John Edel (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Paperback Printing. Trade paperback with photocovers; A later printing of a classic biography from Canadian author about his youth spent in Paris; Book is clean, sound but front hinge is a little weak but no loose pages, some light edgewear on covers; 241 pages.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in wraps. Some toning and minor edge wear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 10"h x 7"w.

Paperback. Condition: Fine condition. First Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Fine condition. A clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. 6" wide by 9" tall. Contains commentary, a cumulative index to volume 38, and eight articles: 1. THE EARLIEST AMERICAN NOVEL: APHRA BEHN'S OROONOKO by William C. Spengemann; 2. ROOT AND BRANCH: WASHINGTON IRVING AND AMERICAN HUMOR by John Seelye; 3. CONCEPTS OF THE ROMANCE IN HAWTHORNE'S AMERICA by Nina Baym; 4. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: FROM SECTIONALISM TO REGIONALISM by James M. Cox; 5. THE NAMES OF ACTION: HENRY JAMES IN THE EARLY 1870s by R. W. B. Lewis; 6. HENRY JAMES IN THE WOOD: SEQUENCE AND SIGNIFICANCES OF HIS LITERARY LABORS, 1905-1907 by Hershel Parker; 7. WALTER BERRY AND THE NOVELISTS: PROUST, JAMES, AND EDITH WHARTON by Leon Edel; 8. AMERICAN LITERARY NATURALISM: THE FRENCH CONNECTION by Richard Lehan. First Edition. Softcover. Fine condition. pp. 377-568.

hardcover, Condition: fair, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1970, 8vo., cloth, 241pp., ex-lib.- dj spine label, pocket, stamps, cracked at half title, rear inner hinge cracked & peel damage where pocket was removed, ow G in G dj $.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Nancy Stahl, cover illustration (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with a small surface tear on the front panel.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 536 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A gift inscriptionon the front free end paper otherwise fine.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 240 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 241pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soilingb/foxing).

The Complete Tales of Henry James. Edited with an Introduction by Leon Edel. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962-1964. First Edition, Complete set in 12 volumes, original dust jackets. Uniform grey cloth bindings measure 8.25 x 5.5", 8vos. 1864-1868; 1868-1872; 1873-1875; 1876-1882; 1883-1884; 1884-1888; 1888-1891; 1891-1892; 1892-1898; 1898-1899; 1900-1903; 1903-1910. In good condition. Dust jackets: two inch tear on top edge of Vol. II's rear cover; Vol. III price-clipped; normally scuffed around edges and corners; spines tanned from shelf-wear/sun-exposure; heads and tails of spines bumped; some hinges creased with rubbing; light toning and soiling. Grey cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn at corners. Black residue on bottom edges of both boards of Vol. 1. Heads and tails of spines bumped. Top edges of text-blocks stained multi-colored - overall very attractive; fore-edges deckled. Text-blocks clean. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Joseph Leon Edel (1907-1997) was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. His work on Henry James won him both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Complete set, first editions, original dust jackets. Clean set, gift quality. RARES1962DJKO - 04/26 - HK3519.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Glassco, John. MEMOIRS OF MONTPARNASSE. Signed. First Edition Inscribed by John Glassco on the front free endpaper. 'To Keith, on his birthday. With much affection from his friend and fellow horseman - this work of homage, with the hope it will amuse (though not instruct) is given by Lee and Dale, Buffy Glassco, May 28, 1970.' Introduction by Leon Edel. A fine copy in gold cloth, black titles to the spine in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 241 pp. "Memoirs of Montparnasse should be read and at last recognized as the most dramatic of the many narratives dealing with Paris in the 1920's." -- Malcolm Cowley, The New York Times. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. An ex-library copy in heavy maroon cloth containing these five items, each bound in retaining the original paper front cover but not the rear cover. All are first edition/first printings, from 1944, 1962, 1961, 1939 and 1939. The usual ex-libris markings to covers and endpapers, and with accession stamps to the covers of Neurath, Edel and Woodger. Kuhn has brief pencil library accession markings. All text is clean/unmarked. Cover soiling, but none within. Book.

From John Cunliffe's library, bound in red cloth publisher's binding with gilt lettering to spine in near fine condition with slight bumping to top of spine. Fading to spine. Split to gutter between frontispiece page and title page. Portrait frontispiece of the author dated to 1895. Ownership signature by Cunliffe to upper flyleaf and plate to upper pastedown. Cunliffe (1933-2018) is best remembered as the creator of Postman Pat. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.