Preface by andre gide (11 résultats)

Etat : VeryGoog, no spine creases. 9th printing. Nobel prize-winners masterpiece about the condemned thief in whose place Christ died. Bright tight PB copy. 149 pp, full-pg b/w dwgs. MM paperback in white illus wraps.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Photoplay Edition. Photoplay edition: 16 black and white stills from the movie decorate the front and rear flyleaves and pastedowns. No stills in the text per se. Binding is a bit age-dulled with light wear. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Gift inscription in ink on the verso of the half title. No musty odor. No water damage. No soiling. Light sun fading. No dust jacket.…

Hardcover. xxiv, 135p., translator's note, prefaces, appendix, very good first printing of this edition, a hardcover bound in half-cloth over boards in price-clipped dust jacket. This translation of what Gide described as 'the most important of my books' puts homosexuality at the center of the discourse. See Young 1414*.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good, with a Very Good dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket, including a few bumps, chips, and short tears. One inch tear to jacket at spine. Toning and smudging to jacket. Minor edgewear to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Prior owners signature on front free fly.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. date of "August 15, 1932" written on the title page in now-faded ink; slight abrasion to the top right corner of the ffep from the removal of a sticker; boards are moderately worn and rubbed with gently bumped corners and spine extremities; spine titling faded, but this is a very clean and tight copy overall. Hard Cover.…

Hard Cover. Etat : VG. Reprint. "A-X" on the copyright page (Jan. 1948), 137pp. French text with English intro/notes. Boards have light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 13.4 x 19.5 x 1.5cm, wt350g Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Rubbing along panel edges.

Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Random House, , New York. 1951. 132 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has heavy shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (corners are reinforced with tape). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, "I want to believe." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Octavo. 299pp. Introduction and Notes By Robert Mallet. These letters were published shortly before Gide's death. These letters, 171 in all, and mostly those of Claudel's as part of his archives were destroyed during the Tokyo earthquake of 1925. These letters were of highly personal and of intimate nature, cruel and wounding to both, but the authors were prepared for the worse. Bound in light blue cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, a bit of fading to head of spine.A very god copy in unclipped, very good dust jacket with chipping to spin ends and toning to rear panel.…

1989, New York, Vintage International, 145 paginas, 21x13, cubiertas en tapa blanda ilustrada, 300 gramos, buen estado.