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Field, Edward. THE MAN WHO WOULD MARRY SUSAN SONTAG AND OTHER INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF THE BOHEMIAN ERA Scarce Pristine Copy of The First Edition With Rare Signed Original Photographic Print. Madison, WI: The University Of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 284 pages. As New in As New dust jacket. Rare Susan Sontag/Alfred Chester/Edward Field collectible set. Copy of the book and matching photographic print of its three main figures. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. The book was published in a very small and limited print run as a hardcover original by a University Press. Except for Andy Warhol, Sontag is the single most famous figure in the memoir, and as such, has been turned into the iconic model of an artistic and intellectual figure who has vanished permanently from our midst: The American bohemian artist/intellectual. The man who wanted to marry her, Alfred Chester, is one of the most under-appreciat ed American writers of the 20th century. Based in New York or in Europe (and in Paul Bowles' extreme case, Morocco), the bohemian was motivated by love of his or her chosen vocation and disdain of the American Dream (success, wealth, and power). A marginal figure by choice, the bohemian was the post-Romantic idealist incarnate. Edward Field, a poet, was one of them and has lived long enough to write memorably as the last of them. The precarious existence every bohemian accepted as a fact of life was a losing proposition from the start. The bohemian was rejected by mainstream society precisely because his very existence was seen as a threat to stable, normative "family values". Intelligent and creative people should aspire to a career just like everybody else, and today, they all do. The nemesis of the book is Andy Warhol, whom Field deeply despises, and whose rise meant, to him, the decline of the artist/intellectual as the conscience of the culture. The Age of Warhol has lasted, but it remains an open question whether it will prevail. Critics like Robert Hughes (another great Warhol hater) have shrewdly observed that the artist-as-busi nessman has led to a competitive environment in which most people will fail and is therefore unsustainable. A poignant, angry, and passionate homage to a vanished species. A "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. <b><i> This title is now out-of-print as a hardcover and is collectible. This copy comes with a lovely 11 X 14 inch photographic print of the snapshot, "Susan Sontag, Alfred Chester, and Edward Field At Sex Symposium December 2, 1962", which is very prominently and beautifully titled and signed in black fountain pen on recto by Fred W. McDarrah, the legendary Village Voice photojournali st. McDarrah also stamped and signed the print on the back. We are not aware of another photograph in which all three figures are together. This is the only such set available online and has no flaws, pristine beauties. A rare, one-of-a-kind signed set thus. </b></i> Some of the greatest American artists and writers, remembered by one of the finest living American poets. A flawless collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG, ALFRED CHESTER, AND ANDY WARHOL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 029921320X. Signed by Author.

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Christopher Paul Curtis. Bud, Not Buddy. Scholastic Trade, 2002
043940200X Amazon Review "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father. Guided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly A 10-year-old boy in Depression-era Michigan sets out to find the man he believes to be his father. "While the harshness of Bud's circumstances are authentically depicted, Curtis imbues them with an aura of hope, and he makes readers laugh even when he sets up the most daunting scenarios," said PW in our Best Books citation. Ages 9-12. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc..

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Christopher Paul Curtis: Bud, Not Buddy (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) Delacorte Books for Young Readers ; fester Einband / hard cover ISBN: 0385323069

Hardcover Very Good 0385323069 Editorial Reviews\n\nAmazon.com Review\n"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes and Hoovervilles in 1930s Michigan. And the idea that's planted itself in his head is that Herman E. Calloway, standup-bass player for the Dusky Devastators of the Depression, is his father.\n\nGuided only by a flier for one of Calloway's shows--a small, blue poster that had mysteriously upset his mother shortly before she died--Bud sets off to track down his supposed dad, a man he's never laid eyes on. And, being 10, Bud-not-Buddy gets into all sorts of trouble along the way, barely escaping a monster-infested woodshed, stealing a vampire's car, and even getting tricked into "busting slob with a real live girl." Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, once again exhibits his skill for capturing the language and feel of an era and creates an authentic, touching, often hilarious voice in little Bud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Paul Hughes\n\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nAs in his Newbery Honor-winning debut, The Watsons Go to BirminghamA1963, Curtis draws on a remarkable and disarming mix of comedy and pathos, this time to describe the travails and adventures of a 10-year-old African-American orphan in Depression-era Michigan. Bud is fed up with the cruel treatment he has received at various foster homes, and after being locked up for the night in a shed with a swarm of angry hornets, he decides to run away. His goal: to reach the man heAon the flimsiest of evidenceAbelieves to be his father, jazz musician Herman E. Calloway. Relying on his own ingenuity and good luck, Bud makes it to Grand Rapids, where his "father" owns a club. Calloway, who is much older and grouchier than Bud imagined, is none too thrilled to meet a boy claiming to be his long-lost son. It is the other members of his bandASteady Eddie, Mr. Jimmy, Doug the Thug, Doo-Doo Bug Cross, Dirty Deed Breed and motherly Miss ThomasAwho make Bud feel like he has finally arrived home. While the grim conditions of the times and the harshness of Bud's circumstances are authentically depicted, Curtis shines on them an aura of hope and optimism. And even when he sets up a daunting scenario, he makes readers laughAfor example, mopping floors for the rejecting Calloway, Bud pretends the mop is "that underwater boat in the book Momma read to me, Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Sea." Bud's journey, punctuated by Dickensian twists in plot and enlivened by a host of memorable personalities, will keep readers engrossed from first page to last. Ages 9-12. (Sept.)\nCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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