Tappan Wright Austin (59 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Brown cloth, no DJ. brief gift inscription and previous owner's name label. Some toning of the cloth, other wise a VG unmarked copy.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Condition: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Condition: acceptable. Crease on the book cover, and wear and tear on cover edges. Otherwise book is intact and good condition.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1975 Plume paperback - minor wear to cover owner's name inside front cover - tanning and minor staining to closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 1013pp.

Condition: very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. minor tanning and staining to closed page edge - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Signet Paperback, Fourth Printing. This is a VG Signer E4621 paperback, fourth printing copy, white spine.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. DJ- Chipped corners, edges of spine heavily chipped. Edges worn. Covered in mylar wrap. Split to FFEP binding. Residue from previous owner bookplate on FFEP. Otherwise good condition with clean unmarked pages. BP/Fiction.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by The Overlook Press, 2001. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. An excellent copy of this landmark work of utopian fiction.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 3rd printing. Soiling to cloth. Name stamp to title page. Edge wear to jacket. $3.00 price on jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Islandia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Also an introduction to Islandia.

Mass Market. Condition: Good. Fourth Printing. Covers show some light rubbing, scuffing and wear. Spine has an inverse bend which is common with thick mass markets. Green ex-libris ink stamp from previous owner on cover page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (1958). Thick 8vo. 2nd edition. Ownership signature to half-title page. Ueven toning and faint scratching to textblock edges with bumping to top corner resulting in faint creasing to top corners of many leaves. Bumping, wear, and light discoloration to edges, slightly exposed forecorners, and slightly chipped spine ends of barely rubbed boards. Darkening along spine and edges of toned dust jacket verso. Darkening along spine and fore edges of toned, rubbed, and soiled d.j. with bumping, wear, and faint creasing to edges, chipped forecorners, and chipped spine ends. A few, small closed tears to d.j. bottom edges and forecorners with chipping along bottom 2in. of front fore edge. D.j. covered in removeable plastic covering by previous owner. VG/VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. After his untimely death in 1931 at age 48 in a New Mexico auto accident, legal scholar and attorney Austin Tappan Wright left behind lengthy manuscripts of this novel and related writings. The novel was organized and edited by his widow Margaret and daughter Sylvia and eventually published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart. --- This is the story of an intricately-organized society in the imagined nation of Islandia, situated somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. The people of Islandia, per Wright, had established a rule (among many others), limiting outside visitors to one hundred at any one time, so as to preserve the unique ethos of the country. A life-long project for the author, he also concocted an elaborate history of Islandia, with genealogies, glossary of the Islandian language and other well-organized data. This classic, often compared to J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, is an entry in publishers' 'Utopian Literature' series. Includes a fold-out 30 cm. x 24 cm. map of Islandia by Robert Graves, and an introduction by Leonard Bacon. --- A 1971 reprint edition of the original 1942 issuance. In full mustard cloth-covered boards with simple cover and spine titling in brown. Volume lacks a dust jacket, likely as issued. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound and unmarked copy, though with retailer's sticker to front paste-down, dampstains to last few leaves and small creases to corners of some leaves. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, [2], 1013, [5] pages.

library. Condition: Very Good. This Book is in Very Good condition - no DJ. See our picture for exact item you will receive. All items ship within 24 hours. Packaging is 100% Recyclable. Most items purchased from Charitable organizations. A portion of each sale is also donated to a monthly charity, check your package for this month's charity. Reuse-Recycle-Rebook!

-() Editorial Funambulista, Encuadernación en tapa Blanda. Wright, Austin Tappan. 18 cm. Islandis : el cónsul americanoTapa deslucida.Tapa ilustrada. Pags.412.Volúmenes. Libro usado.

Rústica. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. 01. Cuando el estudiante universitario John Lang entabla amistad con Dorn, un joven proveniente de Islandis, descubre un misterioso reino situado en el hemisferio sur que no tiene apenas relaciones con otras naciones. Empujado por la curiosidad, John aprende el idioma y, cuando su tío, un empresario que quiere iniciar relaciones comerciales con los islandianos, le propone ir como cónsul de EE. UU., John partirá hacia ese recóndito territorio. Allí conocerá un pueblo poco desarrollado, pero muy avanzado a nivel social, y entrará en contacto con hombres enérgicos y mujeres valientes y enigmáticas, afectados por unas luchas políticas internas sobre la apertura al mundo exterior. . Goran G. Gallarza, traductor de la obra, se pregunta en su introducción: Qué lleva a alguien a crear un mundo? . La respuesta es esta ficción utópica, trabajo de toda la vida de Austin Tappan Wright, en la que el arraigo a la tierra, el amor, la amistad y la lealtad constituyen un arte de vida, y que se ha comparado por la precisión en los detalles con la Tierra Media de Tolkien. Publicada póstumamente en 1942, Islandis (Islandia en el original) se convirtió en Estados Unidos en una novela de culto. Presentamos aquí el primero de los varios volúmenes de que se compone la saga. LIBRO.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light soiling to cream colored boards. Endpapers depicting maps in as new condition. Pages clean and bright. Green text block intact. Dust jacket has some wear to spine top and to bottom lower right. Tight binding. A very nice copy. First edition, first printing with priced dust jacket. Also has the "Reward" card that was issued with this book that is usually missing. A highly detailed Utopian fantasy that Wright labored over for years, only to have it posthumously published. The introduction is by Leonard Bacon, the afterward by Sylvia Wright, the author's editor & daughter. Generally considered a "utopian" novel, Islandia describes the journey and adventures of John Lang, a once very proper American college student. Austin Tappan Wright did not just write a novel of adventures in a strange land and civilization; Islandia is a country with a history, towns, cities and streets, its own geography, language, people (and demographics), politics, law and customs, even its virtues and faults.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. A great utopian fantasy novel, comparable in conception and complexity to Tolkien's "Middle Earth." Wright, a law professor and legal scholar, created "Islandia" over many years in his free time after his academic duties at various U.S. universities, including Stanford, Michigan and Pennsylvania. When he died in an auto accident in New Mexico in 1931, he left a manuscript of over 2,300 pages plus appendices on a country called "Islandia," The appendices and a book-length general history of Islandia described language, culture, customs, population, historic peerage, and geography. His wife and daughter edited the work and trimmed it to the 1,013 pages published in the first edition in 1942. This copy is an early printing of the 1942 First Edition, lacking the publisher's colophon on the copyright page signifying the first printing. The original light tan buckram-covered boards are age and sun-darkened, particulary on the spine and along the edges, with some minor fraying of the cloth at the corners. The previous owner's bookplate is pasted to the front free endpage, concealing part of the Robert Graves-designed map on the pastedown. The front endpapers and first two dozen pages of text show a mild lower corner crease on the thin, WWII-era pages; text edges are lightly soiled and stained. Sorry, the dustjacket is missing. All that said, the book remains the 1942 first edition, complete and with the Leonard Bacon introduction. It is basically clean and unmarked, still tight and square. A great novel at a decent price.

Library Binding. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Very crisp and clean in illustrated map boards and endpapers. Covered in a bright jacket that has minimal nicking to the top of the spine. and some creasing to the front flap. Author's brilliant fantasy novel set in the mythical kingdom of Islandia. An attractive copy.

First edition First of the 1958 edition. Near fine illustrated white boards with green title to spine. Map boards. Inside front and rear flyleaf with blue map of the Karain Continent, where Islandia resides on its northern part. Crisp and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st edition, 3rd printing. 1st edition, 3rd Large Printing, 1942. A Very Good book in a Good- dust jacket. 8vo., 1013 pp., bound in publishers tan cloth with green dust jacket, price clipped. Jacket edges, tips and top/base of spine are chipped with a closed tear on spine. Previous owners name on end paper, text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Austin Tappan Wright was an American legal scholar and author, best remembered for his major work of Utopian fiction, Islandia. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, the brother of geographer John Kirtland Wright, and the grandfather of editor Tappan Wright King.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The classic Utopian novel. The author's first and only book. First printing thus. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, else very good in a good (long closed tear at the base of the front spine edge, age toning) dust jacket. ; 1013 pages.