jacob 1983 (7 Ergebnisse)

dust-jacket with moisture stain along bottom edge, mild moisture wrinkling to lower right corner of pages, like a big fingerprint, otherwise still very good green cloth. SIDER JOST, JACOB. Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 - DAMAGED COPY. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, viii, 239pp., . Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize. - Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Richardson, Laetitia Pilkington, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell invented a new kind of literary immortality, built on the documentary power of prose. For eighteenth-century authors, the rhythms and routines of daily lived experience were too rich to be distilled into verse, and prose genres such as the periodical paper, novel, memoir, essay, and biography promised a new kind of lastingness that responded to the challenges and opportunities of Enlightenment philosophy and evolving religious thought. Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 documents this transformation of British literary culture, spanning the eighteenth century and linking journalism, literature, theology, and philosophy. In recovering the centrality of the afterlife to eighteenth-century culture, this prizewinning book offers a versatile and wide-ranging argument that will speak not only to literary scholars but also to historians, scholars of religion, and all readers interested in the power of literature to preserve human experience through time. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies. - CONTENTS: The afterlife and the spectator -- Night thoughts on time, fame, and immortality -- The threat to the soul in Butler and Warburton -- The beatified Clarissa -- Happy ever after in Sir Charles Grandison -- Laetitia Pilkington in sheets -- Johnson's eternal silences -- James Boswell, also, enters into heaven -- Epilogue: Keats imagines the life of Shakespeare. ISBN 9780813936802.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 80 pages. Arthur Seldon "The Economics Of British Politics, 1983" / Ole-Jacob Hoff "Little Hope For Markets In The U.S.S.R." / Jo Grimond "Who Wants Economists?" / Hannes H Gissurarson ",The Fish Ar: A Lesson From Iceland" (SL#114).

Hardcover. , 194 figs, 32 tables, hardbound 0.0.

N.Y., Galdy Galleries Ltd., [1983]. [65] pp. incl. incl. 63 monochrome facsimile plts. Hardcover, top of spine sl. bumped.Published in a limited edition of 600 numbered copies (nr. 454). - Incl. the loose booklet (4 pages on one fold. sheet) with title list & prices.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition, first printing (per Viking's "First Published . . . " statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 32 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 23.25cm. Color pictorial dust jacket lightly soiled; large circular gold foil Caldecott Medal sticker affixed at front panel's upper left; slight toning to spine with scuffing and shallow wear at ends; slight losses to spine lettering as the dj's alignment was shifted so that author/title/publisher ended up centered along the rear panel fold; scuffing at flap fold ends; two short tears and creasing at rear panel's lower left and flap fold heel; front flap features publisher's "$3.00" printed price at top right and "0306" code near center left at conclusion of blurb; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth; color fading at top and bottom board margins and along spine; color stamping to front board and spine remains bright. Author's four-line blue ink inscription "For Irene Roop - its been a pleasure | meeting you. | Ezra Jack Keats | 5/21/65" at top of half-title page (i.e. page 1). Interior leaves are clean. Binding is firm. Despite the presence of the Caldecott sticker, this dust jacket still has the first state points of a yellow colored front flap (later djs have front flaps which emulate the endpapers' multicolored snowflake pattern) plus a total of fifteen lines of text from $3.00 price to the "0306" code inclusive (whereas post-1964 front flaps have an additional five lines, i.e. twenty total, of text with a blurb regarding the Caldecott appearing between the price and title). The presence of the dj Caldecott sticker is sometimes cited as a later state but one bibliographer notes that the book did not sell well upon its release and Viking sent award stickers to bookstores so their staff could affix them to djs thus spurring sales upon Caldecott publicity. Also present is the additional first printing point of a misspelling of the lithographer firm's name upon the copyright page (statement appears as "Lithographed in the U.S.A. by Kellog & Bulkeley" whereas the firm's name is actually Kellogg & Bulkeley). An attractive very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket of one of the most iconic children's picture books of the twentieth century of which inscribed first printings are exceptionally scarce to market. In the half-century+ since its release, Keats' theme of a child's innocent awe upon experiencing a snow-covered world has transcended American culture and impacted world literature with translations into at least ten languages. On sale through June 2026 at 15% off (from $30K) to US$25,500. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. exlibrary hardcover book no dust jacket, usual library marks, has some light reader wear; spine is cracked and the pages are separating from cover but intact.

orig.wrappers. 2 photoplates. (illustrator). 20x15cm, 104,(3) pp. Rubbed. Pages browned. Rubberstamp to titlepage. Good.