Published by Frederick Unger, NEW YORK, 1969
Seller: Black Canyon Books, Olathe, CO, U.S.A.
Hardback. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 4to, Rubbing To DJ, Spotting To Rear, An Enlarged And Updated Edition Of The Herder German Lexikon Der Weltliteratur.
Language: English
Published by General Program Corporation, New York
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Multicolored illustration on front cover shows concert art of a stage scene with a figure playing the horn and two anthropomorphic trees. No date, circa 1942. 9" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color (most in black-and-white), complete. Included are many advertisements for a variety of products and businesses. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, occasional faint spots of discoloration, and a few small bumps and slight wear to extremities. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning, slight rubbing, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is an original program for Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for the 1942-1943 American Tour. Sergei J. Denham was the director at the time. The following are some of the contents. Black-and-white photographic illustrations of ballet dancers Alexandra Danilova, Mia Slavenska, Nathalie Krassovska, Igor Youskevitch, Frederic Franklin, Roland Guerard, Lubov Rostova, George Zoritch, David Tihmar, and Milada Mladova. Black-and-white portrait illustrations of company staff (including Leonide Massine, Jean Yazvinsky, Franz Allers, and Gregor Fittelberg) and choreographers. Black-and-white illustrations showing performance stills and group photos. Partial ballet repertoire (ballets the company performs) with summaries. Four pages of color illustrations in center showing concept art. Some of the advertised products or businesses: Rosemarie, Columbia Concerts, Ciro, Sirocco, and Helena Rubinstein. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was founded in 1937 by Rene Blum and Leonide Massine. This ballet company was one of the successors of Ballets Russes which had dissolved after Blum and Wassily de Basil (also known as Colonel W. de Basil) had parted ways. The company was active until 1968 when it became bankrupt.
Published by Frederick Unger, NEW YORK, 1967
Seller: Black Canyon Books, Olathe, CO, U.S.A.
Hardback. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 4to, Chip To DJ Spine, Other Edgewear, An Enlarged And Updated Edition Of The Herder German Lexikon Der Weltliteratur.
Language: English
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1881
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: G. No Jacket. 729 pp, the book and contents are solid and tight, the clean with very occasional foxing, the endpapers are decorated in a grey and brown floral pattern, the second front free endpaper have a penciled name and date of Jan 23, 1882, the covers are tight and have light wear and soil, mostly on the extremeties.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Shows minor wear.
Language: English
Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1881
Seller: Livresse, Gatineau, QC, Canada
Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. 624, 767 p. 15x23cm. Bookplate of the Fraser Institute on front pastedown. Publisher's binding a bit worn and repaired (I). Volume II loose. Code 1870.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1881
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. American Edition. 1881. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. 729p.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1881. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. 8vo. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. VG. Tight and clean. Very slight wear at lower spine end.
Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1881
US$ 193.72
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart copy of this comprehensive memoir of French statesmen and scholar, André François Miot de Mélito, a scarce work. A very detailed and comprehensive memoir of eighteenth and nineteenth century French statesman and scholar, André François Miot de Mélito. He was a minister, ambassador, councillor of state, and member of the Institute of France from 1788 to 1815.Complete in two volumes.Translated to English from the original French by Mrs Cashel Hoey and Mr John Lillie.Edited by General Fleischmann.A scarce work.This copy was previously housed in the Library of Norwich University, and there is library notations to the spine as well as library stamps to the title page. In the publisher's original cloth binding wit refreshed endpapers. Externally, some general shelf wear and slight fading to the spines and the top of the rear board of Volume I. Cloth slightly cockled to the front board of Volume II, and a few marks to the boards. Library notations to the tail of each spine. Some loss to the binding to the heads of the spines. Internally, hinges slightly strained, particularly front hinge to Volume II at page iii to v, resulting in a tear at the gutter. Library stamps to the title pages, otherwise pages remain bright and clean. Good. book.