bantam modern classic (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good wraps with modest rubbing & light toning at pagination edges. Store stamp front endpaper else text snug & unmarked. Sound reader.

unknown_binding. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

unknown_binding. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. 143 p. Mass-market paperback. Cover artist not credited. Nobel Prize-winning author published "Demian" first in 1925 with S. Fischer, Verlag. This is considered a masterpiece of youthful rebellion, set after the First World War. The hero is a quasi-criminal, an outcast who rejects society. Harper & Row first published this in 1965, Bantam 1966.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. yellowing, various notes thru book in ink, pencil and red pencil.

Translated from the German by Michael Roloff and Micheal Lebeck. Just the lightest lines here and there to the text. From a scholar 's library which may be helpful to next reader. Very close to fine and bright illustrated stiff wraps with strong spine.

Paperback. First Edition Thus [1968], so stated. First Edition Thus [1968], so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just the former owner's name inscribed in ink at the upper front endpaper and the mildest rubbing to the wrapper covers; a couple of very faint smudges; the pages have tainned very slightly. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 152pp. First published in the USA by Doubleday in 1922; Bantam published its first paperback edition in 1955 and followed with several formats and covers, all Mass Market Paperback editions. This is the first printing of a new edition in the Modern Classics Series. Mass Market Paperback. Huxley's talent, especially in his first novel, is to pour out ideas (the subjects and issues covered here are staggeringly diverse for such a short book) without losing the human spark or light touch that keeps you reading. Crome Yellow, the story (I use the word loosely) of fairly lazy aristocrats whiling the weeks away at a luxurious country estate, manages to be at once a dozen (or more) intelligent essays--on all different subjects and from many points of view, a romantic comedy, a character(s) study, a social satire, and a charming short story collection. Aldous Huxley was a young man and when he wrote Crome Yellow in the early twenties (not long out of college) he was more agnostic skeptic and social critic than the psychedelic mystic and dystopian prophet he would become. Yet the themes, and sometimes more, of his later work are all present here. There's a suggestion of mysticism and the "other world," albeit in a more comic manner than The Doors of Perception. Denis, with his anxieties around women and self-loathing, hand-wringing intelligence, is an early version of Bernard in Brave New World. And early in the book (at a pig pen of all places) a character hypothesizes about the future--and describes almost exactly the world Huxley would portray in Brave New World! It's fascinating to see, in this modernist society tale, the seeds of Huxley's future work. But better yet are all the ideas and separate stories Huxley crams into Crome Yellow: the historical tale of a dwarfish aristocrat and his gigantic son, a romantic escapade on the roof between a dashing visitor and the well-read yet thick Mary, the frequent and inept attempts of Denis to woo Anne, and cynical but comparatively content Mr. Scogan, who imagines stories to fill the mock books in the library, and cross-dresses as a fortune teller to scare the villagers at the annual fair. All in all, a great, quick read and a touchstone for all of Huxley's themes in a most unlikely vehicle.

mass_market. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. Bantam Edition/Published: January 1969. 148 pp. Book shows heavy use, but still a good reading copy with clean text. Brittle pages. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text. First end page and title page detached from spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Like New. Bantam Modern Classic Ed Publ: May 1968. 215 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Synopsis (Biography from Amazon): Born in Budapest in 1905, educated in Vienna, Arthur Koestler immersed himself in the major ideological and social conflicts of his time. A communist during the 1930s, and visitor for a time in the Soviet Union, he became disillusioned with the Party and left it in 1938. Later that year in Spain, he was captured by the Fascist forces under Franco, and sentenced to death. Released through the last-minute intervention of the British government, he went to France where, the following year, he again was arrested for his political views. Released in 1940, he went to England, where he made his home. His novels, reportage, autobiographical works, and political and cultural writings established him as an important commentator on the dilemmas of the 20th century. He died in 1983.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Barye Phillips; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. Bantam Book NY4090. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Book.

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Fine. book is crisp, clean and tight minimal shelf wear.