Man Qualities Volume Sort Introduction by Musil Robert Eithne Wilkins Ernst (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1953). 365pp. VG+ book, binding square and tight, a couple of minor bumps to rear top edge, cloth covers clean, gilt reasonably bright, internally excellent; in VG dust jacket, edge worn with a few nicks, very minor chipping to head of spine, front spine edge rubbed causing minor perforation, spine darkened, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First UK edition, in three volumes. Secker & Warburg, 1955/1954/1960 respectively; Vol. 1 is a stated second printing, Vols. 2 and 3 are first printings with no additional printings indicated; xxxv, 365pp. / vii, 454pp. / xi, 445pp. From the collection of Jack D. Zipes, noted scholar of German folklore and literature, with his signature on the front paste-down of each volume and his pen notations in the translators' foreword of Vols. 1 and 3. Bindings are tight and sturdy; faint damp-stains on bottom edge of Vol. 1 and 3's front and rear boards, else only minor wear to edges of green cloth boards, gilt/mauve titling on spines remains bright and bold; text very good throughout set (besides Prof. Zipes's underlining mentioned above); faint foxing to top edge of page blocks. Mild wear, toning to edges of clipped dust jackets, mild toning to spine panels as well; jackets arrive wrapped in protective mylar. The earliest English-language edition of this classic of German modernism, straight from the library of one of America's preeminent scholars of German literature and culture. Due to the size/weight of this set extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

FIRST EDITION, THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxv + 365pp, VG (light to moderate staining to spine & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, minor water staining to base of eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to spine & edges, moderate tanning & staining).

Condition: Very Good. Reissue, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxv,365;vii,454;xii,445, red hardcover, gilt; small handwritten stock-code and price to upper corner of front paste-down endpaper of all three volumes (concealed by flap of dust-jackets), small bump to headband of Volume II, a very good set indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jackets, with creasing and small closed tear to headband of jacket to Volume I.

Green Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. 1953. First English edition. xxxv, 365pp. plus a 1 page list of the works of Musil. Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. It was originally planned as two volumes (1930 and 1932), containing four parts. A third volume, which remained unfinished, was published posthumously. This English translation was intended as four volumes. For sale is volume I, containing books1 and 2 (part 1). The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and wear to the titling on the spine. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling nd the spine is browned and scuffed. The corners and spine ends are bumped and nicked with small pieces missing from the top of the spine. The wrapper is in an easily removed clear plastic protective cover.

First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxv,365;vii,454;xii,445, green cloth with stamped brown title-bands, gilt; from the library of Gordon Leff, with small ownership inscription to front free endpaper of all volumes, foxing to top edges, light foxing to fore-edges, a very good, clean set, in unclipped dust-jackets (jacket to Volume I green, jackets to Volumes II-III cream), of which jacket to Volume I is darkened to spine, with chipping to extremities, jacket to Volume II foxed to pale paper, with toning to spine, 1.5cm closed tear to rear upper edge, and water-marking to foot of spine, and jacket to Volume III is toned to spine, with 3cm closed tear to foot of fold over lower joint, 1cm closed tear to rear upper margin, and very slight chipping to headband - overall a very good set, in good+ dust-jackets.