Explorations by Highet Gilbert (16 results)

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. xii, 383 pages. Condition of the book is Very Good, covers slightly cupped, otherwise excellent. Dust jacket is Good, pieces missing at top and bottom edges of frint cover. STK.

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. DJ has edge wear om all folds.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Oxford University Press, 1971. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Essays include The Adventurous Traveler, One Man's Scotland, Peer Gynt, Secret Languages, The Personality of Joyce, Life of a Yogi, Ishmael, Miller's Tropics and others. Sturdy book, quality blue cloth, a red leaf design at top front left, bright gilt lettering on spine, 383 pages. DJ glossy blue background at top front and spine, purple at bottom front and spine with darker border between, a purple-tinted photo of Highet at top back. DJ has slight wear to front tip, several very tiny tears with slight wear at spine top edge, tiny tear at bottom front edge near spine, 1/4" tear at bottom back edge. Good + DJ/Very Fine book.

hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st ed. NY (OUP) 1971. Fine in dust wrapper.

First Edition. Uncorrected proof. Bound in publisher's plain mustard wrappers with a white label on the front. Crease to back cover, minor soiling, otherwise fine.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). 383pp. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Inscribed by the author on the fly leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. shelf wear on the jacket. mild foxing and usage markings. contents remain intact and presentable. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Sehr gut. XII, 383 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed jacket, slightly discolored binding, sticker and pencil annotation on endpaper, slight staining on bottom edge, otherwise good and clean. / Beriebener Umschlag, leicht verfärbter Einband, Sticker und Bleistiftanmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt, leichte Anschmutzung auf Fußschnitt, sonst gut und sauber. - Such uninhibited scribblers as Samuel Pepys and Henry Miller, such modern Ishmaelites, wanderers through worlds of mind and matter, as Joyce and Hemingway, such enigmatic figures as Salvador Dali, Erik Satie, and the yogi Param-hansa Yoganandathese and other equally striking personalities come under consideration in Dr. Highets new collection of essays about literature, language, and life. Gilbert Highet, scholar and gentleman, loves reading and remembers nearly everything he reads. He also likes to share with others his adventures and discoveries. Of the forty essays in this volumesome serious, some fanciful, some witty and criticalmore than half are devoted to people. With keen insight, Dr. Highet penetrates the writings and careers of these highly untypical characters, disclosing many of their innermost motives, often unknown to others and sometimes even to themselves. The powers and charms of forgotten booksbooks which time has obscured although they were successful in their dayare revived by Dr. Highet elsewhere in this collection. One of these is Edmund Gosses account of his weirdly eccentric childhood and his long struggle to break away from his pious and narrow-minded father; and another is the diary of Marjory Fleming, a little Scottish girl who died before she was nine, but whose comic and winning character still lives on in her misspelled pages. Other essays deal with that elusive and complicated phenomenon, language: the secret languages which have been used in the English-speaking world, the silent language of gesture and conduct, the peculiar forces that invade and alter speech, the hidden significance of names. The art of writing receives several amusing thrusts: Sense and Nonsense, Useless Speeches, The Ancient Mariners Association, Inc., even How to Torture an Author. In a study of State songs, Dr. Highet scrutinizes a proposed official hymn for New York State, and offers some memorably gruesome excerpts from the anthems of other States. Explorations is Gilbert Highets fifth volume of essays, of which the first, People, Places, and Books, has continued to find new readers for eighteen years. The others are A Clerk of Oxenford, Talents and Geniuses, and The Powers of Poetry. - Gilbert Highet is Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught for more than a generation. He has received the degree of D. Litt, from Glasgow University and from Oxford University, where he also taught. Dr. Highet is the author of a number of scholarly books: The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature; Juvenal the Satirist, acknowledged to be the authoritative work on this difficult poet; Poets in a Landscape, awarded the enit Prize by the Italian Government; and The Anatomy of Satire, for which he received the Award of Merit of the American Philological Association. He has contributed at length to both the first and the second editions of The Oxford Classical Dictionary, and a number of his English versions of Greek poetry appear in The Oxford Book of Verse in Translation. He is Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board of Horizon magazine; he has been a member of the Board of Judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club since 1954, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original cloth with dust jacket.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Jacket has average wear and tear, book is near VG with moderate wear, pages considerably yellowed with an occasional bit of foxing or minor blemish.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing on top text block edge and rear panel. Sunning on spine. Small open tears on panel corners and spine crown and heel. Small closed tear on bottom rear panel.