Vincenz Brun (18 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. ist ed. Some Cover Wear and Age Spots on Some Pages; Some Cover Wear and Age Spots on Some Pages; 382 pages.

Condition: Good. 1936. First Edition. 373 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book, indicated as such by the "Bullock's Book Club" pocket mounted to the rear pastedown with two strips of (yellowing) tape; moderately worn, binding still fully intact, some fading to spine cloth, some soiling to edges of text block, slight exposure of boards at bottom corner of front cover]. Politcally-infused novel set in the mid-1930s about an expatriate couple, a Hungarian woman and her Austrian husband (the latter a journalist/satirist with a somewhat radical background), who hook up in Rome with a handsome young German doctor (possibly a Nazi spy, who eventually exhibits a rather keen interest in the Austrian's politics). The three of them head off on an alcohol-fueled tour of Northern Italy, during which romantic-triangular things happen. (One contemporary reviewer summed it up as "fundamentally the story of two very jealous men and one very pretty girl.") The author was himself a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, where he had been a freelance journalist; this was the first of apparently only two novels written by him in English.

Condition: Fair. 1936. First Published. 373 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Colour illustrated frontispiece. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light foxing overall.

8°, Leinen. Erste Ausgabe. 484 Seiten Einband leicht berieben, Schnitt etwas stockfleckig, Vorsätze mit Lichtschatten, sonst gut erhalten Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 456.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket illustrated by Rex Whistler (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is price clipped and a little rubbed. Slight foxing to page edges otherwise no damage, internally clean. Very good condition.

hardcover. EA. 484 S. 8°. OLeinen. Etw. berieben und angestaubt; Sternfeld-Tied. 137. Sonst guter Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Alcibiades Forsaken By Gods and Men' by Vincenz Brun. Putnam 1936 first edition. No inscription. Light foxing to the edge of the text block and preliminary pages. Very good in unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the base of the spine and a couple of small edge nicks. Slight age darkening to the spine and rear cover. A nice example of a scarce first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Alibiades Beloved of Gods and Men' by Vincenz Brun. Putnam 1935 first edition. No inscription. The book sits very slightly off square. Slight sunning to the boards. Very good in unclipped dust jacket with a couple of very light chips to the top edge of the front panel, light wear to the top of the spine with a couple of tiny nicks and slight age darkening to the spine and rear cover. A nice example of a scarce first edition.

Amst., Allert de Lange, 1936. 484 pp. Cloth, spine discol.German text.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. ix, 382pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Slight fading to spine and some wear to covers, slight spotting to fore-edge, otherwise very good. No dust jacket.

Erstausgabe. 8vo. 484 S. OLn. Einband leicht berieben, sonst gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Sprache: deutsch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. Light blue-grey cloth, ix, 382pp. Frontispiece. Name on ff/ endpaper, a small soil on outer margin on pp. 6, boards are somewhat sunned with bruising to top right corner, but o/w a very good copy in d/w. Jacket darkened and chipped with loss to spine ends and top edge of front cover but still a good cover. This historical novel is set in the backdrop of 5th Century Greece, following the life and adventures of Alcibiades, Pericles foster son.

Leinen, gebunden; gelber, blau geprägter Einband, blauer Kopfschnitt / Anz. Seiten: 484 / 13,5 x 21,3 cm / Zustand: gut, mässige Gebrauchsspuren; Buchblock etwas schief, Einband leicht berieben, stockfleckig und am Rücken aufgehellt, Schnitt stockfleckig, Kopfschnitt etwas bestaubt, Besitzereintrag mit Bleistift auf Vorsatz Sprache: de.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brun, Vincenz. ALCIBIADES: Beloved of Gods and Men. London: Putnam and Company, 1935. 8vo., 373pp. Map endpapers. Blue cloth gilt letter at the spine. A fine, fresh copy in a near fine or better dustwrapper. Rare as such. First Edition. An historical novel set in 5th century Greece. Like Graves' I Claudius, & Yourcenar's Hadrian, the historical novel has been given a new introspective, acceptance & respect amongst collectors & readers. An exceptional example.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 312; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Historical fiction translated from the German and set in Athens. The jacket illustration on this American edition is a good deal more racy than that on the British counterpart.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. First edition, [ not a later reprint ].Collation, ix,373pp. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt lettering. Top page edges dusty. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket rubbed, small section missing from back cover, section cut-away from flap, [ without loss on text ], nicked in places. Generally jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A nice copy. Size: 8vo.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. BRUN, Vincenz [70] pp. Putnam & Company Ltd 1936 8 3/4" x 6" 'We have before us no longer a mere spoilt, irresponsible darling of the Athenian people, but instead we follow the brilliant soldier, demagogue and philanderer of history through his amazing career of exile and intrigue and flaming victories.' Vincenz Brun's account of the latter years of the Athenian general and statesman Alcibiades, with a dust jacket by Rex Whistler. The tale takes in Alcibiades' movements through Sparta, Sicily, Syracuse, and Persia until his eventual death. The book is a sequel to Alcibiades. Beloved by Gods and Men (1935). With a matching dust jacket and frontispiece by Whistler. DESCRIPTION Vincenz Brun. Jacket design by Rex Whistler. Putnam. London. 1936. First edition. Hardback, octavo; blue cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. x, 373 pages. Frontispiece by Rex Whistler. English. 220 x 150mm. 0.7kg. [Whistler, Laurence & Ronald Fuller, 'The Work of Rex Whistler', 1960, no. 483] Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear to jacket with a couple of small nicks, toning to top edge and spine, price sticker to front flap; dustiness to top edge, some spotting to edges and prelims; a well-preserved copy.