ilsa barea translator (6 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Slipcase shows minor wear and tear, rubbing. Cover shows minor wear, pages are clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1944 by Faber & Faber, London. Original boards are worn/faded & grubby with highlighting & a few grubby handling marks to pages. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-3A*.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are rubbed and the edges are very worn. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, minor stains along the edges of the early pages. There is a previous owners inscription on the front end page. Clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*02/28/2023 [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library hardback with illustrated boards; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1955 by The Rodale Press, London. Light wear to boards & slight lean to spine otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from Uk. 33C*.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: About Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition. A nice association copy signed by Barea and warmly inscribed to Margaret Rink (Ilsa and Arturo's former housemate and good friend) in Spanish on the front free endpaper, "Para Margaret con un abraro de Arturo / Marro [sic] 1951." Her bookplate on paste down. [vi], 308 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth blocked and lettered in silver at the spine. Very Good with lean to binding, damp staining at foot, moderate wear and light fraying to spine ends and corners. Newspaper clipping announcing the Faber publication of The Broken Root laid in at 146-147 pp resulting in offsetting. In a About Very Good unclipped dust jacket, chipped (including a small interior one in the rear panel), and a little dampstained. The Spanish author's first and only novel, a post-Civil War narrative about an exile returning to Francoist Spain. He fled the country in 1938 during the Civil War for France, then moved to England in 1939, where he worked for the BBC and wrote his famous autobiographical trilogy The Forging of a Rebel. Margaret Rink and Barea's wife Ilsa met in August 1939 when both were hired to work for German broadcasts at the BBC Monitoring Service at Evesham, Worcestershire. Ilsa, her Austrian refugee parents, Margaret, and Arturo Barea lived together for the next four years in a large rundown house called Brooklands in the village of Fladbury just outside of Birmingham.The couple remained good friends with Margaret all their lives.

First American edition. First American edition. Signed by Arturo Barea on the front free endpaper, inscribed in Spanish and dated April 1952. xvi, 176 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. Lima's notes in pencil at front, else Near Fine, in About Very Good dust jacket with chipping along spine panel, small stain to back panel, tape mends on verso, unclipped ($3.00). A rare signature from the author of the classic Spanish Civil War memoir Forging of a Rebel on his biography of gay Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was murdered by Francoist forces in 1936. This copy's former owner was Robert Lima, a Cuban-born poet, playwright and professor at Penn State; he edited and translated the first critical book on Borges to appear in English and was also quite friendly with Mario Vargas Llosa, among other Latin Americans.