Bacot Jacques Woolf (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. V. Goloubew (illustrator). 1st Edition. Broadway Translations. Undated c.1925. 1st ed. Ex-library with usual markings. Good copy.

Cloth. n.ed. 267 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 12mo. A very good copy with soiled spine. No just jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Illustrated from native designs by V. Goloubew. A volume in the 'Broadway Translation' publication series of foreign literature masterpieces, with complete and definitive texts and explanatory notes, bound in quarter vellum with a leather spine label. Performed as reflective religious epics, these differently structured plays were performed with character masks by monks, and comprise prologues and interpretive narration mixed with dialogue or verse, that might be chanted, sung and/or danced. "The world as it appears to the unsophisticated mind; vast, shadowy, marvelous, and controlled by a rough but simple justice"--Golden Hind. Well-preserved, presentable and elusive vintage collectible. London bookseller's small address label to the lower edge of the front end-paper, upper and lower spine edges slightly crimped, also mild dust soiling to the spine, light, minor fleck-wear to the front and rear covers, rear advertisement pages lower corners slightly rumpled with a few short marginal tears, else square, firm and very good in cream vellum over apricot linen with gilt embossed titles and border to a leather spine label that shows tiny nicks, cream-apricot marbled end-papers; no dust jacket as issued. Octavo; 268 pages; index; preface; plus 16 pages of Broadway Translations ads to the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Goloubew, V. (illustrator). First Edition. A couple of New Zealand bookseller's labels and a small orange sticker on front endpaper. ; No date [1924]. [vi], 267, [1] pages + frontispiece. Orange cloth boards with white cloth spine. Red leather lettering piece with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 116mm. Illustrated from native designs by V. Goloubew. "This story passes at Nepal, at an imaginary period prodigiously remote. It is the story of the last existence on earth but one of him who will be reborn Cakya-Muni. Vessantara, 'Tchrimekundan of the Tibetans,' is the future Buddha. He passes a life of remarkable trials, all of which he has attracted to himself by his passion for charity." - from the introduction to "Tchrimekundan". Series: Broadway Translations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Goloubew, V. (illustrator). First Edition. No signatures. Corners of boards bumped and bruised. Some bruising to cloth at head of spine. ; No date [1924]. [vi], 267, [1] pages + frontispiece. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 185 x 120mm. Illustrated from native designs by V. Goloubew. "This story passes at Nepal, at an imaginary period prodigiously remote. It is the story of the last existence on earth but one of him who will be reborn Cakya-Muni. Vessantara, 'Tchrimekundan of the Tibetans,' is the future Buddha. He passes a life of remarkable trials, all of which he has attracted to himself by his passion for charity." - from the introduction to "Tchrimekundan". ; Broadway Translations.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:

Condition: Sehr gut. Original softcover binding, 267 pages, (beautifully) illustrated by V. Goloubew, very good condition. Interesting, and beautifully illustrated book with translations of theatrical plays from Eastern Tibet. Reprint of the 1924 original. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.