Introduction by Andre Gide (19 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+. 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.

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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.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 7.56x5.04x0.47 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 1960. A few small tears and some fading to the dust jacket. Light foxing to the page edges. Otherwise a clear, bright copy within.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good, with a Very Good dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket, including a few bumps, chips, and short tears. One inch tear to jacket at spine. Toning and smudging to jacket. Minor edgewear to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xv, 978 Pp. Brown Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt, Front Cover Embossed In Brown And Black With An Excellent Modernist Rendering Of Gide's Initials By Betty Anderson. First Edition Stated. Fine In Near Fine Dj Priced $20.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent Slipcase. 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. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Silver title to spine with gold facsimile signature to front on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with fading to spine and to a portion of top. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 239 pages. Comprises: Foreword by R. Niklaus; Introduction in English; Les Caves du Vatican - text in French (Texte en Français) - I - Anthime Amand-Dubois, II - Julius de Baraglioul, III - Amédée Fleurissoire, IV - Le Milles-Pattes, V - Lafcadio; Notes; Chronology of the Life of Gide; Chronology of the Works of Gide; Selective bibliography. In Les Caves several serious problems are grafted onto the complicated plot: the freethinker Anthime and his ludicrous conversion, and especially the problem of the gratuitous act and human freedom as exemplified in Protos the chief fool and bandit, and his pupil Lafcadio. Disguised as a priest, Protos, the principal philosopher crook, convinces the Countess de Saint-Prix that the pope has been abducted and is kept confined in the Vatican cellars, while an impostor is on the papal throne. B2C Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

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Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The Cresset Library. Pages clean and bright, foxing on endpapers, spotting on closed edges, boards and binding tidy, light chipping to edges of dust jacket with some small closed tears, although the dust jacket has been protected from further damage by a plastic sleeve. Size: 8vo.…

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, As Issued. Limited First Edition. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Oxford, Holywell Press, 1905. Illustrated with a fine series of portraits, cartoons, facsimiles, etc. Near Fine in original blue-grey boards, paper labels side and back, all edges uncut. Spine label browned and with small chip, spine a bit browned as well. Size: Small 8vo. Book.…

Vellum. Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, [four volumes]. Three-quarter white vellum over decorated paper-covered boards. Gilt titles and red top edges. Housed in the publisher's slipcase, some wear along rear panel hinges, solid binding. Designed and decorated by T.M. Cleland. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Cleland in the Handbook, this being number 1470. (Newman & Wiche 176) (LEC, 186) An exceptionally bright example. The first three volumes contain the Essays of Montaigne. The fourth volume is a Handbook to the Essays of Michel de Montaigne. The Handbook contains Ives's notes and comments by Grace Norton. The set was issued in two installments in December 1946 and December 1947. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne from the Limited Editions Club, printed in 1946. Translated by George B. Ives, with an introduction by André Gide. (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. KENT Orange & White ENDPAPERS have pencil mark,HBDJ, First Modern Library Edition #187 ,1931. First Edition stated on copyright page, VG-/GOOD, , Rose brown balloon cloth thin flexible boards stamped in gilt at spine and front cover.Back DJ cover states complete list of 190 Bks COUPON with Pre Zip Code Coupon. , book is Near Fine, with a Bloomingdales stamp to title page and a penciled price to ffep. Penciled owner's signature. Binding tight and straight. Jacket is Very Good, with separation to front and rear flaps and attendant chipping. Deep price clip. Minor chipping to top of slighty darkened spine and 1/2" closed tear to bottom. Spine separation starting very lightly. 372 PGS, NO ADS IN BACK , Back DJ cover states complete list of 190 Bks COUPON.…

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