Anna Bostock Trans (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing (1972). 378pp. VG/VG copy; dust jacket a little worn to rear fore edge, very minor chipping to spine ends, price-clipped with corrected price label, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A lucid guide to what Marx really said. Reprinted. Pelican / Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, UK 1987. 188 + 4pp adverts pb pict white covers, pages browned, vg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear, with rubbing and a few small scuffs on the edges. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. 240 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 200 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 160 pp.

First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with upper board titles and decoration; 124pp. Moderate wear; boards lightly rubbed; spotting to the text block edges; previous owner's ink inscription and retailer's ink stamp to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper edges lightly worn; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good to near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. This volume contains Benjamin's introductions to Brecht's theory or epic theatre and close textual analyses of twelve poems by Brecht (printed in translation here) which exemplify Benjamin's insistence that literary form and content are indivisible. Elsewhere Benjamin discusses the plays The Mother, Terror and Misery of the Third Reich, and The Threepenny Opera, digressing for some general remarks on Marx and satire. Here we also find Benjamin's masterful essay "The Author as Producer" as well as an extract from his diaries that records the intense conversations held in the late 1930s in Denmark (Brecht's place of exile) between the two most important cultural theorists of this century. In these discussions, the two men talked of subjects as diverse as the work of Franz Kafka, the unfolding Soviet Trials, and the problems of literary work on the edge of international war.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. dj: none. book: 51 page quarto pamphlet. fine.

8vo. pp xix, 124. Original publisher's yellow cloth, lettered brown on spine and front cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Two volumes - Volume One - [4], 5-243p, [1] and Volume Two - [6], 9-336pp. Original cloth in DJ's. DJ spines faded and lightly browned, slightly chipped to spine ends and corners, second volume with chip to foot of upper panel and head of lower panel, tape stains to endpapers with some off setting on to DJ flaps, and a scuff to fore edge of lower panel, but generally complete. Top edge of text blocks lightly dust stained, former owner's name to ffep of first volume, text very lightly browned but generally clean. "In Le Corbusier's buildings and art a recurrent silhouette appears: the Modulor Man. It's a stylised human figure, standing proudly and square-shouldered, sometimes with one arm raised, the mascot of Le Corbusier's system for re-ordering the universe.The Modulor was meant as a universal system of proportions. The ambition was vast: it was devised to reconcile maths, the human form, architecture and beauty into a single system. This system could then be used to provide the measurements for all aspects of design from door handles to entire cities, and Corbusier believed that it could be further applied to industry and mechanics. The modulor system had a series of scales and measurements, laid out in a modulor rule. The fundamental 'module' of the Modulor is a six-foot man, allegedly based on the usual height of the detectives in the English crime novels Corbusier enjoyed" (ICON website) Size: 8vo.