tree tolkien von wilson colin (10 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. Stiff white wrapps., black;peach lettering w. black/peach illustrations. Peach lettering on backstr. 47pp. Second printing. CONTENTS MINT.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Small book, light staining and wear; very good otherwise. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0912264969. Inventory No: 189196.

Second printing. 47 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Drawings by Caitlin Mackintosh. Yes! Capra Chapbook Series #20.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Hardcover. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DJ. 1/600.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. A Limited Edition of 600 copies published in hardback, one hundred of which were signed and numbered by Colin Wilson. This is one of the 500 unsigned copies. ***Very good in light brown textured cloth-covered boards with black titles to the front board. The very thin boards are nice and straight (the book is prone to warped boards). No bumps, No wear. Boards nice and clean and unmarked. No inscriptions. Some light foxing to the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour printed dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, but is unpriced. Edges of dustwrapper slightly rubbed. The white background is slightly marked, mainly on the front panel [see scans]. No tears. No loss. No creasing. ***210mm x 210mm square format. 20 pages. ***'More than a decade after its original publication, Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" became a bestseller on American campuses, and Gandalf shared with Che Guevara the dubious honour of being the hero of a new generation of students. Professor Tolkien is not just a teller of fairy tales; his philosophy of traditionalism and classicism is reminiscent of T. S. Eliot. Yet apart from a dismissive essay by Edmund Wilson, there has been very little serious literary criticism of Tolkien and his creative universe. This short book by Colin Wilson represents an attempt by an English critic to assess Tolkien as a writer and thinker. It examines some of the little known essays and stories as well as "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***'Colin Wilson was born in Leicester in 1931, the son of a boot and shoe operative. An early interest in science developed in his teens into an interest in literature and philosophy; the result was that in his early twenties he worked simultaneously on his book Ritual in the Dark and the philosophical book The Outsider, both of which were to become bestsellers. Although he came to prominence in 1956, and was labelled an "angry young man", he certainly has almost nothing in common with such contemporaries as John Osborne and Kingsley Amis. His work belongs to the European tradition of existentialism that runs from Goethe to Sartre and Heidegger. This is perhaps the reason that critics in England and America have found his approach somewhat difficult to assimilate, while in France, Germany, Spain and many other foreign countries he is regarded as the foremost writer of his generation. ***He regards his philosophical task as the creation of a bridge between Husserl's phenomenology and Wittgenstein's linguistic "Outsider" series, which attempt to outline a new post-Sartre existentialism. He has written six novels, four plays, a volume on Rasputin and a book on music, Brandy of the Damned.' ***First impression of the true first edition - published as a Limited Edition of just 600 copies. Uncommon. Of interest to collectors of the work of Colin Wilson and J. R. R. Tolkien. ***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.

Book Publisher's Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First. Covent Garden Press, 1973. First . Book Publisher's Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Limited to 600 copies. A clean ex-library copy with stamps removed from verso of title page and consequent slight thinning but no loss of integrity to the paper. No remaining stamps. Dust jacket with lightly abraided margins to the flaps and lower spine where small pieces of tape have been removed. Generally a very good and accepatable copy of this attempt to evaluate Tolkien's creative writing.

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine first printing in near fine dustwrapper. The book is square, clean and tight. Some minor flecking to the top edge of the upper board. The dustwrapper is intact but carries some shelfwear to the top edge and spine panel. Small patch of abrasion to the front panel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 20 Pp., Beige Cloth Lettered I Black, #6 Of 100 Copies Signed And Numbered By The Author, Of A Total English Edition Of 600 Copies, Published Prior To The 1974 Capra Press Edition. Fine In Fine Dj. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Wraps. 8vo. Illustrated wraps. pp 30. Signed presentation from the author: 'For Katherine/ love from/ Colin/ Aug 74.' With loosely inserted and unsigned note in Wilson's hand: 'Many thanks for records!' Rear cover slightly marked, corners very slightly creased otherwise sound VG. Signedes.

Zustand: Good. Original cloth, dust jacket, 600 copies), square (circa 21x21cm).; Dust jacket partly yellowed.