Andre Gide Text (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small octavo in red cloth binding. Frontispiece photo. Condition: binding and edges of book block soiled with some wear; corners bumped; else good. 135 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd printing. Volume I only. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of author. Condition: top of DJ spine (about 3/4") chipped away; small hole (about 1" X 1/2") in front panel of DJ; very small, very faint penciled marks in some margins; else very good in good DJ. Pages: x, 380, xix.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 13th printing. Small octavo. Condition: minor nicking & light soiling to DJ; inked gift inscription on 1st free endpaper; some scattered penciled markings; else good in good DJ. 365 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SPLENDID: FOUNDATIONAL: FINE: Remarkably FRESH 3-volume hardcover set, First Heritage Press Edition (Orig. 1946) Unstated First Printings, reprinted by arrangement w/ the Harvard University Press (Orig. 1925): Slip-cased, Marbled boards, AS-NEW bindings, PRISTINE interiors: The ESSAYS of MICHEL de MONTAIGNE, Complete in Three Volumes: VOLUME I: Comprising Book I (Complete) Essays I-LVII & Book II (in part) Essays I-XII, 5.48" x 7.76" x 1.96", 0.97 kg, xlvi+816 (862) pp; VOLUME II: Comprising Book II (in part) Essays XIII-XXXVII & Book III (complete) Essays I-XIII, 5.48" x 7.76" x 1.68", 0.84 kg, x+817-1530 (724) pp; VOLUME III: Handbook to the Essays" which includes the Notes upon the Text by the Translator and a Series of Comments on the Essays by Grace Norton, 5.48" x 7.76" x 1.36", 0.66 kg, x+1531-2078 (558) pp: VOLUMES I-III (individually slip-cased): 5.74" x 8.12" x 5.50", 2.76 kg, xlvi+x+x+2078 (2144) pp * ABOUT THE TRANSLATION: This handsomely produced 3-volume set is an indispensable addition to any collection of Montaigne in English translation, a bridge between the antiquated, unreliable, & corruptly edited translations of John Florio (1603) & Charles Cotton (c. 1670) upon which English-readers were obliged to depend prior to its first appearance in 1925 from Harvard University Press & its more modern successor in Donald Frame's translation which appeared in 1940, a scant 15 years after the publication of the Ives translation here offered in the beautifully produced three-volume reprint edition published in 1946 by the department-store magnate bibliophile George Macy's Heritage Press. Connoisseurs of American intellectual culture will take note of the name Grace Norton, recognizing her as the sister of the great 19th century Harvard philologist & professor of Romance languages, Charles Elliot Norton, who as the Cambridge heir of H.W. Longfellow was the translator of the first truly modern, truly accurate English-language Dante (c. 1891) among many other achievements for which he is still honored w/ a prestigious professorship & annual lecture in his name. His sister Grace had many achievements to her credit as well in scholarship & in translation & in her central role in fostering this edition of Montaigne from conception to publication in close collaboration w/ the scandalous scion of the Salem Pickerings, G.B. Ives. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: George Burnham Ives (1856-1930) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School & became the Assistant District Attorney of Essex County (MA). On May 12, 1890, Ives pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement & forgery, having been caught misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars from various trust funds as well as squandering his wife's inheritance. He was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in Charlestown Prison & was disbarred. While in prison, Ives developed a second career as a translator. After his release, he became a distinguished & prolific literary translator, translating works by Balzac, Daudet, Gautier, Hugo, Maupassant, Mérimée, Sand & Montaigne into English. In later life, Ives produced the first comprehensive bibliography of the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes & worked as an editor at The Atlantic Monthly. * ABOUT THE COMMENTATOR: Grace Norton (b. 1834, d. May 5, 1926) was a noted scholar & lecturer. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Andrew Norton & Catherine Eliot Norton, she was the sister of Charles Eliot Norton. She was educated in Cambridge & read extensively about the literature of France. Norton began studying French authors, chief among them Michel de Montaigne. An expert on Montaigne & the works of other authors, Norton traveled, lectured & wrote about them, her articles appearing in many publications. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & packages this splendid set w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories.