Abbott Elisabeth Translator (16 results)

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good (in mylar). First Printing. Minor pencil marginalia, otherwise text block clean and tight with minor wear to boards. Illustrated end papers; unclipped dust jacket lightly edge worn. 276 pp. w/appendix Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Plates (illustrator). Hard Cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A fair copy in a like jacket. Boards and worn, bumped, and stained. Jacket has moderate rubs and chips along the edges. Internally, this copy is clean and free of marks. A touch toned. [Loc: 38].

221pp. Color illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Ex-library, spine & cover edges sunned, text as new: VG+/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Published: 1967. 308 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket Has New Mylar Cover. First Printing. -----------Purple cloth covers, red and gilt spine label, book is 9 1/4" tall. 276 pages, with illustrations.VERY GOOD CONDITION- - duat jacket slightly chipped with faded dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Special Edition. Very good with good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped and worn at spine tips and corners, has two stains and some browning on back panel, has a 1/2 inch chip at bottom back edge, and has a one inch tear at top back edge.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 472 pages. 7.75x4.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Very Good condition with bumped corners, edgewear and a gift inscription on the front free endpaper in a Good+ dust-jacket wit hsome soiling and edgewear; A delightful satire of married life. Translated from the French, written by an anonymous author who expounds on the "pains and torments" in wait for those men who contemplate wedding; 8vo; 221 pages. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Clean pages, no dogears, notes or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 472 pages. 7.75x4.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Gray cloth hardcover. Three bookplate ghosts to ffep/fep else tight and unmarked. Trace soil to exterior. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 433 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 512 pages. In Good condition with Good Dust Jacket in mylar covering. Spine is tan with black lettering. Dust jacket has staining on the covers, sunning on the spine, rubbing and some shelf wear. Boards have bumping to corners, shelf wear, minor staining, scratching to the front board. Head edge dyed blue. Text block has faded dye to head edge and age toning. Signature of Elisabeth Abbott and Arthur Livingston on first free end paper with inscription underneath that reads "To my dear, dear Virginia in true friendship." NOTE: Shelved in ND-B. 1375324. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 552 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with price unclipped DJ. First edition. A fine book in alike jacket. A few foxing spots to edges. Slightly rubbed to corners. The interior and text pages are clean fresh unmarked. A beautiful book. 256pp.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York:The Orion Press. (1960). 1st edition. xviii+233pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good clean condition. Boards clean with light soiling to page edges. Internally, endpages lightly age toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn along edges, with some small chips and tears. It is not price clipped.…

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [xx], 233, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in multi-colored with spine lettered in red and grey. Near Fine with production crease to cloth at spine, faint scratching to upper board and bookplate of noted H.P. Lovecraft collector James Strand on front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial scratch to front panel but no appreciable sunning to red of spine panel, which is uncommon. A labyrinthian nesting doll of a novel, typically referred to as The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, set during the Napoleonic Wars with nods to The Arabian Nights and Boccaccio's Decameron, penned by Polish polymath and nobleman Count Jan Potocki (1761-1815). Characterized by supernatural sci-fi elements, the work lent itself easily to modern audiences hungry for weird fiction. Later adapted into film by Polish director Wojciech Has in 1965 starring Zbigniew Cybulski as Potocki's valiant officer Alphonse van Worden.…