Barzun Jacques Introduction (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. GOOD CONDITION, Some scattered underlining & a few marginal notes near end of book., solid, bright; BLACK & RED titles on WHITE, RED & GREY PAPER COVERS. Cover art shows ART DRAWING PORTRAIT OF AUTHOR.IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONLY.; 317 pages; Stories that are dazzling exposés of Diderot's radical scientific and philosophical thinking. Written in dialogue form, they were too outspoken to be published during the lifetime of one whose ideas earned him enemies as fast as they stimulated new criteria for social progress. first edition,11p thus; Eleventh Printing. Illustrated by COVER ART (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. as pictured First edition thus Very good condition hard cover in a good dust jacket, with top edge trip , tiny tear , clean pages. Warren Chappell - Ill. (illustrator).

Hard cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The dustjacket has some light edgewear. Warren Chappell - Ill. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp.xxvii, 230 pages +pp.vii, a good hardback with the publisher's original black cloth binding, ex university library but with little evidence.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy, except for red remainder star on bottom edge of book, with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers, slight dustsoiling to edges. Reprint edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine/Near fine. Bright and attractive hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. With price on flap of dust jacket and complete number line on copyright page. Very nice copy.

Fine tan cloth backed in brown in a Fine dust jacket with slight waviness. Bright, snug &unmarked first printing thus with Chappell illustrations & Barzun intro. A handsome copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Xxxiii, 300 Pp. Cloth, Gilt. Book Club Edition With Small Squatre On Rear Cover. Fine (No Wear, Small "I" On Front Endpaper, Small Line Of Foxing Along Gutter Edges Of Rear Endpapers). Near Fine Dj With Trace Of Rubbing At Corners, Corner Crease On Rear Flap. Warren Chappell - Ill. (illustrator).…

1st printing of 1st US edition. In addition to many literary essays includes his essays 'The Negro Question' and 'Coatsville' A clean fine hard cover book/ a small closed tear on rear dust jacket panel otherwise very good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Original essays by Barzun, James, etc., on Raymond Chandler's work and life, with many rare photos. Has all the points of first issue. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy protected in a Mylar jacket cover. Illus. With Musical Examples (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near fine in cloth-covered boards and very good dust jacket with light edgewear. The book has a slight bump on one corner and a previous name sticker on the front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Bumping on front board, small soil mark on bottom corner of text block, very good in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears, abrasions, and toning. Anthology featuring works by Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, John D. MacDonald, Rex Stout, and others. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Compass Books Edition. Trade paperback. 624pp. Owner's gift inscription on half-title, spine sunned and creased, very good. Compass Books, C68.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 520pp. Slight fading on the boards, previous owner name, and rubbing on the bottom page edge else about near fine in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 147 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover without dust jacket in good condition. Boards and spine are marked and sunned. Corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly tanned and foxed. FEP have been removed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

paperback. Condition: Fine. (alk. paper) ; gift note on fepxxvi, 381 p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-462) and indexes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Adventures of the Mind: From The Saturday Evening Post. Edited by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Fourth Printing, January 1960. 285 pages. A remarkable mid-century anthology bringing together major figures in science, philosophy, literature, history, religion, architecture, modern art, music, linguistics and cultural criticism. Originally drawn from essays appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, the collection provides a compelling snapshot of American intellectual culture at the close of the 1950s. The volume opens with an introduction by Mark Van Doren, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and celebrated longtime Columbia University professor. Of particular historical interest, Mark Van Doren was the father of Charles Van Doren, the Columbia academic who became a national television celebrity as a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One before becoming the central figure in the celebrated television quiz-show scandal. Charles Van Doren publicly admitted before a congressional committee on November 2, 1959, that he had participated in the deception surrounding the program. This copy is the January 1960 fourth printing, placing its production only months after Charles Van Doren's congressional confession and at a remarkable moment in the history of the Van Doren family's public reputation and American intellectual culture. The connection is contextual rather than associative: Charles Van Doren did not contribute to this volume, but his father Mark supplied its introduction. The juxtaposition is particularly interesting because Adventures of the Mind celebrates intellectual inquiry and presents serious ideas to a broad popular audience—the same period in which Charles Van Doren's television fame had transformed a young Columbia scholar into a nationally recognized symbol of intellectual achievement. Mark and Charles Van Doren Historical Context Mark Van Doren was one of the distinguished American literary scholars of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and longtime professor of English at Columbia University. His son Charles Van Doren was likewise a Columbia academic when he became nationally famous through his appearances on the television quiz program Twenty-One. His apparent command of an extraordinary range of knowledge turned him into an intellectual celebrity during the 1950s. The story collapsed during the television quiz-show investigations. On November 2, 1959, Charles admitted before congressional investigators that he had been supplied questions and answers in connection with Twenty-One. His association with the scandal became one of the defining episodes in the early history of American television. The timing gives this particular printing an intriguing historical context: the copyright page identifies it as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, only a short time after Charles Van Doren's nationally publicized confession. No claim of ownership, provenance or direct association with Charles Van Doren is made; the significance is the documented father-son relationship and Mark Van Doren's role as the author of the introduction. Accordingly, this copy is accurately described as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, rather than a fourth edition. Please refer to photographs for additional condition detail; photographs form part of the description. .The January 1960 printing also places the volume at an extraordinary moment in the history of the Van Doren family, appearing shortly after the 1959 congressional testimony of Mark Van Doren's son Charles during the notorious television quiz-show scandal. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot were published by Harvard University Press in the following individual volumes or sets of two books each: Volumes I & II--Literary Essays; Volumes II & IV--Historical; Volumes V & VI--Political; Volumes VII & VIII--Economic; Volume IX--Letters & Miscellany. The two books for this listing--the Historical Essays--are in good to very good condition with some brown specks or foxing along page essays; dust jackets are worn or frayed at the corners and at the top of the spine. Private library sticker on front endpaper of volume Three. Multi-Volume Collection. …

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Near fine, if not near fine plus hardback in near fine dust jacket ($6.00 net). Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use to book, primarily a very light bump (3/8 inch by 1/4 inch to upper fore-edge corner. Dust jacket has a 1/2 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel at spine and associated 3.5 inch very light hairline crease along top edge; and a 1/2 inch closed tear and a 1/8 inch by 1/8 inch chip to top edge of front panel near fore edge. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wwear/previous use to dust jacket, primarily to head of spine, edges and corners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good.

Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. COLLECTION LES GRANDES EPOQUES DE L 'HOMME UNE HISTOIRE DES CIVILISATIONS MONDIALE.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 262 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Small soil mark in the margin of one page, slightly sunned spine, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a toned spine.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO30324791: Non daté. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Environ 15 pages. Quelques illustrations en noir et blanc, dans le texte. Texte sur plusieurs colonnes. Frise en couleurs, dépliante hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 900-GEOGRAPHIE, HISTOIRE, SCIENCES AUXILIAIRES DE L'HISTOIRE.…

First Edition. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED by translator Alice Raphael to playwright George Middleton and his wife, activist and actress Fola La Follette on the half-title page: "For Fola and George / in abiding affection / Ever Alice / Sept. 21. 1955." Middleton's nephew David's ownership stamp on the front pastedown. New Jersey-born playwright, director, and producer George Middleton served as president of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1927 to 1929. He is perhaps best remembered today for his instrumental role in creating the Minimum Basic Agreement, a collective bargaining agreement that covers benefits, rights, and protections for Writers Guild of America members. Middleton was also known for his collaborations with Guy Bolton, including the successful 1917 stage comedy "Polly With a Past," basis for the 1920 film adaptation. The daughter of Senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette and women's suffrage leader Belle Case, Flora Dodge "Fola" La Follette was a stage actress, teacher, and writer as well as an activist for the women's suffrage and labor movements. She married Middleton in 1911. Very Good in wrappers, with moderate wear overall, a few small splashes on the bottom portion of the front wrapper, and a lightly faded spine. Signed.…