Mark Helprin. A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR. Harcourt, Brace, Jov. 1991. 1st HC/DJ.

Description: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 915 5221 Lincoln Public Schools 43 10 6411 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Helprin, Mark. A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR. NY: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1991. 1st edition. With “First edition” and number (letter) line A B C D E printed on the copyright page, both of which indicate that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing. This is NOT a book-club book. This is NOT an ex-library book. Buyer beware: There were several later printings of A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR that were published in this exact format and also in similar, but slightly different, formats. This is the real deal: the true 1st edition, 1st printing. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY TO SEE THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK AND THIS DUST JACKET. Mark Helprin was born in 1947. He is a novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Helprin was born in Manhattan, New York. He grew up in the prosperous Hudson River Valley suburb of Ossining, New York. He was raised on the Hudson River and in the British West Indies. He holds degrees from Harvard University, Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He did graduate work at Princeton University and Magdalen College, Oxford, University of Oxford. He is a Jewish-American, and he became an Israeli citizen during the late 1970’s. Her served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. He is the author of such great and famous books as A DOVE OF THE EAST AND OTHER STORIES, REFINER’S FIRE, ELLIS ISLAND AND OTHER STORIES, WINTER’S TALE, SWAN LAKE, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR (offered here), MEMOIR FROM ANTPROOF CASE, A CITY IN WINTER, THE VEIL OF SNOWS, THE PACIFIC AND OTHER STORIES, and a number of others. From the dust jacket flap: “ . . . For Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, golden trees shimmer in the sun beneath a sky of perfect blue. At night the moon is amber and the city of Rome seethes with light. He races horses across country to the sea, and in the Alps he practices the precise and sublime art of mountain climbing. At the ancient university in Bologna he is a student of painting and the science of beauty. And he falls in love. His is a world of adventure and dreams, of music, storm, and the spirit. Then the Great War intervenes . . . Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, still tall and proud, finds himself unexpectedly on the road with an illiterate young factory worker. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers distant, the old man, stirred by exertion, the bright stars, and the youthful energy and admiration of his seventeen-year-old companion, tells the story of his life. How he became a soldier. A hero. A prisoner. A deserter. A wanderer in the hell that claimed Europe, the victim of a chaos orchestrated by one Orfeo Quatta, a grotesque, absurd creature from a dusty government office. And how Alessandro tragically lost one family and miraculously gained another . . . The boy is dazzled by the action and envious of the richness and color of the story, but then, as they follow a high ridge southward, ‘the towns of Italy glittering below them in the warm summer air, the sea polished by a weightless fume of silver light,’ he realizes that the old man’s magnificent tale of love and war is more than a tale: it is the recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and above all, a love song for his family . . . “ From the rear flap of the dust jacket: “ . . . Mark Helprin was raised on the Hudson and in the British West Indies. After receiving degrees from Harvard College and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford and served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. He has been publishing in the New Yorker for more than two decades, and his stories and essays on politics and aesthetics appear as well in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Criterion, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and many other publications here and abroad. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a former Guggenheim Fellow, he has been awarded the National Jewish Book Award and the Prix de Rome. Translated into more than a dozen languages, his books include A DOVE OF THE EAST AND OTHER STORIES, REFINER’S FIRE, ELLIS ISLAND, and WINTER’S TALE . . . “ From the rear panel of the dust jacket: PREVIOUS COMMENTS: WINTER’S TALE: “Is it not astonishing that a work so rooted in fantasy, filled with narrative high jinks and comic flights, stand forth centrally as a moral discourse? . . . I find myself nervous to a degree I don’t recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance . . . “ -- Benjamin de Mott, front page, The New York Times Book Review “Helprin’s book is breathtaking . . . Helprin is splendid, a major talent . . . “ -- Los Angeles Times Book Review “This novel stretches the boundaries of contemporary literature.” -- Newsday “He creates tableau of such beauty and clarity that the inner eye is stunned.” -- Publishers Weekly REFINER’S FIRE: “Every once in a while a book appears that engulfs you in its limitless beauty . . . Helprin’s use of language and imagery is an ineffable joy.” -- The Philadelphia Inquirer “Superb . . . A first-rate odyssey . . . That best of all possible novels . . . “ -- Patricia Holt, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle A DOVE OF THE EAST AND OTHER STORIES: “A master crafter of the short story.” -- San Francisco Review of Books “Helprin has total command of his imagined world in these stories of astonishing scope and power.” -- The Chicago Tribune “A kind of genius.” -- The Spectator, London ELLIS ISLAND AND OTHER STORIES: “Constant brilliance . . . Rarely less than breathtaking . . . “ -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer “Stories beyond compare . . . Helprin is uncanny, a man who knows too many places and too many times at 33 . . . [his] imagination should be protected by some intellectual equivalent of the National Park Service . . . “ -- The Philadelphia Inquirer “ELLIS ISLAND ascends to the peak of literary achievement.” -- Christina Robb, The Boston Globe Some of the awards and award nominations that Mark Helprin has been honored with: 1982: ELLIS ISLAND AND OTHER STORIES. PEN/Faulkner Award nominee for Best Book. 1982: ELLIS ISLAND AND OTHER STORIES. Prix de Rome Award winner for Best Book. 1982: ELLIS ISLAND AND OTHER STORIES. National Book Award winner for Best Book. 1996: “A City in Winter.” World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novella. 1996: “A City in Winter.” Locus Award nominee for Best Art Book. 1997: “The Veil of Snows.” Locus Award nominee for Novella. 1997: “The Veil of Snows.” Locus Award nominee for Best Art Book. 2006: Mark Helprin is honored by receiving the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award presented by the Tulsa Library Trust. 2006: WINTER’S TALE. New York Times Book Review publishes a list of American novels, compiled from the responses to “a short letter (from the NYT Book Review) to several hundred prominent writers, critics, and others, asking them to identify “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years. Among the 22 books to have received multiple votes was WINTER’S TALE. 2010: Mark Helprin is honored by being the Salvatori Prize in the American Founding Award winner presented by the Claremont Institute. Clearly Mark Halprin is one of the best, most important, and most collectible modern fiction authors in the world. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I grade books and dust jackets: fine, near fine, very good, good, fair, and poor. I describe all faults. If you sell books on EBAY (or anywhere else), it is de rigueur not to list 1st printings of book club books as 1st editions (unless they ARE the 1st edition, which occurs only occasionally); also, a 1st edition, 7th printing, is not a 1st edition. Ex-library books must be noted as such since generally they are of little value to the collector of 1st editions. Condition is also very important to those collectors. 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