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New York: Blue Hen Books, 2002. 469 pp. Bibliography. A 1/2 inch remainder mark on bottom of pages. Not price-clipped. Two black marks on DJ. Marc Estrin is a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, Vermont. This is his first novel. Gregor Samsa's adventures in America after he is swept into the dustbin. For those who have forgotten, 'Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous cockroach.' Gregor runs into interesting folks: Musil, Wittgenstein, Spengler, Einstein, Rilke, Charles Ives, FDR and ends up in . . . well, you've got to read it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Book Design By Marysarah Quinn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

16 pp. Small octavo. VG/VG. Book is fine, but for a 1-inch stain/abrasion on the front board. DJ has two small tears repaired at top of spine and a tiny (1 mm) chip at bottom of back panel. All over, a very nice impression. Inscribed by Copland in 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Millard Thomson, a composer and professor at Brown. Thomson's bookplate opposite inscription. The book preserves the six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University in May 1952 substantially as they were given. The first three lectures treat the musical mind as listener, interpreter, or creator; the remaining three discuss "the imaginative mind in the music of Europe and America."

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: The Noonday Press, 1993. pp. 229. Wraps illustrated with a photo of a marble head of Antinouos. 'Like waves washing against a pebbled shore, her sentences soothe, then hypnotize; before long the sound of her voice--slightly weary, serenely wise--becomes that of Reason itself . . . [Her essays] display a moralist and critic of remarkable range and sympathy.'--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World. 'It goes without saying that we do not possess a single Greek statue in the state which its contemporaries knew it: we can barely discern, here and there on the hair of a Kore or a Kouros of the sixth century, the traces of reddish color, like palest henna, which attest to their pristine character of painted statues alive with the intense, almost terrifying life of mannequins and idols which also happen to be masterpieces of art. Those hard objects fashioned in imitation of the forms of organic life have, in their own way, undergone the equivalent of… Read More