Translated Michael Howard (8 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Original price of $7.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has one archival repaired edge tear now protected in paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Michael Foreman (illustrator). 1st U.K. edition. [minor shelfwear, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket shows just light handling wear, with a couple of tiny edge-tears]. Novel about a widowed schoolmaster in a French provincial town and his relationships with his three children, "an in particular with Bruno, the youngest, whom he rightly suspects is not his own.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing Large octavo hardback. Red cloth xiv + 414 pp, Very Good condition. No inscriptions. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 2nd Edition, Revised & Corrected. CLASSIC: INDISPENSABLE: NEAR FINE to FINE Second "Indexed" Edition hardcover (Orig. 1976, Index Copyright--w/ Corrections & Index--1984) Eleventh Printing, INSCRIBED "with best wishes" by Peter Paret, AS-NEW unpriced mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners, EXCELLENT unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior, AS-NEW library-durable gray linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & w/ titles gold-stamped on black title-panel on spine, AS-NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures, EXCELLENT unmarked cream-white laid-card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity on SUPERB silk-finish unblemished archival paper MARRED Only w/ a few lines underlined in thin-nib ballpoint on one or two pages * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.88", 1.24 kg, xii+732 (744) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: "On War" is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics & as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world & has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen & intellectuals. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This new translation of Clauswitz's famous unfinished work is all that an English-language reader could ask. This surely is THE edition in English of "On War" for our time & for some time to come." -John C. Cairns, International Journal "Now that we have the new publication from Princeton, translated w/ elegant clarity by Michael Howard & Peter Paret, all excuses for not reading Clausewitz are removed." -Edward N. Luttwak, New Republic * ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS: Michael Howard was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. Peter Paret was Raymond E, Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. Bernard Brodie was Professor of Political Science at the University of California. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Date on title page. No additional edition or printing indicated. Fine, if not new hardback in fine, if not new unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has a 5/8 inch closed tear to bottom of rear fore-edge fold.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 256p Size: 29cm Number of books: 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 462 pages. Published in 2002. Volume Three of the author's collected essays. Possibly the greatest literary collection of the mid-20th century, published in English posthumously, more than fifty years later. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of Harvard University's Complete Works of Walter Benjamin. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Walter Benjamin's "Selected Writings: Volume 3: 1935-1938" in a felicitous English translation. The third - and most important - volume of the Series, a landmark publication in the history of modern thought and literary criticism. "Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie: Such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930's. Twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated. The centerpiece, 'A Berlin Childhood Around 1900', marks the very first appearance in English of one of the greatest works of the twentieth century: A profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, 'The Work of Art In The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility', and 'German Men And Women', a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883, in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of the German tradition from the debasement of Fascism" (Publisher's blurb). "The Storyteller" and "Paris, The Capital of The Nineteenth Century", which poignantly anticipates his massive "Arcades" Project, as well as crucible-essays on Bertolt Brecht and Franz Kafka, among other major figures, written during his excruciating years in exile (France and Denmark), are also contained in this epochal volume. Individually and collectively, these pieces describe and sum up Benjamin's single most devastating insight: "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" (Walter Benjamin). Walter Benjamin's personal heroism wasn't just some egotistical idea he had about himself. He lived and then died as a hero: He committed suicide on September 26, 1940 at the French-Spanish border while trying to escape the Nazis with a group of fellow Jews. They were all arrested by the Spanish police (Franco was one of Hitler's closest allies). Moved and humbled by his desperate yet principled stand, the Spanish police, defying Franco's orders, allowed his fellow Jews to escape. An absolute "must-have" title for Walter Benjamin collectors. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online are ALL subsequent printings or have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. The greatest literary/cultural critic of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WALTER BENJAMIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0674008960. no.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Near fine plus plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus plus, if not fine unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Book has a 1.5 inch circular embossed ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.