arnold edwin translator (29 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 112 pages. 5.50x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: New. New Paperback. From The Civil War Book Shop- As close as your computer; as dependable as old Abe.

Hardcover. Zustand: Ex-Library. 27 selections from the "Bhagavad-Gita," translated by Arnold with a forward by T.B. Mosher. One of 950 copies printed on Van Gelder paper, untrimmed. Type distributed. Red publisher's device on title page./ Headpiece, red initial. [Bishop: no.285] Includes two-color paper labels on spine and front cover. Ex-library with usual markings with a piece of red tape on the front cover.

Soft Cover. An unused paperback in very good clean condition. Word Form A Book of Wisdom edition. Revised Form of The Song Celestial. A poetic English translation with brief Introduction. Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Publisher's 24mo string-tied wrappers, progressive annual pagination [431-432], 433-467, [1], colophon, annual Table of Contents for Volume XVI, plus ads. Note that a substantial number of pages in this Number are unopened. GOOD condition with moderate shelf and handling wear. See BISHOP, p. 100, Number 33.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 124 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Navy Blue Cloth. Zustand: Good. First British Edition. 237 pp. Ex institutional library with stamps. Good in navy blue cloth with gilt & silver design.

Hard Cover. Pocket Claasics (boxed). FINE BOOK IN FINE, ORIGINAL GLASSINE WRAPPER IN VERY GOOD+ SLIPCASE WITH SMALL PRICE LABAL REMOVAL MARK. Uncommon in glassine and slipcase.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 5.00x0.69x8.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 532 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.19 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 188 pages. 6.00x4.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 264 pages. 6.00x0.63x9.00 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 532 pages. 8.50x5.51x1.31 inches. In Stock.

London: Trubner, 1883. First edition. Original cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and blind. Attractive book plate of Alexander Wilson. Some soiling, a Very Good copy.

Imperial 8vo. Limp decorated leather, lightly edge worn. Very good -. Front hinge starting. Privately printed by George H. Burr, Esq for private circulation with permission of publisher Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. in an edition of 100 copies. This no. 21.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-gita. A clean and tightly bound booklet. Cover boards faded on spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Y.G. Srimati (illustrator). First Thus. The Sanskrit Text translated into English Verse by Sir Edwin Arnold. With an Introduction by Shri Sri Prakasa. Illustrated with paintings by Y.G.Srimati. This is a beautiful book with the Sanskirt text facing the English verse. Sandglass pamphlet Number VIII:30 laid in. A must for all libraries. The slipcase is worn with some edgewear butg is still very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Srimati, Y. G. (illustrator). Collector's edition, bound in genuine leather. Brown boards with bright gold decoration, ribbon bookmark, gilt page edges. Interior is unmarked. Introduction by Shri Sri Prakasa. 118 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardback. Pages are unmarked, fairly age tanned. Binding is weakening a bit in s few places. Brown cloth cover has edgewear and looks old. Published/printed by Roberts Brothers, 1891. Approximately 5 X 7. 185 pages. Gift inscription on end paper.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. First American Edition. Hard cover, 8vo., 318pp. + 4pp. ads. In publisher's yellow cloth binding with blocked mandala decoration to top board in gold.** CONDITION: Near Fine. Some pages unopened. One or two pages opened roughly. Light wear, with tiny tears to head of spine. **A translation of selected parts of the ancient Indian epic poem, "The Mahabharata," one of the two great foundational Sanskrit poems of India. It concerns the Kurukshetra War, a struggle for power between two dynastic branches of a family. The war itself takes place over eighteen days, and "The Mahabharata" follows the course of the war and its aftermath. The selections in this book are titled: "Savitri; or, Love and Death", "Nala and Damayanti", "The Enchanted Lake", "The Saint's Temptation", "The Birth of Death", "The Night of Slaughter", "The Great Journey" and "The Entry into Heaven". ** **English translator Edwin Arnold (1832 - 1904) was an English journalist and poet, notable for his 1879 work "The Light of Asia", an epic poem describing the life of Buddha, derived from the Sanskrit "Lalitavistara S?tra". His career started as the Principal of a school in India, where he witnessed and survived the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He returned to England as a journalist for "The Daily Telegraph", where he arranged the famous expedition to Africa by H.M. Stanley. Arnold later lived in Japan and married a Japanese woman, Tama Kurokawa. He was a vegetarian, and was Vice President of the West London Food Reform Society which boasted Mahatma Gandhi as secretary. Scarce. OCLC 1336194876. [Please see related listing 9378.]. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Willy Pogany (illustrator). 1st Edition. Cover very slightly worn and scratched. Very slightly bowed. Owner's name on fpd. Underlining in tp. Else very clean and tight. Item weighs 1-2 kg; extra shipping charges apply. 4to. 135 p. English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. SLIGHT WEAR, A CLEAN STRONG TIGHT COPY.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Quarto. Illustrated with gravure plates designed by Willy Pogany. Publisher's black cloth stamped in silver on the spine and front cover, with a gravure plate mounted on the front board. Small inscription in ink (dated 1934) on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in very good publisher's plastic sleeve, housed in the original publisher's cardbox box with two printed paper labels. Both the box top and bottom are splitting at the corners and sides, the bottom of the box is lacking one side piece; else a handsome, near fine copy of this classic illustrated edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Leather-bound hard cover published by Easton Press in 1995. No dust jacket. Light brown leather covers with gilt lettering and designs. Spine has four raised bands and page edges are gilt-covered. Gilt on side edges has a slight scratch and an indentation by back cover. Silk moire endpapers and a gold satin bookmark ribbon is attached to the headband. Also included is an unused and unattached Easton Press bookplate. Book is in very good plus condition. Large 8vo, 118 pages, 1.4 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 118 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. 4to. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION, one of 1,500 copies. SIGNED by Srimati on limitation page at rear of text. Mild bumping to fore corners, joint ends, and spine ends of covers and glassine d.j. Spine slightly concave. Mild scraping to extremities of otherwise pristine glassine d.j. Housed in folded clamshell box with ribbon tie. Overopening along lining of 2 box hinges. Minor sun fading to spine and top edge margins of front box. Light soiling to front and rear panels of box. VG/VG in VG box. Illustrator.

One of 100 numbered copies. Octavo. 66 pp. Publisher?s limp blue suede with a blind-stamped tree on the front, gilt cover lettering. Some dryness to edges, lower spine with small abrasion. A very good copy.Inscribed by the publisher (GBH) to early film actress Florence Nash (whose sister, Mary, was a considerably more famous actress). The Hitopadesa is a classical Sanskrit text of shlokas (verses), fables, and moral tales. Arnold?s translation was from a Persian version. The Hitopadesa was a favorite among the scholars of the British Raj. It was also the first Sanskrit book to be printed in the Nagari script. Edwin Arnold translated numerous Sanskrit texts but his most famous book was The Light of Asia, a biography of Gautama Buddha taken from the Lalitavistara Sutra.