Edward Fluck (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. #1249 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase and clear acetate jacket. Spine faded, slipcase lightly rubbed, 1 inch closed tear to top jacket corner, tiny chip from bottom jacket edge. 1953 Hard Cover. 167, [1] pp. A collection of legends and folktales by the Swiss poet influential in literary realism. Two of the selections here are from his popular Seldwyla Folks series of novellas. Includes: Spiegel the Cat; Clothes Make the Man; Eugenia; The Virgin and the Devil; The Virgin as Knight; About the Book by Edward J. Fluck.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition, #1289 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. 3 inch chip from front jacket edge, slipcase a bit rubbed. 1952 Hard Cover. 223 pp. Originally published in 1893, this novel was among Hope's first major successes, which may have propelled him towards the writing of The Prisoner of Zenda, published the following year. Afterword by Edward J. Fluck, illustrations by Arno E. Schule.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Illustrated by KRIJGER, HENK.LINE DRAWINGS (illustrator). First Edition?. good Condition solid, cover has "E Z" to spine strip.endpaper has old book photo of "Coin of Augustus & SHEKEL of Simon Maccabeus".OW book text is clean and readable on white pages. ; BLACK SPINE titles on YELLOW CLOTH HARD COVERS.; 158pg pages; "I shall light a candle of understanding in your heart which shall not be put out.".

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reissue. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. Minor cosmetic wear. 1949 Hard Cover. 209 pp. A combination of translations by Constance Garnett and anonymous translators, with notes following text by Edward J. Fluck and George W. Rickey, illustrations by George W. Rickey. Includes: The Beggar; The Darling; The Cossack; The Match; The Husk; Who to Blame?; The Incubus; Rothschild's Fiddle; The Night Before the Trial; A Happy Ending; The Young Wife; A Terrible Night; At Home; About the Author; About the Artist.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good stapled wraps with some age discoloration. 64 pages, unmarked. [dp50 0914]. ; Shlf; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good stapled wraps with some age discoloration. 64 pages, unmarked. [dp50 0914]. ; Shlf; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine faded, otherwise an excellent copy. 1954 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 182 pp. An English translation of Dictionnaire des Idees Recues which was unpublished at the time of Flaubert's death, and first published as an appendix to Bouvard et Pecuchet in 1911, then separately in 1913. The author is best known for his novel Madame Bovary, and this work shows a similar flair for social criticism.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition, #2175 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. Spine faded, slipcase edge along opening toned. 1951 Hard Cover. 172 pp. Illustrations by Jacob Getlar Smith. A collection of short stories by the French novelist best known for his novel Jack: Moeurs Contemporaines. This and several of his other works were adapted to film. This volume includes: The Cure of Cucugnan; The Siege of Berlin; The Sub-Prefect Afield; The Pope's Mule; A Game of Billiards; At the Palais de Justice; The Secret of Maitre Cornille; Credo of Love; The Two Inns; The Last Lesson; M. Seguin's Goat; The Standard Bearer; Aged Folk; The Elixir of Father Gaucher; About the Book by Edward J. Fluck.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. Limited edition, #1558 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. Jacket fair, slipcase good: Large chip from rear jacket panel, jacket, slipcase, and endpapers foxed. 1954 Hard Cover. 99 pp. Includes afterword by Edward J. Fluck, woodcut illustrations by Dorothea Braby (frontispiece and four plates in text). A novella by the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, also notorious as the focus of one of the first celebrity trials, in which he was convicted of gross indecency for homosexual acts. Originally published as part of a collection of four short works.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition, #1273 of 3000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine faded, slipcase lightly rubbed with minor damage on edge along opening. 1952 Hard Cover. 143 pp. Translated into English from the original Spanish by Walter K. Kelly, with illustrations by Kenneth Hassrick. Three short works by the author of the classic satirical novel Don Quixote. Includes: The Generous Lover; The Little Gipsy; The Jealous Estramaduran; About the Book by Edward J. Fluck.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ronald Clyne (illustrator). First Thus. A reasonable effort to imitate the Limited Editions Club publications, an attractively printed & illustrated collection of Voltaire's tales, including Memnon the Philosopher, excerpts from Zadig & Candide, Jeannot and Colin, Bababec and the Fakirs, Travels of Scarmentado, a synopsis of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Includes a long essay on Voltaire by Edward J. Fluck, Ph.D., brief comments on illustrator Clyne (probably best-remembered today for his Arkham House dust jackets), with Clyne's own comments on his striking work. Number 222 of 3000 printed, "and the type remelted". Hardcover in slipcase, as pictured; missing the glassine jacket but including a prospectus for D. H. Lawrence's translation of Verga's stories. Light wear, small stain/damaged spot to upper front cover; slipcase rubbed, no splits. Text clean; [6], 163 pages + colophon; 11 full-page illustrations + title page vignette of Voltaire. Size: Quarto.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. 23 p., 23 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 4th Printing. Rodale Press Emmaus, Pennsylvania 1947 4th Printing Fine/ THUMB INDEXED. Light grey cloth with black design and lettering. Reprint Fine/ tight unmarked pages. 2+xxxii+1317+5=1356 pages NO DUST JACKET. HEAVY ITEM 3.63 Pounds Size: 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches. No Exp.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original finely grained apple green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt and red vignette to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 101 printed pages of text with full-page and part-page illustrations throughout. Hand written number 16 of 1000 Limited Edition Copies. Thackeray's burlesque on Scott's Ivanhoe following the married life of Ivanhoe and Rowena and resulting in the vindication of Rebecca. Very light spotting to the end papers and in Very Good clean condition, no slip case or dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

New Edition. Illustrations by Lex Metz One of 1,000 numbered copies Spine very slightly faded, otherwise a very nice copy in somewhat worn slipcase.