Bernard Guerney Translator (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Missing. 5th. A very clean hardcover missing the Dust jacket, binding is tight and the pages are clean and unmarked. Handsome pictorial boards.

HARDCOVER. No jacket. First Edition. vi. + 730pp. Black cloth spine with lettered red paper boards. Black endpapers, top edge tinted, fore edge uncut. vi. + 730pp. First Edition (thus). Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney whose Notes follow the text. Good/No jacket. (front pastedown lightly scuffed, cover edges rubbed, top spine (header) torn. text clean/unmarked, back endpaper hinge cracked else binding sound: a Good Reading copy).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Heritage Reprints 1938 Very Good/ NO DUST JACKET, NO SLIPCASE. Light wear to pictorial boards, spine reinforced with clear library tape, illustratred end papers, pages lightly tanned. HEAVY OVER SIZE ITEM. No Exp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Some cover wear wtih a crease at the top edge of the front. Priority shipping available on this item. ***No international shipping.

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First American Edition ] Publisher: Pantheon Pub Date: 1/1/1958 Binding: hardcover Pages: 558 First American Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Modern Library Edition. In maroon cloth with gilt to type on spine. Pale moisture stains to top of rear board and top and front page ends. A few small smudges to text block. Spine slightly cocked. Jacket is price-clipped with some edgewear and nicks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Buy it before they ban it. (Warning - a non-canonical examination of the ideas of Christ and anti-Christ.) The second book of a trilogy regarding Christ and anti-Christ. This edition is illustrated with color and black and white prints of da Vinci's work. Major chipping to top edge of back board. Top 1/2 inch of spine overlay is missing. Moderate soiling. Hinges and text-block in good condition 1st Ed. in this format.…

452pp. + ads Edited & translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Light cover wear/soil, text lightly aged, else clean/tight: VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards with red illustrative stamping on front cover and spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1929. 447 pages. In good condition. Covers have some light fading and rubbing, but overall red stamping of hand coming out of ground and red lettering remains clear and bright. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped. A bit shelf-cocked. Rough cut pages. Front and rear gutters are cracked, but binding remains secure and there are no loose pages. Text is in English. Frontispiece portrait of author Alexandre Kuprin. Pages free of marks or tears throughout.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. subsequent edition. 287 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition in English. New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1927. Ex-university library. Limited and numbered, this being #147 of 950 copies printed for America. There were also 550 for Great Britain and 55 unnumbered copies for the press. Printed on Berkeley Antique laid paper, 406 pp. One of Kuprin's later novels on prostitution and brothels in Russia. Front hinge shaken. Good.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Second printing, May 1931; 574 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong though mildly age-toned paper; deckle ages; lovely frontis. from art of Leonardo; binding tight; slight chipping at upper portion of front gutter. in absence of d.j., the boards with still bright silver gilt lettering and stamped sketch of "The Last Supper" the corners are lightly bumped corners and there is slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.…

Slipcased Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This book is in very good condition with tight binding and clean text. There is sun fading on the spine. The slipcase is in fair condition with wear and one split seam. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Corcos, Lucille (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1931. "Second printing, May 1931" (stated) of this First Edition Thus (following an earlier edition of this translation by Modern Library in 1928). The first printing of this edition was in March, 1931. Near Fine+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square, with dark gray topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full tan cloth, color uniform but some dirt spots, with silver design, title, author and publisher to front board, silver title, etc., to spine, unmarked endpapers, and all corners square. No Dust Jacket. See photos. x + 574 pages. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Translated from the Russian Voskresschie Bogi. Leonardo da Vinci (1900), (literally "Resurrected Gods. Leonardo da Vinci"), by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, this is the second volume of the author's Christ and Anti-Christ trilogy, following The Death of the Gods: Julian the Apostate, and preceding Peter and Alexis. This excellent historical novel examines da Vinci from the perspective of Giovanni Beltraffio (aka Boltraffio), then a naive apprentice in da Vinci's workshop, who reflects on the seeming clash of Christianity with the newly revived interest in Greek and Roman art and history that is the Renaissance. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 1010 grams / 2 lb., 3.5 oz., and will require extra postage for international shipment. Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. dust jacket missing a lot of large pieces, book has minor wear, binding tight, no writing, translated Russian novel of a brothel and the prostitute's way of life Size: 5 x 7.25.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. "First Printing, August, 1962" stated. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Fine wraps/paperback. Age-toning to leaves. Only trivial, if any additional signs of age/wear/previous use.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. subsequent edition. 287 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First thus. Mass market paperback. VG. 416pp.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. ** 1958. Dust Cover has some very minor shelf wear. ** Book: New inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. Excellent book.(E-mail for more info).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good+. Modern Library, 1997. 674 pages. Light general wear. Previous owner name on title page. Size: 7.75 x 5.25 x 1.5. 0389.

Condition: Very Good. New Directions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., Copyright 1929. First Edition Thus. Later Printing. This printing was from the Fall of 1939 (Catalogue at the end of the book includes Odets, Six Plays, but not Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida). Binding is Toledano Style 7 (in use from 1931 to 1939). Near Fine+ condition. No Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with brown topstain and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full brown balloon cloth, faded at the spine, with faded gilt Rockwell Kent torchbearer to the front board, faded title, etc., to the spine, unmarked orange Rockwell Kent endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. No Dust Jacket. See the photos. x, 473, [vi] pages. 4 1/2" x 6 1/2". Translated, with a Critical Foreword, by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, from the Russian Smert bogov. Yulian-Otstupnik, the novel was originally published as The Outcast, in Russian Otverzhenny, in 1895 by Severny Vestnik. This historical novel eventually became the first volume in the author's Christ and Antichrist Trilogy, a study in the tensions of Christianity and Paganism. Julian, Roman Emperor from 361 - 363 and the nephew of Constantine the Great, who had adopted Christianity for the Roman Empire, attempted to restore the cult of the Roman Gods.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A beautiful burgundy leatherbound edition from the Easton Press. Binding remains tight, the text appears clean throughout; full leather, all edges gilt with a ribbon bound in. The spine features gilt detailing and titles with four raised bands. 'Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences.' 935 pages. 6.1 x 9 inches. Includes an unused and never installed bookplate from the Easton Press. May require additional postage. This listing was made by a small independent book shop. We carefully inspect every single book we list and give accurate descriptions. If you require we will promptly send pictures of listed books upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket as issued. Collector's Edition. 580 pp + 100 color reproduction, Foreword & Biographical sketch, 17 Books (sections), Translator's notes. with library catalog cards, owner bookplate, and archive notes laid in. 6.8" x 9.8" brown leather boards, with gilt design and letters, gilt textblock edges. Text block fore-edge has two scratches on gilt surface, the first about 2", the other 1" or so, long. Else Fine/ HC. Size: Small Quarto. Leonardo da Vinci / Neumann, J. B. - art editor (illustrator). Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good. Pocket size. First page has a name.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With clamshell and rice paper covered books. Unfortuantely some ex libris bookplates. Nice otherwise. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Hardcover, 1040 pages. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Slipcase). Limited Editions Club. Hand numbered this being 1354/1500. Tenth in the Limited Editions Club series. Brown Russian cloth boards with gilding on boards and outer spines. Pictorial paste-downs and endpapers. Bound cloth placeholders. Includes detailed printing description sheet and Number 50, July 1933 Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club. Inked top edges. 24 sets of woodblock illustrations in color and black & white. Minor soiling to endpapers. Pages are clean, bindings are tight. Slipcase repair to edges and corners. Significant soiling to slipcase. Paper title on outer slipcase intact. Overall this is a beautiful printing/edition. Nikolas Piskariov (illustrator). Signed on limitation page by Nikolas Piskariov.…

Condition: Fine. dj. First Thus. Limited edition. Copy 1182 of 1200 copies signed by artist Lucille Corcos at rear colophon of second volume. xvi, [iv], 308; [vi], 309-484, [2] pp. Publisher's blue boards with red buckram backstrips, stamped in gilt, all edges stained red; housed in original blue cloth clamshell box lettered in gilt. Complete in two volumes. Former owner's bookplates on paste downs, else Fine in original glassine wraps, lightly worn and folded, housed in Very Good box, lettering dulled, small tear along foot joint, rubbing. The classic Russian novel, illustrated by American "modern primitivist" painter Lucille Corcos. Signed.…

First American edition. First American edition. Signed by Ivan Bunin on the title page in black ink, some initial bleed. 313 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with purple title labels and gilt lettering, purple topstain, patterned endpapers. Very Good+ with sunning to spine label, rear hinge starting, lacking dust jacket. A rare signed collection of stories by the acclaimed Russian writer including "The Gentleman from San Francisco." He was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Signed.…