Hilde spiel editor (9 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Chilton Book Company January 1968.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 188 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates; the dustjacket features Music Party, Petworth by J. M. W. Turner, courtesy of the Tate Gallery, London. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink marks on the rear pastedown; no other interior markings. This story collection contains: Tahel Varnhagen - Tragic Muse of the Romantics by Hilde Spiel; Lady Blessington - A Literary Club for Editors by Prudence Hannay; Lady Holland - An Elite English Circle by Prudence Hannay; Fanny von Arnstein - Open House in Vienna by Hilde Spiel; Madame Recamier - A Romantic French Salon by Cynthia Gladwyn; Madame de Girardin - The Tenth Muse by Joanna Richardson; Madame de Lieven - A Russian in Paris by Peter Quennell; Speranza - A Leaning Tower of Courage by Victoria Glendinning; Lady Desborough - The Souls of London by Max Egremont; Mabel Dodge - Evenings in New York by Robert A. Rosenstone; Salka Viertel - Sundays in Mabery Road by Bruce Cook; Karel Capek - The Friday Group in Prague by Joseph Wechsberg; and Lady Cunard - A Celebrated London Hostess by Harold Acton. Size: 8vo. J. M. W. Turner; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. First edition. First edition, near fine hardcover shows light toning to pages and touch of bumping to corners, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows some mild shelf wear. 327 pages with a set of black & white plates. Nice copy of this work that "here, in the word of the people who were there, is the story of the Congress of Vienna, that meeting of the power wielders in the Europe of 1814-15 to decide the future of their continent." Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 327 pages, ex-library, clean text.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. near fine. Stated First Edition. NOT an ex library book. Name on inside front cover. 327 pages including the index. Dust jacket has minimal wear top rear edge, no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Light bumping to spine head and rear top corner. DJ spine extremities and rear top corners are bumped and lightly rubbed. Some yellowing to DJ. Some smoker odor. ; WHH18D; 327 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1968 Hard Cover., Chilton Book Company. 327 pgs. Owner note Title Page. No other marks, Clean pgs, binding tight. Couple pgs with small bottom corner crease. DJ very good with only hint of shelf wear. B/W illustrations. From letters journals, newspaper articles and official report--sometimes from paid informers. Author tries to reproduce the mood as well as the facts of this period of history. There is a chapter devoted to Vienna itself. /covers meetings, balls movements of armies, tournaments, concerts, Beethoven was a figure of controversy, picnics, theatrical spectaculars, and Napoleon's opposing activities.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First American Edition. Publisher: Chilton Book Company, Philadelphia, 1968. FINE hardcover book in FINE- mylar-protected, price-clipped dust-jacket. The white background on DJ's rear panel shows light toning, otherwise as new. First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xxiv, 327, [1] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Translated from the German Der Wiener Kongress in Augenzeugenbrichtern, 1965, by Karl Rauch Verlag GmbH Dusseldorf. From letters, journals, newspaper articles, and official reports, a compelling chronicle of what really happened is constructed. Hilde Spiel (19 October 1911 - 30 November 1990) (pseudonyms: Grace Hanshaw and Jean Lenoir) was an Austrian writer and journalist who received numerous awards and honors. She studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, under Moritz Schlick. From 1933 to 1935 she worked at the Industrial Psychological Research Centre at the University of Vienna; in 1933 she wrote her first two novels, Kati auf der Brücke and Verwirrung am Wolfgangsee. In 1936 emigrated to London as a result of the rise of Nazism. Hilde Spiel became a British subject, and from 1944 she contributed regularly to the New Statesman magazine. On 30/31 January 1946, wearing British army uniform, she flew to Vienna in a military aircraft, as war correspondent for the New Statesman. Hilde Spiel was a member of the Austrian PEN Centre, and its general secretary from 1966 to 1971. Derived from a Kirkus review: Never before or after these post-Napoleonic negotiations in Vienna was diplomacy such a gay and splendid affair. Hilde Spiel's collection of memoirs and letters shows the unofficial side of this Congress, where a bruised and brooding Europe came to collect, and, above all, to divert itself. The editor breaks down the local scenes into pictures of the city, the social events, and the people, with intimate selections notable for their vitality and their surprisingly frequent irony. This would make a fine companion piece to a more diplomatic study of the Congress. The book's organization has a rather pronounced fondness for biography. These accounts are informative, in line with the editor's convincingly documented conviction that the Congress itself was more pleasure than business. This was the Congress that danced, and, in a worthwhile sense, this book is the dance-card. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing thus. …