9780720600117 - Journey to the Orient von Nerval, Gerard De (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and minor tears.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Dustjacket missing; may have other wear and tear. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket design by Keith Cunningham (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the first UK edition. Selected, translated from the French and with an introduction by Norman Glass. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The book was published simultaneously in the USA by New York University Press, New York. ***Very good in buff cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Tiny scuff to top edge of front board. Head of spine slightly bumped. Corners sharp. Spine tight. Internally very good with no inscriptions. ***In a very good colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £3.25. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper slightly rubbed, creased and nicked. Tail of spine of dustwrapper has small closed tear and associated crease that runs into bottom of front panel of dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and creased. Dustwrapper slightly marked and discoloured. ***215 pages including glossary. 222 mm x 148 mm. ***'Previously untranslated into English, this nineteenth-century classic is one of Nerval's major prose-works and an important rediscovery. Nerval recounts his adventures in Cairo and Beirut and retells some of the wonderful tales he heard related by professional story-tellers and others in the cafes of Constantinople and elsewhere.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***'Gérard de Nerval (22 May 1808 - 26 Jan 1855) was the nom de plume of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection "Les Filles du feu" (The Daughters of Fire), which included the novella "Sylvie" and the poem "El Desdichado". Through his translations, Nerval played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work merged poetry and journalism in a fictional context and influenced Marcel Proust. His last novella, Aurélia, influenced André Breton and Surrealism. ***Increasingly poverty-stricken and disoriented, he committed suicide during the night of 26 Jan 1855, by hanging himself from the bar of a cellar window in the rue de la Vieille-Lanterne, a narrow lane in a squalid section of Paris. He left a brief note to his aunt: "Do not wait up for me this evening, for the night will be black and white." The poet Charles Baudelaire observed that Nerval had "delivered his soul in the darkest street that he could find." The discoverers of his body were puzzled by the fact that his hat was still on his head. The last pages of his manuscript for "Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie" were found in a pocket of his coat.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the first UK edition and the first edition in English. Uncommon. ***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.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0720600111.