Robert Graves Text (15 results)

Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light discoloration to right edge of font board. Hans Erni (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated by Hans Erni. Lightly read. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Scuffed DJ with light shelf wear to edges. Hans Erni (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition. Black cloth, gilt line illustrations, pristine. Protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright and clean, minimal age toning to edges. Book is firm in binding, b&w illustrations, many plates, crisp interior. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Unpaginated pages. Illustrated by Hans Erni (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine in fine dust jacket.; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good (+). First Edition. Ex-library book with usual (minimal) stamps and marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean tight copy with gilded pictorial artwork to black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with small crease to dust flap. In this translation of the Canticles or Song of Songs, Robert Graves uses the traditional form of the Hebrew pastoral drama performed at marriage fstivals; it assigns parts to bride, bridegroom, bridesmaids and bridesmen. 54pp. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 10.75 x 8 inches. Hans Erni (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Book good. Jacket. pages not numbered. B/w illustrations by Hans Erni. Hans Erni (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. William Collins Sons & Co., London and Glasgow, 1973, first UK edition; 208 x 274mm; pp [58]; illustrated with line drawings by Hans Erni; black cloth boards titled gilt on the spine and with a gilt impression of an Erni drawing on the front cover; near fine condition throughout. Erni, Hans (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Illustrated by Hans Erni. Small quarto. Light toning on endpapers, slight foxing on page edges, near fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate toning, and slight interior foxing on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First North American edition ; 208 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm ; ISBN 9780821221280, 0821221280 ; OCLC 31677506 ;LCCN 94075736 ; LOC No DA951 .S36 1994 ; "A Bulfinch Press book." ; Dewey 941.081 ; green cloth in photographic dustjacket ; tiny watermark on bottom corner textblock ; Carey Schofield OBE is the British principal of Langlands School and College in Pakistan, noted for its academic excellence. She had a previous career as a journalist and writer, particularly on military affairs. ; Contents: Early photography in Ireland -- The Administration -- The Land -- At the Big House -- In the towns -- Revival & revolution -- Notes on the photographic processes ; VG/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small quarto. This copy is a first American edition. Condition: small tear to dust jacket at lower edge of the fold to the rear flap; also, slight chipping & soiling to DJ; inked name & date to 1st pastedown; 2" tear to bottom edge of pp. 49/50 & 51/52; else volume is in very good condition with very good DJ. Illustrated with wood engravings in two colors by James Metcalf in the Mycenean style. Pages: 73.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Two small octavo volumes bound in pictorial cloth, in slipcase. B&W illustrations; endpaper maps. Condition: lower corner of slipcase bumped; small bump to lower corner of front cover; else fine in near fine slipcase.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt line vignette to the front cover. 4to. 11'' x 8¼''. Contains traditional form of the Hebrew pastoral drama performed at marriage festivals; it assigns parts to bride, bridegroom, bridesmaids and bridesmen over 54 printed pages of text with full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Neat fountain message to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0002167581 ENGLISH LITERATURE.…

hardcover. Condition: As New. Hans Erni (illustrator).

4to, [50pp], colour frontispiece & b/w illus. by Hans Erni, orig. cloth gilt. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. In this new translation of the Canticles or Song of Songs Robert Graves uses the traditional form of the Hebrew pastoral drama performed at marriage festivals. He has found this preserved in the Codex Sinaiticus, the earliest surviving Greek manusccript; it assigns parts to bride, bridegroom, bridesmaids and bridesmen.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Signed Edition (Signed by both Robert Graves and James Metcalf on limitation page). Number 142 of 250 copies. 36 wood engravings and 36 line drawings by James Metcalf. (viii) + 74pp. Dust jacket complete. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Very clean and tight. It is now generally recognised that the story told in the first four chapters of Genesis is only one of a group of Middle Eastern Creation legends, from which it differs in many particulars. But attention has hitherto been drawn' rather to the likenesses between Genesis and its Sumerian, Phoenician, Babylonian, Egyptian and Hittite counterparts, than to the differences. Robert Graves is the first to show that Genesis, a document of unexpectedly late composition, contains Western as well as Eastern elements; and further that such unmythical anomalies as the creation of trees and pasture before the heavenly bodies, and the formation of Eve, the `Mother of Mankind', from the rib of a man, are best explained as anecdotes based on a misreading of certain Canaanite icons, captured by the Hebrews when they overran Hebron. Mr. Graves suggests that these icons were intended to be read boustrophedon (`as an ox ploughs') and not always from the same direction, as the author of Genesis has assumed; and that they tell an altogether different story of a more primitive Creation myth current in Canaan. The argument is illustrated by a reconstruction of these icons, thirty-six in number, which have been engraved on wood in sub-Mycenean style by James Metcalf. These are shown twice, in different orders, to illustrate both the conventional Genesis story and the hypothetical version. Size: 4to. James Metcalf (illustrator). Signed By Robert Graves & James Metcalf.…