Alexander Lenard Translator (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Dutton Obelisk Paperback, New York. 1987. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 3rd Printing by Line Number. D0335. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; the book has not been wet, but has been exposed to humidity and the pages have waves but are not stuck and are readable. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 148 pp 12mo. This book is a Latin version of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" complete with pictures from the English version to accompany the Latin. A clean presentable copy.…

Twelfth printing (as stated upon copyright page). [6], 121 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 12.75cm. Dust jacket soiled; several small faint stains to front panel which has jagged but approximately 1.5cm deep loss across bottom of front panel; shallow chipping and tears at spine head; two small dark stains at tops of both flaps; front flap has tenth printing statement. Blue boards; spine head nicked; vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board. Past owner's personal bookplate on front pastedown; small shallow stains at center tops of front and rear free endpapers associated to those on dj flaps; ink ownership inscription on title page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy in only a fair dust jacket. Features A.A. Milne's classic children's story translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard and retaining the delightful illustrations (including endpapers) by Ernest H. Shepard plus brief Appendix. {JuvLitShelf#2}.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 7th printing. Clean and tight hardcover book with clean jacket. All Latin text. Has all original illustrations. Price clipped dj flap corners. Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.…

11th printing. 8vo. Original gilt decorated orange cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 148, illus with b&w drawings and pictorial endpapers (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ex-library, hardback with D/J and plastic sleeve, usual stamps and markings. Written in Latin. Published in 1961 by Methuen, London. Slight shelf wear to boards, some wear to the D/J, fading to the spine, page edges a little grubby, faint marks to a couple of pages. Ready for immediate dispatch from UK. 39B*.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The first paperback ever. The only NY Times Best Seller in Latin Ever. fully illustrated. Condition like new except inscription to the rear panel of the soft cover. First time in paperback. First edition first printing. 150 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: Near Fine. First Latin Edition. First edition in Latin of A. A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh. One of only 100 copies. [2], 100 pp. Bound in modern tooled red morocco with five ruled raised bands, spine lettered in gilt; with original wraps bound in. Near Fine with light stains to wraps, former owner's name on title page, toning throughout. A lovely copy in a beautiful binding. According to a 1984 New York Times profile of the book, the translator was "a 50- year-old Hungarian-born doctor who spoke 12 languages and who with his wife, Andrietta, had been resettled in Brazil in 1952 by the International Refugee Organization. One of their few possessions was an English-language version of 'Winnie the Pooh.'" Its surprise success internationally and especially in the U.S. was a Black Swan event, as it became "the only Latin book - and perhaps the only book in any foreign language - ever to become a New York Times best seller. Published in December 1960, it remained on the Times list for 20 weeks and sold 125,000 copies in 21 printings.".…