Translator with an Introduction (13 results)

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 147 pp. Solidly bound book with minimal external wear. Clean text. Moderately browned page edges. Crease on cover page. Botticelli (Cover Painting) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Newly Translated. 8vo. liv (ii), 464 pp. with Mezzotint Portrait, and 16 reproductions of Cellini"s works. Newly translated into English by John Arlington Symonds: 1925. Light external wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.5". Gilt-illustrated maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block. Size: Octavo. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 270pp. First published in 1976; first published in paperback in 1979; reprinted in 1986; this copy: "Re-issued in this digitally printed version in 2010". Bibliography, pp. 264-268; Index, pp. 269-270. Glossy dark olive wrappers with 'Dilthey' in white letters across top front cover. Spine tight. No previous owner names. Clean text.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. 172pp. Previous owner's name inside cover.

Condition: Very Good.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine/ no dust jacket--as issued. Maroon with gold designs and gold gild on page ends Easton Press. Very nice copy. William Blake (illustrator).

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. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy. No dustjacket. xv, 208pp, mostly uncut. Book.

Softcover. Condition: vg. First American edition. Economist and political scientist, Joseph Schumpeter was also one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. His "Imperialism and Social Classes" (reprints of 1919, 1927) contains the author's own theory of imperialism, one of the most influential critiques of the Marxian theory which has ever been written. "Social Classes" sums up a line of study and thought which had occupied much of Schumpeter's time and attention from his earliest teaching days. This analysis of the problem of social classes was widely recognized in pre-Hitler Germany as a work of seminal importance. Spine of wrappers age-toned. Wraps in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter oatmeal white cloth, black paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, black and white head bands. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. A collection of over 150 non essays by Jorge Luis Borges the Argentine short-story writer, essayist, and poet. Full printer's code to the copyright page 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains (xvi)-2, 559 pp. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella). …

First edition thus. Small 8vo. lxix, [1, blank], [2], 207, [1, blank] pp., with a 8 pp. publisher's prospectus loosely inserted at rear. Original orange printed wrappers, edges untrimmed (contents clean and entirely unopened; extremities slightly worn with a few tiny nicks and minor creasing, front cover with heavy partial offsetting and long closed tear to along top edge, another long closed tear at foot of front joint with small loss to spine, notwithstanding a nice example of this rare and fragile publication). Jena, Gustav Fischer. A German edition of Richard Cantillon's foundational Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, translated by Hella Hayek (née von Fritz) (1901-1960), the first wife of Friedrich August von Hayek, and with an introductory essay and commentary throughout by Hayek himself. The translation was Hayek's initiative, intended to be form part of a potential ten-volume book series of classics in monetary theory that would include Thornton's Paper Credit, although the project would never fully come to fruition. Hayek's ugly divorce of Hella in 1950 coincided with his move from the LSE to the University of Chicago and, quite rightly, caused enormous controversy amongst his friends and colleagues, in particular leading to a decisive break between Hayek and Lionel Robbins (see Caldwell & Klausinger, Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950, p. 10). Cody & Ostrem, E-3.…