Trans Bernard Frechtman (33 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not Stated. Grove Press 1962. Very Good; Shelf worn. Gentle wear. Binding is softcover; 201 pages. ISBN: 0394623819.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Softcover 3 book set, original individual edtions as published 1969-70 by Faber/London, no markings, no spine/cover creases, mild shelf/edge wear, else bright tight nice trio of Genet plays; 3 8vos.

Hardcover. First Printing. 344pp. Slight foxing on edges and endpapers, else very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight/ price clipped, lightly soiled dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus (NAP) . Hardcover, very good in good dustjacket. Dustjacket scuffed, lightly age yellowed, three 1 inch tears and several lesser tears and chips; price present. Book itself has light foxing along edges of textblock, two approximately 1 inch tape(? ) marks on front endpapers, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Modern first.

Paperback. pp. 159. 8vo. Corners thumbed, minor spot to front cover and few pages; very good.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First American Edition. First American Edition, 3rd printing. Hard cover 8vo in black cloth w/white spine titles. Fine and unmarked book in Near Fine unclipped lightly stained DJ w/ 1/4" tear top front. Nice copy. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8th printing (n.d. c.1991). 160pp. VG clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 406pp. Good unclipped DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover without dustjacket, 64 pages, very good condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp.

Paperback. Reprint edition. Good/Wraps (39744) . Trade paperback, good condition, with lightly rubbed wraps--some light marks. some light tanning.Sme soil on r., light crease near lower bottom corner. somewhat tanned p. edges, some light soil. lightly tanned ins wraps, pp. O/w cln, tight, unmarked. 126.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 1st ptg thus. 625pp; light foxing top edge & endpages; dust jacket is worn with chips & tears, one taped, is in new clear protective mylar. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor wear to boards with light soiling around edges. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Small discolorations on ffeps. Text is unmarked. Dj quite shelf worn with scuffs, creases, chipping, light soiling & small tears repaired with clear tape in a mylar cover.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:

paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

First edition, ex-library, reading copy, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Later printing. Near fine in very good dust, price-clipped dust jacket with several short closed tears to top edge, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 318 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Good to very good dust jacket. Jacket is not price clipped. The dust jacket has one short closed edge tear along with showing light wear/ rubbing along the edges and at head of spine. Stated First Edition / First Printing. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Hardcover. First ition edition. Very Good/Good (28994) . Hardcover, very good condition, w. v. ltly slanted. v. ltly compressed sp, v. ltly bumped corners. V. ltly warped fr brd. Smwht tanned p. edges, sme lt soil/soil foxing.Ltly tanned esp.Bkplate. Lt spot on rfep. Dj g., ltly rubbed, sme lt marks, asme lt tanning & soil.Sme lt spots ins. 90.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Cloth; b/w photo-illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 344. A nice copy of the both the book and the jacket, though the jacket is stuck to the book. Some light rubbing on rear panel; closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. pp. 255. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with white lettering to spine. Light shelfwear; very good in good, price-clipped paper dustjacket with discolouration, tears, and chips.

First edition. Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

First American edition. Quarto. 93, [1]pp. Original pictorial dustjacket, with full page b/w photograph of Braque at rear over illustrated brown cloth with decorative brown lettering to front and spine. 16-page booklet translated by Frechtman laid in. Delightful illustrated ideas, 92 pen and ink drawings, about art and life by the renowned French master. Dj browned with wear and some discoloration along edges. Moderate chips at top of spine and lower front left corner, creasing and sporadic chipping along edges. Binding with light wear along edges, a one inch closed tear at upper front and back joint and a two inch closed tear to lower front joint. Dj in overall fair, binding in good, interior in good+ condition.

First edition: gatefold paperback; octavo; 42pp. Owner's name. Browned and spotted upper text block edge and one or two spots on early pages; cover slightly worn along edges and corners. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Thus. [2], 94pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, a few small nicks and tears to edges. Name stamp of James Griffin to ffep, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 176. Original publishers red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. A play in seventeen scenes. Faint foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, otherwise near fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 96. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine. First published in Paris by Marc Barbezat, 1957. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Excellent condition. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. none (illustrator). First edition. An electrifying first edition translated copy of The Balcony, a play by Jean Genet in the original clipped dustwrapper. The Balcony is set in a brothel that functions as a microcosm of the outside regime.Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright and political activist known for his controversial and electrifying writing.In the original clipped dustjacket and translated from the French to English by Bernard Frechtmann. In the publisher's original orange cloth binding. Some bumping to the tail of the spine and extremity. Previous owner ink and bookseller stamp to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages. In the original clipped dustwrapper. Some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Some fading to the rear and spine. Small tears to the rear. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 60. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering at front and spine. Illustrated with black and white line drawings by Picasso. Very good indeed in somewhat used and chipped, very good minus dust jacket, with some loss at head of spine.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first UK edition of this play by Jean Genet, translated from the original French. The first UK edition. Translated from the original French by Bernard Frechtman.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This play was written by Jean Genet (titled 'Le Balcon' in French) and is set in a unnamed city which is experiencing an uprising, with most of the play taking place in a brothel. The English version of the play was first directed at the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1957. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with very minimal shelf wear. A bookseller's label and a small past owner's signature to the front pastedown and scattered spotting to the endpapers. The wrap is generally smart with slight fading to the spine, handling marks to the rear, a closed tear to the head of the spine and to the tail of the front and the odd chip. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with spotting to the front and rear. Near Fine. book.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling & discolouration to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, top corner of ffep missing, light foxing to eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to base of ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals).