ISBN: 9780393045895 - The Book of Love (38 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love.

Condition: acceptable.

Condition: good. Hardcover Book. Includes dustjacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red and black hardcover with gilt letting in very good condition, light rubbing to cover edges, small ink spot on cover, inside pristine. No dustjacket. A collection of love essays, poems, letters from literature and literary great writers. A never ending source for romantic writings.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hard Cover. Condition: vg+. Dust Jacket Condition: vg+. 1st ed. xxxiii + 827 pages including index; color il'd dust jacket. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. First Edition. 827 pages. Red binding with gold lettering on black spine and front cover. Bottom corner tip of back cover bumped a little. Dust Jacket has small tear at top of spine near back cover. Light wrinkling to jacket at top and bottom edges of front and back covers. Photos of book on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good condition. First edition, first printing. No markings to the text block. Previous owner's markings on the half-title page. Dust jacket price clipped. Top of text block lightly foxed.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.…

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 827 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition by number code.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New with new dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hb. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st. Hb. VG+/VG. 1st. 827pp. Index. Corners bumped, DJ: wear extremities, rubbing, light scratches.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. First Edition Thus. 1. Quarter bound black over red boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover, tan endpapers, a collection of over 200 of the world's finest writings about love including poetry, essays, letters and more. . Small penicl mark on rep, pages show very little shelf-wear, else, as new. Unclipped dust jacket bumped gently at edges. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 827 pp.…

black, red & gilt decorative hardbound 8vo. ~ 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. couple of tiny nicks on rear, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xxxiii+827p. permissions. index. poetry. philosophy. psychology. world literature. religion. theology. biography. mythology. folklore. theology. ~ "How do we define love? It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang. Perhaps this is why Cupid is depicted with a quiver of arrows, because love feels at times like being pierced in the chest. It is a wholesome violence . People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets. " ~Diane Ackerman, in the introduction. Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memories, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love. Here is a panorama of fine writing about love's many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicions, jealousy, and heartache. Here is a treasury of more than two hundred selections~ from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" to poems by John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, and Jorie Graham. There are excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, The Odyssey, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and Ironweed, as well as letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, and Henry Miller to Anais Nin. A delightful mix of the contemporary and the classic.…

Very good in lightly edgeworn, lightly rubbed dust jacket First Printing hardbound.

Condition: New. Wear on the top of the dust jacket. Clean book!NEW! hardcoverNew1998.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. LAVISH: FASCINATING: DELIGHTFUL: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. January 1998) w/ full no. line showing First Printing: First printing: NEW mylar-protected beautifully-designed-&-illustrated gloss-laminated color jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $29.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ library-durable black fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels beautifully-covered in scarlet paper & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine & gilt-engraved inside gilt-ruled title box at center of the front panel, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & uncreased spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE natural-wheat light-card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely-printed on EXCELLENT unblemished silk-finish archival paper * 5.75" x 9.25" x 1.75", 1.26 kg, xxxvi+828 (864) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, & memoirs, this LAVISH & FASCINATING anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime & obsession: love. How do we define love? "It feels like hunger pains, & we use the same word. Pang. Perhaps this is why Cupid is depicted w/ a quiver of arrows, because love feels at times like being pierced in the chest. It is a wholesome violence. . . . People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined w/ brocade cushions, & the sun never sets." So writes Diane Ackerman in her insightful introduction. Here is a panorama of fine writing about love's many moods & majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, & marriage to the tempests of suspicion, jealousy, & heartache. Here is a treasury of more than 200 selections from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" There are excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, Justine, The Odyssey, Lady Chatterley's Lover, as well as the letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, & Henry Miller to Anais Nin. General readers & scholars alike will delight in this anthology's mix of the contemporary & the classic. * ABOUT THE AUTHORS-EDITORS: DIANE ACKERMAN has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards & recognitions for her work, which include the best-selling 'The Zookeeper's Wife' & 'A Natural History of the Senses'. She lives in Ithaca, New York. JEANNE MACKIN is the author of 3 novels, most recently, 'Dreams of Empire'. She lives in Ithaca, New York. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our below-cost rates posted on request.…