Translated by a Schmidt (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp.ix, 224 pages, a very good ex-library hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with white lettering to the spine and front cover [0521238994].

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 219pp., xvii. '1' in number line. Essays on the following: Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson, Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire, Andre Breton, Henri Michaux, Dostoevski, Solzhenitsyn, Gulag, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Luis Bunuel, Jorge Guillen, Jose Revueltas, Luis Cernuda. Chocolate boards with cream cloth spine and brilliant copper lettering. Glossy shades of gray dustwrapper not price-clipped ($18.95) with author name lettering in light gray over darker gray across top front cover, title lettering in dark gray over light gray, in column on right front cover lower half. Unread. (Binding tight, no remainder marks, no previous owner names. Clean text.) Gift-giving quality. Flawless. …

paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. paperback, covers unevenly age-toned, creased to bottom rear corner, a tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated, loosely inserted souvenir of a music sheet, Sonate op. 27, with facsimile signature and wax seal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing . Octavo hardback. ix, 224 pp. Letter "J" has been stamped in blue on title page. Corners a little rubbed otherwise Very Good condition. No dust jacket.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Stiff color illustrated wraps. 88 pages, illustrated, with biography and bibliography.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1928. First UK edition. vii, [i], 250pp., a frontispiece and 7 other black and white plates. From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career. 'A Hangman's Diary' gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment. The Diary is preceded by a brief account of criminal procedure in Germany in the Middle Ages by C. Calvert and an introduction to Schmidt's diary by Albrecht Keller. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some light soiling to the boards and bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with slight browning to the free endpapers and a name and date (1928) written in pencil on the front free endpaper.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Light shelf wear and shelf lean. Rounded spine with brown boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Light rubbing to the edges and corners of the cover with light rub through at the corners and at the outside edge of the rear cover. Small mark on the front free endpaper. The mull is showing between pages 400-401. Faint rubbing to the cover. Light outlining to the pages. The page just after the endpaper has split at the gutter and mull is showing. Used Book.…

Condition: Near Fine. Publisher's original card wrap covers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 66 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Minimal wear to the edges and corners and in near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. A Roman Catholic priest and scholarly philologist, Father Schmidt trained Catholic missionaries to gather linguistic & cultural data from the peoples in whose culture they were embedded, founding the journal and institute Anthropos to publish & research their findings & his theories. He wrote extensively on linguistics, and turned later in his career to ethnology, partly to promote his idea that all peoples are essentially monotheistic, in accord with Biblical revelation. Deeply influenced by Frobenius and Graebner, he here presents the history & technique of German & Austrian ethnology, contrasting it with the practice of the discipline in North America and the rest of Europe; he goes on to discuss the meaning & interpretation of sources, cultural relations, culture circles & strata, development & causality, and related ideas. Though little or poorly-remembered today, partly due to modern concerns about his biases, Schmidt was arguably the foremost Catholic ethnographer of the first half of the twentieth century. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book, corners bumped; ink name & date on first endsheet; jacket tanned & lightly rubbed with minor creasing, scuffs, light chipping, $5.00 price intact. Text clean; xxx, 383 pages; glossary, indexes, introduction by Harvard anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn, once a student of Schmidt's. Size: Large Octavo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE ON ABEBOOKS. VERY RARE SURVIVING, ONE OF KIND, FIRST MODERN LIBRARY. Butterscotch Brown Leatherette; Spine 1; C4 Catalog with 50 titles across from Title Page; Gold BL on front with gold author and title on spine; Green/Yellow marbled Endpapers. MORE ON THE AUTHOR: Max Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.…