Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters To Felice", the longest piece in the book, and one of the greatest essays ever written on Kafka. It remains available as an individual volume, but having it here together with his other essays gives it the context it doesn't have as a "stand-alone", apart from making the volume a great value. In the now-legendary speech he gave on the occasion of Hermann Broch's 50th birthday (in 1936), Canetti defines what it means to be a writer in universalizing and uncompromising terms. His title should have alerted us to the Jewish-German high moral seriousness Canetti demands of EVERY writer regardless of nationality. Thus, even his great admirer in Susan Sontag wryly noted the near-total absence of the aesthete sensibility, which is often concretely and uniquely "local", as the drastic limit of Canetti's otherwise all-encompassing greatness. Despite (or because of) his genius, he was quite irrational in his fear of Women and Death. About death, in particular, he wrote willfully (rather than rationally). He considered its rejection - by the mind, which is "immortal" though alas, trapped in the perishable body - as the only appropriate, comprehensible response to death. The "mind-versus-body" fantasy that Canetti took seriously is surely THE fantasy that every intellectual-rationalist also has: It is unthinkable for every great mind to imagine let alone accept death. Genius will never die even if the body must. An absolute "must-have" title for Elias Canetti collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the 1979 First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and despite its imperfection (creasing and wear on DJ) is still in fine condition overall: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. There is NO bumping on the boards. It is NOT price-clipped. Please note: The publisher shut down shortly after publication so copies of the book have always been hard to find in collectible condition. Copies available online have very serious flaws (significant fading on the DJ spine is endemic), are subsequent editions, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. ISBN 0816493340. no.
Published by Seabury Press., New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 0816493359ISBN 13: 9780816493357
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First English language edition. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages.
Published by New York City, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0374199507ISBN 13: 9780374199500
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 835 pages. Published in 1999. Omnibus Edition of the author's memoirs. One of the towering literary achievements of the 20th century. The first and only appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. There is NO equivalent edition in the German original. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. Presents, in one massive volume, "The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, The Torch In My Ear, The Play of The Eyes" in now-classic English translations. The incomparable self-portrait of a great and original mind: A writer, a playwright, a thinker, and a memoirist. "Canetti worked brilliantly in many forms, but the three volumes that comprise his autobiography are where his genius is perhaps most evident" (Publisher's blurb). Canetti barely acknowledges, except as the ingredient of a complex psychodrama (involving him and his apparently impossible Mother, herself a misogynist, and the reason for his own lifelong misogyny), a key personal fact that any other writer would have felt justified bragging about: He wasn't just a Renaissance Man, steeped in literature, philosophy, and science. He was that very rare thing, a Renaissance Genius, who had a degree in chemistry, science in its invisible, that is, purest form. Despite the degree, he decided not to become a professional chemist. Indeed, his prescient awareness of the dangers of scientism, still the reigning academic ideology of our time, stems precisely from his being academically trained ("exposed") as a scientist himself. "Crowds And Power", his unclassifiable masterpiece, is an intellectual rejection of both Freud and Marx, two thinkers who thought of themselves as scientists. His analysis of mass movements (specifically Fascism) is anecdotal, philosophical, and literary. He turns science into literature, deploying physical, non-human phenomena as metaphors for The Crowd: Fire, rain, forests, bees, snakes, and so on, illuminating how individual human beings tragically become part of an irresistible and destructive collective unit. "Party In The Blitz: The English Years" (2005), about his difficult British exile, is the Coda to his memoir-trilogy, published posthumously. An absolute "must-have" title for Elias Canetti collectors. These titles are great books. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies of the individual volumes available online command hundreds of dollars each. Copies of this Omnibus Edition available online have very serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ELIAS CANETTI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374199507. no.