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Sontag, Susan : I, etcetera

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1978

First Printing, First Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Original multicolored pictorial paper dust jacket included. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2." 246 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for slight fading along the edges. Corners of the covers are sharp. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is very clean and intact but has a small split at bottom of front joint, light to moderate rubbing, and slight edge wear. Dust jacket not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. A collection of short fiction by Susan Sontag (1933-2004), an American author, intellectual, and social activist. Each story is a nod to postmodern society in which the cascade of readily-available information, absurdity, nihilism, and tragedy all convene to inform and even define people's lives. Excerpt from front flap: "Written over more than a decade--from 1963 ... to 1977 ...--these wise, troubling stories unflinchingly depict the ordeals and dilemmas of a modern consciousness weighted down with too much history, too much information, and too little wisdom ...." The titles of the stories herein are "Project for a Trip to China," "Debriefing," "American Spirits," "The Dummy," "Old Complaints Revisited," "Baby," "Doctor Jekyll," and "Unguided Tour.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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Sontag, Susan : I, Etcetera

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978

DJ in archival cover. Stated first printing, 1978., Fine

1st Edition

Sontag, Susan : I, Etcetera

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York City, NY, 1978

ISBN 0374174024

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 246 pages. The author's first and only collection of short stories. One of Susan Sontag's finest achievements. Review Copy. Review Materials laid-in. The First Hardcover Edition. 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 Susan Sontag's "I, etcetera". Her first and only collection of short stories. Includes such autobiographical pieces as "Unguided Tour", which she later made into a film for Italian television, and "Debriefing", her poignant story on suicide. As a short-story writer, Sontag is a committed Chekhovian: She believes that the form is not about character "development" (as the novel is), but about "stable" characters confronting unstable situations, life-altering as well as minute, nuanced changes of time, place, and mood. Her stories are extensions of her essays (the best of which resemble stories) in the sense that she is able to express otherwise inexpressible feelings, not just thoughts, in a more fluid and "subjective" way than she could in her more "objective" essays, about the fragmentation of identity (the "I" of the title). Autobiography is always mediated in Sontag's writing (that's why, for example, she never actually wrote her memoirs, as so many other major writers have), mediated, that is, by her pained and acute consciousness. As such, there is nothing like these stories in American literature: "Debriefing", "Unguided Tour", and "Project For A Trip To China" are masterworks. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Materials are laid-in, notably a beautiful 5 X 7 inch single-weight silver-gelatin print of her portrait by Thomas Victor, which appears on the back of the DJ. It is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed Review Copy (with original photographic print) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374174024.

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Sontag, Susan : I, Etcetera

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York City, NY, 1978

ISBN 0374174024

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 246 pages. The author's first and only collection of short stories. One of Susan Sontag's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. 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 Susan Sontag's "I, etcetera". Her first and only collection of short stories. Includes such autobiographical pieces as "Unguided Tour", which she later made into a film for Italian television, and "Debriefing", her poignant story on suicide. As a short-story writer, Sontag is a committed Chekhovian: She believes that the form is not about character "development" (as the novel is), but about "stable" characters confronting unstable situations, life-altering as well as minute, nuanced changes of time, place, and mood. Her stories are extensions of her essays (the best of which resemble stories) in the sense that she is able to express otherwise inexpressible feelings, not just thoughts, in a more fluid and "subjective" way than she could in her more "objective" essays, about the fragmentation of identity (the "I" of the title). Autobiography is always mediated in Sontag's writing (that's why, for example, she never actually wrote her memoirs, as so many other major writers have), mediated, that is, by her pained and acute consciousness. As such, there is nothing like these stories in American literature: "Debriefing", "Unguided Tour", and "Project For A Trip To China" are masterworks. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374174024.

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