Fabry Joseph Editor (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good ++. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight. 44pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Crouch, Anthony (book design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition silver gray linen boards with red spine lettering contained in a very good condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Editor Dedication; Editor's Note; List of Illustrations; A Karl Kraus Chronology; About This Reader and Selected Bibliography. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, two double-page facsimile foldouts in German (left fold-out) and English (right fold-out), and black-and-white portrait frontispiece. Upper dust jacket spine edge wear and lower jacket spine rubbed. All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). A vintage former owner bookplate neatly affixed to the center of the inner front board. "My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness." The voice of Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Vienna's legendary satirist, polemicist, and pacifist, today speaks with a timeliness and a freshness that the passing of four decades has not dimininished. Kraus assailed the sins of early 20th-century Europe in vitriolic fashion, often finding himself virtually alone in the unpopularity of his stance. In 1919 Kraus indicated the compass of his themes as follows: "Sex and untruth, stupidity, abuses, cadences and cliches, printer's ink, technology, death, war and society, usury, politics, the insolence of office.art and nature, love and dreams." The present Reader includes samples of Kraus's thoughts and feelings on all these subjects, in prose and in verse, culminating in a readable and performable condensation of modern literature's most trenchant antiwar drama, The Last Days of Mankind. The English-speaking public thus has available for the first time a representative selection from the writings of one of the modern era's most influential and original thinkers." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 132-page journal in card wrappers, generally fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, octavo, black boards, in very good dust wrapper, previous ownership on half title, 13 unpaginated plus 263 including select bibliography. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Minor sunning to spine. Free of any markings and no writings inside. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.