brenan gerald introduction (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 336 pages. 7.64x5.04x1.02 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Charles Mozley (Illustrator) (illustratore). First Edition, First Thus. Text/Near New. Green linen boards/Good; tired but sound w/rubs, small surface losses to edges & surface. DJ/None. Fiction. Work of prolific Spanish realist novelist Benito Perez Galdos (1843 - 1920). First published 1884 under the title La de Bringas; this is 1952 edition, translated to English Gamel Woolsley. Novel, set in 1868, the year of Spain's Glorious Revolution, takes place in the Royal Palace of Madrid stars members of the court's bureaucracy. Galdos uses the officials, marked by ruinous, extravagant lifestyles as symbols of the decay that had progressed throughout the entire administration. Gerald Brenan, in the Introduction, writes: "The rottenness of the whole regime becomes apparent and when, at the close of the sweltering summer, the Army, the Navy and the entire country rise with one accord and the queen flees to France, the curtain falls on this phantasmagoric society, so brilliant when viewed from outside but built on poverty and debt and emptiness. Thus The Spendthrifts is both an allegory of the ruling classes of Spain and a sermon on the classic Spanish theme, made familiar to us in Don Quixote, of illusion and reality.".

Paperback. Condizione: Good. English ?No living writer knows Spain as well as Mr Brenan does,? V.S. Pritchett once said, ?and none has written about Spanish life, literature and history so searchingly.? The Face of Spain, Brenan?s classic travel book, gives us both a bird?s-eye view of life in Spain under Franco in 1949 and insights into a Spain and its people that are timeless and eternal. He wrote it for the first-time visitor as well as for the confirmed Hispanophile, providing a blend of history, anecdotes and digressions ? on Baroque art, on the thriving black market, on his search for Lorca?s grave in Granada, on wines, waiters and churches ? that adds up to an account richly redolent with the flavours of Spain. ?The ideal travel book would combine the fresh vision of the tourist with the experience of the oldest inhabitant. Such a combination hardly ever occurs. Mr Brenan has achieved this miraculous conjunction of the old and the new eye, of familiarity and surprise? ? Harold Nicolson in the Observer. CONTENTS Introduction by John Wolfers Preface Preface to the Penguin Edition Madrid Cordova Hill Towns of Andalusia Málaga Churriana Granada Cordova and the Sierra Morena La Mancha Badajoz Mérida Talavera and Toledo Aranjuez and Madrid.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Duvoisin, Roger (illustratore). Limited Edition, no. 634 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator and printed at the Plantin Press. Original publisher's multicolored cloth binding backed with black cloth in an orange paper-covered slipcase. Gilt lettering on book spine. Black spine label on slipcase. Cloth-covered boards have a silky texture. 7 3/4" x 11 1/2." 176 pages ([iv] v-xix, 1-154), complete. Thirty-four illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Two Limited Editions Club ephemera laid in: a notice and the club's monthly letter. Former owner's bookplate of Edwin P. Goodrich tipped in on front pastedown. Pages and covers of the book, slipcase, and ephemera are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. The paper notice has been detached (cut) along the spine. A Fine book in a Fine slipcase. A short story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833-1891), a Spanish author best-known for this work. The Three-Corned Hat has been compared to Don Quixote and is about a host of fictional characters who live in a quaint Andalusian town. Among the characters, the miller Lucas, Lucas's wife Frasquita, the mayor Don Eugenio (known for his eponymous three-cornered hat), and Eugenio's wife Dona Mercedes. Printed on title page: "Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Plantin Press, en el Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles." Back colophon: "Of this edition of The Three-Cornered Hat fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Saul & Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles. The illustrations have been drawn by Roger Duvoisin, who here signs, ["Roger Duvoisin" in black ink], this copy, which is number 634." A Fine book in a Fine slipcase. Two pieces of paper ephemera laid in: corresponding four-page Monthly Letter of the Limited Editions Club (November 1959, Number 312) and a notice with the title, "Number 2," the latter of which is about the book's specifications. The following is an excerpt from the notice: "The second, in this Twenty-eighth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club, is The Three-Cornered Hat by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, with an introduction by Gerald Brenan. The thirty-four color and black-and-white illustrations have been drawn by Roger Duvoisin. The book has been designed, and the text and illustrations printed, by Saul and Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press in Los Angeles, and they have chosen the sixteen-point size of Bembo for the text. The page size is 7 1/2" x 11 1/4 inches and there are 176 pages. The paper is Curtis Rag made specially for this edition by the Curtis Paper Company. The binding is a colorful fabric named, appropriately, Granada Tiles.". Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. 4to. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, one of 1500 copies. SIGNED by illustrator. Some wear to spine ends. VG.