New York: Harmony Books, 1981. Hardcover. pp. xviii, 250. 8vo. Bound in grey cloth with silver lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, frequent pencil marginalia, ink notation to front pastedown; very good- in good, rubbed dustjacket with several tears to edges.
Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer Velag GmbH. 1982. Original publisher's white paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, glassine dustjacket with lettering, yellow ribbon, 8vo: 492pp., [4]pp., Very fine copy - as new.,
London:: Cassell & Co,, 1948. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good in Good DJ. Light foxing to pages. Light sunning to cloth edges. Foxing to dj, heavy creasing to edges, small chunks missing, sunning to spine on dj.
Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Stated. 158 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Printed in French. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Light tanning to spine and edges.Prominent forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Berlin.: S. Fischer., 1992.. Hardcover. Firma del anterior propietario. Good. 18 cm. 575 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma alemán . Firma del anterior propietario. Literatura.(82) [[82]] || BiografÃas. MarÃa Antonieta Francia. (929 MarÃa Antonieta (44)) [[929]]
The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures (The Hallam Edition)
Zweig, Stefan 1881 – 1942
The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures (The Hallam Edition)
Zweig, Stefan 1881 – 1942
Publisher: Cassell & Co Ltd -- Hallam Edition
Date published: 1955
Cassell & Co Ltd -- Hallam Edition, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Various. Foreword by author will and index. Red coloured end pages. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Bound in a decorated cloth, blind stamped titling gilt filled, top edge of text block tinted pale red. Illustrated dustwrapper (same illustration as the underlying boards) with green coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. First published in 1927 in Germany. The author investigates 12 pivotal moments in world history, giving us the human as well as global implications of their actions. Events covered are: – Cicero's Death, Conquest of Byzantium, The Discovery of the Pacific, Handel's Messiah, The Marseille, Grouchy obeys Orders (Waterloo), Goethe's last Love, El Dorado, Cyrus Field's Cable across the Atlantic, Quest of the South Pole, Lenin leaves Zürich and Wilson's Failure – end of World War I. Rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges with softening of the back strip edges and a little bumping to the top book corners. Light age toning and foxing of the text block edges and there are light foxing scattered throughout aged toned pages. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges with some Chipping to the back strip edges. Significant sunning to the back strip with foxing of the fold over panels and to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0289103. .
Cassell & Co Ltd -- Hallam Edition, London, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Various. indexed, illustrated with 8 pages of reproductions of art works. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Bound in a decorated cloth, blind stamped titling gilt filled, top edge of text block tinted pale red. Illustrated dustwrapper (same illustration as the underlying boards) with green coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Biography of Mary, Queen of Scots. Rubbing to the book corners and softening of the back strip. Some rubbing of the book panels with light sunning of the back strip. Age toning and foxing of the text block edges with age toning and foxing throughout book. A little chipping of the dustwrapper corners and top back strip edge. Significant sunning to the back strip with foxing to the fold over panels and to the verso. Original bookseller's sticker to the front paste-down. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVIII, 468, (2) pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0289102. .
Cassell & Company Ltd, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1951. 290 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Beige pictorial boards and jacket. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.
U.S.A: The Viking Press, 1946. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback BCE Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Section with 14 plates of sepia illustrations before text. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. The life of one of the world's most notable writers and one of the founders of realism in European literature, Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a series of almost 100 novels collectively called "La Comedie Humaine", which provide a portrait of all aspects of French society in the years after Napoleon's fall in 1815. He is known for his very human and realistic characters. His biographer, Stefan Zweig (1881-19420 , was himself a prolific Austrian novelist, and a playwright, journalist and biographer, quite popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The book is bound in light grey cloth with red script HB on the front panel, red panel on spine with grey and red titles. Clean, corners and spine ends scuffed. Tight and solid. Previous gift-giver message on loose endpaper. Interior of book is clean, unmarked, no tears, pages toned. 404 pages with Appendix and Bibliography. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 1946, The Viking Press, New York, New York, USA
Literary Guild of America. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. Hardcover. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Book itself is in great condition with some light bumping along the edges, pages are clean except where previous owner stamped inside the front cover, binding is tight. Dust jacket shows the majority of the wear with creasing near the spine and bumping along the edges, back cover is missing a small piece along the upper edge but otherwise still in good condition, now protected in mylar. ; 6.75 X 4.25 X 1 inches .
New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 404p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Price sticker residue on front endpaper; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket has some closed tears and general edgewear. Book Club Edition, with book club mark on rear cover and no price on the dustjacket.
Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1979. Reprint of this late novella of chess & psychology by the famous German author, first published in German in 1941 and later in English as The Royal Game, Chess, or Chess Novel. Text in German. Afterword by Siegfried Unseld. Small hardcover in jacket; light wear, near fine. Text in German.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Duodecimo.
ZEIT UND WELT: Gesammelte Aufsätze Und Vorträge 1904-1940.
Zweig, Stefan.
ZEIT UND WELT: Gesammelte Aufsätze Und Vorträge 1904-1940.
Zweig, Stefan.
Publisher: Bermann-Fischer,
Date published: 1946
Stockholm:: Bermann-Fischer,. G+/Fair. 1946. Hardcover. Hardback bound in black cloth with light cover wear, scuffing. Hinges sound, uncracked; pages tight, clean. DJ very worn, with significant chipping, tears, soil. Text in German. Not library discard. ; .
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