introduction lawrence durrell (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second Printing of the Dutton editions. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has evidence of shelf handling with a small loss on the bottom of the spine. Prelude to Justine. First published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press. The novel shows several surrealist influences, and these may be in part related to materials from the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, about which Henry Miller was sending Durrell materials from Herbert Read. In reviewing it in The Observer, Philip Toynbee wrote, 'This is a wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza; it is intrinsically and essentially, the book of a young man - Durrell was 24 when he wrote it - richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny indeed, self-pitying, but, above all, stylistically and verbally inventive as no other young man's novel of the period was even attempting to be.' Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. FitzClarence (Jacket design) (illustrator). First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, published in the UK in 1960. Edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Durrell. There wasn't an equivalent American edition of this collection. ***Near fine in navy-blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with just light tanning to the paper. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown 'Ex Libris - Alan Anderson' - Alan was the founder of Tragara Press - the small press based in Edinburgh which published from 1954 onwards. Also a pencilled comment which could be erased 'From the library of Alan Anderson, founder of Tragara Press'. Spine tight. Pages clean. ***In a very good red, black and yellow illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 30s net. The dustwrapper is complete, but has some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling (please see scans). Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No serious creases, chips or tears. The red colour on the spine is sun-faded. ***397 pages including Introduction, Preface, Chronology and Bibliography. 220mm x 145mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Lawrence Durrell, Author's Preface, PLACES - The 14th Ward, Paris and Its Suburbs, Dijon, Epidaurus and Mycenae, The Ghetto (N.Y.), Big Sur Invocation. STORIES - Picodiribibi, Reunion in Brooklyn, Max, Goldilocks, Automotive Passacaglia, Berthe. LITERARY ESSAYS - The Universe of Death, Of Art and the Future, Reflections on Writing, The Wisdom of the Heart, Tribute to France. PORTRAITS - Un Etre Etoilique, Hans Reichel, Alfred Perles, Blaise Cendrars. THE MAN HIMSELF - A Commonplace Book of Aphorisms and Ideas. APPENDIX - Defense of the Freedom to Read, Chronology, Bibliography. ***'In 1958, to the surprise of those people who had known of him only as the author of banned books, Henry Miler was elected to the American Institute of Arts and Letters. At that time he was welcomed by his fellow writers as "the veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and his intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our time." ***The material which has been selected by Lawrence Durrell for this representative anthology traces the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller's life work. It includes extracts from a dozen different books including several which are still banned in England: Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Sexus and Plexus.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition in nice collectable condition. An anthology tracing the principal themes of Henry Miller's life work, divided into sections according to the titles; 'Places', 'Stories', 'Literary Essays' and 'Portraits'. Miller contributes a commentary on each essay fitting it into context of his life story. Also includes a chronology of Miller's life, a bibliography and part of an opoen letter protesting the ban of 'Sexus'. Uncommon in this condition now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. - First Edition - Signed by the Durrell, Selwyn, Waller & Tambimuttu - No. 43 of the first 100 numbered copies - Edges of covers lightly rubbed - Spine slightly cocked - Edges of text block heavily foxed and marked - Some internal foxing - Errata slip inside - Dustwrapper price-clipped and slightly rubbed and faded w/ some minor foxing and corners and spine head bumped - Book ow/ solid, clean and bright in untorn wrapper - xxxiv/254 pages.

Wrappers. Wrappers a little faded and foxed, otherwise a very nice copy.

8vo. pp 43. Original publisher's illustrated blue covers, lettered white. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout. Signed presentation from the artist to Marcelle Quinton on the verso title page, "For Marcelle, with love from Barbara, May 2011." Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Text in French. Very good plus.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Brassai (illustrator). 8vo. 80 pp. browned foredges with faint marginal browning throughout, ex libris bookplate to front pastedown otherwise good plus in original light blue cloth with black titles, sun faded top edge, minor marks, good in original unclipped dustwrapper, browned and chipped with small loss rear cover, good Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Signed by Durrell, Victor Selwyn, John Waller, & Tambimuttu. Book measures 24x16.5.cm. xxxiv,254pp. Bound in original publishers brown hardcover, with gilt title lettering. Slight lean on spine. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket rubbed on edges. Jacket in very good clean condition. Internally, pages clean. A very nice clean copy. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, 90 pages; VG/VG-; spine white, with black and red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; large chip missing, with evidence of previous tape repair at upper left corner of jacket front; crown of jacket spine missing; large chip missing from upper edge of jacket back; price uncut '$7.95'; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; pages clean; shelved Front Table. 1349505. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 14 pages, 90 plates : chiefly illustrations, photographs. This is a sound and satisfactory copy of Brandt's first published collection of nudes. The publisher's binding is unmarked, with mild toning at its edges; the contents are very good, the text clean and the photographic reproductions excellent. The unclipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is lightly worn at its top edge and worn with small losses at its bottom edge. 940 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Chilmark Press, New York. 1966. 152 pgs. Illustrated. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Few records of war are a lucid, vivid and sensitively written as Keith Douglas' "Alamein to Zem Zem". The author himself was a man of great poetic gifts who had established himself as a leading light in the Oxford literary circles, tutored by no less a person than First World War veteran and acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden. A talent that did not outlast the war, killed in action in Normandy 1944, but his lasting legacy is contained in this exceptional book. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages.

¼ Leather Over Cloth Slipcased. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition 1/99 Deluxe. 106pp, illustrated in monochrome. Text in English and French. Designed by Louise and Jon Webb. "Order and Chaos Chez Hans Reichel" publishes for the first time Henry Miller's thoughtful 1938 essay on the underappreciated German-born, Parisian-based visual artist Hans Reichel. A typically elaborately designed and lavishly produced Loujon undertaking, it features an introduction by Lawrence Durrell along with beautiful reproductions of several of Reichel's Paul Klee-inspired works. A most handsome example of the uncommon "Oasis Edition" in gilt-stamped ½ leather over cloth housed in the publisher's printed cork-covered slipcase limited to ninety-nine copies SIGNED AND DATED "Henry Miller / 6/6/66" in black ink on a blank leaf at the rear, as issued, showing the smallest bit of brown spotting to its illustrated vellum dust jacket. Signed and Dated by Henry Miller. Artist Monograph.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED AND DATED BY BRASSAI on the title page. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1968 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with light creasing and one small closed tear along the spine crown. Octavo, Introductory essay by the redoubtable Lawrence Durrell. 80 pgs., 61 crisp, beautifully-reproduced black-and-white photos throughout. Signed.

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. Bill Brandt (illustrator). First edition. A signed first edition of this important publication of nude images from British photographer Bill Brandt. The first edition, first impression of this important work from British photographer and photojournalist Bill Brandt, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. This work is signed by Bill Brandt to the half title: 'For Sir George Pollock with gratitude Bill Brandt'. Sir George Pollock was an accomplished photographer in his own right, a president of the Royal Photographic Society whose abstract work in the 1960's drew huge attention in the art world. He also acted as a consultant to the BBC in advising them in the iconic opening credits for the original 'Doctor Who'.The publication of this work in 1961 marked, in the words of curators Martina Droth and Paul Messier, 'the point at which Brandt"s stature as an art world figure came onto assured footing', and it was after this seminal work that people came to recognize Brandt as an artist rather than a journalist.This was Brandt's firs publication of nudes, a subject 'which has obsessed him since 1945', according to the dust wrapper. Chronologically arranged, the photographs in this work record the transition from 'an early romantic style to more classical themes'. In the publisher's original paper covered boards with price unclipped dust wrapper. Boards clean, with bumping to head of spine. Losses to either side of back strip at dust wrapper head, and another small loss at back strip tail. Minor marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Signed to half title. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

Very nice copy in fragmentary remains of dust-wrapper, bookplate First English Edition of The Henry Miller Reader.