Frederic Mistral (Over 1,200 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 1st Thus. Blue leatherette and red portraiture binding with gilt decoarations and title. Fancy spine.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 1st Thus. Blue leatherette and red portraiture binding with gilt decoarations and title. Fancy spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition, First Pr. Note: this volume has foxing due to being stored in an unheated summer room. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, xvii + 264 pages, gilt spine titles on purple cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat, hard cover with minor shelf wear; binding tight, paper moderately yellowed, BUT with light foxing to the cloth, fore-edges and endpapers. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket, with foxing at the margins, with original price present.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 3pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly, Volume IV, No. 1, May, 1872. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Minor wear & soiling to wraps & edges of text block. Text and images unmarked.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. book is tight with no markings, great copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914) was without a doubt the greatest modern Provençal poet and the foremost champion of his native Provence, the guiding spirit of a group of latter-day troubadours who revived and refined the language of Southern France as a literary medium. For this achievement and for his own poetry, Mistral was awarded the Nobel prize in 1904--characteristically, he gave the prize money to a folklore museum he had founded in Arles. Two years later, at the age of seventy-six, Mistral published his charming book of Memoirs, which is not so much an autobiography as a recollection of the life of ordinary country people in his early years, filled with delightful anecdotes, tales, folksongs, and poetry. Written in the relaxed conversational style of an elderly gentleman reminiscing about the old days, the Memoirs describe the circumstances of Mistral's childhood and early manhood - the Provençal landscapes, the seasonal life of the farm, the religious observances and seasonal festivities, many clearly of pagan origin. Although educated in the classics and law in Avignon and Aix, Mistral felt out of place among the French-speaking bourgeois and returned to his family farm to devote his life to writing for the simple farming people of his region. He soon began his long poem Mirèio (eventually transformed into the opera Mireille by Gounod), whose heroine was modeled on the peasant girls he saw and worked with daily. At the same time, he and several other young men came together to form the Felibrige, a society dedicated to restoring the Provençal language and preserving local traditions. The Memoirs concludes with the death of young Mistral's father and the success of Mirèio (1859), so quietly understated that one would hardly suspect that the author had been hailed as a major poet while still in his twenties. Mistral wrote his Memoirs in Provençal and himself translated them into French. A previous English translation (abridged and paraphrased from the French) was published in 1907 and has been out of print ever since. In his new translation, George Wickes of the University of Oregon has mined Mistral's monumental dictionary, Lou Tresor dóu Félibrige. This illustrated edition includes the original texts of Provençal songs and verse, with Professor Wickes' English versions printed en face.

No Binding. Condition: VG. T. Johnson, Engraver / Cayol, Photographer (illustrator). Sized 6.5 x 9.5 inches, engraved by T. Johnson from a photograph by Cayol, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXX, No. 3, July, 1885.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. Purple cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket. Corners very mildly bumped, previous owner blind stamp on half-title. Jacket has very slight edge wear near head/tail of spine. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. July, 1915, pp. 465-473, Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, thus is like a pamphlet, VG, 1st Ed.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. 515 Seiten; Das Buch ist ordentlich erhalten und kann altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen. In FRANZÖSISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 355.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First. First American printing, near fine purple cloth hardcover shows just a touch of wear, in near fine dust jacket that shows toning to spine, panels an dinner flaps. 264 pages with index. Still an attractive copy of these memoirs from the Noble winning French Provencal poet.

Condition: as new. Wie neu/Like new.

Paperback. Condition: New. Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914) was without a doubt the greatest modern Provençal poet and the foremost champion of his native Provence, the guiding spirit of a group of latter-day troubadours who revived and refined the language of Southern France as a literary medium. For this achievement and for his own poetry, Mistral was awarded the Nobel prize in 1904--characteristically, he gave the prize money to a folklore museum he had founded in Arles. Two years later, at the age of seventy-six, Mistral published his charming book of Memoirs, which is not so much an autobiography as a recollection of the life of ordinary country people in his early years, filled with delightful anecdotes, tales, folksongs, and poetry. Written in the relaxed conversational style of an elderly gentleman reminiscing about the old days, the Memoirs describe the circumstances of Mistral's childhood and early manhood - the Provençal landscapes, the seasonal life of the farm, the religious observances and seasonal festivities, many clearly of pagan origin. Although educated in the classics and law in Avignon and Aix, Mistral felt out of place among the French-speaking bourgeois and returned to his family farm to devote his life to writing for the simple farming people of his region. He soon began his long poem Mirèio (eventually transformed into the opera Mireille by Gounod), whose heroine was modeled on the peasant girls he saw and worked with daily. At the same time, he and several other young men came together to form the Felibrige, a society dedicated to restoring the Provençal language and preserving local traditions. The Memoirs concludes with the death of young Mistral's father and the success of Mirèio (1859), so quietly understated that one would hardly suspect that the author had been hailed as a major poet while still in his twenties. Mistral wrote his Memoirs in Provençal and himself translated them into French. A previous English translation (abridged and paraphrased from the French) was published in 1907 and has been out of print ever since. In his new translation, George Wickes of the University of Oregon has mined Mistral's monumental dictionary, Lou Tresor dóu Félibrige. This illustrated edition includes the original texts of Provençal songs and verse, with Professor Wickes' English versions printed en face.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Text in French. Harvard College Library Gifts and Exchange stamp in upper corner of inside front cover, with faint blind embossing in bottom corner of title page; never accessioned by library, no other library marks; top and bottom edges each have a pair of thin, short lines; small bit of minor soil on fore edge; tight, text clean. 213 p. + plates. [B2:3:5].

Soft cover. Condition: Good.

Textured Boards. Condition: Very Good+. Plates (illustrator). Former owner's faintly ink-stamped name and address on fep, otherwise textblock is clean and tight, blue end papers, color plates. Faint smudge on fore-edge pages. Bumped corners, embossed spine and front cover. 386pp.; Published under the sponsorship of the Nobel Foundation & The Swedish Academy. Includes: The Desert of Love by Francois Mauriac; Mireio, by Frederic Mistral; Excerpt from the City of Rome, by Theodor Mommsen. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Broché. Condition: Bon Etat. 221 pp. Format: 12x18.5 - Avec hommages de l'Auteur. S.d. (1930). Ex-libris.

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Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Edition 2015. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Edition 2015. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.