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Very light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1958 edition. ; Vol. 1; 256 pages
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. One inside corner creased (see photo). Full green cloth boards with gilt lettering and pasted-down illustration. 8"w x 11"h. 70 pages. Watercolor illustrations by Barbara Nickerson. Signed by Peter Kahle on the title page.
208 pages of sheet music for voice and piano. Prior owner's name and very faint bookstore stamp upon beautifully colour-illustrated front cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. Clear tape repairs to backstrip which is missing bottom two inches. Binding holding. A worthy vintage copy. Book
68 p. Loss on top margin of title page. Lacks fly leaves. Foxed. 24mo. 140 mm. Disbound. Title continues: "From the french of M. M. d'Aubigney et Poujol, by Richard Jones, O the theatres royal Covent-garden and Haymarket. As Performed at the Haymarket and New-York Theatres. [from the first London edition, of 1818]." S&S/AI 48388. Disbound. AI BX 7
223 pages. Index. Illustrated in color and black and white. "Never short of anecdotes about Walt Disney and the other early artists (or the jokes they played on each other), the authors present a funny, charming, and authoritative story of just how Disney elevated animation from jumpy stick figures acting out gags to genuine works of art that move - and, furthermore, move their audiences. In this unique volume, the authors not only fully explain Disney humor as no one else could but they lavishly illustrate - with original drawings preserved in the Archives! - the various kinds of sight gags that were used in creating the greatest body of work in world animation. This is the book that finally reveals the true key to Disney humor." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average wear and soiling. Hinges taped. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy. Book
pp. xxiv, 770. XLib. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn and chipped. From Aesop to Thomas Wolfe, an indexed guide to humor and satire in world literature, HUMOR 4
pp. xxi, 163. Illustrated with water-colors by Rene ben Sussan, key black printed in collotype by Louis Duval, hand-colored by Maurice Beaufume; designed by Francis Meynell; hand-set in fell types; William Nash special paper. 4to. 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Printed and bound by the Oxford University Press in half sanguine buckram, gold-stamped, decorated ivory buckram sides. Original slip case. Inked ownership of Jefford F. Oller, the original subscriber, on front fly leaf. Includes the Monthly Letter. Number 420 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. Fine copy. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W96
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped and well rubbed with small pieces missing from corners and enclosed tear to spine. 336pp. A series of concise biographies of the comedy giants of show business over fifty years from around the 1920s showcased by full-page black & white photographs of the stars.
Yellow duodecimo (orange spine) ; [12], 63 p : color illus ; 14 cm Number 157 out of 390 copies // American wit and humor -- Pictorial -- Illustrated books -- California -- History
Octavo in yellow DJ; 188 p : b&w illus/plates; 21 cm. Unfolds the life of the merry prankster Tyll, from his rowdy infancy to his final joke at his own funeral. || Humor.
First edition of this important compilation of medieval comedies, most of which are practically impossible to find elsewhere. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. 8vo, publisher's cloth. Uncut. Near fine. Bossuat 5846 and 5904; Gay III, 953; Brunet IV, 1147; Graesse VI(1), 48.
Near Fine First Edition. No significant faults with book or DJ. Inscription from the author on the front endpaper. Octavo 297pp. Comedic look at the events of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and sport in general.
Very faint foxing else book is fine. ; 196 pages; In writing this book on the plays of New Comedy the author's aim is to fill a gap in the existing literature by concentrating on what one might look for in watching and reading these plays and why such an exercise might be pleasurable. The social comedy of Menander, Plautus and Terence provided a style of comic drama which was to prove the root of all subsequent western comedy. Dr Hunter gives a literary account of this drama, placing it in its ancient context and then ranging over a number of specific topics and themes: the dramatic craft of the poets, their exploration of how to give variety to stereotyped plots and characters, the presentation of women, the use of language and themes from tragedy, the place of moralising and philosophy. All Greek and Latin is translated.
Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Erlanger Beiträge Zur Sprach- Und Kunstwissenschaft; Band 38; 148 pages
3 VOLUMI IN COFANETTO GUIDA 1983 VOLUME 1: La casa del gatto che gioca e altri racconti / Honoré de Balzac; a cura di Francesco Fiorentino; 210 pagine; 22 cm.; VOLUME 2: Rapporto della visita di Capitan Tempesta in Paradiso e due piccoli racconti. Il ranocchio saltatore e altre storie / Marc Twain; Prefazione di Corrado Alvaro; 225 pagine; 22 cm.; VOLUME 3: Novelle asiatiche / Arthur de Gobineau; Prefazione di Clotilde Izzo; a cura di Paola Sodo; 311 pagine FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: LIEVI SEGNI DEL TEMPO AL COFANETTO, VOLUMI INTONSI, PERFETTI.
1983 PREFAZIONE DI FRANCESCO FIORENTINO, 211 PP. SEGNI DEL TEMPO ALLA COPERTINA (COME DA FOTO), LIEVI FIORITURE, OTTIME CONDIZIONI GENERALI. In questo libro sono raccolte tre novelle della giovinezza di Balzac, tre episodi che aprono la "Commedia umana": "La casa del gatto che gioca": in questo esordio conta, forse più della caratterizzazione dei personaggi, quella dell'ambiente borghese a cui si riferisce il titolo. La bottega del mercante di stoffe è presentata come una fortezza in cui le buone maniere e la dedizione al lavoro tengono le giovani figlie al riparo dalle tentazioni esterne; questo non eviterà alla più giovane di tentare un salto sociale, forse troppo azzardato.L'artista Théodore de Sommervieux, prima grande figura di uomo d'arte che incontriamo nella commedia, è un vanesio che cerca nella mondanità la scorciatoia per l'ascesa sociale; questo lo porterà a disprezzare sempre più il concreto contegno borghese della moglie... "Gobseck": novella fondamentale. Anzitutto, si tratta del seguito di "Papà Goriot"; la figura di Gobseck, posta all'inizio della Commedia umana, è uno dei primi grandi avari balzachiani. Egli non è solo un usuraio; è un indagatore della vita sociale e delle sue tragedie. Egli deve vedere la persona che gli è debitrice, scrutarne i sentimenti, l'ambiente in cui vive... è quasi un alter-ego di Balzac stesso. Gobseck è una figura titanica nonchè grande teorico del denaro; diventerà egli stesso sempre più freddo come l'argento, come la cenere del caminetto davanti alla quale spirerà... Grandiosa nella sua inquetudine, una delle scene finali in cui Derville scopre le altre stanze della "magione" del vecchio avaro: camere piene di "patés ammuffiti, una quantità di commestibili d'ogni genere, e ostriche e pesci andati a male [...] scatole di ogni forma, casse di tè, balle di caffè". L'avarizia e un esercizio del potere spietato, teso solo alla sua autoconservazione fanno di Gobseck una delle figure di potente, (perchè tale era, tenendo nelle sue mani i destini di molti parigini) tra le più sinistre che la letteratura ci abbia restituito. "Il ballo di Sceaux": ne ho già parlato nel commento all'edizione Passigli.
Faint crease to rear lower corner of wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; Erlanger Beiträge Zur Sprach- Und Kunstwissenschaft Band 50; 196 pages
Faint creasing to front corner of wraps. Minor shelfwear. Author's dedication to E. W. Handley in pen to half-title. ; Erlanger Beiträge Zur Sprach- Und Kunstwissenschaft Band 50; 196 pages; Signed by Author
Very light rubbing to boards. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Very light pencil marginalia on a few pages. Spine slightly slanted. ; Scholia in Aristophanem II 2; 194 pages
Sequel to 'Goatsong'. Eurpolis of Pallene, Athenian comic dramatist, gentlemen farmer, failed husband and now citizen soldier has survived the disastrous Sicilian campaign, only to be accused of treason on his return to Athens. Hilarious fictional autobiography of Eupolis, rival of Aristophanes inAttic Comedy, and acute observer of the vagaries of Athenian politics. Book
Very light bump to top edges of boards. Very minor shelfwear. ; Die Cistellaria ist von der Plautus-Philologie lange vernachlässigt worden. Dieser Befund mag einerseits auf ihren stark lückenhaften Erhaltungszustand zurückzuführen sein; man wähnte sie auch als 'menandrischstes' der plautinischen Stücke, so daß die Vermutung, das 'Plautinische im Plautus' lasse sich an dieser Komödie nicht so deutlich wie an anderen zeigen, zu diesem geringen Interesse beigetragen hat. Dieser Sammelband zur lange vernachlässigten, aber geistvollen Cistellaria präsentiert 30 Beiträge von Gelehrten aus 10 Ländern, die das Stück mit vielfältigen Fragestellungen aus den Bereichen Analyse, Interpretation, Gender, Datierung, Metrik, Textkritik und Rezeption erschließen. Durch den Blick auf andere plautinische Komödien trägt der Band auch zu einer Erweiterung der Perspektive auf das Gesamtwerk des römischen Dichters bei. ; Scriptoralia 128.; 491 pages
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. pp. An early edition from the BBC's comedy show.
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Else fine; Scholia in Aristophanem II 4; 58 pages
In-8°; pp. (8), 165 Brossura editoriale originale e legatura in tela con ex libris Landau. Edizione originale. Un unico marginale foro di tarlo passante.
grand in-8°, 183 pp, broche, couverture rempliee. Bel exemplaire. [GD8/6]
