robert phelps introduction (10 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 605 pages. Tear on the dust jacket at the top of the spine. Stories.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Jacqueline Schuman (Cover Design); Cynthia Krupat (Design) (illustratore). Noonday Press Edition/12th Printing. 605 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine and front cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small octavo. B&W illustrations. Condition: minor wear to DJ; bottom edges of covers rubbed through; inked name & date to first free endpaper; else VG/VG. 235 pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Text/NEW w/margin discoloration. Soft cover/VG; strong; light edge wear, also discolored, and slight lean to spine. Collection of letters author, poet, screenwriter and film critic James Rufus Agee (1909 - 1955) and 1958 posthumous recipient of the Pultizer for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), wrote to Episcopal priest Father James Harold Flye. Father Flye was both close friend and spiritual confidant. The letters span 30 years --- from Agee's entrance to Phillips Exeter to his death in 1955.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing stated. Light soiling to boards, else a clean, solid hardcover bound in quarter cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($19.95) with mild wear to the upper spine end, else attractive and whole. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy in jacket. xvi, 605pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. A selection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited and with an introduction by William Lyon Phelps. Includes his notable "Virginibus Puerisque," as well as biographical sketches of authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Pepys and Walt Whitman; and on many other topics relating to human nature. An entry in publisher's Modern Student Library series. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with titling and series vignette gilt-stamped on cover, titling in gilt on spine. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With near complete dulling to spine titling, some chafing to head of spine, else a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xvi, 323, [6, ads] pages.

paperback. Condizione: Fine Condition. Uncorrected proof. Bound in publisher's original plain pumpkin wrappers with the front cover stamped in black.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean, tight, unread copy with price ($5.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. All B&W photographs intact. Jacket has light edgewear and rubbing, as well as a sticker shadow on the front jacket cover. Very light water staining to jacket spine (all as pictured). Rorem won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976 for his Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. #1667/2000, signed on the colophon by the illustrator Francoise Gilot. Contains three silkscreens by Francoise Gilot printed at Studio Heinrici. Slipcase has light rubbing/shelf wear. Blue silk covered boards are crunched a tad head/tail of spine, edges are a little sunned and there are a few light scuffs. Interior is clean. Includes the Monthly Letter. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011. Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. xxii, 441 p. 21 cm. ; original Halcyon LCCN 48000549 ; LOC No BX885 .S45 1947 ; Dewey 282.082 ; white, black and green pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; "Biographical note": p. 409-438. ; Contents: The Nativity/St Luke - Eight beatitudes/St Matthew - I am true vine/St John - Crucifixion/St Mark - Mission of Saint Paul/Acts of Apostles - Greatest of these/St Paul - Before throne/ Apocalypse - From canon of Mass/Missale Romanum - Petition to God saints/Litany of saints - Prophecy/Justin Martyr - Fire of love/Epistle to Diognetus - To Romans/St Ignatius - presbyters/St Polycarp - martyrdom of St Polycarp/Eusebius - Testimony of Christian soul/Tertullian - In memory of Nepotian/St Jerome - St Augustine & his mother/St Augustine - Shadow of things to come/St Augustine - To Mother of God/St Cyril - Abbot/the rule of St Benedict - Cellerar/the rule of St Benedict - Prayer to Virgin Mary/St Bernard - Glory of body/St Bernard - Consolatrix afflictorum/St Bernard - Conversion of Abelard/Peter venerable - St Bernard/Alan of Auxerre - Charlemagne/Eginhard - King Otto is victorious/Luitprand of Cremona - St Louis/Joinville - Of blessed man Paul simple/Paradise of fathers - Of blessed woman Thais/Paradise of fathers - On fall of Eutropius/St John Chrysostom - A mother's demand/Liber exemplorum - Jackdaw of Rheims/Patrologia latina - A storm at Matins/Guibert, abbot of Nogent-sour-Coucy - Give that ye may receive/Caesarius of Heisterbach - Virgin of Chartres/Abbot Haimon - Wisdom & Church of God/King Alfred - Life of man/Venerable Bede - Death of Caedmon/Venerable Bede - King Canute passes/Thomas of Ely - Love without ending/Blessed Juliana of Norwich - Cross/Richard Rolle - Meditation/Cloud of Unknowing - Testimony of St Jeanne D'Arc/Trial of Jeanne D'Arc - St Francis & stigmata/The "Little Flowers of St Francis" - A parable/Thomas of Eccleston - Of nativity of our lord Jesus Christ/St Bonaventure - Hail Mary/St Bonaventure - Pope Benedict XII/Thomas de Burton - Husband & wife/St Bernardine of Siena - Saint Martin/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Elizabeth/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Marcellinus/Jacobus de Voragine - Just war/St Thomas Aquinas - Evil men do/Roger Bacon - Science/Roger Bacon - Sermon preached against tyrants/Girolamo Savonarola - Meeting with Beatrice/Dante Alighieri - Dante/Giovanni Boccacio - O stelliferi conditor orbis/Geoffrey Chaucer - Books/Richard de Bury - Paradise/John Mandeville - Morality/Innocent morality - From 'Morte d'Arthur'/Thomas Malory - Holy poverty/Rule of St Francis - Customs of chivalry/John Froissart - All work & no play/Fitzstephen - At table/ErasmusFaith & comfort/St Thomas More - Last letter to his daughter/St Thomas More - Farewell of Saint Thomas More/William Roper - Death of Lady Margaret/John Fisher - Lady Margaret/Robert Southwell - Mary, Queen of Scots/Pierre de Bourdeille - Letter to Pope Gregory XI/St Catherine of Siena - Letter to Sister Daniella of Orvieto/St Catherine of Siena - Dialogue of heart/John Gerson - O sweet & savory word/Thomas a Kempis - Things that bring much peace/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer against evil thoughts/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer for mental illumination/Thomas a Kempis - True comfort/Thomas a Kempis - How great is abundance/Thomas a Kempis - Judgment day/Blessed John Ruysbroeck - Address to beloved/Ramon Lull - Questions/Ramon Lull - Hope in mercy of God/St Teresa of Avila - Distribution of alms/St Ignatius Loyola - Michaelangelo & religious art/Francisco de Hollanda - Leonardo da Vinci/Giorgio Vasari - Image & reality/Baldesar Castiglione - On heights/Francesco Petrarca - Elizabethan seminarians/Anthony Munday - Popular preacher/Joseph Francis Isla - Adventure of windmills/Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Saladin & Rosader/Thomas Lodge - Divine goodness/St Francis de Sales - Courtesy/St Francis de Sales - Brother Lawrence/Practice of presence of God - Prayer/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - At profession of Madame de la Valliere/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - education of girls/ ; FINE. Book.