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Williams, Alan D. .
FIFTY YEARS: A FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX READER.
New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. 579 pages. Fine. Retrospective celebratory collection of pieces. Published by the finest literary publishing house in America today. Limited Edition, as stated. A handsome production by FSG: Oversize-volume format. Black hard boards with gilt-and-white titles on cover and spine, as issued. Contributions by various great writers who are published by FSG. With Presentation Note Card, as issued. Without DJ, as issued. Presents a Massive Reader of the finest and most representative works published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux between 1946 and 1996. Apart from the fact that the publishing house has the most number of Nobel Prize Laureates among all publishers in the world (20, including Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn, Pablo Neruda, Nadine Gordimer, Joseph Brodsky, Wole Soyinka, Czeslaw Milosz, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney, to name a few), English-language readers have a special place in their hearts for FSG, as it is fondly called, because it has consistently and often singlehandedly published the most obscure (but extravagantly talented) writers from all over the world, in careful and sharp English translations. Apart from the excerpts (one piece per published author), many of which are complete pieces, there is a List of all the books the publisher has ever put out, an invaluable Index and a List of the Awards that its Who's Who roster of literary stars have won. The Introduction from the award-winning editor Alan D. Williams is succinct and felicitous. This title was not sold or distributed commercially. It was given to friends and colleagues of the publisher and is now difficult to find in fine condition. A scarce copy thus. Some of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. . $35.00 |
