Harvard Classics Prefaces Prologues Famous by Charles Eliot (54 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Leather Bound Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leather covered Hardcover. No DJ. 62nd printing, 1969. Deluxe Edition. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers (dark green leather covered with gilt decoration/lettering) show very minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.23.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Registered Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in green boards with gilt border and design. deluxe edition. 437 pp. frontis of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. No dustjacket, as issued. Includes Caxton, John Calvin, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton among others.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A collection of prefaces and introductions to famous books by noted authors such as Caxton, Copernicus, Raleigh and many others. The 39th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductory notes. With sepia frontis portrait of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green topstain. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With mild sunning to spine, partial splits near front and back of volume, slightly bowed boards and with chafing to cloth at spine ends. Though damaged, the book remains intact and fully readable.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); 462 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Alumni edition. Limited #4708. Same as later reprint. ; 462 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Leather. Condition: As New. deluxe registered. Black leather with bright gilt, square tips, never cracked open for a read, no wear, clean, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages.

hardcover. Condition: As New.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. 62nd ptg. Registered Deluxe Edition; contents clean; 8.25" tall; light shelf wear to edges of dark green cover with gilt decor & lettering on front & spine. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Registered; No DJ Green Faux Leather.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Harvard Classics Collector's [Registered] Edition. Pages [437] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square; gold satin ribbon bound-in page marker, gilded top page edges, one very small and faint spot at front page edges. Brown leatherette boards, bright gilt decorations and lettering, clean, minor shelf wear at extremities, one 1 1/2" corner bend. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Deluxe Edition. Dark green leatherette boards with decorative gold boarder on face and lettering on spine. Gold end papers. Registered Edition. Binding is crisp, tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. Includes introduction and notes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. WONDERFUL BOOK OF PREFACES FOR FAMOUS BOOKS BY FAMOUS PEOPLE IN HISTORY. VERY NICE DARK GREEN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Condition: New.

Leatherette. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Frontispiece (illustrator). De Luxe Edition. Dark green leatherette binding with gold print and design on spine. Cover has gold decorative banding and Harvard logo in center.Light rubbing near top edge of rear cover. Yellow end papers. Tight, sound and unmarked. 437 pages. If binding is of interest, we have matching books, same design. Size: 5 3/4 X 8 1/2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First thus. Previous owner's details on minor title page.Light/moderate age and reading wear. 438 pages. No torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51214.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Collector's Edition. Dark brown leatherette boards with gilded decorative lines and lettering on face and spine. All page edges are gilded. Brown end papers. Crisp, clean, bright and tight. An attached gold silk page marker. Looks brand new. The Harvard Classics Registered Edition. Includes introduction and notes.

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. Brown cloth boards with gold lettering. Glossy frontispiece tipped in. A little edgewear, light foxing along edge. "The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." William Allan Nielson states: " The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

leather_bound. Condition: Very Good. Sixty-second Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. No Jacket. Softer boards. Different cover than pictured, this is the 1909 dated edition with black boards and gold accents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 61st edition. Registered edition. 437 pages, 8vo, green leatherette. Spine stamped deluxe edition, top of cover lightly worn, very good; contents fine; no dust jacket.

Harvard Class. B011843.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 62nd Printing. Very Light Edgewear. Very Light Wear. Very Light Soiling. Dark Green Covers With Gilt Lettering & Decor On Front Cover & Spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed First printing thus. [4], 462, [2] pages. Volume 39 (of 51). Occasion footnotes. Small tear at bottom of Table of Contents. Decorative Binding. Frontis With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations Includes Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers; Prologue to Golden Legend; Prologue to Caton; Epilogue to Aesop; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur; Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos; Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion; Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies; Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland; Prefatory Letter to Sir William Raleigh on the Faerie Queen; Preface to the History of the World; Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, Etc.; Preface to the Novum Organum; Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays; and Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern; Preface to Joseph Andrews; Preface to the English Dictionary; Preface to Shakespeare, Introduction to the Propylaen, Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems, Appendix to Lyrical Ballads, Essay Supplementary to Preface, Preface to Cromwell, Preface to Leaves of Grass, and Introduction to the History of English Literature. Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 - August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the college into the pre-eminent American university. Eliot served until 1909, the longest term as president in the university's history. The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result. Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400-450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success.

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: 2nd edition Deluxe ] Publisher: P. F. Collier; Deluxe Edition Pub Date: 1/1/1937 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 437 2nd edition Deluxe.