Translated Willard Trask (20 results)

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. American Edition. 252 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. There is no dj (if any!).

Condition: Good. 128 pages. Story of the great heroine and saint told in her own words. Previous owner's name. Softcover, mass market paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Greenwood Reprinting. Typical library marks; some light scuffs; spine coating went onto back board; a nice copy. A study on the status of humanity and religion during the late Twentieth Century. 253 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Dust Jacket Illustration by Fred E. Banbery (illustrator). First American Edition. Black cloth covers with embossed designs and lettering, red top page edges- covers are slightly worn and spotted (white spotting) . Colorful dust jacket by wrap around illustration. Dust jacket has some wear and chipping to the edges and creases and with the covers, especially the rear cover. Still overall an attractive dust jacket. The blurb on the front cover of the dust jacket reads, "A novel of sacred and profane love amid the pageantry and splendor of the Renaissance. "; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Pbk, xv, 662 pages ; 24 cm. Covers creased / worn o/w text in good condition. [Literature, Medieval History and criticism - Latin literature, Medieval and modern History and criticism - Literature Philosophy - Literature, Medieval - Neoclassicism (Literature) - Europe Intellectual Life] r1069 / m16495.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition, SECOND printing. "First edition" statement and second printing letter code sequence B through E to the copyright page. Originally published in French in 1949, and here translated to English for the first time, this suspenseful mystery dealing with a serial killer, set in a well-depicted and charactered small town is one of Simenon's proclaimed "Romans Durs" translated as "Hard Novels". A vintage first edition in nice collectible condition. A hint of age-toning to the cover's edges as usual, else fine and very tight in polished cream boards with blue and plum embossed titles to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with art by Paul Bacon, with plum and blue spine panel titles still bright; original printed $6.95 price still intact to the front inner flap; nice author photo by Jill Krementz to the rear inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear protective, removable sleeve after photographing for this entry.

Duodecimo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition thus. Stated 1966 First Edition, 2 volumes in 1 book. 330pp, small octavo in burgundy cloth in publisher's slipcase. fading to book spine, covers clean, tight binding, interior clean throughout, Good+, minor wear to slipcase, structurally solid, covers clean, Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. A Second Printing in Fine condition in a like dust-jacket ; is a story of obsession and murder set in a mad world of make-believe.The Hatter's Phantoms is a mystery novel by the French author Georges Simenon and translated by Willard R. Trask. It tells the story of a madman who creates fantastical creatures out of hats and faces, and a detective who tries to solve the murder of one of these creatures.; 8vo; 172 pages; 7.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A Fine edition in a like dust-jacket ; The Hatter's Phantoms is a noir crime thriller by Belgian author Georges Simenon and translated by Willard R. Trask. It tells the story of a criminal mastermind named Jean Charbonnier, who is behind a series of murders that mirror the crimes of Jack the Ripper. The book is set in Paris in the early 1900s and features a cast of colorful characters, including the Hatter, a mysterious figure who may be behind the killings.; 8vo; 172 pages; $6.00.

Cloth. Condition: Good in Good DJ. First American edition. 12mo, 201 pp. Page edges tanned, light soiling to page edges and endpapers, previous owner name. Jacket darkened, edgeworn, with several small chips and tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. 253 pp., vii. First published in 1952; this copy first Edition in English, NAP, [First Thus], First Printing, 1957. Following the "Preface to the American Edition," Contents divided into 11 Chapters in 2 Parts: Part I PHILOSOPHY, ANXIETY, AND RENEWAL (1) "The Question Proposed"; (2) "Cynics and Stoics"; (3) "The Platonists: Flight and Contemplation"; (4) "The Futurists"; (5) "The Powerful"; (6) "The New Man"; Part II CRISIS AND RECONSTRUCTION (7) "The Problem of the Modern Age"; (8) "The Crisis of the ' Few ' "; (9) "The Crisis of the ' Many ' "; (10) "The Crisis of ' All ' "; (11) "Contemporary Society"; Index, pp. 238-253. Grey linen boards with black lettering on spine; beveled fore-edge. Medium gray dustwrapper not price-clipped ($5), with yellow abstract borders around front cover with Title lettering in white and yellow on top half front cover, just above author name lettering in smaller white letters. Medium gray and white lettering on spine slightly darkened from coloring on front cover; dampstain Rorschach test-like, LIGHT tan jagged line (3 1/4" x 1 1/2" up from bottom edge of dw rear cover), stopping at lower right rear cover gutter (both inside and outside dw) and extending onto bottom of rear dw panel (3" x 2 1/4" up from bottom edge). Dustwrapper surface in these locations is essentially flat, smooth, despite minor discoloration; nearly undetectable impact on rear cover gray linen cloth (hold at angle to light to see): describes much worse than it is, but there you have it: NOW in Brodart mylar which forgives sins graciously. Book is otherwise Fine: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names. Clean text. The way to read a Philosophy Classic.

Hardcover. First Thus Edition. Octavo, x, xv, 662 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black with beige lettering. Exterior has modest wear including light scuffs, faint sunning and few chips to the head/tail edge. Slight age toning to the flaps and interior. Boards have very slight wear with minimal edge wear. Text block has slight wear including mild age toning to the edges and mild age toning to the interior. First thus edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T, ND-T. 1400545. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition stated. Notations and neat underlining in pen and light pencil throughout; else a quite solid hardcover bound in full cloth with attractive unclipped ($4.95) jacket. NOT ex-lib. xiv, 204pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, stated. Blue cloth boards with silver-lettered black spine. Previous owner's name rubber-stamped on front free endpaper, else fine. Dust jacket rubbed; light edge-wear; faint spots of soiling on rear panel; not price clipped ($3.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. xv + 175 pages. A study of the rites, ordeals, symbols and myths of Initiation, representing the Haskell Lectures which Eliade delivered at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1956 under the title ''Patterns of Initiation''. For its publication, he added an Introduction, some notes and bibliographical references.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, with DJ. Quarter bound red and maroon cloth over boards with gold lettering to the spine. Illustrated dust jacket, featuring a forest scene and white lettering. Dated 1948 on copyright page. No date on title page. 509 pages. Good condition. Binding is strong. Covers are bright and clean. Corners are sharp. Spine very lightly bumped. Pages clean and free of marks throughout. Faint foxing to the endpapers and page edges. Dust jacket has been wrapped in a protective mylar cover. Overall faint toning. A light amount of chipping to the spine and corners. No tears. Back of dust jacket is foxed, with some shelf wear. Overall good condition. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First USA Edition, First Printing. This book is from the estate of Twin Cities collector, Grace Reiter; it is unmarked except for her signature.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Curtius's major work, arguing that European literature is part of a continuous tradition flowing from ancient Greek & Roman writers, apart from whom it cannot be correctly understood; nor were European writings, despite their different languages, separate from this tradition. Bollingen Series XXXVI. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing) in English, originally published in German in 1948. Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners; jacket shows minor rubbing & some edgewear with several short tears, light chipping including a small nick to first couple letters of the title on the front panel, larger but still minor chip to upper rear panel, interior non-archival but not horrible tape mends, $5.50 price intact. Text clean; xv, [3], 662 pages; index, bibliographic note, appendix printing the transcription of the author's 1949 lecture on The Medieval Bases of Western Thought. Size: Large Octavo.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Second printing stated. Original French by Mircea Eliade. Rust cloth covered boards with black cloth spine wrap and gilt lettering to the spine. Bollingen Series LXXVI. Near Fine in a Very Good, price clipped dust jacket designed by Paul Rand. ( Dust jacket has a small price sticker showing P.U.P. $12.50 next to the clipped area. ) Top page edges dyed gray. Scattered underlining in ink throughout. Dust jacket has an old wraparound tape repair to top of spine; light rubbing and chipping to edges; and lightly sunned spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 12mo. xiv. 204pp. Bound in the original publisher cloth. Signed and inscribed by the author, Mircea Eliade, to the philosopher and scholar Norman O. Brown on the endpaper: 'Pour Norman O. Brown, heureux de le revoir a Chicago son fidele lecteur, son admirateur. Mircea Eliade 17 April 1964.' VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable mylar cover. The book itself shows just a slight hint of shelf rubbing along the edges, top edge lightly dust spotted, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows some shelf rubbing along the edges and corners, spine lightly toned, price-clipped, otherwise is bright, colorful and distinct. As pictured.