merejkowski dmitri translator bernard guilbert (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, USA, circa 1930. First Edition Thus. Printing unstated. Copyright page states "Copyright 1928, The Modern Library, Inc." , and presumably Garden City published under licence from The Modern Library. The Foreword and Biographical Sketch by the translator, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, recites that it was written in the "Autumn of 1927" but that it was then "Revised, Spring of 1930", presumably for the Garden City edition. Near Fine condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is intact, clean, lightly tanned, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is red full cloth with gilt title, etc., to the spine in blocks of black with gilt design, corners very slightly bumped. No Dust Jacket. See photos. 574 pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". This superb historical novel (it is NOT a biography as some have stated) is the second volume of the author's Christ and Antichrist Trilogy (1895 - 1907), the first volume of which is Julian the Apostate: The Death of the Gods, and the final volume of which is Peter and Alexis. Published originally in Russian in 1900, the novel is written from the point of view of a student in da Vinci's workshop who tries to deal with what he sees as contradictions between pagan and Christian themes and values. The author's name is sometimes given as Dmitry Merezhkovsky. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 900 grams / 2 lb., and will require extra postage for international shipment.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Missing. 5th. A very clean hardcover missing the Dust jacket, binding is tight and the pages are clean and unmarked. Handsome pictorial boards.

Hardcover. Etat : Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine+. No Jacket. Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci (illustrateur). First Edition Thus. Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1931. "Second printing, May 1931" (stated) of this First Edition Thus (following an earlier edition of this translation by Modern Library in 1928). The first printing of this edition was in March, 1931. Near Fine+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square, with dark gray topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full tan cloth, color uniform but some dirt spots, with silver design, title, author and publisher to front board, silver title, etc., to spine, unmarked endpapers, and all corners square. No Dust Jacket. See photos. x + 574 pages. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". Translated from the Russian Voskresschie Bogi. Leonardo da Vinci (1900), (literally "Resurrected Gods. Leonardo da Vinci"), by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, this is the second volume of the author's Christ and Anti-Christ trilogy, following The Death of the Gods: Julian the Apostate, and preceding Peter and Alexis. This excellent historical novel examines da Vinci from the perspective of Giovanni Beltraffio (aka Boltraffio), then a naive apprentice in da Vinci's workshop, who reflects on the seeming clash of Christianity with the newly revived interest in Greek and Roman art and history that is the Renaissance. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 1010 grams / 2 lb., 3.5 oz., and will require extra postage for international shipment.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Second printing, May 1931; 574 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong though mildly age-toned paper; deckle ages; lovely frontis. from art of Leonardo; binding tight; slight chipping at upper portion of front gutter. in absence of d.j., the boards with still bright silver gilt lettering and stamped sketch of "The Last Supper" the corners are lightly bumped corners and there is slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.

HARDCOVER. Hardcover edition. 591pp, 12mo in gray flexible boards. moderate fading to spine, soiling bottom rear, mild dampstain bottom front coner, front hinge lightly starting yet solid binding, warping bottom corner of page block, text clean throughout, Good.