keith cunningham jacket design (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 12mo. Dust Jacket, Very Good with some creasing. Photograph.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket design by Keith Cunningham (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Selected, translated from the French and with an introduction by Norman Glass. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The book was published simultaneously in the USA by New York University Press, New York. ***Very good in buff cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Tiny scuff to top edge of front board. Head of spine slightly bumped. Corners sharp. Spine tight. Internally very good with no inscriptions. ***In a very good colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £3.25. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly rubbed, creased and nicked. Tail of spine of dustwrapper has small closed tear and associated crease that runs into bottom of front panel of dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and creased. Dustwrapper slightly marked and discoloured. ***215 pages including glossary. 222 mm x 148 mm. ***'Previously untranslated into English, this nineteenth-century classic is one of Nerval's major prose-works and an important rediscovery. Nerval recounts his adventures in Cairo and Beirut and retells some of the wonderful tales he heard related by professional story-tellers and others in the cafes of Constantinople and elsewhere.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***'Gérard de Nerval (22 May 1808 - 26 Jan 1855) was the nom de plume of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection "Les Filles du feu" (The Daughters of Fire), which included the novella "Sylvie" and the poem "El Desdichado". Through his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work merged poetry and journalism in a fictional context and influenced Marcel Proust. His last novella, Aurélia, influenced André Breton and Surrealism. ***Increasingly poverty-stricken and disoriented, he committed suicide during the night of 26 Jan 1855, by hanging himself from the bar of a cellar window in the rue de la Vieille-Lanterne, a narrow lane in a squalid section of Paris. He left a brief note to his aunt: "Do not wait up for me this evening, for the night will be black and white." The poet Charles Baudelaire observed that Nerval had "delivered his soul in the darkest street that he could find." The discoverers of his body were puzzled by the fact that his hat was still on his head. The last pages of his manuscript for "Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie" were found in a pocket of his coat.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the first UK edition and the first edition in English. Uncommon. ***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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket design by Keith Cunningham (illustrator). First Edition. Volume One - 1944-1947. First impression of the first British Commonwealth edition, published in 1972. With eight pages of black & white photographic illustrations at the centre of the book. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann. ***Very good in mauve cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, although there is some sun fading shadowing the titles on the dustwrapper to the spine where light has passed through the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also very good with ownership initials in red ink on the front free endpaper. Pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good black and white photo-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £3.25 net. Black & white photograph of the author on the back panel. There is some rubbing to the edges of the dustwrapper, mainly affecting the fore-edge of the front panel. No chips, creases or tears. The bright pink titles on the spine of the dustwrapper remain unfaded. Dustwrapper bright. ***ix prelims plus 235 text pages including a detailed Index at the back of the book. 222mm x 144mm. ***'This new volume of the famous "Journals" demonstrates again the literary and historical value of Anaïs Nin's work. The years of the mid-1940s find her in New York, in a Greenwich Village studio surrounded by young artists. She battles with the Establishment and for a time becomes polarized between involvement with the young -- among them Gore Vidal -- and with the established order, represented by Edmund Wilson. We also follow her discovery of America, in the summer of 1947, when she makes her way in an old Ford to the West Coast and, eventually, to Mexico. The themes are self-discovery, the individual in a hostile environment, and the openness of youth versus the calcifications of "maturity". As the Los Angeles Times has said, the "Journals" afford "one of the most candid records drawn by a writer of the 20th century. That this writer is a woman makes it even more relevant"' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the first British Commonwealth edition, published in 1972, in its original dustwrapper in very good condition. Uncommon especially in this condition. ***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.