montalk (8 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gift inscribed and signed by the author. Feels unread.

Condizione: Sehr gut. 673 Seiten; Zustand: sehr gut. Geringfügige Gebrauchs- oder Lagerspuren. 459 ISBN 9798395296115 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1140 23,5 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, illustrierter Einband ohne Schutzumschlag, Pappe.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Set in hand and printed by foot by the Count at Victoria Univ. Press wrappers.

Softcover. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Incomplete.; Scarce. NB: incomplete copy. Issue twelve, December 1939. Pages unnumbered. [14] leaves including front cover and two illustrations. Page dimensions: 226 x 145mm. This issue includes the continuation of "Part One: In the Halls of Admetos" of "Return to Apollo - The Life Story of Count Potocki of Montalk". The issue includes the woodcut "Tiki" by Marguerite Salle, and a woodcut of Count Potocki's horoscope. This issue reprints a letter to Potocki by Aldous Huxley, the letters is headed "Publishers Will Be Shy" and has Huxley's thought on a manuscript of Potocki's - "I think you might have a fuller amd more elaborate description of the Vallombrosa garden and of your mother: this wd serve to emphasize the difference between the paradisal beginning of the story and its hellish continuation.".

Softcover. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Front cover detached. Loss of lower 70mm of front cover, include losss of lower half of Contents lists on inside of front cover.; Scarce. Issue sixteen, May 1943. 36, [4 ("HIS MAJESTY WLADYSLAW THE FIFTH [. . .] Proclamation to the English, the Poles, the Germans and the jews.")] pages + folding genealogical chart "The Pedigree of His Majesty Wladyslaw the Fifth" pages. Double page map of eastern Europe within the pagination. Page dimensions: 220 x 142mm. Poetry includes "Four Sonnets to a Beautiful Polish Girl". [Also included: covers only (front and rear) to June 1939 issue (number 10); and two leaves from a later issue (after October 1946), including antisemitic content. "We say that the Allies have pursued the war in a spirit of gloating wickedness. and that the general tone of their propaganda, and this includes the 'Polish' and other Allied radios and publications, was so revolting as to make one ashamed of belonging to the human race"; "The perpetrators of this trial & of things analogous to it will be punished not so much by Werewolves as by the Deathless Gods.".

Softcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Front and rear covers detached. Front cover with losses to margins, with some loss of text on inside of front cover. Foxing to the 2 wood-cut leaves and 2 adjacent leaves. ; Scarce. Issue eleven. Pages unnumbered. [14] leaves including covers and the two woodcuts. Page dimensions: 227 x 145mm. "The woodcuts in this issue are by HANN; the letter to Vicount Gort is in lieu of a leading article, as it shows succinctly the Editor's opinions and intentions." - from inside rear cover. This issue includes "Part One: In the Halls of Admetos" of "Return to Apollo - The Life Story of Count Potocki of Montalk".

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Front and rear covers detached, and reattached with archival paper tape. Losses to inner margins of covers. Tear across rear cover with archival paper tape repair. ; Scarce. Issue fifteen, Spring 1943. Complex pagination - [1-2] 3-13 [1] 13A 14-15 15A 19A16-17 [1] 17B 18-19 [2] 20-23 42 25-31 [1] pages. [20] leaves in total, including covers and three woodcuts. Page dimensions: 218 x 138mm. This issue includes 3 woodcuts by Sir George Hann - Sir John Harvey; Mother and Chld; Lydia. Includes poetry by Count Potocki of Montalk.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Small octavo. Red cloth gilt. A fine copy. Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk was born in Auckland, New Zealand, moved to England in 1926 and settled in France in 1949. In 1932 he was "arrested after attempting to publish a manuscript of erotic translations of works by Rabelais and Verlaine, with three short bawdy verses of his own. The charge was 'obscene libel'. he was sentenced to six months in prison. Aldous Huxley. later funded the purchase of Potock's first printing press." [per Wikipedia].