Reader by Freyre Gilberto (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1974. NY: Knopf. 8vo. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in near fine DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Very nice but boards are a little askew, as from improper leaning or storage. Does not badly detract.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1974. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First U.S. Edition. First U.S. Edition. NF/VG+. Hardcover, brown cloth with copper gilt titles, DJ, 253 pp, slight edgewear to price clipped DJ with previous owners gift inscription on ffep, remainder stamp on bottom edge, else a clean and crisp copy. Protected in a Brodart cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. Stated first American edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket designed by Guy Fleming.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover. THE PROFOUND AND CHARMING MIND OF Gilberto Freyre, incomparable explicator of Brazilian civilization and one of the world's foremost social historians, is variously revealed in this book of selected writings, many never before translated into English. His subjects range from the English language and the "religious merrymaking" of the Hindus of Queula to the success and failure of Brasilia. He writes about children's books and about the Iberian concept of time, about race and slavery, about age and experience versus youth; he converses with Aldous Huxley, remembers Amy Lowell, sets down his perceptions about his native land, and about himself as a writer and as a sociologist. In forms as disparate as poetry and diaries, in brief, pointed vignettes, and in wonderful passages from his great works of history, these seventy-five selections represent the wide scope of Freyre's concerns, and the grace of his scholarship. The Gilberto Freyre Reader is a sampler of his life and his work.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Some rubbing and edgewear to jacket. Foxing to page edges and end papers. Tear to jacket base at front panel. Text is clean and unmarked. First American Edition is stated. ; 8.60 X 6 X 1.20 inches; 253 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Xvii, 253 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. First American Edition, First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Translated by Barbara Shelby. Varied writings by Gilberto Freyre, author of Brazilian Classics: "The Master and the Slaves," "The Mansions and the Shanties," and "Order and Progress." xvii. 253pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Dust Jacket slightly rubbed and nicks on edges. Gilberto de Mello Freyre, March 15, 1900 - July 18, 1987, was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. Hard Cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 253 pages, book is green with gold titling on spine, slightly sunned, tight, name of previous owner on FFEP, VG+. Jacket is slightly faded/discoloured and has some slight tearing along top and bottom edges, 2 large tears up bottom of spine and back flap, price clipped, Fair. Book.…