Van doren carl foreword (11 risultati)

Condizione: VERY GOOD. First thus. A novel originally published in 1921, issued here with a new introduction by Carl Van Doren. The NY Times review described this as a "great book. Here are pity and truth and laughter, gentlest compassion, fiercest irony." ix, 379 pp. Very good in navy blue cloth with red lettering on spine, embossed decoration on front cover (corners bumped) in a good only dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the folds. price of $1.50 on front flap.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Square, strong, and completely unmarked copy with moderate shelving wear to board corners and lightly toned interior. No dust jacket.

Condizione: GOOD. First US printing. Herbert's first book, a classic of Australian literature, based in part on his experiences as Protector of Aborigines in Darwin, and winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Australia's Best Novel of 1939. An account of life on the northern frontier of Australia over a period of 25 years from the first World War to the beginning of the second. While the synopsis describes this as a "story built around the efforts of a halfcaste, the son of a white man and a bush woman, to win a place for himself. It is intensely interesting, bursting with life, tough, full of humor and violence, and provides as authentic a picture of Australian frontier life as has ever been made available" Carl Van Doren in his introduction comments that the question of the mixed race descendants is handled by Herbert with "a fiery sense of the injustice and inhumanity with which these innocents victims are treated." vii, 649 pp. Map endpapers. Laid in is a newspaper article from 1985 with an account of the friendship between a young former bank teller and Herbert after the death of his wife. Good overall in blue cloth - some rubbing and wear to the covers, a bit of fraying to the ends of the spine, but overall tight and sturdy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Later. Good plus/ former owner's name inside, wear on corners and spine-ends w/a white marking on cover.

Condizione: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Literature, Bibliography, Recomendations) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First American edition. Title page taped in, small stain on page fine foredges, spine faded with extremities a bit worn, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. A fictional account of life in 'Capricornia', a place in Australia.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Reader's Club 1942 Reprint Very Good/ NO DUST JACKET. Light soil to grey cloth with logo on front. Dark-blue and orange lettering on spine. Solid structure, pages lightly tanned. 311 pages. A few pages spotted. Upper page edges dyed blue. HEAVY ITEM. No Exp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with small nicks on spine ends, small stamp on front flap. Dustwrapper featuring blurbs by Carl Van Doren and H.G. Wells. A fictional account of life in 'Capricornia', a place in Australia.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Book is in fine condition; pages are clean and binding is tight. One of 250 copies. B1.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition Thus. Limited Editions Club release. 1932 latest date at copyright. Later edition; unstated. Richly bound in taupe linen boards exhibiting sharp sheen, gilt stamped cover and spine titles, fine. Leaves of finest paper imported from England, Basingwerk Parchment, more beautiful and permanent than any other. Illustrated by the greatest European Romantic artist, Eugene Delacroix with eighteen painstakingly reproduced lithographs using the collotype method. Frontispiece illustrated bust of Goethe with his signature. Preserved in a light grey slipcase and still possessing the original glassine wrapper. Wrapper separated at spine area, other wise fine. Bind fine, square; hinges fully intact. Includes original Heritage Press literary supplement laying bare the effort and diligence put forth producing this finely crafted, richly beautiful volume and the history of Goethe and Delecroix's amicable, respectful as artists, relation during their lifetimes. Goethe gave high praise to these illustrations during his lifetime, saying they opened new insights into his very own masterwork. The eighteen lithographs are accepted as perfect pictures, enlivening and supplementing Faust's text and stimulating the imagination and intelllect. Considered one of the greatest illustrated books ever. This book utilizes a set of pulls of the original Delacroix lithographs, in the first state of their first edition commissioned to Arthur Jaffe by the New York Public Library. Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Faust, an audacious man, boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate. 183 pages with xiv introductory pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Delacroix, Eugene (illustratore).…