Published by Twayne Publishers, Inc., New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0805726888 ISBN 13: 9780805726886
Seller: S.C. Sumner, Venice, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. No Jacket. 210pp. Ex-library with typical markings/stamps/stickers; text is clean; front and rear free endpapers excised.
Published by Twayne Publishers, N.Y., 1974
ISBN 10: 0805726888 ISBN 13: 9780805726886
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine +. Dust Jacket Condition: None -as Issued. B/W Photograph (frontispiece) (illustrator). First Edition. J. F.H. Perk was a Dutch man of letters who lived from 1859 to 1881. In these 186 pages - plus 23 of `notes and reference' plus INDEX the author examines Perk's poetry and his correspondence with a mind to Jungian archetypes. UNillustrated. Read more about : Willem Kloos, Eightiers, Geen Zomer, anima, Mathilde Cycle, sonnets, Renewal Movement, Carel Vosmaer, homoerotic, and image-symbols. Cond : Boards are forest green with gilt lettering and graphics. (The publisher's colophon is a winged horse and a globe.) The author, a professor at the University of Calagary, has signed and dedicated the title page. End-papers are white. Issued w/o dust jacket. Bright, tight, clean, and square in ALL aspects. Collectible !! Quote (p. 61) : " For this reason too, Perk's images of the eyes as revealers of the soul or of the angels as androgynous messengers of God cannot be relegated to the realm of mere unfelt cliches or conventional rhetoric. In his enthusiastic essays he wrote : ` Gaze at the eye of a woman, as the ._._._.' ." Size: Octavo. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Twayne Publishers, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0805726888 ISBN 13: 9780805726886
Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition in hardcover without dust jacket as issued. From the library of author Terrence Penelhum. Mr Breugelmans has inscribed this copy to Mr. Penelhum on the title page. Also enclosed is a one page handwritten from the author to Mr. Penelhum. 210 pp. Chronology, notes, refences, bibliography, index. Hint of bumps to the corners of the boards otherwisen fine. Near Fine.
Published by Twayne Publishers, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0805726888 ISBN 13: 9780805726886
Seller: FESTINA LENTE italiAntiquariaat, Lucca, Italy
First Edition Signed
Green cloth with gilt stamp. Condition: Good copy. 1st edition. 'Twayne's world authors series' - 328 - Netherlands. Editor: Egbert Krispyn. Contents: About the author, preface, chronology, introduction. 1). The foundations. 2). The Mathilde Cycle of sonnets - Archetypal symbols. 3). Religious, ethical and philosophical tenets. 4). The Willem Kloos and Joanna Blancke crises. 5). Form and structure in Perk's work. 6). Perk in literary-historical perspective. With portrait of Perk, (1859-1881) notes, bibliography and index. 210 pag. Size: 21cmx14cm. Signed by Author.