York james manuel (10 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. Zustand: Very Good. near fine copy in slipcase.

Zustand: Very Good. 1899. hardcover. Good clothbound copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Title in gilt to spine and cover. Light discolouration to end papers; text clean throughout. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. 1899. hardcover. Good clothbound copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Title in gilt to spine and cover. Light discolouration to end papers; text clean throughout. . . . .

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. 2nd Ed. but 1st Thus. f/piece+ t.p. with 3 red decorated capitals & Aldine logo bottom centre+xvi+246, 29 further engr. plates ex-pagination, all collated present but one given wrong location in list, top and fore-edge uncut; browning to front endpaper and, lightly to rear endpaper and pastedown, nearly all plates foxed,with thin strip of edge-browning, one or two partly detached, occ. foxing elsewhere, some gutter openings though end-gutters good. Gilt lettered illustrated green cloth covers sound but spine darkened and end-rubbed, corners & joints sl.rubbed. S.L. Wood (illustrator). …

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.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A collection of short stories by medieval writer Don Juan Manuel. Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish prince, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile. Manuel wrote thirteen books in total, eight of which survive today. Translated into English by James York. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates from drawings by S L Wood. In original green cloth binding with pictorial boards and gilt stamping to the front board and spine. Externally, smart with small patches of rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Boards have faded slightly. Bumping to the head and tail of spine. Prior owner's signature to the recto of front endpaper, Frank Osborn 1919. Bibliographical information on this text to front pastedown. Ex library blind stamp to the half title page, G h Radford. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges with spotting throughout, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good. S L Wood (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. Second Edition. Second edition in English. Translated from the Spanish and done into English by James York, M.D. Nine-page preface by James York. Illustrated with thirty black and white illustrations (as called for) including tissue-guarded black and white portrait frontispiece. ***Very good in dark moss green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and front board and black line illustration to front board and publisher's gilt emblem to spine and blind emblem to rear board. All edges of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut, as called for). Tissue-guard of frontispiece very slightly torn at the edge (frontispiece itself intact). Boards very slightly marked. Light small bump to outer edge of front board. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Very light sporadic foxing to prelims. Interior pages clean. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. 198mm x 136mm. xi prelim-pages plus 246 text-pages including index of names to rear. ***'Like our Chaucer, Don Juan Manuel has a high claim to the reverence of his countrymen as one of the first who consolidated their language, and discarding 'canine-latin' (Ciceronian having become impossible), gave to the Castilian dialect a permanence and importance, at the same time improving and enlarging its capabilities of expression. ***From the Arabic phrases which we find scattered through the book, it may safely be assumed that Don Manuel had, during his long intercourse with the Moors, become tolerably proficient in that language. This inference lends probability to the idea that some of the Eastern collections of tales were not unknown to him, and that he may have drawn considerably from such sources in some of his narratives.' (Quote from page ix of the preface by the translator). ***Count Lucanor is a fourteenth century Spanish series of stories (each of the tales is a story within a story), and is one of the earliest works of fiction in prose. Prince Don Juan Manuel uses material from the Arabian folktales, the Tales of Aesop among other classic works of literature. The Tales of Count Lucanor are said to have influenced writers such as Shakespeare and Hans Christian Anderson. ***Second edition in English in its original decorative moss green boards, profusely illustrated with black and white line illustrations throughout by S. L. Wood, in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. S. L. Wood (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original decorated green cloth covers gilt title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 246 printed pages of text with many full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Foxing to the end papers, corners and spine ends turned-in, spine dulled, without any ownership markings and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.…