John payne transl (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Past Owner's Inscription, Front Endpapers.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG-. No Jacket. First Thus. Black 1/4 cloth, brown marbled paper covered boards. No. 521 of an edition limited to 1,050 numbered copies. Spine panel mildly sunned, with a bit of wrinkling (likely a vintage repair) toward head and 1" separation of cloth along lower front joint, also some evidence of repair to rear hinge (which is firm). Corners are rubbed with exposure but no layering. Firm binding, clean interior, with gatherings still unopened along top edges. xxxvi,313 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

first edition thus 250pp [b/w frontis.] VG (tan cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,owner's sign.to ffep,untrimmed content edges sl.soiled/browned).

Full-Leather. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. Limited. Full green leather, lettered/decorated in gilt, 3 raised spine bands, edged in gilt with silk book ribbon bound in, moire endpapers. 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition. An area of mild rubbing on upper front cover, otherwise s issued. xii,674 pp. + extensive unpaginated notes at rear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arthur Szyk (illustratore). Book.…

Hard cover. Condizione: Good. No jacket. Three volume set in slipcase. Edges of slipcase are shelf-worn and smudged. Cover boards of all three volumes are in excellent condition with no visible flaws aside from light handling wear. Light foxing on spines of all volumes, not affecting legibility of text. Bindings of all three volumes are tight. Bottom edge of fold-out facsimile of Boccaccio's sketches in volume three is jagged and lightly creased due to printer error. Text blocks are lightly foxed, not visible on edges of pages. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 1500; this is copy 1499. Beautiful woodcuts by Simon accompany almost each piece; Simon's signature. Text block edges rough-cut side and bottom, gold top. Light wear on boards' edges and corners, top and bottom of spine; faint mark on front board (see image). Very faint sticker shadow on back paste-down. Interior pages tight and clean. No jacket or slipcase. 103 pages, 7 3/4" x 11 1/2". Howard Simon (illustratore). Signed by Illustrator(s). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Slipcased two volume hardcover set, both books have a minor skew to their binding, bumps to their spine ends, rubbing with faint smudges to their cloth, and light sunning to their spine. Overall, this is a solid, Very Good set in a a Good+ slipcase, which has wear with peeling and flakes to the paper around the opening, a bit of lifting to the paper along the edges, rubbing to panels, and sunning to the edges. Szyk, Arthur (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1822 William Storer / Gray & Hewit, Printers (New Haven, Connecticut) 4 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches tall leather covered boards, gilt ruling and burgundy leather gilt-lettered label to spine, 8vo., 210 pp. First thus (American Imprints 9093), first printing of the Imitation in Connecticut (Shoemaker 9094, Parsons 778). Covers are scuffed, rubbed and bumped. Both front and rear hinges are cracked but hold firm. Inside, moderate foxing and some staining. ~KMP~ [1.5P] This uncommon early American printing is a translation from the original Latin by an English Protestant who has sought to de-Catholicize the work as far as possible: Quotations from the Bible, which in the Latin are given from the Vulgate Bible (i.e., the Roman Catholic authorized text), in their English translations here are given from the King James and not the Douai-Rheims or Challoner versions. The Imitation (or De Imitatione Christi) was written in the fifteenth century in Latin by Augustinian monk Thomas a Kempis (circa 1380-1471), as four separate books completed between 1420 and 1427, at Mount Saint Agnes monastery, in the town of Windesheim, located in what is now the Netherlands. He wrote these works for the instruction of novices of his monastic order, followers of Geert Groote's Brethren of the Common Life. But the writings quickly became popular among all the literate faithful. They were copied together in one manuscript as early as 1427, by Kempis, and copied (and later printed) together fairly consistently thereafter.…

Like new. Rich gilt decoration. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 8°, collector`s edition bound in genuine leather.

Berkely,Universiy of Califoria Press, 1986.948 pp., 4to, softcover.

first edition thus [3 vols.] 303/301/301pp [b/w frontis.] VG (tan cloth,mod.rubbed and stained,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,owner's inscr.to ffep all vols.,untrimmed content edges sl.soiled/browned).