Translator Perse St John (17 results)

Published by Pantheon Books, Bollinger, New York, 1949
- Hardcover
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.Ocean Tango Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. as pictured, First Edition second printing, a good condition hardcover , cover smudges, no dust jacket.
Published by Faber and Faber
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1977
- Hardcover
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.UHR Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Advance review copy with original publisher's card. A nice copy with light normal scuffs and some light soils. 31 pages. Book.
Published by Bollingen/Pantheon
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Bollingen/Pantheon, 1958
- Hardcover
Seller: agoodealofbooks, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.agoodealofbooks
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. very clean hardcover. no jacket. clean text. solid binding. no marks. light age wear and corner bumping Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.
Published by Bollingen, New York, 1961
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.Rose's Books IOBA
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Bollingen, 1961. First edition. 12mo. Paperback with self-wrapper, 18 pp. plus additional list of works by St.-John Perse. Cover has tiny holes. Interior is clean and unharmed. Good.
Published by W. W. Norton, New York, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.KULTURAs books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in turquoise mottled boards. First edition. Book is in very good condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Perse's first collection of verse appears here in the new 1944 Varese translation. Introduction by Archibald MacLeish. 8vo. 291 pp.
Published by Bollingen/Pantheon, New York, 1958
- Hardcover
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.Rose's Books IOBA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. New York: Bollingen/Pantheon, 1958. Second edition, stated. Bilingual French-English facing text. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 239 pp. Dust jacket is worn at corners and along folds, large chip in front. Previous owner name in pencil. Near fine in good dus…t jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Rand, Paul (cover) (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Pantheon Books/Bollingen Foundation, New York, 1956
- Hardcover
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaGotcha By The Books
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Add to baskethardbound. Classic collection of poems by St.-John Perse, being a bilingual edition with French original and English translation on facing pages; translated by Louise Varese; no. 55 in the Bollingen Series; medium-heavy foxing to endpapers, text block toned, minor knocks to corners of boards, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapp…er edgeworn and rubbed, price clipped, and with wear along spine. Dustwrapper. 103pp. 8vo. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper.
More imagesPublished by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1949
- Hardcover
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA)
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Add to basketHardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Revised and Corrected Edition. A definitive modernist production, featuring the French text and T. S. Eliot's celebrated English translation on facing pages. This edition is expanded to include critical prefaces by three giants of European literature…: Larbaud, Hofmannsthal, and Ungaretti, along with a comprehensive bibliography. KEY FEATURES +++ Visuals: Designed with a clean, academic modernist layout; features the original French text alongside Eliot's translation. Facing-page translation; typography reflects the clean academic style of the late 1940s. +++ Binding: Grey linen-textured cloth with sharp, square corners. +++ Content: The definitive epic poem of the 20th century, famously compared by Eliot to the later work of James Joyce. +++ Associated Names: St.-John Perse (Author); T. S. Eliot (Translator/Preface); Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Preface). +++ Provenance: From the personal library of publisher Ben Raeburn (Horizon Press). +++ Specs: 9 inches tall / 7-109 pages. +++ Imprint: Early Harcourt, Brace and Company (750 Third Avenue address). CONDITION: Near Fine/Good+-- The bindings are notably tight and square. The text block is clean throughout with only light, even age-toning. Minimal evidence of shelf handling. Dust Jacket: -- Original jacket with the $4.00 price intact. Shows an interior tape repair at the lower spine and light rubbing at the upper spine tip. Generally bright and presents well. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Anabasis is considered one of the most influential poems of the 20th century, and this 1949 edition corrected many of the previous translation's nuances. For the Raeburn archive, this volume illustrates the high-literary milieu in which Horizon Press operated. Ben Raeburn's copy of a work translated by Eliotwho essentially defined the 'Horizon' aesthetic of rigor and modernismis a primary association piece. SUBJECTS: St.-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Modernist Poetry, French Literature in Translation, Epic Poetry, 20th Century Classics, Poetry, Modernism, Literary Association.
Published by Pantheon Books / Bollingen Foundation
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Pantheon/Random House, 1966
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Night Heron Books, Laramie, WY, U.S.A.Night Heron Books
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Taupe slipcase w/ pasted title label still has shrink wrap on it; corners of open edge are bumped. Dust jacket included and in very good condition: price clipped; no tears/stains. No writing, highlighting, or marks in text. Overall in outstanding condition for its age - and w/out slipcase wo…uld be gift quality.
Published by Pantheon/Random House, 1966
- Hardcover
Seller: D2D Books, Berkshire, United KingdomD2D Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Pantheon/Random House, 1966 large hardback gilt titles to taupe boards, Bollingen Series LXXXII. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oblong quarto. pp [viii], 71. Four colour etchings by George Braque are reproduced. The original French text is present also English. Slipcase is damaged, light soiling to…jacket otherwise covers and inside in very good clean tight order, AS New. 24 hour despatch via Tracked. Full refund if not satisfied. A scan of this book is available on request.
Published by Pantheon, 1958, 1958
- Hardcover
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seamarks. Bollingen Series LXVII BILINGUAL
translator Perse, St.-John; Fowlie, Wallace (Author), Paul (cover) Rand (Illustrator)
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United KingdomHay-on-Wye Booksellers
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Add to basketCondition: Good. NO DUST JACKET. Some bumps and wear at edges and corners of hard board. Some storage marks, scratches and tanning to hard board. Tanning to text blocks. Text and pages excellent and clean.
Published by Published for Bollingen Foundation by Pantheon Books, New York, 1958
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First edition. Bilingual. Text in English, French 363 p. 24 cm. Bibliography. Bollingen Series LXVII. Parts of Seamarks (Amers) were first publiched in the United States in Poetry (Chicago, October, 1951), under the title And You, Seas.This appears to be the first complete English language verssion published in book f…orm in the United States. Parts of AMers were first publised in Paris in 1948. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper and page discoloration.
More imagesChante par celle qui fut la. (Signed First Edition)
St.-J. Perse (Saint-John Perse; Alex Leger) (author); Richard Howard (translator)
Published by Princeton University Press (Bollingen Series), Princeton, 1970
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. A very good copy. A copy with clean text. Note: Light ring stain on front cover, small water spot on front cover, and light fading on rear cover (all as pictured) of an otherwise near-fine copy. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatc…hy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. This copy has been SIGNED, warmly inscribed, and dated by Richard Howard (appears to read, "Rowdy Richard"), the translator, opposite the title page (as pictured). ASSOCIATION copy. [Poetry-P]. Inscribed by Author(s).