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ref. 47112955-nnew. unknown
ref. A9781108493109Hardback. New. A fresh modern translation of a major French Revolutionary text whose arguments for popular sovereignty are couched in the form of an Oriental dream-tale. This is a forgotten bestseller in the history of political thought which was translated by Thomas Jefferson and hugely influenced radical poets from Shelley to Whitman. hardcover
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2024ref. x-1108493106Cambridge University Press 2024. Hardcover. New. 249 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.63 inches. Cambridge University Press hardcover
2024ref. x-1108717268Cambridge University Press 2024. Paperback. New. 249 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.57 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
2024ref. SKU0604400Cambridge University Press 2024-02-15. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Cambridge University Press paperback
2024ref. SKU0651907Cambridge University Press 2024-02-15. paperback. New. 5x0x8. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Cambridge University Press paperback
ref. 1108493106.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1108717268.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 34217Turnhout , Brepols, 1999 Paperback, 172 p., 170 x 240 mm. ISBN 9788886609203.
1835ref. 88767Boston: Charles Gaylord 1835. Early US Edition. Twelvemo. 17cm. Publisher's original linen spine lacking paper title label over decorated publisher's paper covered boards. 216pp. Strong and solid scuffed to the corners with the paper worn allowing the board to show through rubbed and a little battered in places with some light cosmetic fraying to the spine ends and a general unform wear that is oddly not unappealinig; internally foxed in a pale similarly uniform fashion with some truly eccentric oak gall ink inscriptions to the preliminary blanks stating that the book was part of the library of the Transylvania Whig Society of Kentucky and presented by a visiting Englishman the inscriptions seem to serve as a kind of lending record denoting that the book was especially approved of by Kathleen O'Pinkerly who seems to have borrowed it twice; the page block is worn and a little stained but solid and eminently handleable and the rear flyleaf blank is covered with small neat pencil annotations with a corner of the blank torn away. Cosmetically unappealing perhaps but aesthetically rather charming and undeniably a survivor. A very good copy by dint of completeness eccentricity and stubbornness. An early US reprint the US first was issued in New York in 1828 by Dixon and Sickles and it is likely there is a Gaylord edition from 1833 with all US imprints being pretty thin on the ground especially with illustrated publisher's boards. This is in addition an uncredited Jefferson-Barlow translation translated with the approval and co-operation of the author by none other than Thomas Jefferson who managed the first 20 chapters or so before distracting himself with political fripperies whereupon it was subsequently completed by Joel Barlow. Of the various translations the Jefferson-Barlow is considered superior by dint of Volney's close relationship with Jefferson their common views and sympathies and frankly the fact that it renders the whole piece rather more poetically than might be found elsewhere. Controversial and madly popular it's far more a work of radical philosophy than anything else; like Jefferson Volney was a committed Deist and a firm believer in the separation of church and state for reasons clearly expressed by him through Jefferson in this work. Even more radically for the time he was a propogator of the "Christ Myth" which suggested that there was little or no evidence for the actual existence of Christ as a historical personage and that He was far more likely to be an inspiring assemblage. As might be expected such views were polarizing engendering either inspired revolutionary support or cries of heresy and treason depending upon the reader. The upshot of this and a number of other controversies was that Volney in common with the Founding Fathers not being a man known for keeping his mouth shut was ejected from the United States on more or less invented charges of espionage and his philosophical musings on the ashes of Empires and the sad destiny of mankind somewhat discredited. This had little effect upon the historical importance of Volney's "Ruins" however and it was for example widely embraced by the Romantics and their followers with Shelley having a virtual addiction to its evocative embracing of decay and his wife Mary for reasons of her own making it the text from which Frankentein's monster learned what he could about the nature of mankind and developed a rather stereotypically male interest in the Roman Empire. An unusual edition of an influential and incendiary work. Charles Gaylord unknown books
1853ref. 16954Philadelphia: F. W. Thomas 1853. Dritte Stereotyp Ausgabe. Hardcover. fair. Sm. 8vo. 220pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold decorated spine. Small plate with "27" handwritten near head of spine. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Wear to edges. Staining and rubbing to boards. Sporadic foxing throughout. Bookplate of school-district on inside of front board and name of the same handwritten on title-page. Ex libris.Text in Gothic script. Binding in fair interior in good condition. Rare. F. W. Thomas hardcover books
ref. 1528252535.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 0266303463.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1333853831.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1835ref. 66872US: Charles Gaylord 1835. Hardback. Good . Quarter green cloth over light green paper-covered boards with black titling and illustration to front board illustration to rear board and paper compartment to spine. Pages have slight warping scattered light to moderate foxing and top corner folded at page 146 and 213-216. Folding and small tear to lower edge of page 216 pencil scribbles across frontispiece and chip with creasing to top edge. Endpages have previous owner's markings in pencil and bookstore sticker to front pastedown front endpages have moderate foxing and rear endpages have heavy foxing. Text block has moderate sunning and soiling with light foxing to top edge and lower edge and moderate foxing to fore edge. A few pages slightly stick out from binding at fore edge. Boards have scattered moderate to heavy soiling very heavy wear to paper compartment at spine that is mostly removed moderate bumping and light rubbing to ends of spine and heavy rubbing and chipping to edges and corners where cardboard is exposed. Binding is sound pages 82-92 slightly torn from binding but still holds. Charles Gaylord unknown
ref. 45460681-nnew. unknown
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ref. 1015593186.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1950ref. 131134545San Diego: Truth Seeker Company 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Truth Seeker Press edition. Near Fine publisher's updated address label on title page in Very Good dust jacket with line of sunning to front panel address update label to back panel. Jacket is mylar-protected. Nice shape overall. Truth Seeker Company hardcover
1950ref. mon0003239638Truth Seeker Company 1950T. hardcover. Good. . No jacket but minimal wear to the cover. Pages are tanning. Truth Seeker Company hardcover
1835ref. 67296Printed in the USA: Charles Gaylord 1835. 1835 edition. Cloth and paper over boards. As described. Hardcover cloth tan over paper illustrated over boards. 12mo. 216 pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece. No edition marks. Remnants of a paper label on the spine. Faded partially legible inscription on the front flyleaf. Ownership signature P. S. Van Wagner Hamilton 1844 R. R. on the front flyleaf and title page. Small enclosed tear on the back flyleaf. Text block is age browned around the edges and mildly foxed throughout. Binding is strong and square. Spine and boards are soiled rubbed and worn. Edges of the boards are frayed in sections. Small enclosed tear on the fore edge of the front board. Crack in the bottom of the front hinge. Bumped corners. Despite its appearance this copy's bindings are still strong and its pages legible. Charles Gaylord unknown
1835ref. 88767Boston: Charles Gaylord 1835. Early US Edition. Twelvemo. 17cm. Publisher's original linen spine lacking paper title label over decorated publisher's paper covered boards. 216pp. Strong and solid scuffed to the corners with the paper worn allowing the board to show through rubbed and a little battered in places with some light cosmetic fraying to the spine ends and a general unform wear that is oddly not unappealinig; internally foxed in a pale similarly uniform fashion with some truly eccentric oak gall ink inscriptions to the preliminary blanks stating that the book was part of the library of the Transylvania Whig Society of Kentucky and presented by a visiting Englishman the inscriptions seem to serve as a kind of lending record denoting that the book was especially approved of by Kathleen O'Pinkerly who seems to have borrowed it twice; the page block is worn and a little stained but solid and eminently handleable and the rear flyleaf blank is covered with small neat pencil annotations with a corner of the blank torn away. Cosmetically unappealing perhaps but aesthetically rather charming and undeniably a survivor. A very good copy by dint of completeness eccentricity and stubbornness. An early US reprint the US first was issued in New York in 1828 by Dixon and Sickles and it is likely there is a Gaylord edition from 1833 with all US imprints being pretty thin on the ground especially with illustrated publisher's boards. This is in addition an uncredited Jefferson-Barlow translation translated with the approval and co-operation of the author by none other than Thomas Jefferson who managed the first 20 chapters or so before distracting himself with political fripperies whereupon it was subsequently completed by Joel Barlow. Of the various translations the Jefferson-Barlow is considered superior by dint of Volney's close relationship with Jefferson their common views and sympathies and frankly the fact that it renders the whole piece rather more poetically than might be found elsewhere. Controversial and madly popular it's far more a work of radical philosophy than anything else; like Jefferson Volney was a committed Deist and a firm believer in the separation of church and state for reasons clearly expressed by him through Jefferson in this work. Even more radically for the time he was a propogator of the "Christ Myth" which suggested that there was little or no evidence for the actual existence of Christ as a historical personage and that He was far more likely to be an inspiring assemblage. As might be expected such views were polarizing engendering either inspired revolutionary support or cries of heresy and treason depending upon the reader. The upshot of this and a number of other controversies was that Volney in common with the Founding Fathers not being a man known for keeping his mouth shut was ejected from the United States on more or less invented charges of espionage and his philosophical musings on the ashes of Empires and the sad destiny of mankind somewhat discredited. This had little effect upon the historical importance of Volney's "Ruins" however and it was for example widely embraced by the Romantics and their followers with Shelley having a virtual addiction to its evocative embracing of decay and his wife Mary for reasons of her own making it the text from which Frankentein's monster learned what he could about the nature of mankind and developed a rather stereotypically male interest in the Roman Empire. An unusual edition of an influential and incendiary work. Charles Gaylord unknown
