6 Ergebnisse
1952Best.-Nr. 105973Paris: Artheme Fayard 1952. paperback. very good-. 830pp. thick 8vo printed wrappers; unopened covers soiled Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard 1952. A very good- copy. Artheme Fayard unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 105965Innsbruck: Abendlandische 1953. hardcover. very good/good. 12 maps. 840pp. short thick 8vo cloth d.w.; dust wrapper worn and torn. Innsbruck: Abendlandische Verlagsanstalt 1953. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper. Abendlandische unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 2240Paris: Editions Florilege. Very Good. 1950. Paperback. Original French text is also translated into Italian English and Spanish. Folio eight color plates black and white illustrations throughout 93 pages. Binding has detached from cardboard covers off-setting to endpapers else very good in good illustrated wraps that are darkened and worn at the extremities. . Editions Florilege paperback books
1956Best.-Nr. 296869Paris: Grasset 1956. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Text is in French. Grasset unknown books
1931Best.-Nr. 26778New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dj. light external soiling and a bit of wear to extremities; jacket has several small chips along top and bottom edges browned at spine several tears that are internally tape-repaired. Novel about a young man and his travails as part of that generation in France who came of age in the decade following World War I -- a "generation which not old enough by a few years to have taken part in the War suffered all the spiritual mental and moral strain of that time." The New York Times critic was unimpressed likening its protagonist to Julien Sorel of "The Red and the Black" deriding him as "one of those thin dark-eyed sensitive young men who have been the recurrent concern of French novelists since Stendahl." The book itself he stated was "hesitant and groping. There is no plot. There are merely a series of incidents which all go to show the culmination of doubt and spiritual distress in his heart." This was the author's first novel published in France in 1928 as "L'âme obscure" which translates as "The Dark Soul"; he had begun his literary career with a 1926 essay entitled "Notre inquiétude" "Our Anxiety" which took as its theme "humanity's loss of meaning and direction in an increasingly industrialized and mechanized world" Wikipedia. Raised a Roman Catholic he had returned to the religion after a period of agnosticism in the 1920s and from the early 1930s onward most of his writings concerned Catholicism. . Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 527228London: Martin Secker 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition in English. Translated with a preface by R. H. Mottram. A near fine copy with a small bump at tip of one corner in near fine dust jacket is evenly toned and slightly rubbed on the spine. An elusive title in dust jacket. Martin Secker hardcover books
