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Gardner, John. Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The DJ has some darkening and a couple small tears. It is in a protective mylar cover now. The DJ is price-clipped.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
GARDNER, JOHN. SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES. Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, NY, 1973.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S8.95) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright; GOLD SPINE TITLES with black cover 2x3" art, all on bright red cloth hardcovers.BLACK ENDPAPERS. ; 673ps thick pages; Western NY BATAVIA,NY setting.POLICE CHIEF, STRANGE MAGICIAN.VIOLENT CLASH OF IDEAS. "stripped of humanity, full of grace."
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 673p., illus.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 674 pp. Sixth printing. Corners very lightly bumped. Upper and lower jacket edges curled, with small closed tears (1/4").
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Nickel Mountain. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This book is oatmeal-colored with the title, author, and publisher in gold on the spine. On the front cover there is a picture of a man looking outdoors from a window. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the outside except some fading of the letters and slight discoloration on the back cover. The top of the pages have been edged in purple. Illustrator Thomas O'Donohue etched all the illustrations found in the book, including the one on the frontispiece of a "Stop-Off" on a snowy hill. There is a table of contents for all the illustrations on page x. Aside from some tearing at the edges of the spine, the jacket is in excellent condition. It is protected from further damage by a vinyl cover. O'Donohue's picture of a mountain scene spans from the end of the back flap to the beginning of the front flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In mylar; 8 vo; 673 pages.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. Jason and Medeia. Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (1st) Large, heavy book, fine cream cloth, small white illustration with gold background at top front, gilt lettering bright on spine with gold background to title, yellow inside covers and adjacent end papers, name crossed out in ink at top of first front end paper, 354 heavy pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar with yellow background, color 3-D illustration of centaur and two boys with bows on front, praise for Gardner's "The Sunlight Dialogues" and "Grendel" on back from Thomas R. Edwards in New York Times Book Review, Melvin Maddocks in Life, Peter S. Prescott in Newsweek. DJ has short black line at top front left, two creases at top back tip, light brown stain at bottom back onto nearby spine, tiny stain at top back edge right. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. JASON AND MEDEIA. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$41.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small 4to (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), beige cloth with light yellow labels on spine & front cover (which also has a small embossed rectangular Greek frieze, Mylar-protected dust jacket with red lettering (unclipped) reproducing Maxfield Parrish illustration of a w blue centaur with two Greek boys against a yellow background, B&W frontispiece & 24 full page in-text B&W antique illustrations for each of 24 chapters, publisher's light green protective dust stain on top edges of pages, [xii] + 354 deckled pages. Weight: 2+ lbs. John Gardner (1933 - 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view. A tour de force! Gardner's best-known novels include The Sunlight Dialogues, about a disaffected policeman asked to engage a madman fluent in classical mythology; Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf legend from the monster's point of view, with an existential subtext; and October Light, about an embittered brother and sister living and feuding with each other in rural Vermont (the novel includes an invented "trashy novel" the woman reads). This last book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976. Jason & Medeia is "an epic of busybody gods, befuddled brave heroes, exciting adventures, amazing landscapes, incredible sights (the spider men, Jason's talking ship, fire-breathing bulls, Medeia's crazy-eyed, sinister ravens.) Mr. Gardner gives us a long and wonderful tale, made partly of familiar tales interwoven and returned to their primitive strangeness. It begins at the beginning of things, when Zeus fought the dragons. It ends in the final days, with New York on fire. Through it all, Jason and Medeia fight, love, murder, and push to their destiny--and all mankind's."--jacket. Gardner was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 14, 1982.--Wikipedia abridged.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Seventh printing. Very good hardcover. No dust jacket. Clean pages.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED by the Author on the free front endpaper, 8vo, beige cloth with gold lettering on spine & embossed cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with etching by Thomas O'Donohue & 9 more in-text full page sepia illustrations, 312 numbered & deckled pages + [313-14] sepia-toned illustration by O'Donohue + [315-16] + [2] A Note on Type. John Gardner (1933 - 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view. A tour de force! Gardner's other highly respected novels include The Sunlight Dialogues, about a disaffected policeman asked to engage a madman fluent in classical mythology; Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf legend from the monster's point of view, with an existential subtext; and October Light, about an embittered brother and sister living and feuding with each other in rural Vermont (the novel includes an invented "trashy novel" the woman reads). This last book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976. Nickel Mountain is his Gothic novel about backcountry folks from the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Set during the mid-1950's, they struggle through ordeals of despair and religious doubt. Middle-aged Henry Soames, who is overweight and suffering from heart trouble, runs a diner where locals gather. After teenage Callie Wells begins working there, she becomes pregnant by a boy she had trusted--but who abandons her. She and Henry come to one another's aide and decide to marry. Unfortunately, after her son is born, their relationship becomes strained on several levels. Dread pervades the gloomy mountain and characters. A dark lesson seems to be that despite one's protectiveness for loved ones, ultimately, we can't protect them. People destroy one other without meaning to. It's a lesson from the author's youth, when he felt protracted guilt for his brother's accidental death on a farm. Even so, suggestions of Redemption slowly emerge from this wild heart of the Catskills. Gardner was killed in a motorcycle accident on September 14, 1982. SUPERIOR COPY: clean, tight, bright in a spotless dust jacket. The book has two small defects: the free front endpaper has its upper right corner clipped; there is a small red remainder stamp on the bottom of the pages.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
John Gardner. The Sunlight Dialouges. Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
Price: US$82.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by John Napper. Fourth printing. Signed by author on fly leaf. Red cloth with embossed illustration on front cover. Tight, square binding.
Seller: Genesee Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
GARDNER, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Sixth printing. Fine in a very good dustwrapper. Signed by Gardner. From the collection of Gardner's literary executor, friend, and fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Gardner and acclaimed novelist and critic Delbanco first forged a friendship when Delbanco hosted Gardner during a reading tour at Bennington College in 1974. Delbanco ended up hiring Gardner for the English Department at the College. They and their families began a close professional and personal relationship in which each of the authors strove to critique the other's works in private and promote them in public, Gardner touting Delbanco as "one of the country's best novelists." Each acknowledged the contribution of the other in developing both their theories of literature and for specific elements of their respective works, whether it be Delbanco using Gardner's title *Stillness* for one of his novels or Gardner using Delbanco's writing to help clarify the husband-wife relationship in one of his own works. Delbanco's home and family became a refuge for both Gardner and his first wife during their messy divorce. Following Gardner's death in a 1982 motorcycle accident, Delbanco became Gardner's literary executor; editing and contributing an introduction to Gardner's posthumously published *Stillness and Shadows*. Delbanco's daughter Francesca, who was an occasional babysitter of Gardner's children, and who has herself published two well-received novels, *Ask Me Anything* and *Midnight in Manhattan* was the Dedicatee of one of Gardner's acclaimed children's books, *The King of Hummingbirds*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Gardner, John. The sunlight dialogues. Alfred A Knopf, 1973.
Price: US$222.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good
Seller: Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom
Gardner, John. The Sunlight Dialogues. Alfred A. Knopf, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1973.
Price: US$399.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large, heavy sturdy book, fine red cloth with embossed illustration at top front of man peeking beneath curtain, very light scratch on front, gilt lettering with border bright on spine, black inside covers and adjacent end papers, 673 lightly browned pages plus death certificate illustration. DJ beneath mylar, illustration on front of town's stoplight, church and cop on front, spine and back, praise on back for "Grendel" from Richard Locke in New York Times, Peter S. Prescott in Newsweek and others. Tiny light brown spotting to long pages' exterior edge. Signed in blue ink on title page beneath printed name. Very Fine DJ/Near Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.