Elisabeth abbott translator (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Special Edition. Very good with good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped and worn at spine tips and corners, has two stains and some browning on back panel, has a 1/2 inch chip at bottom back edge, and has a one inch tear at top back edge.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 472 pages. 7.75x4.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Very Good condition with bumped corners, edgewear and a gift inscription on the front free endpaper in a Good+ dust-jacket wit hsome soiling and edgewear; A delightful satire of married life. Translated from the French, written by an anonymous author who expounds on the "pains and torments" in wait for those men who contemplate wedding; 8vo; 221 pages. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 472 pages. 7.75x4.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 512 pages. In Good condition with Good Dust Jacket in mylar covering. Spine is tan with black lettering. Dust jacket has staining on the covers, sunning on the spine, rubbing and some shelf wear. Boards have bumping to corners, shelf wear, minor staining, scratching to the front board. Head edge dyed blue. Text block has faded dye to head edge and age toning. Signature of Elisabeth Abbott and Arthur Livingston on first free end paper with inscription underneath that reads "To my dear, dear Virginia in true friendship." NOTE: Shelved in ND-B. 1375324. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 552 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [xx], 233, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in multi-colored with spine lettered in red and grey. Near Fine with production crease to cloth at spine, faint scratching to upper board and bookplate of noted H.P. Lovecraft collector James Strand on front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial scratch to front panel but no appreciable sunning to red of spine panel, which is uncommon. A labyrinthian nesting doll of a novel, typically referred to as The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, set during the Napoleonic Wars with nods to The Arabian Nights and Boccaccio's Decameron, penned by Polish polymath and nobleman Count Jan Potocki (1761-1815). Characterized by supernatural sci-fi elements, the work lent itself easily to modern audiences hungry for weird fiction. Later adapted into film by Polish director Wojciech Has in 1965 starring Zbigniew Cybulski as Potocki's valiant officer Alphonse van Worden.…