thomas ralph robynson (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Includes sandglass. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

hard cover. Zustand: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, hard cover book with no dust jacket in slipcase, sunned, bumped edges, 4to.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. A Book Club edition in Near Fine condition with little wear to the corners of the decorative boards housed in a Very Good slipcase that is rubbed and soiled; The novel, Utopia, was written by Sir Thomas More. The story follows the life of a man named Raphael Hythloday, who travels to Utopia, an imaginary land that is perfect in every way. Hythloday is amazed by the life he experiences and the people he meets, and he eventually decides to return to the real world.; Book Club Edition; 8vo; 164 pages; FSA.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Tan patterned paper over boards with gold lettering on white paper over spine. Title page dated 1934. Copyright page dated 1935. Translated into English by Ralph Robynson. 1500 copies of this book have been printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the Rudge Press under supervision. This copy is number 914. 164 paes. Minor shelf wear along edges of boards. Tan pattern on boards remains tidy. Gilt top fore edge. Gold lettering on spine is faded but still legible. Spine has dark toning and rubbing along it. Boards are firmly attached to binding. Deckle edge pages. Bookplate from previous owner "M. Robert Guggenheim" on front attached endpaper. Small spots of toning on rear attached endpaper at top edge. Pages have been well maintained. Text is clean and legible. Binding secure with no missing pages. Very Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Zustand: Gut. 164 Seiten; 25,5 cm; fadengeh., farb. illustr. Orig.-Halbleinenband. Gutes Exemplar; Einband etwas berieben u. gering fleckig; innen Seiten minimal nachgedunkelt. - Mit kl. Beilage. - Englisch. - "The special contents of this edition are copyright, 1935, by the Limited Editions Club, Inc. from whom special Permission has been obtained for this edition" (Impressum). - Vorwort von H. G. Wells. - Utopia - Erstdruck 1516 unter dem Titel: Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia ("Ein wahrhaft goldenes Büchlein, nicht minder heilsam als unterhaltsam, Von der besten Verfassung des Staates und von der neuen Insel Utopia") - ist ein von Thomas Morus (1478-1535) in lateinischer Sprache verfasster philosophischer Dialog, der Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts zunächst in Belgien erschien. Der Londoner Bürger und Undersheriff, spätere Speaker und Lordkanzler stellt darin die Schilderung einer fernen idealen Gesellschaft vor und gab damit den Anstoß zum Genre der Sozialutopie. Rahmenhandlung ist ein Aufenthalt Morus' in Antwerpen, wo er seinem geschätzten Freund Peter Ägidius und einem Fremden begegnet, der als belesener, weitgereister Portugiese und angeblicher Reisegefährte Vespuccis vorgestellt wird. Morus erinnert sich an ihr Gespräch und gibt Erzählungen und Berichte des Weltreisenden wieder, der eine Zeit lang auf einer Insel namens Utopia bei den dortigen Utopiern gelebt haben will. Die beschriebene Gesellschaft mit demokratischen Grundzügen basiert auf rationalen Entscheidungen, Gleichheitsgrundsätzen, Arbeitsamkeit und dem Streben nach Bildung. In dieser Republik ist aller Besitz gemeinschaftlich, Anwälte sind unbekannt, und unabwendbare Kriege werden bevorzugt mit ausländischen Söldnern geführt. (wiki) // " . It would seem that he began and ended his career in the orthodox religion and a general acquiescence in the ideas and customs of his time, and he played an honourable and acceptable part in that time; but his permanent interest lies not in his general conformity but in his incidental scepticism, in the fact that underlying the observances and recognised rules and limitations that give the texture of his life were the profoundest doubts, and that, stirred and disturbed by Plato, he saw fit to write them down. One may doubt if such scepticism is in itself unusual, whether any large proportion of great statesmen, great ecclesiastics, and administrators have escaped phases of destructive self-criticism, of destructive criticism of the principles upon which their general careers were framed. But few have made so public an admission as Sir Thomas More. A good Catholic undoubtedly he was, and yet we find him capable of conceiving a non-Christian community excelling all Christendom in wisdom and virtue; in practice his sense of conformity and orthodoxy was manifest enough, but in his Utopia he ventures to contemplate, and that not merely wistfully but with some confidence, the possibility of an absolute religious toleration. The Utopia is none the less interesting because it is one of the most profoundly inconsistent of books. Never were the forms of Socialism and Communism animated by so entirely an Individualist soul. The hands are the hands of Plato, the wide-thinking Greek, but the voice is the voice of a humane, public-spirited but limited and very practical English gentleman who takes the inferiority of his inferiors for granted, dislikes friars and tramps and loafers and all undisciplined and unproductive people, and is ruler in his own household. " (H.G. Wells) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 750.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Frontispiece, Headpieces, Initials (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Xi,265 Pp. 13 13/16" Tall. Finely Printed Frontispiece Of Sir Thomas More After The Famous Portrait By Hans Holbein. Large, Elaborate Engraved Headpieces, Elaborate Initials. Printed In Red And Black, Deep Margins. #142 Of Only 220 Copies. This Example Finely Bound By Frost & Co., Bath, In Full Brown Morocco, Five Bands, Gilt Decorations And Rules, Gilt Ruled Turns, Hand Marbled Endpapers, Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Color Personal Bookplate At Upper Left Of Front Pastedown. Touch Of Wear, No Fading, Joints Just Beginning To Crack At Ends, Hinges Tight And Binding Sound, Clean, And Very Attractive. International Postage By Usps Priority Mail, Insured, At Cost [About $65 In January 2015].