Lenard alexander translator (3 Ergebnisse)

11th printing. 8vo. Original gilt decorated orange cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 148, illus with b&w drawings and pictorial endpapers (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Ex-library, hardback with D/J and plastic sleeve, usual stamps and markings. Written in Latin. Published in 1961 by Methuen, London. Slight shelf wear to boards, some wear to the D/J, fading to the spine, page edges a little grubby, faint marks to a couple of pages. Ready for immediate dispatch from UK. 39B*.…

Zustand: Near Fine. First Latin Edition. First edition in Latin of A. A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh. One of only 100 copies. [2], 100 pp. Bound in modern tooled red morocco with five ruled raised bands, spine lettered in gilt; with original wraps bound in. Near Fine with light stains to wraps, former owner's name on title page, toning throughout. A lovely copy in a beautiful binding. According to a 1984 New York Times profile of the book, the translator was "a 50- year-old Hungarian-born doctor who spoke 12 languages and who with his wife, Andrietta, had been resettled in Brazil in 1952 by the International Refugee Organization. One of their few possessions was an English-language version of 'Winnie the Pooh.'" Its surprise success internationally and especially in the U.S. was a Black Swan event, as it became "the only Latin book - and perhaps the only book in any foreign language - ever to become a New York Times best seller. Published in December 1960, it remained on the Times list for 20 weeks and sold 125,000 copies in 21 printings.". …