Maja Translators (4 results)

Original Boards. Condition: Good. First English language edition. 186 pages. With plates & illustrations. With library stamps & labels. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Corners slightly bumped.; Ex-Library; Quarto.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS, first printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 109-191; [3]. Publisher's card wraps printed in black to upper. Ownership inscription inside covers. Lightly handled, edges toned. Very good. From a 1947 translation in a larger collection.…

Condition: Gut. First Edition. 22.3 cm x 14.5 cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Good+ condition with signs of external wear. Rubbing to top and bottom of spine and to hardcover edges. Discoloration and foxing to enpapers and edges. Dustjacket in very poor condition. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (18981956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. (Wikipedia) Bertolt Brecht is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theater, both as a playwright whose works continue to fascinate and challenge audiences the world over, and as a theorist whose approach to dramatic form and function has been a major influence. These two plays represent Brecht at his most brilliant. Set in faraway realms of the imagination - a remote Chinese city and a long-ago Caucasian province - they are designed to point out with telling accuracy the very imperfections of our social order. (Amazon) Eric and Maja Bentley, who prepared the English translations, have furnished an introduction and production notes. (From jacket notes).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. An uncommon first edition containing two plays by Bertolt Brecht, complete with the smart unclipped dust wrapper. The uncommon first edition.With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Published for the first time in any language are these two plays by acclaimed German theatre practitioner, playwright and poet, Bertolt Brecht, 'The Good Woman of Setzuan' and 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle'.With English translations and introduction by British-born American theatre critic Eric Bentley and his first wife, Maja. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with rubbing to the extremities. Dust wrapper is chipped to the top edge of the wrap, with minor losses to the spine tail and bottom of joints. Sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with spotting to the endpapers and a small contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…