Anonymous by Leonardo Ricci (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 254 pp. White cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Slightest toning to extremities of boards. A few small tears and chips to jacket's front panel. Jacket design by Sigrid Spaeth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George Braziller, New York, 1962. 254 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Leonardo Ricci, one of Europe's great younger architects, presents now a moving, if overly momentous, testament of faith in the future of mankind. Called Anonymous (20th Century) , it signals and salutes the new class of men who will one day arise uniting technological power to the humanitarian spirit. They will create a sort of anonymous millennium, an egalitarian society only of peers in which both psychological and economic strife is absent and the fruits of earth and of the soul blossom for all. Signor Ricci, full of noble thoughts, idealistic lushness and organ music, is more persuasive in form than in content; possessing the true voice of the prophet, he really believes everything he forecasts. Actually, the Ricci thesis is a complex of Christian brotherhood, Marxian evolutionism, Bakunin's anarchist ethic and Sartre's existential engagement. Though Signor Ricci forswears genius, his debt to many in that category is apparent; and, amusingly enough, he writes best when speaking of Picasso and Cimabue or describing town planning a la Corbussier. This is a journey in the imagination, a book, as the author says, without end and without conclusion, an apolitical vision designed to inspire the reader. Yet it's obvious only those already inclined will be acceptant; the rest, no doubt, will shrug it off with a cynical smile. But either way, it's an exhortation more than welcome in this anxious age. EB; 20Th Century; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, inscribed by Ricci on the first free end page, book has a very slight skew to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and some foxing to the spine, the edges of the cover, the edges of the text block, and to the end pages, otherwise a solid, tight Very Good copy in a Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps with tiny chips and very short tears to the spine ends and corners, sun fading to the spine, some foxing to the spine and covers, an approx. 4" closed tear to the head of the front cover, and slighter edge wear to the covers. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.