In this fascinating book of portraits, Paul Horgan records his personal encounters with some of the outstanding artists of the century. For over fifty years - from the time when, as a teenage reporter in New Mexico, he met the doomed poet Vachel Lindsay, to the final illness of his friend Igor Stravinsky - Horgan not only crossed paths with the great and near-great, but his writer's eye enriched these moments with special grace and depth. Whether in comedy or the spirit of elegy, and with the lightest touch, Tracings brings ...
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In this fascinating book of portraits, Paul Horgan records his personal encounters with some of the outstanding artists of the century. For over fifty years - from the time when, as a teenage reporter in New Mexico, he met the doomed poet Vachel Lindsay, to the final illness of his friend Igor Stravinsky - Horgan not only crossed paths with the great and near-great, but his writer's eye enriched these moments with special grace and depth. Whether in comedy or the spirit of elegy, and with the lightest touch, Tracings brings together partial portraits of such legendary figures as opera stars Feodor Chaliapin, Mary Garden, and Marguerite D'Alvarez; actresses Minnie Maddern Fiske and Greta Garbo; painter Peter Hurd; writers Somerset Maugham, T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, and Edmund Wilson. While researching his Pulitzer Prize biography, Lamy of Santa Fe, Horgan is granted an unheard-of privilege when the "100-year" rule governing the Vatican's archives is mysteriously waived for him. In Rome during wartime, he is also permitted to spend several hours in the Sistine Chapel entirely alone. This rich collection confirms the verdict of James K. Morris: "Paul Horgan is one of a handful of writers in America today who deserve the title of literary master."
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Very Good. Used, dust jacket outer edges have minor scuffs, cover has light scratches, some outer pages have shelf wear, book content is in very good condition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 260 p.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block & rear endpaper. DJ lightly shelf worn & toned. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Fine in NF jacket. Book Tan paper with brown quarter cloth, in brown decorative jacket, 8vo. 1st edition.260pp. Reminiscences of figures from the arts from 1922 through 1971. Fine/NF. Mld sunning to upper spine end, with brown background tinged to brownish-green. All else as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. In Brdoart. Neither ex-lib nor remainder.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 260 pages, brown quarter-cloth. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition, first printing, with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket and with original price.
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Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. DJ, text, boards, and binding in very good condition. Shelfwear is very light.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 260pp. The veteran writer's essays on various famous persons in art & music, Paul Horgan, Vachel, Lindsey, Frieda Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Peter Hurd, Michelangelo, St ravinsky, et. al. Fine in pc dj.