Gide Andre Translated Introduction Notes (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition stated. No wear to the binding. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight but show some underlining in red ink here and there. Name in ink inside the front cover. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket priced at $3.50 (not clipped) shows light edge wear. no sun fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Printing. Book cover spine is faded, and lettering is partially worn off. A bit of foxing on top end of book. Name of previous owner written in ink on front free endpage. ; Volume I only.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ DJ. First American Edition. Xiv, 166, Vii. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First American Edition Stated. Fine Book, No Wear Or Marks. Dj Would Be Near Fine, A Little Rubbing At Bottom 5/8" Of Spine, But Has Two 1/4" Closed Tears At Bottom Of Front Panel With A Little Associated Wrinkling; Dj Is Price Clipped At Top Of Front Flap. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Condition: DJ nicked, chipped with small tears & age-darkening; else very good in fair DJ. 299 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Tall 8vo, 380 pp. Spine rubbed, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, page edges tanned.

Hardcover. xiv, 166p. + vii index, previous owner's blindstamp on f.e.p. else a very good first UK edition in boards and unclipped, shelfworn dj with sunned spine. The last work of Gidé left uncompleted when he died, a continuation of his Journals.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: FOUNDATIONAL: FINE: Remarkably FRESH 3-volume hardcover set, First Heritage Press Edition (Orig. 1946) Unstated First Printings, reprinted by arrangement w/ the Harvard University Press (Orig. 1925): Slip-cased, Marbled boards, AS-NEW bindings, PRISTINE interiors: The ESSAYS of MICHEL de MONTAIGNE, Complete in Three Volumes: VOLUME I: Comprising Book I (Complete) Essays I-LVII & Book II (in part) Essays I-XII, 5.48" x 7.76" x 1.96", 0.97 kg, xlvi+816 (862) pp; VOLUME II: Comprising Book II (in part) Essays XIII-XXXVII & Book III (complete) Essays I-XIII, 5.48" x 7.76" x 1.68", 0.84 kg, x+817-1530 (724) pp; VOLUME III: Handbook to the Essays" which includes the Notes upon the Text by the Translator and a Series of Comments on the Essays by Grace Norton, 5.48" x 7.76" x 1.36", 0.66 kg, x+1531-2078 (558) pp: VOLUMES I-III (individually slip-cased): 5.74" x 8.12" x 5.50", 2.76 kg, xlvi+x+x+2078 (2144) pp * ABOUT THE TRANSLATION: This handsomely produced 3-volume set is an indispensable addition to any collection of Montaigne in English translation, a bridge between the antiquated, unreliable, & corruptly edited translations of John Florio (1603) & Charles Cotton (c. 1670) upon which English-readers were obliged to depend prior to its first appearance in 1925 from Harvard University Press & its more modern successor in Donald Frame's translation which appeared in 1940, a scant 15 years after the publication of the Ives translation here offered in the beautifully produced three-volume reprint edition published in 1946 by the department-store magnate bibliophile George Macy's Heritage Press. Connoisseurs of American intellectual culture will take note of the name Grace Norton, recognizing her as the sister of the great 19th century Harvard philologist & professor of Romance languages, Charles Elliot Norton, who as the Cambridge heir of H.W. Longfellow was the translator of the first truly modern, truly accurate English-language Dante (c. 1891) among many other achievements for which he is still honored w/ a prestigious professorship & annual lecture in his name. His sister Grace had many achievements to her credit as well in scholarship & in translation & in her central role in fostering this edition of Montaigne from conception to publication in close collaboration w/ the scandalous scion of the Salem Pickerings, G.B. Ives. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: George Burnham Ives (1856-1930) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School & became the Assistant District Attorney of Essex County (MA). On May 12, 1890, Ives pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement & forgery, having been caught misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars from various trust funds as well as squandering his wife's inheritance. He was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in Charlestown Prison & was disbarred. While in prison, Ives developed a second career as a translator. After his release, he became a distinguished & prolific literary translator, translating works by Balzac, Daudet, Gautier, Hugo, Maupassant, Mérimée, Sand & Montaigne into English. In later life, Ives produced the first comprehensive bibliography of the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes & worked as an editor at The Atlantic Monthly. * ABOUT THE COMMENTATOR: Grace Norton (b. 1834, d. May 5, 1926) was a noted scholar & lecturer. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Andrew Norton & Catherine Eliot Norton, she was the sister of Charles Eliot Norton. She was educated in Cambridge & read extensively about the literature of France. Norton began studying French authors, chief among them Michel de Montaigne. An expert on Montaigne & the works of other authors, Norton traveled, lectured & wrote about them, her articles appearing in many publications. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & packages this splendid set w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories.