Trans james york (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. (1899). 246pp. Original green cloth with black pictorial cover decoration and gilt titles to cover and spine. VG copy, some very light wear to covers, slight foxing to prelims and page edge, ink inscription to ffep; no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Original grained cloth, paper spine-label; worn, cvrs marked, spine frayed; front hinge cracked & free e-p missing. First edition.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. The uncommon first English translation of this classic 14th-century Spanish work by Don Juan Manuel, comprising fifty short tales. The first English translation.In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. A book of fifty short tales by Spanish medieval writer Don Juan Manuel, who inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena and as such was criticised for choosing literature as his vocation, an activity thought inferior for a nobleman of such prestige. The structure of stories reflects the ordinances and hierarchical structuring of the medieval world. The informal and personal style greatly influenced the development of Spanish prose, setting a standard for writers who followed.Translated by James York. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, with rubbing to the extremities, notably to the spine, resulting in tail of backstrip coming away. Chips to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound. Good. None (illustrator). book.…