Fraser Press. Hardcover. Very Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Clean tight copy no marks or inscriptions. Cloth covers in very good condition. Fraser Press hardcover
London: The Fraser Press 1970. Cloth. Near Fine. 10.5" by 7". None. A translated edition of this pentalogy of novels following two giants written in the 16th century. Translated edition. Limited to 1560 copies of which 1500 were for sale. This copy is out of series. The tale of two giants Gargantua and Pantagruel and their adventures. The work is written in an amusing extravagant and satirical vein features much erudition vulgarity and wordplay and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Written by François Rabelais a French Renaissance writer physician Renaissance humanist monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire of the grotesque and of bawdy jokes and songs. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty a Scottish aristocrat writer and translator and Peter Anthony Motteux a French-born English author playwright and translator. In the original full crushed morocco binding with gilt. Externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine The Fraser Press hardcover
Pocket. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> François Rabelais</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Pocket</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9782266220316</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 485</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> As a companion volume to Pantagruel this new edition of Gargantua continues Rabelais’ acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants. Gargantua introduces Pantagruel’s father—another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua’s life story from his birth and education to his later life Rabelais uses the events of the giant’s life to parody medieval and classical learning mock traditional ecclesiastical authority and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor obsession with food and scatological wit of Pantagruel Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais’ contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.</p> Pocket hardcover
Référence libraire : 9782266220316-2025 ISBN : 2266220314 9782266220316
Pocket. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> François Rabelais</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Pocket</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9782266220316</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 485</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> As a companion volume to Pantagruel this new edition of Gargantua continues Rabelais’ acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants. Gargantua introduces Pantagruel’s father—another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua’s life story from his birth and education to his later life Rabelais uses the events of the giant’s life to parody medieval and classical learning mock traditional ecclesiastical authority and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor obsession with food and scatological wit of Pantagruel Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais’ contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.</p> Pocket hardcover
Référence libraire : 9782266220316-2025 ISBN : 2266220314 9782266220316
Paris : J. Leroy 1914 1914. First Edition. Hardback. Page edges with closed tears. Good to very copy in the original decorated boards. Boards have been strengthened with a cloth spine. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Overall a tight bright and clean impression.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 52 pages; Language; English. Notes: D'apres Rabelais. Le roy n'est que le dessinateur et l'editeur. Description: 52 p. fig. illustrated covers. Oblong. Paris : J. Leroy (1914) hardcover
Paris: Leon Pichon 1921. Edition Ornee de Gravures limited & numbered #712; Half brown leather & brown cloth over boards gilt spine title & lovely engravings; A fine rebinding over a near fine textblock with mild tan to title page & faint shadows to a couple of the old feps; 180 pages. Size: 8.75"x11". Hardcover. Illus. by Hermann Paul. Leon Pichon Hardcover
<p>Very good condition but small stain and has been pressed in high up on spine. Some small dust-stains and minor dent. Tight binding and still very good.</p> franklin library hardcover
Albatros 1980. Used. 1980; Romanian Edition of Gargantua si Pantagruel - Texte Comentate de Liviu Cosma; For more details please contact me Albatros unknown
Pentru Literatura Universala 1967. Used. 1967; Romanian Edition of Gargantua si Pantagruel; For more details please contact me Pentru Literatura Universala unknown
New York: Heritage Press 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Sandglass neatly laid in. Heritage Press hardcover
<p>A two-volume paperback edition of Rabelais's famed <strong>Gargantua and Pantagruel</strong> edited by <strong>Pierre Grimal</strong>.</p><p>Complete with a "Vie de François Rabelais" by Grimal.</p><p>Published as part of the <strong>Bibliothéque de Cluny</strong>.</p><p>scattered pencil notations in volume 1</p><p>page count: xxiii 213 xxxv 209</p><p><strong>NOTE: this work is in French.</strong></p> Librairie Armand Colin paperback
Arléa 1999. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> François Rabelais Claude Pinganaud</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Arléa</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9782869594821</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1999</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 338</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Biting and bawdy smart and smutty lofty and low Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.</p> Arléa hardcover
Référence libraire : 9782869594821-2025 ISBN : 2869594828 9782869594821
Arléa 1999. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> François Rabelais Claude Pinganaud</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Arléa</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9782869594821</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 1999</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 338</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Biting and bawdy smart and smutty lofty and low Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.</p> Arléa hardcover
Référence libraire : 9782869594821-2025 ISBN : 2869594828 9782869594821
Librairie D'Amateurs. Collectible - Acceptable. Paris: Librairie D'Amateurs 1936 and 1938. 2 volume set. Sm 4to Hardcover. 150; 266pp. French. B/W and color illustrations. Limited edition number 1230 out of 3000. Near Very Good set and no dust jacket. Bookplate inside. literature satire Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Librairie D'Amateurs hardcover
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