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Vg (no dj, blue cloth with WH logo on back board, front board with decoration of actors' masks, brown spotting to endpapers only, bookplate front fixed endpaper and old price in pencil, small pencil initial and date front free endpaper, names of cast neatly written in pencil alongside names of the characters on first page else pages are clean and unmarked and binding firm) 12mo 292pp plus 4pp publisher's adverts. First edition.
in-8°, 261 pages, ill. h.t. n./coul., -, broche, couverture illustree pell. Bel exemplaire. [TX-15]
224p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
319p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Light foxing to textblock. ; Nuovi Saggi; 416 pages
Pages lightly browned. Bump to lower corner of book with creasing through pages. Spine a bit browned. DJ has chipping and edgewear with creasing with some small areas of colour loss. ; "Critica E Storia"; 416 pages
461p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
in-16, 278 pp., illustrations, broché. Très bel exemplaire, très frais. [LP-6]
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.
in-8°, 224 pages, abondamment ill. hors texte N&B, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bon etat. [DV-2]
in-4° XXII-264 pages, bl./wh. illustr., index, bind. in boards, plast. dustjacket. VG+/VG [PL-EN]
A well worn book with creases on cover and child's scribbles inside front cover and on first page. Age-toned pages. Interior text clean and unmarked. 174 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 288 pages. 8 3/8"w x 11"h. Previous owner's stamp inside.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 3/8"w x 10 7/8"h. 124 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small spots on gray cloth cover. Edge wear to dust jacket. 5 1/2"w x 8 1/4"h. 1104 pages. Includes all fourteen comedies along with notes and glossary: The Tempest; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; Much Ado About Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth Night; or, What You Will; The Winter's Tale.
256p., illus. Introduction by Carol Burnett. Preface by Howard Thompson. Hardcover Good condition in worn d.j. fair
pp. xvi, 108. Illustrated with lovely colored drawings by T. M. Cleland. Title page and Frontis colored and decorated with stage and portrait. Top edge blue. 4to. Original full blue cloth binding. Front board embossed in detail showing birds, harps, urns, cornucopias and flowers. Very pretty binding. Original slip case. Hardbound. Very nice copy. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W81
Spine sunned. Minor shelfwear. Light yellowing to wraps. ; A detailed account of Athenian life, based primarily on the evidence of Old Attic Comedy. ; 385 pages
52p. Inked ownership of Robert C. Latimer, 1911. The Latimers were from York, PA. 12mo. Original vellum like spine over paper cover boards. Front board heavily embossed and decorated in gold. Hardbound. John Millington Synge (1871-1909), Irish poet and dramatist, was born near Dublin, of Protestant parents. He was an important figure in the Irish literary renaissance. All of Synge's plays reflect his experiences in the Aran Islands. Intense and poetic in style, his works depict the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk. Very good. LITERATURE BOX 1
Of All Things - An album of work of Paul Simmel, one of Germany's most successful cartoonists and caricaturists of the 1920s. 64 pages. Text in German. Dirt marks on covers. Name in ink on title page.
in-8 (16x22cm), 125 pp., broche, couv. rempliee.- 1/500 ex. num. Tres bel exemplaire. [MI-11]
Plays for Performance Series." "Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that instead of a heavily poetic presentation the play becomes highly theatrical" 65p. Book
['Ancient Culture and Society Series] 168p + 2 p. of plates. bibliography. index. Clean crisp text, l0oks almost unread. Book
This spine edge of this book's red cloth covers appear to have been wet at one point and so the cover has a darker red stain on the edge and the ink from the cover has transferred the back of the dust jacket which shows wear and tears. Interior pages are clean and unmarked; tight binding. 8 1/4"w x 10 5/8"h. 244 pages. Brightly colored illustrations by Karel Svolinsky.
Top corners lightly bumped. Else fine. DJ spine a little discolored. Light edgewear with 1 small tear (1 cm). DJ is price-clipped. ; 280 pages; Professor Dover's book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B. C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends. Particular emphasis is laid on his indifference-positively assisted by the physical limitations of the Greek theatre and the conditions of the Athenian dramatic festivals-to the maintenance of continuous "dramatic illusion" or to the provision of a dramatic event with the antecedents and consequences which might logically be expected. More importance is attached to Aristophanes' adoption of popular attitudes and beliefs, to his creation of uninhibited characters with which the spectators could identify themselves, and to his acceptance of the comic poet's traditional role as a mordant but jocular critic of morals, than to any identifiable and consistent elements in his political standpoint.