Swift Basil (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. 49pp. Stapled Wraps. Spine edge of wraps have many small creases. Spine is rubbed. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Wraps have scuffs, scratches, and small creases. Wraps are lightly sunned along the edges. Text is unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Large softcover in near fine condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Large softcover in near fine condition.

Basil Swift (illustrator). Softcover. Condition: As New. Binding tight. Cover and pages clean with no marks, tears or creases. Illustrated with full-page prints. Libretto Translated and Illustrated by Basil Swift. Opera in Two Acts. General Notes from translator included. Small square with "Errata" affixed to last page below Publisher's Note. Signed/inscribed on inside front cover, "To Basil Jenkins With sincere regards from Basil Swift 1979". Basil Jenkins lived in Southern California and was a museum curator, historian, author, lecturer, and steward of beautiful cultural artifacts.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Libretto translated and illustrated by Basil Swift. SIGNED and inscribed, "With kindest regards to Father Dositei from Basil Swift". Included is a laid in type written poem by Mozart, translated by Swift, who has signed and inscribed it to Father Dositei. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A gently read book in Very Good condition. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. ; The Very Rev. Dositei Obradovich was the spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States and for decades the only celibate American monk to carry the ancient title of archimandrite. ; 4to ; 111 pages; Signed by Translator.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large paperback in near fine condition. Clean inside and out; no markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. Basil Swift (illustrator). Good+ beige pictorial softcover. 1979. SIGNED/Inscribed by ILLUSTRATOR, Basil Swift on inside cover. Small stain to front cover. Mild edge wear/scuffing. Pages all clean. OVERSIZE volume. 111 pp. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

First edition, first printing: a large format softbound book. Light soiling and spotting to the illustrated covers, thus very good plus, though internally fine, as-new; perfect-bound within stiff, cardstock covers. This example of Swift's translation of Mozart's opera has been dated in the year of publication, inscribed to Pulitzer Prize-winning opera critic Martin Bernheimer, and SIGNED by author Swift.