Evans a W Translated (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Heritage Press edition in matte blue paper covered boards with a white cloth spine with two drawn penguins standing over the title box. Spine cloth pretty clean for its age. (see image). No slipcase and board edges show color loss & rubbed tips (spine ends nice, not rubbed) and darkened around the image of two penguins on cover. 324 pp text is flawless. No names, tears or soil. Solid working copy. Not pretty but all there. Special contents copyrighted by the George Macy Companies Inc. An extraordinary parody of civilization by the patriarch of letters known as Anatole France, as popular in his country as Mark Twain was in America writes van Doren in his intro "His birth name was Jacques Anatole Thibault. "L'Ile des Pingouins", 1908, combines all of his gifts, wit, intelligence, and if the reader chooses one of his works, choose this. first".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover - VG - No dust jacket if issued - Book is clean and tight with light wear - Illustrated - 344 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Heritage Press Edition. Book has light edgewear; few marks; small tear on side of 2 pages; slipcase has edgewear. Satirical fictional history story by the Nobel Prize winning French author; introduction by Carl Van Doren; drawings by Malcolm Cameron. Book.

Black Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. Color Plates By Sylvain Sauvage (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Finely Illustrated And Printed For The Heritage Club, No Comparable Limited Editions Printing. Printed In Large Granjon Type On White Rag Paper From Worthy. Covers In Cloth From Dupont, Treated With Pyroxylin For Longevity, In Imitation Goat Grain. Book Is Unworn, Fine, Name Stamps Of Edgar Orr; Black Slipcase With Wear On Parts Of Open End, No Splits Or Tears. Spine Lettering Complete But Not Bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing DJ. Dent to the bottom right corner of the boards and pages. PO stamp inside front cover. Pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Small books/Upstairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. xvi + 324pp; b/w illustrations; Sandglass brochure laid in. Contents textually clean and unmarked. No library stamps. Owner's bookplate affixed inside front cover, else in Fine condition. Slipcase in VG+ condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. Reprint. 8-1/2 x 5-3/4 inches, xx, 345 pages. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering, in dust-jacket. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Exterior excellent, text is very clean, binding is tight. condition of the jacket is Very Good; with minor chipping and marginal tears. Jacket design by Pape. fiction, STK.

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Black & White Plates & Illus. (illustrator). London, UK: John Lane The Bodley Head. G/No Dustjacket. (1927). . Cloth. Sm 4to., 345 pp., rubbed, page toning .

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good + (ABOVE AVERAGE). Not Illustrated (illustrator). Thinkers Library 1st Edition. The Thinker's Library No.21. The jacket has a slightly faded spine. .POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK ONLY). Please email for further details. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾". Not Inscribed or Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback: Good Condition. No Jacket. Pages Yellowed But Clean With A Pencil Inscription And Sticker In Front Of Book By Previous Owner, No Other Markings. Binding Lightly Warped But Tight And Secure. Clean Boards, Minimal Wear And Age. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition. Please Contact Us For Pictures If Desired.

hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. slipcase shows signs of wear xvi, 324 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Frank C. Pape (illustrator). Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions. Black coverboards with gilt lettering/decoration. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge of text block stained red, as published. A few pages at beginning of book are uncut. Twelve black and white illustrative plates, including frontis. Light wear at head/tale of spine. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 345 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. A later printing of the first edition in English translation, published in 1924 in the Popular Edition of the Works of Anatole France. Translated from the French by A. W. Evans. The John Lane translation was originally published in 1909, a year after the book came out in France, published by Calmann-Lévy as "L'Île des Pingouins". ***Very good in pale orange cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles and rules on the spine, and blind-stamped titles and rules on the front board. The gilt is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and undamaged, with just some light dust soiling at the edges. No bumps or tears to the cloth, just slight creasing to the top and tail of the spine. Corners sharp, with just a slight crease to the top corner tip of the front board. Top edge of page block slightly darkened but not foxed. Fore edge slightly foxed. Internally also very good with a contemporary gift inscription - 'Kathleen Mary Hill from Dad, Jan 27th 1925' - on the front pastedown. Pages clean and fresh without any creasing. Printed on thin but nice quality paper. ***In a very good original printed dustwrapper, which is priced 2/6 net on the spine. The dustwrapper is complete without any chips or tears. There is some edge wear and rubbing but no loss. Light strips of fading around the spine of the dustwrapper, and some slight browning to the spine of the dustwrapper. Dustwrapper bright. ***345 pages including a two-page publisher's advertisement at the back of the book. 190 mm x 130 mm. ***'Anatole France, born François-Anatole Thibault (16 April 1844 - 12 October 1924), was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament.' ***'"Penguin Island" is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans. Mostly blind from reflections from the polar ice and somewhat deaf from the roar of the sea, having mistaken the animals for humans, he baptizes them. This causes a problem for The Lord, who normally only allows humans to be baptized. After consulting with saints and theologians in Heaven, He resolves the dilemma by converting the baptized birds to humans with only a few physical traces of their ornithological origin, and giving them each a soul. Thus begins the history of Penguinia, and from there forward the history mirrors that of France (and more generally of Western Europe, including German-speaking areas and the British Isles).' [Wiki] ***A later printing of the first edition in English translation, published in 1924 in the Popular Edition of the Works of Anatole France, complete in its original dustwrapper. A nice production of this famous work of French literature - preceding the more commonly found 1929 illustrated edition. A well-preserved copy of this famous work in an attractive format. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hard Cover with Slipcase. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover with vellum spine with gilt lettering and illustration of two penguins; boards covered in light-blue and white-patterned paper; limited edition 177/1500; Signed by Malcolm Cameron; striking b&w illustrations. Book in very good condition: spine moderately darkened and scuffed; cloth has a narrow strip of slight sunning parallel to spine on back and front; straight; tight; clean; a couple of small spots to front endpapers, otherwise interior is excellent. Slipcase in very good plus condition with a little scuffing. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.

Hard Back White Spine Blue Boa. Condition: Almost Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slip Case. Malcolm Cameron (illustrator). First Thus. Book is in super condition.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. shelf wear, owners inscription, surface creasing on spine. D3 5.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very attractive illustrated edition, first thus. 12 b/w plates and in-text illustrations by Frank C. Papé. Black cloth, gilt titles and illustrations, top edge red, other edges untrimmed, illustrated endpapers. Condition: Very good. Some edgewear. Gilt bright. Internally clean and bright. Size: 9.5x7in / 24x18cm. 345pp. Weight: 840g.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The first illustrated edition. Pictorial gilt cloth binding with illustrated endpapers, inner hinges weak at front and back. Uncut two sides. Ownership signature in pencil. 12 plates and other illustrations in text. Advert leaf at rear. Occasional tone mark but largely very clean internally. xxi,345,(2)pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Publisher's cloth. Presumed first edition thus. Inscribed to the ffep by translator Evans. Spine has been repaired; front hinge cracked, light soil to cloth, slight foxing. PO bookplate of Myrtle A. Crummer, the wife of Le Roy Crummer, book collector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj. has tearing on spine edges and closed tears, but is complete. owners name, binding tight, S3 1.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Illustrated by Pape, F. C.; Austen, J.; Nachshen, D. (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Undated. Mild shelf wear to extremities, gentle curving to base corners. Tanning and foxing to endpapers and page edges. Text all clear. Binding cracked at pg 32/33, 48/49, 64/65.