The Best Of Life

Jencks, Barbara. CELEBRATION OF LIFE The Best of JOTTINGS. North Kingstown RI: Global Graphics, c. 1996.
The b/w photo-illustrated PAPER COVER is about the weight of posterboard. BELLES LETTRES. "Barbara C. Jenks, weekly columnist for 40 years for the Catholic Press, writes of numerous and diverse events, people, places, ideas, and feelings...She is one of few women to have press credentials to Vatican Council II in Rome. She also covered the violence in the Northern part of her beloved Ireland. " .."All of the columns in this book have appeared in THE PROVIDENCE VISITOR during the years 1948-1988. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Ella - (rest is mostly illegible) - Barbara Jencks. " ; 8" Tall; 143 pages.

First Edition; First Printing, Trade Paperback, Very Good; Very minor soil on the unworn and sound binding. Minor edge foxing. Contents are almost like new..

[KW: Signed By Author; Rhode Island; Pawtucket, Rhode Island;. IRELAND; Belfast; LOURDES; Dr. Tom Dooley; Clare Boothe Luce; Pope John Paul I;,]

Details

Fenwick, Gillian: GEORGE ORWELL, A BIBLIOGRAPHY. New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies 1998
First edition. From one of the foremost bibliographers of our time, this is the first-ever bibliography of George Orwell (1903-1950), one of the major figures of 20th-century literature and best-selling authors. With his work still in print, there have been more than 30 new editions or reissues of his most famous novel, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, in at least 16 languages. Recently there have been important new biographies and works of criticism. The Orwell Archive at University College, London continues to expand with new acquisitions of manuscript materials, writings about Orwell, copies of editions and reissues of his works, and publication records of his books and journalism. Today, Orwell is probably as famous and his works as revered as he or they have ever been. Even those who do not regularly read novels will recognize his name, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, the term "Big Brother," or such catchwords associated with the world vision he created. A few of his essays are held up as examples of brilliantly turned words, economic prose, precision and wit, and are anthologized in dozens of school and university textbooks. Most of his major books are still in print, novels and essays which are available in paperback editions, so people are still apparently reading Orwell. Definitive biographies have been written, his major books have appeared in collected editions; additional collections of essays, journalism, and letters have been planned; movies, plays, and even cartoons have been created. Yet Orwell has not become an "industry" like Virginia Woolf or James Joyce; there are currently no annual conferences, societies, meetings, or even until recently, electronic mailing lists or web pages. When the 21st century looks back on the previous one, it will surely identify Orwell as one of its major literary figures, along with Joyce and Woolf. This bibliography of Orwell's working life as a journalist, reviewer, essayist, novelist, and broadcaster also includes posthumous editions of his works already published as well as peripheral items such as juvenilia, movies, tape recordings and even T-shirts. This is an important reference work for scholars studying the whole range of Orwell's publishing life, collectors, librarians, and antiquarian book trade specialists. Part of the Winchester Bibliographies of Twentieth Writers Series.

8vo., cloth. xxix, 413 pages.

[KW: 9781884718465 United Kingdom Oak Knoll Press ORWELL, GEORGE Winchester Bibliographies United States NEW New]

Details

Saisho, Yuriko. WOMEN EXECUTIVES IN JAPAN How I Succeeded in Business in a Male-Dominated Society. Tokyo: Yuri International, c. 1981.
Part of the top of the book's spine is worn through to the boards, otherwise minor wear on the clean and sound binding. Contents are almost like new. Brief note on bfep. The DJ's spine is quite faded but the lettering ids unaffected. Very minor wear on the clean, complete dust jacket. ; Maroon boards, white lettering. 8p b/w photos. BUSINESS. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by author, in both English and Japanese, on the ffep: 'Dear Mrs. Patsy Kirby: With best wishes, Yurko Saisho, July 2? '85 Tokyo. ' This is a vivid self portrait of the life of a successful international business-woman - founder, president and now chairwoman of Nippo, one of the largest marketing & advertising companies in Japan. Much information about the mechanics of the Japanese business world, as well as its unique female-male relationships. Saisho urges women to be ambitious enough to move into positions of authority but stresses that this should be done without sacrificing their womanly qualities. This view is uniquely Japanese and will be of great interest to her western counterpart. ; 8-1/2" tall; 214 pages.

First Edition; First Printing, Hardcover, Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket.

[KW: Japanese Business Woman; Yuriko Saisho; Womanpower; Leadership; Autobiography; General Business,]

Details

Butler, Samuel (1612- 1680). Hudibras in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. with Large Annotations, and a Preface. Cambridge: 1744.
Editor Zachary Grey, LL. D. Adorn'd With A New Set Of Cuts. Cambridge: Printed By J. Bentham, Printer To The University, For W. Innys and (17) others. London: MDCCXLIV (1744) . (2) Two Volumes; 8vo (8" x 5.5") ; Volume One Pages: [2], xiv ("To the Reader" and "The Author's Life") , xxxvi ("The Preface") , [42] Subscribers' List, 424, [16] (Index) ; Volume Two Pages: [ii], 446, [24] (Index) . -- Volume One contains an Engraved Portrait Frontispiece of Butler by Soest and engraved by George Vertue. It follows with (16) Sixteen Full Page Engraved Plates by J. Mynde after William Hogarth. Contemporary Full Calf Leather somewhat rubbed. Interior leaves are crisp and clean containing several tailpieces. 'The best critical edition' (Dibdin) of Butler's Hudibras (1663-78) , edited and prefaced by Zachary Grey (1688-1766) . Grey's edition of Hudibras was the First Edition to use the Suite of Sixteen Plates that William Hogarth had prepared in 1725-1726. While not read in the twentieth century, this mock-heroic poem satirizing the Puritans, was very popular for over two hundred years. This edition was published by subscription, which is said to have produced 1500. Grey's knowledge of puritan literature enabled him to illustrate his author by profuse quotations from contemporary authors, a method comparatively new. A second edition of Grey's Hudibras appeared in 1764, and a Supplement in 1752. (Lowndes I, 335.) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Full Calf Leather,

Details