t j riddle (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Zustand: Nuevo. ¿Qué tiene de especial Harry Potter, que ha enganchado a una generación tras otra ¿Haber crecido con los niños que le descubrieron ¿O la lucha del odio contra el amor . O precisamente la parte de mal que subyace en él, a pesar de su bondad. Los grandes personajes de la Literatura Universal, lo son porque son poliédricas. No se entiende a MonteCristo sin su venganza, al Quijote sin su locura o a Hamlet sin sus dudas. En los años venideros, uno más de esos personajes eternos será Potter. Este libro no es solamente un compendio de anécdotas y curiosidades -que lo es-, sino también un ensayo de corte filosófico sobre qué ha convertido al chico de las gafas y la cicatriz en un referente internacional.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 1919 softnack edition somewhat rubbed covers with illutsrated frontis.

3/4 leather. Zustand: Good in heavily rubbed boards. Volume 2 only (L-Z) of White and Riddle's definitive Latin-English dictionary, this being the 1872 Fourth Edition; text in triple columns; this copy in contemporary three-quarter calf with gilt titling to spine, 6 compartments, raised bands; black buckram sides, marbled endpapers and text block; heavy foxing to prelims, marbling faded to text block; Good and clean throughout; front board heavily rubbed and with prominent stain and spotting, leather with wear along joints and raised bands. no dustwrapper. 1068pp. sm 4to. Good in heavily rubbed boards.

3pp., 16mo. Bifolium. Fair, on aged paper with fold lines. The front page carries the printer's slug, and gives the price of $6 for 'Course Tickets', 'For sale at the houses where the readings are to be given, on and after FEBRUARY 19th.' The middle two pages give the addresses, with owner's names, of the houses at which the six readings are to take place. Twenty-two pieces are to be read, ranging from works by Dickens, Tennyson, and 'Shakspere', to 'The Sewing School for Scandal' and 'A Cure for Dudes' by Wheelwright, 'The Sleeping Car' by Howells, 'A Dialogue' by 'Turguenieff' and 'Ulf in Ireland' by Charles de Kay. According to the description of a letter by Riddle in the Mary Wright Sewall Papers in the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library, he 'debuted in Boston in 1875 playing Romeo, and became attached to several stock companies in Boston, Philadelphia, and Montreal. From 1878 to 1881 he was an instructor of elocution at Harvard. He gave readings of literature in cities across the U.S. Among his most successful were Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mendelssohn's music, Byron's Manfred with Schumann's music, and Oedipus Tyrannus with the music of John K. Paine.' No copy listed on WorldCat or COPAC.