W aldis wright editor (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Worn but complete with all pages and illustrations. Missing dust jacket. Top textblock colored in red as remainder marking. Some light rubbing to board corners. Corner cut out of front free end paper. Light page tanning. Book has a slight storage odor from previous ownership.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. BCE / BOMC 5.75"x8.5" 570 numbered pages. Cream spine w/gilt letters inside black title blocks wrapping burnt orange boards w/matching painted top edge. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/vanilla tone. Deckled edge. Front gutter cracked, severe chips to DJ, small tear to crown. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Book is wrapped in shipping paper (new books are wrapped in bubble wrap also) and then boxed for shipment with tracking number. Thank you. Here are the great historical dramas, pageants of English history which, even today, stir audiences the world over. Also included are the 154 sonnets and the long poems, Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece. Each play has a special introduction adapted from the Shakespearean Primer of Professor Dowden. There are no footnotes to interfere with the reader's enjoyment of every page, but a glossary is provided at the end to clarify obsolete words and phrases.…

Leather Binding. Zustand: Good. First Thus. A good copy in the original brown limp suede stamped in gilt and brown, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers (some chipping and wear to edges of binding; chip to front free endpaper). 288 pages + plate. Upper cover title: Rubaiyat. Possible later issue; includes the texts of the first and the fifth editions of FitzGerald's reworkings of Omar Khayyam, as well as his translation of Jami's poem, with supplemental material (biographical preface signed 'M. K.'; Tennyson's poem ('To E. FitzGerald'); table of textual variations and comparative table of stanzas in the first 4 edition of the Rubaiyat; FitzGerald's 'Life of Jami' and the 'Letter to Professor Cowell'; notes by FitzGerald and editor Wright; plus an appendix for 'Salaman and Absal'). Date is conjectural (not dated in book). 1 b/w Frontispiece (portrait). …

Hard Cover/Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None as Issued. Publication Date Unstated. Text/Near New w/a whisper of margin discoloration & trace soiling. Publication date unstated; contents from posthumously published, post 1883, 5th Edition. Padded, brown leather boards w/gilt embossed illustrated (pistachios in milky stage) VG w/loss to edges, & complete loss of backstrap. All text blocks in gilt; decorated gilt/brown endpapers, again w/pistachio motif. PO name to fEP. Frontispiece: Portrait of author w/tissue guard. This volume by writer, poet, student of Spanish poetry & Persian literature Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 1883) is the first, and perhaps most influential & oft quoted of English translations. "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" is the title that FitzGerald gave to his verse rendition of a selection of quatrains attributed to Persian mathematician, astronomer & poet to Omar Khayyám (1048 - 1131). The first printing, in pamphlet form, was published anonymously in 1859. A second, greatly revised edition was issued in 1868 which was followed by three more editions, the final 5th Edition published posthumously. This copy carries both the 1st and 5th Editions of the Rubaiyat; comparative Variations Betweent the 2nd, 3rd, & 4th Editions; Comparative Table of Stanzas in the 4 Editions; and, concludes with the less frequently published 1904 translation of Salaman and Absal ("Salaman o Absal"), an allegorical Sufi poem by the Persian Sufi poet Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami, (1441 - 1492) who lived in what is today Afghanistan & Uzebekistan, with relevant notes. Strong copy less leather backstrap.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. 11 cm x 16.5 cm. 111 Pages with few additional publisher advertising pages. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt embossed decoration. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Golden Treasury Series] Includes for example the following essays: Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia / Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr / Notes / The First Edition of the Translation / etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dj cover. Book Club edition. GC plus.Nelson Doubleday/Book Club edition.No date given.Two Volumes(1 & 2).Tan hardbacks with cream borders(gilt lettering to the spine,small nicks and dent on the edges of the cover and spine, very small tear and crease on the edges of the spine for Vol 1) in GC plus, no Dj covers. Nice and clean pages with two small stain marks and ink marks on the outer edges,a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, small ink marks inside the front endpapers.The books are in GC plus but without the Dj covers. 1140pp including Glossary to Shakespeare's Works.Heavy books.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Book Club edition. VGC/GC plus.Nelson Doubleday/Book Club edition.No date given.Two Volumes(1 & 2).Tan hardbacks with cream borders(gilt lettering to the spine,small nicks and dent on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC, with DJ(some tears,chipped, small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj covers) in GC plus.Nice and clean pages with a couple of small ink marks on the outer edges,small creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, two pencil marks impressions on the edges of the front endpapers.The books are in VGC with some shelf wear on the Dj covers(small foxing marks inside the edges of the Dj cover).1140pp including Glossary to Shakespeare's Works.A collectable two volume edition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. London: Macmillan, 1913. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the first scientist to be knighted, ended his political career in disgrace, but his fame as the founder of empirical philosophy lives on. Quercus will ignore the idea that Bacon was also Shakespeare; did he not already accomplish enough? This is a Near Fine copy of a lovely little reissue; many editions, with added material, since the original publication in 1862. Cloth boards; smooth calf spine and tips; ruled in gilt, with six raised bands on the spine. A delight to hold, and well-worth reading today. Marbled endpapers. Clean text; 388 pages. Previous-owner signature on the front free endpaper; minor rub to the leather tips. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket.…

[Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil to first blank. Top edge gilt, with patterned endpapers. A touch of light spotting to first and final leaves, otherwise crisp and clean internally. Some rubbing to joints. Very good. A classic selection of pithy philosophic essays by the father of modern scientific empiricism.…