revised definitive edition works von william gerhardie (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. DJ may have small chips, soiling, water marks and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Revised edition. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 0356031454. with light wear to dustjacket, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Dustwrapper faded at spine. Novel first published by Faber, 1938; from the library of Sir Michael Holroyd. "To date," writes Holroyd, "My Wife's the Least of It is the last, the most extensive and not the least of William Gerhardie's novels. It also represents the first and only foray into the hilarious Pickwickian tradition of novel writing . . . Among his novels of the 1930's [it] occupies a place similar to that of Doom in the previous decade. Both are prophetic, concerned with the future, but the limited future. Of the possibilities beyond time, which Gerhardie revealed in Resurrection, there is no hint . . ." The book's original title, rejected by Faber, was "My Wife: a study in insanity".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 0356045943. with dustjacket, 1974, bright clean copy, MacDonald, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Dustwrapper slightly torn, with some loss. From the library of Sir Michael Holroyd. "Of Mortal Love [first published by Arthur Barker, 1936] is remarkable for its carefully-pitched tone," he writes, "- a deft blending of humour, pathos and tenderness that is exactly appropriate for revealing the mystery of the love it chronicles. Its form is most skilfully and deliberately wrought, yet the mood is one of complete naturalness, and it achieves a miraculous mixture of candour and sophistication.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dustwrapper price-clipped with some bumps. Plain lilac cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Some mild spotting, dustwrapper faded and slightly rubbed at spine. First US issue of the "Definitive" edition of the author's second novel (first published by Cobden-Sanderson, 1925), inscribed on the front free endpaper, "copy belongs to Michael Holroyd". Gerhardie completed the book, writes Holroyd, "under difficult conditions, while his father was dying. His mother would read out pages from the manuscript to the old man 'to kill time', and for the most part he listened uncomplainingly and without comment, though occasionally pronouncing some passage to be 'instructive'. But when she came to the sea-burial of Natasha - a scene of exquisite visual simplicity - she began to cry, and this bothered him. 'Don't cry,' he urged her. 'It's not real. It's only a book. Willy has invented it.' On The Polyglots were pinned all their hopes of re-making the family fortune, but Gerhardie's father died a few months before publication. The book did make Gerhardie's name as a novelist; but as to the fortune, he later calculated that, contrary to expectation, it had brought in 'something equivalent, in terms of royalties, to nothing'.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Special Edition. Excellent, signed copy of the orange and black "revised definitive edition" of the brilliant Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright's first novel, written while he was a student at Oxford and originally published in 1922. Inscribed on endpapers, "To Dr. Zweig, William Gerhardie." 205pp, with preface by Michael Holroyd. Price-clipped dj, otherwise pristine. Gerhardie was one of the most critically acclaimed English novelists of the 1920s (Evelyn Waugh told him, "I have talent, but you have genius.") H. G. Wells also championed his work. Gerhardie drew on his experiences in Russia fighting (or attempting to fight) the Bolsheviks, along with his childhood experiences visiting pre-revolutionary Russia. Some say that it was the first work in English to explore fully the theme of "waiting", later made famous by Samuel Beckett in Waiting for Godot, but it is probably more apt to recognize a common comic nihilism between those two figures. (Wikipedia) Signature scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Complete set of this scarce edition of the Works of William Gerhardie. With Prefaces by Michael Holroyd. With two additional volumes. Books are in very good condition. Dustwrappers show some fading and wear. A desirable set of this very interesting writers works.