Green Huntsman Lucien Leuwen by Stendhal (39 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition Thus. 318 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Heavy foxing to all surfaces. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Sticker to rear panel. Minor black marks to surfaces.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1961; glossy illustrated paper covers; wear and discoloration around edges; spine is creased; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 388 pages. From the collection of John Shy, professor at University of Michigan.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book One. Red cloth binding with green and gold spine. 388pp. Translated by Louise Varese. Light wear, spine color faded. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Edge wear and small chips to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Octavo hardback. 318 pp. Slightly rubbed at edges, near Very Good condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second. A fine second TWO VOLUMES. GORE VIDAL'S PERSONAL COPY. Stamped "From the library of Gore Vidal.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 388 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. Translated by Louise Varese. Smudge on bottom corners of pages. Light yellow from age. Clean text. Spine faded. Edges of spine lightly bumped. Solid book.

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Very Good. 1st printing thus. This is a large black softcover with illustrated cover, 1961, New Directions, 388pp, stitched binding for long life, first printing indicated on copyright page. Cover a little rubbed, no marks or writing. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

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Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Clean tight book but spine ends bit worn and bleached.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Wear to covers and spine, Covers a little grubby and marked, small paint flecks along spine, Corners bumped and worn, Top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, Internally in reasonable condition, pages crisp but some marks and small stains on edges, Faint water mark on tips of edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First British Translation. 318 pages. No dustjacket. Clean green hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page- edges lightly yellow o/w pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover, Book One of Lucien Leuwen, translated by Louise Varese; light fading, light shelf wear to exterior; cover cloth wearing at edges of spine; good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. Previous owner's name to half-title pages. Moderate scuffing to covers. Edges worn, corners creased. Stickers removed from rear covers. Grey and white lettering to spines and fronts of illustrated black covers. Clean, bright, tight. Book I, 388 pp with appendix (Translator's note), notes ; Book II, 415 pp with appendix and notes. Translated by Louise Varese. The Green Huntsman is a fascinating historical portrait of France in the early ninetheenth century reign of King Louis-Philippe. After the cataclysm of the Revolution and the glorious but shattered illusions of Napoleonic grandeur, France was atrophying under an induced conservatism while deeply rooted conflicts stirred below the surface of society. The Telegraph takes up the career in Paris of Lucien Leuwen, a fashionable young cavalary officer of "republican" leanings but aristocratic tastes. Through Lucien's eyes, Stendhal uncovers the moral decay of a society in which a failing government keeps itself in power by force and trickery, (taken from rear covers).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. A clean, tight copy in a good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges. Clothbound in green with the title in gold gilt to the spine. Text is clean and bright. Second impression 1951. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Octavo, 318+328pp, original cloth boards in dustwrappers, a very good copy. First edition of this translation by H.L.R. Edwards.

1st edn (1st vol 2nd printing). 2 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (a little scuffed at edges and lettering faded - otherwise G), no dustwrappers. Pp. xv + 318 [&] 327 (from Elizabeth Jane Howard's library with her bookstamp on front free endpapers and neat 1952 inscription on front free endpaper of vol 1).

1st ed. Dust jacket worn and chipped at edges with browned spine. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1950. New Directions. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Translated from the French by Louise Varese. 388 pages. hardcover. Cover art by Lustig & Connor. keywords: Europe France Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Besides his incomparable masterpieces, THE RED AND THE BLACK and THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA, Henri Beyle (who used the pen name 'Stendhal') left the draft for a third great panoramic social novel - LUCIEN LEUWEN. In France, this book is widely read in many editions, but up till now it has not been available in English - a grave injustice to American admirers of French literature, and one which New Directions is now proud to remedy with this superb translation of the work by Louise Varèse. The Green Huntsman, a complete novel in itself, is Book One of LUCIEN LEUWEN. Its sequel, entitled THE TELEGRAPH, will be published in matching format within the year. It has often been observed that Stendhal's heroes are partly himself. Julien Sorel and Fabrizio del Dongo have a similarly engaging blend of the innocent and the impetuous. To them Lucien Leuwen adds a further dimension - a quality of self-analysis which types him as a forerunner of the twentieth century hero who can never get far from the psychic mirror. Attractive, clever, a cavalry officer and very rich, young Leuwen had everything necessary for happiness and success - everything, except belief in himself and the social order of his time. It is the period of King Louis-Philippe, when an induced conservatism was atrophying France after the cataclysm of the Revolution and the glorious illusion that was Napoleon. Here is au historical novel which is the real thing - a portrait without equal of a time, a place, and the way conflicting groups of Frenchmen felt about each other and themselves. Lucien Leuwen comes down from Paris to serve with a regiment garrisoned in the provincial city of Nancy. There, though he is only a rich bourgeois, not of the nobility, he cleverly makes his way into society and dares to fall in love with the blue blood belle of the town. It is a love story of utmost fascination. Paul Valery has written that he learned much about the subtleties of love from reading LUCIEN LEUWEN. It is an experience which others may well share. For seldom has a deep passion of the emotions and the spirit been anatomized in such minute detail and with such psychological fidelity. The magic of France's greatest novelist transports us completely into the hearts of Lieutenant Leuwen and the beautiful Bathilde de Chasteller as their love affair follows its tortuous course. Yet how different is this historical novel from the plodding, heavy-handed productions of our day! For Stendhal was always the ironist. His sense of humor compelled him to see life in terms of comedy. Man struggles, woman suffers and the artist smiles. On every page of THE GREEN HUNTSMAN Stendhal is smiling his inimitable Gallic smile. And the reader's reaction can only be described as a kind of pernicious gaiety. Let us be lowbrow arid say it: here is a novel that bubbles like the best champagne. inventory #19592.

Zwei Bände. 318, (2) u. 327 S., OLwdbde. Ein Fußkapital etw. angestaucht. Die Schnitte u. einige Bl. stockfl., sonst gut erhalten. * Bd. II mit fünfzeil. eigenhänd. Widmung des Übersetzers H.L.R. Edwards an den Publizisten Hermann Stresau. Beiliegt eine gedr. Karte des Verlegers mit dem maschinenschr. Zusatz "With the compliments of Mr. Edwards.".

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. The first English translation of Lucien Leuwen in 2 volumes, Volume 1 UK reprint (2nd imp) Volume 2 1st UK edition, 8vo, 318pp, 327pp, translated by H R L Edwards, both volumes VG Copies in excellent DJs except for substantial age-darkening at spines Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First US Edition. First US edition, two volume hardcover set, the books have a light lean to their bindings, bumps with a touch of fraying to the cloth at their spine ends, strong fading to their heads, slight vertical ridges to their spines, and uneven toning to their end pages. Additionally, Book One has foxing to the edges of its text block. Overall, this is a solid, Near Very Good set in unclipped, Good+ dust jackets, which have bumps with short chips to their spine ends and corners, wear with small chips and tears to their edges, sunning to their spines, and rubbing with areas of smudging to their covers. The jackets are in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Translated by Louise Varese. A fresh, clean copy in magenta cloth, in a Fine black and white dustwrapper, unworn, not price-clipped (designed by Lustig and Connor). 388pp. English version only. Q04453.