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B9786207780099Paperback / softback. New. paperback
6207780094.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1930011104<p>New York: Coward McCann 1930 Orange cloth pictorially stamped in blue a few minuscule nicks from board edges previous owner's name else Fine and clean; color pictorial dust jacket with some darkening and tiny losses original price intact $3.50. An early printing bound in orange instead of blue but retaining the original design originally issued at $2.50. One of the Hader's most desirable titles. Their Picture Book of Mother Goose is illustrated on every page either in b&w or full color and printed on thick stock. First and early printings of this title are notoriously difficult to find in nice condition and almost never with a dust jacket and /or signed!. Signed by Illustrators. Early Edition. Pictorial Cloth Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Berta and Elmer Hader. Large Square 8vo.</p> Coward McCann hardcover
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Bound in orange buckram cloth. Age-toned pages. 6 3/4"w x 5"h. 88 pages. Black and white illustrations by Mina Buchanan.
1934015215Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1934. Erstausgabe Leinen Altersspuren Aber Solide
1989500147139Ladybird 1989 52 pages 1989. Broché. 52 pages.
200534383NY: Scholastic. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0590108557 . Illustrated by Mark Weber. First printing. SIGNED by the illustrator. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Scholastic hardcover books
pp. 475, (5) [Publisher's catalogue]. Title page ruled in black. 12mo. 185mm. Original full blue decorated cloth binding. Extremities rubbed and slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 3
pp. iv, 258. Some signatures loose. Paper browned and brittle. 12mo. 185mm. Original full green cloth binding. Front board and spine decorated with green and gold leaves. Head and tail of spine rubbed and worn. Rear board stained and rubbed. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 3
pp. xix, 324. Title page ruled in red and black. Uncut. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Sylvia Hathaway on front paste down. Inked inscription of N. H., Jr. to Sylvia Hathaway, July 27, 1908 on first fly leaf. Bookseller's label, Brentano's New York, on rear paste down. 8vo. 205mm. Original full green cloth binding. Front board ruled in black and decorated with a ship under sail. Front board and spine embossed and lettered in gold. Extremities slightly rubbed. Nice copy. Hardbound. Very good+. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! KIP BX 1
pp. xix, 324. Title page ruled in red and black. Uncut. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Augustus Clemens Ehrenfeld on front paste down. 8vo. 205mm. Original full green cloth binding. Front board ruled in black and decorated with a ship under sail. Front board and spine embossed and lettered in gold. Head and tail of spine worn with slight loss. Corners bumped. Hardbound. Good. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist who is now chiefly remembered for: his celebration of British imperialism; tales and poems of British soldiers in India; and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. KIP BX 1
189724<i>This book is over 122 years old. <br />"The Raven"</i> in particular—Poe investigates the loss of ideal beauty and the difficulty in regaining it. These pieces are usually narrated by a young man who laments the untimely death of his beloved. <i>"To Helen"</i> is a three stanza lyric that has been called one of the most beautiful love poems in the English language. The subject of the work is a woman who becomes in the eyes of the narrator a personification of the classical beauty of ancient Greece and Rome. <i>"Lenore"</i> presents ways in which the dead are best remembered either by mourning or celebrating life beyond earthly boundaries. In <i>"The Raven"</i> Poe successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideals. In this psychological piece a young scholar is emotionally tormented by a raven's ominous repetition of "Nevermore" in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover. Charles Baudelaire noted in his introduction to the French edition of <i>"The Raven"</i>: "It is indeed the poem of the sleeplessness of despair; it lacks nothing: neither the fever of ideas nor the violence of colors nor sickly reasoning nor drivelling terror nor even the bizarre gaiety of suffering which makes it more terrible." Poe also wrote poems that were intended to be read aloud. Experimenting with combinations of sound and rhythm he employed such technical devices as repetition parallelism internal rhyme alliteration and assonance to produce works that are unique in American poetry for their haunting musical quality. In <i>"The Bells"</i> for example the repetition of the word "bells" in various structures accentuates the unique tonality of the different types of bells described in the poem.Poe's stature as a major figure in world literature is primarily based on his ingenious and profound short stories poems and critical theories which established a highly influential rationale for the short form in both poetry and fiction. Regarded in literary histories and handbooks as the architect of the modern short story Poe was also the principal forerunner of the "art for art's sake" movement in nineteenth-century European literature. Whereas earlier critics predominantly concerned themselves with moral or ideological generalities Poe focused his criticism on the specifics of style and construction that contributed to a work's effectiveness or failure. In his own work he demonstrated a brilliant command of language and technique as well as an inspired and original imagination. Poe's poetry and short stories greatly influenced the French Symbolists of the late nineteenth century who in turn altered the direction of modern literature. It is this philosophical and artistic transaction that accounts for much of Poe's importance in literary history.<br /><br />This book contains the first collection of Poems Poems and Tales. See Pictures Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1850AQ30927Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers 1850. 24pp. Disbound. A trifle creased. A Victorian anthology of twelve traditional Irish tales intended for a juvenile readership including an account of Anne Boney ‘the female pirate’. . 12mo. Printed for the booksellers unknown
1780709421780. Ort nicht sicher wohl Augsburg um 1780. Kupferstich. Plattengröße: 160 × 115 mm. Blattgröße: 210 × 162 mm. - Gottlieb Fried Riegel sc. Die Legende "Apud Achill: Matthaeum in marmore" verweist auf eine antike Marmorbüste des Thales nach der der Stich gearbeitet ist. Gottlieb Friedrich Riegel 1724-1784 Augsburger Kupferstecher schuf zahlreiche Bildnisse und Ansichten oft nach fremden Vorlagen. Folgeblatt innerhalb einer Serie antiker Philosophenporträts bestimmt für gelehrte Porträtsammlungen und/oder als Frontispiz zu philosophischen oder historischen Werken. Das Bild zeigt die Marmorbüste des Thales auf einem vorspringenden Kartuschenpostament eingefasst von einem streng rechteckigen Rahmen mit ornamental betonten Ecken; der Körper der Büste bleibt skizzenhaft während Gesicht und Haar plastisch ausgearbeitet sind. Die klare Linienführung die glatten Lichtflächen der Skulptur und die feine Rahmendekoration entsprechen dem spätbarock-klassizistischen Porträtstich des späten 18. Jahrhunderts und betonen den Charakter einer musealen Sammlungsansicht. Thales von Milet um 624-ca. 546 v. Chr. war milesischer Politiker Kaufmann und einer der frühesten Naturphilosophen; antike Autoren zählen ihn zu den "Sieben Weisen". Ihm werden u.a. "die Vorausberechnung einer Sonnenfinsternis geometrische Sätze über Kreis und Dreieck und die Lehre dass Wasser das Urprinzip arche aller Dinge sei" zugeschrieben. Auch wenn seine Gestalt nur aus spätere Überlieferung bekannt ist gilt Thales als Symbolfigur für den Übergang von mythischen zu rationalen Erklärungsmodellen der Natur; das Porträt als klassische Büste knüpft an diese kanonisierte Rolle an. Thales wird seit der Renaissance in Philosophen- und Gelehrtengalerien geführt; sein Bildnis erscheint in Druckfolgen Buchillustrationen und Skulpturenreihen die die Genealogie der "Vorsokratiker" visualisieren. Der hier vorliegende Stich Riegels trägt zu dieser Tradition bei indem er Thales als museal präsentierte antike Büste zeigt und damit für Bibliotheken und Kunstkammern des 18. Jahrhunderts anschlussfähig macht. "Kahn Charles H.: Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press 1960 pp. 1-25 Abschnitt zu Thales." "Kirk G. S.; Raven J. E.; Schofield M.: The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983 pp. 76-92 "Thales of Miletus"." "Lindberg David C.: The Beginnings of Western Science. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2007 pp. 49-55 Thales und die Naturerklärung." Wien Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Bildarchiv und Grafiksammlung Porträtsammlung Inventar-Nr. PORT_00136556_01 unknown
1811001511Paris Imprimerie de F. Didot 1811
20171-3330866845Éditions universitaires européennes 2017. Paperback. New. 156 pages. French language. 8.66x5.91x0.36 inches. Éditions universitaires européennes paperback
New Turkish Paperback. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In Turkish. 47 p., ills. Prenses Kaguya. A 13th century Japanese folk tale.
322p. Hardcover Very good condition good
1913010418London: Hodder and Stoughton 1913 113 pgs. White cloth decoratively stamped in teal and gilt light wear to top of spine 3 tiny marks to lower cover else a bright beautiful copy. Tipped in color frontis & 9 other very beautiful tipped in color plates with captioned guards. Dulac most celebrated for his "Arabian Nights" illustrations continues his heavily mid-east influenced style in this fabulous volume. Hughey 31a. First Trade. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. Thick 4to. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
1st in this edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/G(frayed and creased and price clipped). Illustrated by William Stobbs. 22059. eng
6599840329.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
6599840302.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1980364762San Francisco 1980. Unbound. Fine. First edition. A black and white photomechanically reproduced flyer on 8.5" x 11" paper. Original flyer for the legendary San Francisco punk venue On Broadway. Featured here are four dates: Saturday April 7 Social Distortion Tales of Terror Remains Stiffs; April 14th The U.K. Subhumans; April 17th The Circle Jerks; and May 4th Black Flag. A black and white photocopy of an unusually happy punk kid or someone with a cheery grimace. From a San Francisco art professor who collected his students collage work a great example of punk street art. unknown
A collection of puppy stories illustrated in way sixties color by Dale Maxey. Large format: 9 1/4"w x 12 1/2"h. Worn corners and wear to top and bottom of spine.