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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Bumping along edges and tips of boards. Fading and rubbing to boards. Spine creases. Writing on front board. University stamp and student's name on front end page. Student's name on front flyleat. Initials on fore edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CLASSIC: SUPERB: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1983) Second Printing (c. 1998): NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showig $27.50 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW navy-blue Brillianta silk-finish linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin-Nyalite opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.78", 0.90 kg, 1252 pp. * CONTENTS: Democracy (1), Esther (185), Mont Saint Michel & Chartres (337), The Education of Henry Adams (715), Poems (1193); Chronology (1209), Note on the Texts (1217), Notes (1229) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume includes the best-known works of Henry Adams, one of the most powerful & original minds to illuminate the American scene from the Civil War to WW I. Here for the first time in a single volume, these works show the many forms (fiction, poetry, autobiography, philosophical & historical speculation) in which Adams gave expression to his vision of the meaning of the unsettling changes in American life & values. Each of the 2 novels, "Democracy" & "Esther", chooses a woman on whom to center the effects of social change. In "Democracy", Madeleine Lee, an emancipated & idealistic young widow, moves to Washington to learn the nature of political power & is disillusioned upon discovering the intrigues of rampant corruption. The free-thinking heroine in "Esther", caught in the warfare between science & religion, finds that she cannot surrender her moral independence, even to marry a clergyman. Adams, though a man of the modern world, remained in temperament a child of the 18th century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams & grandfather John Quincy Adams. The failure of those ideals to withstand the challenges of an industrialized America drove him to seek refuge in the study of the medieval age of faith in France. Out of it came his skeptic's "Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres". Her presence dominates the book that followed: "Mont Saint Michel & Chartres". In evocative & sensitive prose Adams moves from the architecture, sculpture, & stained glass of Chartres to the religion, literature, politics, social order, & crusades of the 11th, 12th, & 13th centuries. Adams translates the poetry of courtly love & recounts the drama of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life & the timeless love of Abelard & Heloise. The narrative rises at the end to the brilliantly re-enacted drama of St. Thomas Aquinas' victory over the rival philosophers. If "Mont Saint Michel" portrayed a world unified by a common faith, "The Education of Henry Adams" portrayed a world irresistibly moving toward chaos. The world once unified by the Virgin was now ruled by the impersonal Dynamo & already confronted by the "metaphysical bomb" of radium & the prospect of infinite energy for man's use. Adams balances, w/ extraordinary urbanity & wit, the rival claims he found as much in himself as in modern civilization. Together, these 2 works still pose an urgent question: Can the human mind ultimately control the monstrous aggregates of power which it has wrung from nature? * ERNEST SAMUELS (1903-1996), volume editor, was emeritus professor of English at Northwestern University & author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 vol. biography of Henry Adams. JAYNE N. SAMULES, co-editor, was an assistant editor of the Letters of Henry Adams. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts, & restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: NEW Library of America hardcover, First Edition (Orig. 1985) First Printing, NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $27.50 pub. price at inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW rust-crimson silk-finish Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, impeccable white-on-purple LOA patterned end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Olin Nyallite paper * 5.24" x 8.12" x 1.32", 0.68 kg, 1034 pp * CONTENTS: Faulkner: Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying (1), Sanctuary (179), Light in August (399), & Pylon (775); Chronology (993), Note on the Texts (1019), Notes (1028) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Between 1930 & 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius & creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the 20th century. "As I Lay Dying" is a dark comedy, full of horror & compassion, of a rural Mississippi family bearing the corpse of their matriarch to burial in town. "Sanctuary", a violent novel of sex & social class that moves from Mississippi back roads to the fleshpots of Memphis, features a sadistic gangster named Popeye & a debutante w/ an affinity for evil. "Light in August", a near-religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life, is perhaps Faulkner's most moving work. "Pylon", a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines bonds of loyalty & desire among 3 men & a woman. All 4 novels are presented in restored texts as part of The LOA's new authoritative edition of Faulkner's complete works. * ABOUT THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAl: The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America'S literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

no dustjacket, hardcover. Condizione: very good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 1,008 pages; very good hardcover no dustjacket; spine just starting to slant; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking; in very good shape for a used book; start or add to your collection of the works of William Faulkner!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1998, Very Good to Fine/no djs, octavos, maroon boards hardcovers, gold lettering on black backstrip title labels, 3 volumes complete, Volume 1: Prefaces, Postscripts and Related Writings, 336pp.; Volume 2: Letters and Passages Restored from the Original Manuscripts of the History of Clarissa 1751, 324pp.; Volume 3: A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions and Reflections, Contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison 1755, 437pp.; covers just very slightly rubbed, bindings all tight, texts all clean & unmarked, requires extra postage for International shipping.