rolfe harry (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 3rd printing ; large, stiff paper wrappers ; OCLC: 95011 ; ISBN: 0525056858; 9780525056850 LCCN: 79-95485 ; In 48 Full-color Photographs of veiled mountains, lush woodlands, rushing highland streams, and fields of dazzling wildflowers, Eliot Porter captures the extraordinary beauty of the Smoky Mountains and the surrounding wilderness. Edward Abbey's text, filled with the sensitive insights and idiosyncratic perspective that characterize all his works, explores the human history of Appalachia, describing the native Cherokees and the mountaineers who followed them. In a moving epilogue, Harry Caudill discusses the lives of the mountain people today. ; color photographs of the Great Smoky Mountains ; cover sunned, else G. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition. Covers rubbed and sometimes worn. One cover missing, 230mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). 480pp. B/w illustrations. Volumes 96 & 97. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

Zustand: Good. Tripictures. Encuadernación en tapa blanda. Begley, Louis; Payne, Alexander; Gittes, Harry; Besman, Michael; Taylor, Jim; Glennon, James; Kent, Rolfe; Nicholson, Jack; Davis, Hope; Mulroney, Dermot A propósito de Schmidt Tapa deslucida. Tapa ilustrada. Pags.284. Volúmenes.1.

First edition. Octavo. pp xxii, 299. 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Original blue buckram covers decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. A fantasy novel. Corvo wrote in a letter: ''I wrote nine tenths of that book to Pirie-Gordon's one tenth & we were to share profits half & half''. On page 14 of the advertisements at the rear of the book Rolfe is given sole credit for the book. Laid in are parts of the scarce and extremely friable dustwrapper: most of the front and rear panels and the flaps.Bookplate on front pastedown. Edges faintly spotted. Very good indeed. A bright copy.

First edition. Octavo. pp xxii, 299. 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Original blue buckram covers decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. A fantasy novel. Corvo wrote in a letter: ''I wrote nine tenths of that book to Pirie-Gordon's one tenth & we were to share profits half & half''. On page 14 of the advertisements at the rear of the book Rolfe is given sole credit for the book. Laid in are parts of the scarce and extremely friable dustwrapper: most of the front and rear panels and the flaps.Small ownership inscription in top corner of front free endpaper. Some spotting to edges. Very good indeed in chipped and nicked dustwrapper which is a bit tanned at the spine and almost entirely present but with long closed tears, especially along the joint folds, and a postage stamp sized chip at bottom edge of rear panel which is repaired on the reverse.

First Edition. Octavo, pp., xxii, 298, [2], 16 publisher's ads. Bound in publisher's original deep violet cloth, upper board blind stamped with Egyptian design with gilt titles, gilt fillets to spine tips, gilt spine titles. Cloth very lightly soiled and ever so slightly rubbed to corners, top-edge dusty. Contents firm and tight and clean save a small, neat, ink reference to rear paste-down. A very good copy. Superb piece of Edwardian Weird Fiction with strong homoerotic overtones in which the protagonist performs Kemetic rituals to travel to the world of classic myth, embodying Odysseus and King Balthazar of Arabia. Although The Weird of the Wanderer predates the publication of Joyce's Ulysses by 6 years, scholar's have drawn comparisons between the protagonists Nicholas Crabbe and Stephen Dedalus. The work's eccentric author, Frederick William Rolfe (1860 -1913) was a queer Roman Catholic priest, artist, photographer and writer, and whilst he was greatly overlooked in his lifetime he has since come to be regarded as one of the strangest and original authors of the era. Published by occult booksellers William Rider and Sons, who were responsible for the Rider Waite tarot deck, with 12 pages of publisher's ads for esoteric books.