Tag: 1984

James Crumley – Dancing Bear (1984)

Bibliographic Description

84.09.W002: Crumley – Dancing Bear

Dancing | Bear | [triple rule 6 cm] | James Crumley | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK

First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984

120 leaves, pp. [8] 1-2 3-5 6 7-229 [4]

Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title-page, π3b imprint, π4a dedication “For the Dump Family Singers | — Orris, Nelon, Young Eugene, Ma, | and Little Shorty”, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2­ blank, 3-228 Dancing Bear, χ1a blank, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Lee Nye.

Copyright: ©1983. ISBN: 394-72576-X. Price: $5.95. Dancing Bear was first published by Random House, 1983.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)

Blurbs

  • (front cover) A taut, stirring, highly original thriller. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memories and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman’s curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and Milo is turning up grenades, machine guns, a kilo of marijuana and a bag of coke…and suddenly Milo is on the run.
  • Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald have been looking for a successor. Now they have him. – Boston Phoenix
  • James Crumley is a first-rate American writer…pyrotechnically entertaining, sexy, compassionate. – The Village Voice
  • [Crumley’s] themes are as American and contemporary as they can be, and he explores the American West and its mythology as well as anyone. Dancing Bear is a terrific book, a novel of incomparably degenerate grace and relentless vitality. – St. Louis Dispatch
  • Completely unnerving…intelligent, despairing, moving. – The Chicago Sun-Times

Raymond Carver – Cathedral (1984)

Bibliographic Description

84.09.W001: Raymond Carver – Cathedral        

CATHEDRAL | STORIES | Raymond Carver | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK

First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984

120 leaves, pp. [10] 1-4 5-228 [2] [only odd-numbered pages numbered from 5-228]

Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title-page, π3b imprint, π4a dedication “FOR TESS GALLAGHER | AND IN MEMORY OF JOHN GARDNER”, π4b blank, π5a table of contents, π5b blank, 1fly-title, 2­blank, 3-228 Cathedral: 3-26 “Feathers”, 27-33 “Chef’s House”, 34 blank, 35-46 “Preservation”, 47-58 “The Compartment”, 59-89 “A Small, Good Thing”, 90 blank, 91-109 “Vitamins”, 110 blank, 111-125 “Careful”, 126 blank, 127-146 “Where I’m Calling From”, 147-156 “The Train”, 157-186 “Fever”, 187-208 “The Bridle”, 209-228 “Cathedral”; χ 1a blank, χ 1b about the author.

Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Kelly Wise.

Copyright: 1981, 1982, 1983 ©. ISBN: 394-71281-1. Price: $6.95. Cathedral was first published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.

Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)

Blurbs

  • (front cover) One of the great short story writers of our time–any time. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Cathedral contains astonishing achievements, which bespeak a writer expanding his range and intentions. – The Boston Globe
  • A dozen stories that overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life….Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty…his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart. – Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
  • A few of Mr. Carver’s stories can already be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction…Cathedral shows a gifted writer struggling for a larger scope of reference, a finer touch of nuance. – Irving Howe, front page, The New York Times Book Review
  • Carver is more than a realist; there is, in some of his stories, a strangeness, the husk of a myth. – The Los Angeles Times
  • Written in the simplest of styles, mirroring the language of everyday, [these stories] possess an awesome mesmerizing power. Out of the moments when good luck runs out, Carver makes the highest art. – Dan Cryer, Newsday