translated german michael hulse (14 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. 1st UK Edition. There is some light discoloration around the edges of the dustjacket.

Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Always fine work by this author.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Third printing in this format with a number string 3579864. Bump to top right hand corner of text block resulting in some shallow creases otherwise a firm, clean copy in French fold wrappers.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Very good in monochrome photo-illustrated card covers with integral folding French flaps, with silver titles to the spine and front cover. There are some light creases to the edges, mainly on the back cover, but the covers are clean and only lightly marked. No major creases or tears, and no reading creases to the spine. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. There is a light abrasion to the bottom of the fore-edge of the page block, and some creasing and marking to the bottom corner of the last few pages (please see scans). No inscriptions. Apart from the aforementioned creasing and marking to the last few pages, the interior pages are clean and bright. No tears. ***210mm x150mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap) ***First impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published as a paperback original (simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition). A good reading copy of the original printing of this Sebald classic. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Very good in monochrome photo-illustrated card covers with integral folding French flaps, with silver titles to the spine and front cover. There are some light creases to the edges, but the covers are clean and unmarked. No major creases or tears, and no reading creases to the spine. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. There is some light staining to the top of the fore-edge of the page block, but this doesn't really affect the interior pages. Internally also very good with no inscriptions, but please note that a previous owner has neatly clipped the top corner of the front free endpaper (probably removing an old ownership name). Interior pages clean and bright. No creases. ***210mm x150mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap) ***First impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published as a paperback original (simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition). A good reading copy of the original printing of this Sebald classic. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition with number-string sequence as follows: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Very good in illustrated card covers with integral French flaps, with black titles to the spine and front cover. Edges of covers just slightly rubbed, but without any creases or tears. Corners quite sharp, with corner tips just slightly creased. There is a slight bump to the top outer corner of the page block - affecting the top corners of some of the pages (please see scans). No reading creases to the spine, but the spine colour is severely bleached, also affecting the front and back covers near the spine (please see scans). Fore-edge of page block slightly marked. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good with pages clean and bright. No previous ownership inscriptions. No creases or tears - just the aforementioned creases at the top outer corner of the page block. ***210mm x150mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trail of destruction that human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' ***'"The Emigrants" was one of the great books of the last few years and now "The Rings of Saturn" is a similar and as strange a triumph.' - Michael Ondaatje (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap and the back cover respectively) ***A good reading copy of the first impression of the first UK wrappers issue of W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn", published simultaneously with a scarce hardback edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First American edition. Light foxing on page edges, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition, with the full number-string sequence including the no. "1" on the printer's page: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Near fine in illustrated card covers. The covers are clean and unmarked - just very lightly rubbed at the edges. No bumps or creases. Page block edges tanned - top edge lightly foxed and discoloured. No reading lean. No reading creases to the spine. No fading. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Interior pages clean - paper stock lightly tanned. Tiny unobtrusive 1mm nick to outer edge of pages 109-112. ***198mm x128mm. 237 pages plus eight pages of publisher's adverts to rear. ***'"The Emigrants" at first appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish exiles or emigres in the twentieth century. Gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose works its magic, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.' (Quote taken from the back cover) ***The first work by W, G. Sebald to be translated into English. Published initially as a hardback in 1996 by Harvill Press, this is the first impression of the first UK paperback edition of "The Emigrants". Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition, with the full number-string sequence: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with a low print-run hardback edition, which was aimed mainly at libraries. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Very good in illustrated card covers with integral French-flaps, with black titles to the spine and front cover. The covers are clean and unmarked - just very slightly rubbed. The book would be near fine but for a bump to the bottom outer corner of the page block (please see scans). Corners otherwise sharp. Unusually, there are no reading creases to the spine, and no reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Covers bright and the spine remains completely unfaded (unusual for this title). Page block edges clean, with just a very small indentation to a couple of page edges (hardly noticeable). Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No creases or tears. Printed on nice quality paper. ***210mm x150mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trail of destruction that human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' ***'"The Emigrants" was one of the great books of the last few years and now "The Rings of Saturn" is a similar and as strange a triumph.' - Michael Ondaatje (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap and the back cover respectively) ***A first impression of the first UK wrappers issue of W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn", published simultaneously with a scarce hardback edition, in very good condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition, with the full number-string sequence: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with a low print-run hardback edition, which was aimed mainly at libraries. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Near fine in illustrated card covers with integral French-flaps, with black titles to the spine and front cover. The covers are clean and unmarked - just very slightly rubbed, and with a slight scuff tear at the top of the spine. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. There are very light reading creases to the spine, but no reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Covers bright and the spine is hardly faded at all. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No creases or tears. Printed on nice quality paper. ***210mm x150mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trail of destruction that human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' ***'"The Emigrants" was one of the great books of the last few years and now "The Rings of Saturn" is a similar and as strange a triumph.' - Michael Ondaatje (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap and the back cover respectively) ***A first impression of the first UK wrappers issue of W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn", published simultaneously with a scarce hardback edition, in unusually nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition, with the full number-string sequence: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with a low print-run hardback edition, which was aimed mainly at libraries. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Near fine in illustrated card covers with integral French-flaps, with black titles to the spine and front cover. The covers are clean and unmarked - just very slightly rubbed, and with a slight scuff tear at the top of the spine. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Unusually, there are no reading creases to the spine, and no reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Covers bright and the spine is hardly faded at all. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No creases or tears. Printed on nice quality paper. ***210mm x150mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trail of destruction that human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' ***'"The Emigrants" was one of the great books of the last few years and now "The Rings of Saturn" is a similar and as strange a triumph.' - Michael Ondaatje (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap and the back cover respectively) ***A first impression of the first UK wrappers issue of W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn", published simultaneously with a scarce hardback edition, in unusually nice condition - just slightly scuffed at the top of the spine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition, with the full number-string sequence: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with a low print-run hardback edition, which was aimed mainly at libraries. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Near fine in illustrated card covers with integral French-flaps, with black titles to the spine and front cover. The covers are clean and unmarked - just very slightly rubbed, and with a slight indentation on the front cover. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. There are light reading creases to the spine, but no reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Covers bright and the spine is hardly faded at all. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. Very slight creasing to the fore-edge of a few pages (hardly noticeable) - otherwise no creases or tears. Printed on nice quality paper. ***210mm x150mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trail of destruction that human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' ***'"The Emigrants" was one of the great books of the last few years and now "The Rings of Saturn" is a similar and as strange a triumph.' - Michael Ondaatje (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap and the back cover respectively) ***A first impression of the first UK wrappers issue of W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn", published simultaneously with a scarce hardback edition, in unusually nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First UK Edition. Second impression of the scarce first UK hardback edition with the number-string sequence as follows: 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. The hardback edition was published simultaneously with a paperback edition, but had a much smaller print-run, and only ran to three impressions. ***Please note that this is an ex-library copy, and the front free endpaper and half-title pages have been removed.*** Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***A good copy in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners of front board also creased. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally, the book is also very good, with clean and unmarked pages except for the following library marks to the interior as follows: front free endpaper and half-title pages removed, and title page glued at the gutter, Suffolk County Libraries & Heritage withdrawn library stamp to the title page. Surprisingly, there are no other obvious library interventions, and very little creasing to the pages. ***In a very good original illustrated dustwrapper, with a front cover illustration from a painting by J. A. M. Whistler 'Harmony in Blue and Silver, Trouville'. The dustwrapper is complete, but the library has for some reason price-clipped the front flap. The dustwrapper remains clean, with just slight rubbing and creasing at the extremities. The spine of the dustwrapper is faded, also affecting the edges of the panels near the spine. The dustwrapper is however well preserved for an ex-library copy. ***216mm x155mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" records a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, the author's home for more than twenty years; it is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. The narrator extends the horizons of Suffolk to embrace the exploitation in the Congo witnessed by Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement, the succession to the Dragon throne in Chinese history, the lives and writings of Thomas Browne, Jorge Luis Borges, Chateaubriand, silkworm cultivation, Ireland's troubles, and the "ethnic cleansing" carried out fifty years ago in Bosnia. ***"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trails of destruction human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend of fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***An ex-library copy of the second impression of the hardcover issue of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn'. This hardback issue was issued simultaneously with the more commonly found wrappers issue, and was probably intended mainly for library distribution (as per this copy). Copies of the first three impressions in hardcover in any condition are now scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. A clean ex-library copy of the first impression of the first UK edition, with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This hardcover edition was published simultaneously with a more commonly found paperback edition. The hardcover copies were aimed mainly at public lending libraries, and so are much harder to find now. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Although ex-library, this is a very clean near fine copy in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of the spine just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. The page block has sagged slightly at the spine due to the heavy-gauge paper used. Internally, the book is also near fine, with just the following library marks: 'Marlborough College Memorial Library' stamps crossed out in ink on the front pastedown and free endpaper, an ink code at the top of the front free endpaper, and a barcode on the rear pastedown - no other internal marks and hardly any signs of handling. The pages are clean and unmarked. No creasing or tears - the book feels largely unread. No foxing. Spine tight with no reading lean. ***In a near fine monochrome illustrated dustwrapper, which is not price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's price of £16.99 on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just very rubbing to the edges. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. The dustwrapper has been very well preserved by the original library jacket - now replaced with a thin (removable) protective sleeve. ***217mm x155mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A really clean ex-library copy of the first impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published in hardcover - far fewer copies were printed in this format compared with the simultaneous paperback edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.