Harry Kessler (732 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Hardback. Condition: Fair.

Condition: Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condition: Fair.

Condition: good. Condition: Good â" Used book with some visible wear. May include stickers on the cover, wear or absence of the dust jacket, wear to the spine or inside cover, slight corner curling, minor staining, and wear along the fore edge. All orders are shipped via UPS Mail Innovations and may take up to 10 business days from the initial scan to be delivered.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair.

Hardback. Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Wraps have light wear, minor sunning to spinefold. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Legend Of Joseph. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback & DJ. Condition: Good +. 535 pp. sfep dj torn Covers the period of 1918-1937, important political figure who kept an excellent diary of the period.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Translated into English for the first time--set in Paris, London, Berlin, and Weimar, with trips to America and Asia--a selection of the early diaries, 1880-1918, of Count Harry Kessler, the Anglo-German art patron, aesthete, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, cultural attache, and secret agent.These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler-patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat-present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle poque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler's immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I, the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war, as well as Kessler's account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland.Profoundly modern and often prescient, Kessler was an erudite cultural impresario and catalyst who as a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Pan met and contributed articles about many of the leading artists and writers of the day. In 1903 he became director of the Grand Ducal Museum of Arts and Crafts in Weimar, determined to make it a center of aesthetic modernism together with his friend the architect Henry van de Velde, whose school of design would eventually become the Bauhaus. When a public scandal forced his resignation in 1906, Kessler turned to other projects, including collaborating with the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the German composer Richard Strauss on the opera Der Rosenkavalier and the ballet The Legend of Joseph, which was performed in 1914 by the Ballets Russes in London and Paris. In 1913 he founded the Cranach-Presse in Weimar, one of the most important private presses of the twentieth century.The diaries present brilliant, sharply etched, and often richly comical descriptions of his encounters, conversations, and creative collaborations with some of the most celebrated people of his time: Otto von Bismarck, Paul von Hindenburg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Sarah Bernhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Marie Rilke, Paul Verlaine, Gordon Craig, George Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville-Barker, Max Klinger, Arnold B cklin, Max Beckmann, Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, duard Vuillard, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Ida Rubinstein, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Pierre Bonnard, and Walther Rathenau, among others.Remarkably insightful, poignant, and cinematic in their scope, Kessler's diaries are an invaluable record of one of the most volatile and seminal moments in modern Western history. "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, . New York, in 2011"--T.p. verso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Softbound. Condition: Good. Octavo,78 pp., b/w photos paper covers, In Hebrew with some English as needed.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 535 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket has edgewear. Record # 206598.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. A VG or better 4-page pressbook with no cuts or missing pages. Size: 11" X 14". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. As told to Alma Kessler and Robert A. Suhosky. St. Louis: Harkess Publishing, (1982). First Edition (stated). Large 8vo. 371pp. Red buckram, gilt letters, near fine condition (boards slightly bowed), no dj. With 66 photographs, including many boxing events. Signed & inscribed to a fellow referee on the blank page facing the title page, dated Jan 1985. He made his millions in metallurgy.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 371 pages; Signed by Author. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light foxing visible across page block edges. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Corner clipped from front flap. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Good. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good hardcover in dust jacket. Ex-library with the usual attributes. Otherwise, near fine.