Paul Eisler (62 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket, 371pp. First U.S. edition. VG/VG-: a clean, sound, presentable book in a chipped and mildly dust-soiled jacket.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First American Edition; dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; beige c w/white/black titles, lite foxing on spine; 371 clean, unmarked pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 256 pages. Chapters on Camus, Gide, Sarraute, others. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, light foxing to edges, water stain to bottom edge, gap at p. 86-87 where a document on folded paper was inserted for many years, but binding still tight. Former owner's name written on ffep, no marks within.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First American Edition; dj w/lite wear only, unclipped price; grey c w/white/black titles; 371 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Protective cover). 1st Edition. tight binding; signed and embossed by previous owner; some wear/tear around edges; discoloring due to age; spotting around fore-edge Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Stiff green wraps. Slight handling wear with light thumbing mark along front cover fore-edge. Square, uncreased binding, unmarked interior. 1st ptg. thus: Apr. 1966. 256 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st US Printing. Dust jacket is lightly browned, with a bit of edge wear and a few scratches at spine.

HARD BACK BLACK. Condition: GOOD. 1st edition Second printing. 1965. Dusk jacket price $5.95. General wear and rubbed cover.Tight binding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1965 EDITION: 371.

Condition: Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 405 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Trade Paperback Edition. INVALUABLE: INDISPENSABLE, ENTRALLING, AMBITIOUS: AS-NEW First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 1995) Fifth Printing (c. 2010): Volume 3 in the series "Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism" edited by Anton Kaes w/ Martin Jay & Edward Dimendberg * 6.48" x 9.74" x 1.86", 1.54 kg, xx+810 (830) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the 20th century. Its political & cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions & possibilities of our age. "The Weimar Republic Sourcebook" represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, & politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness & complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power. Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestos, & official documents (many unknown even to specialists & most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, & social life. Its 30 chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "New Woman," Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret & urban entertainment, & the situation of Jews, intellectuals, & workers before & during the emergence of fascism. While devoting much attention to the Republic's varied artistic & intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School, political theater, 12-tone music, cultural criticism, photo-montage, & urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, & sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, & capsule biographies. This will be a major resource & reference work for students & scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social & political thought; & cultural, film, German, & women's studies. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "'The Weimar Republic Sourcebook' is an INVALUABLE resource for understanding one of the most important & resonant eras of the 20th century. SInce the Weimar debate has continued to repeat itself, albeit w/ less intellectual brilliance, this book is as much about the present as about the past. Here is the Weimar era in all its many-voiced & eloquent complexity: most of these texts, even those by the most famous names of the period, appear for the first time in English. This is an INDISPENSABLE, ENTRALLING, properly AMBITIOUS book." -Susan Sontag * ABOUT THE AUTHORS-EDITORS: ANTON KAES is Professor of German & Director of Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author most recently of "From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film" (1989). MARTIN JAY is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include "Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought" (California, 1993). EDWARD DIMENBERG is Assistant Professor of German Studies, Film & Video Studies, & Architecture at the University of Michigan.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Poor/Fair. First Edition. 56 pages. Dustjacket present but half of spine missing, almost in two halves, colour faded with edge/corners chips. Hardback binding has light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Pages clean but war economies of the time mean the rather thin paper is yellowed to edges and margins. Ink name dated 1945 to flyleaf.

Original-Leinen. Condition: tadelloser Zustand. 392 S. mit 148 Bildern und 13 Tafeln Size: 8°.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy with a bumped top of the spine. The dust jacket is very good with wear to the edges and 2 small tears at the top of the spine. Translated from French. In whatever he has written, Sartre has been quite literally seeking has salvation, and in these probing essays he examines the strategies of various other writers and artists who have all in their own ways been after salvation too.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 287 pages, illustrations, portraits; 22 cm. First published, 1969, under title: Chagall, l'amour, le reve, et la vie. Translated from the French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Expected browning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. *** Jean-Paul Crespelle (1910-1994) wrote about the Parisian avant-garde in the Belle Epoque. *** CONTENTS: The Silence of Vaugirard; A Jewish childhood; The Lights of Paris; Comrade Chagall; "You're famous"; Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower; Mourning and exile; "The Land that lives in my soul." Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This American First Edition has very little corner bumping or edge wear. Interior text has slightly darkened with age, but clean and tight in binding. Clipped DJ has some rubbing and light wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Good hardcover with no dust jacket, 1965. Slight wear. Marked first printing.

Paperback. Condition: New. The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period of four years, from 1958 until his death in 1962, Eisler offers a compelling and absorbing account of his and Brecht's period of exile in Europe and the USA between 1933 and 1947, and of the quality of artistic, social and intellectual life in post-war East Germany. Brecht, Music and Culture includes a discussion of a number of Brecht's principal plays, including Life of Galileo and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, considers the place of music in Brecht's work and discusses the time that Brecht was brought before The House of Un-American Activities Committee. It includes lively accounts of Brecht's meetings with key cultural figures, including Arnold Schönberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann, and offers throughout a sustained response to the question of the purpose of art in a time of political turmoil.Throughout the conversations, Eisler provides illuminating and original insights into Brecht's work and ideas and gives a highly entertaining first-hand account of his friend's personality and attitudes. First published in Germany in 1975, and now published in English for the first time, the conversations provide a fascinating account of the lives and work of two of the twentieth century's greatest artists.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Volume VI Only, 1771-1796. The material in this volume illuminates events surrounding the later works of Haydn and Mozart and the early works of Beethoven. The concentration of most composers of the period was the performance of opera. The political events included provide an interesting backdrop for the musical activities of the period. From Foreword: "Music can be grasped in its very depth only if coordinated with the sum total of the art of its time of origin, with literature, painting, sculpture and architecture." xi, List of Illustrations (33 including Frontispiece of Beethoven Life Mask), 498 pp. CONDITION: Quarter bound beige boards, gilt title on red tape spine. Two dark horizontal marks on cover; ex-libris, notations, stamps. Sound binding, unmarked text. Full refund if not satisfied.

Condition: New. In.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good tabloid newspaper with horizontal gold at center. 39ppb. Includes article on King Assassination. Gilbert Shelton cartoon. 2pp of Krassner. Sex adds galore. Photos. Scarce.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xix, 331pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and attractive. From the collection of musicologist and conductor Paul Clinton Echols (1944-94).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. volume one only,hardback book in very good to near fine condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A very good, unmarked copy in the original cloth binding and dust jacket.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.