Uncredited Translator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Book in blue and gold boards with red leather spine has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked.

hardcover. Condition: good. no jacket. uncredited (illustrator). 1st. Hutchinson, 1988. Slim 1st UK hardback edition, no dustjacket. Lovely illustrations. Minor wear to covers. Good.

Condition: Very Good. German translation of "A Yankee from Olympus;" 399 p., clean and unmarked on strong paper mildly age-toned; binding firm; lightly age-toned wrapper with image of Statue of Liberty has two tiny smudges on front panel; crease at lower corner of rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st thus. Greenish paper over boards backed with black cloth; hand lettered paper spine label; laid paper; deckle edges. Scuffed, somewhat age mottled covers; chipping of spine label; 'Rules of Boston Library Society' pasted to front pastedown; cracked and weakened at front hinge, but holding; clean interior. Translation of Barzoni's 'I Romani nella Grecia' [1797], an allegorical criticism of Napoleonic occupation of Italy. Translation may have been by bookseller/publisher, Nancrede, who was a French officer in American Revolution and who opened a Franco-American bookshop in Boston. 12mo (19 cm), 80 pp + 4 pp publisher's advert.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. As the novel appeared in France first in serial form during the years 1844-1845, this 1846 ed. must be one of the first translations into English. Volume II is in much better condition than Volume I. Vol. I: 587 p., clean and unmarked within on strong paper only faintly age-toned--but end pages are foxed and faintly stained with 4" closed tear on front end page; front gutter cracked exposing sewn signature; many wonderful engravings by uncredited however "eminent" artists, ranging from small vignettes to full-page plates; embossed black boards with gilt lettering, decoration, representations of on front board, and spine, have bumped and rubbing along tender spine. Volume II: 680 p., clean and unmarked on strong paper only faintly age-toned but somewhat foxed at some lower edges; end pages are of paper of lesser quality and are quite tan with one chipped corner; lavishly illustrated with engravings ranging from small vignettes to full-page plates; binding firm; clean embossed black boards with gilt lettering, decoration, and representations of protagonist of novel have bumped corners and some rubbing at crown and foot of spine, with beginning lesion at upper seam between rear board and spine. Both volumes 7-1/2" x 11". Extra postage.