Hermit by Ionesco Eugene (27 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 20 X 20 X 20 inches; 169 pages; Copyright page does not state edition or printing. Likely 1st edition judging from date. Foxing (light) throughout the book. Fraying to board edge. Date written inside front cover board. Yellowing to pages. Otherwise in good condition. No writing or major blemishes.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Translated from the French by Richard Seaver. BOMC paperback edition 1987, 169pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in As New condition. "In this his only novel, the celebrated dramatist has chosen as his main character a man who is both utterly banal and yet strangely touched with grace, a lowly clerk who is nonetheless prey to luminous visions. At thirty-five he quits the 'rat race' thanks to an unexpected inheritance and devotes himself to his secret passion: observing and meditating on the human condition. 'It may well be,' wrote the French critic Francois Nourissier in Le Point, 'that in a few years we will come to realize that THE HERMIT is one of the essential works of our time, probing and detailing the illness of our century.'" [publisher copy] "Ionesco's almost unique ability to turn reality into phantasmagoria and nightmare, with no warning, gives readers the same chilling sensation in his first novel that theatergoers have been getting for some time from Rhinoceros, The Lesson and The Chairs."--The New Republic. "Ionesco the novelist, like Ionesco the dramatist, is artful and surprising . . . his manner crystalline, his mind prismatic."--The New Yorker. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Translated From the French by Richard Seaver. Name of the previous owner. Publication of 169 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and minor chipped pieces. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing on the block of the book. Internally the pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clean bright copy, jacket in archival wrap. Blank ffep bears the stamp of the famous Shakespeare and Company Kilometer Zero Bookstore in Paris.

Condition: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First English language edition. Translated from the French by Richard Seaver. Page edges foxed, modest foxing on the binding and the first and last few pages, thus very good in a toned and lightly rubbed, very good dust jacket with a couple of small bumps and tiny tears, and a crease on the rear flap.…

paperback. 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.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Binding tight. Pages unmarked and barely aged. Cover has minimal shelf wear and slight sunning to spine, but is otherwise in fine condition. Spine remains straight and uncreased, though there is a small ridge along the front hinge.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Viking, 1973. First American edition. First printing (no additional printings listed). Hardbound. Very good in a very good jacket. Bruised top corners; foxing to top edge; jacket has a few small closed tears and creasing, with an old price sticker from the Yale Co-op on the front flap. Jacket price of $6.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Octavo, 169 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards. "The Hermit," translated from the French by Richard Seaver, is Ionesco's first and only novel, written late in his career by the Romanian-born French absurdist best known for his plays.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. the jacket is somewhat worn about the edges and slightly scuffed, has only small tears at extremeties. corners slightly bumped, but pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.…

First Edition. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges show a suggestion only of foxing; minor library marks remain. Remains well-preserved overall, with main text strong and clean. Physical description; 169 pages ; 21 cm. Translated from the French (Le solitaire). Subjects; French fiction 20th century Translations into English. Existentialism Fiction. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges show a suggestion only of foxing; minor library marks remain. Remains well-preserved overall, with main text strong and clean. Physical description; 169 pages ; 21 cm. Translated from the French (Le solitaire). Subjects; French fiction 20th century Translations into English. Existentialism Fiction. 1 Kg.…

hardcover. Condition: fine. very good(+). First. Translated by Richard Seaver. Small 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Viking, (1974). First American Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. DJ in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 208 x 142 mm), 169, [1] pages, in quarter cloth over boards, titles to spine, in a price-clipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). Ionesco's only novel, originally appearing in French as Le Solitaire. Office clerk inherits a lot of money, quits his job, moves to the suburbs, has affairs, and worries about death. Translated from the French by Richard Seaver. CONDITION: Heavy rubbing to edges of rear board but internally bright and clean. The price-clipped dust jacket has some light toning and soiling as well as a pinprick hole in the fold of the front flap. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Ex library. One stamp and the fep has been removed. Light general signs of use. D/w (price-clipped) is lightly rubbed to top edges. Good+ Hardcover in VG+ d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In his only novel, the celebrated dramatist has chosen as his main character a man who is both utterly banal yet strangely touched with grace, a lowly clerk who is none-the-less prey to luminous visions. At 35 he quits the rat-race thanks to an unexpected inheritance and devotes himself to his secret passion: observing and meditating on the human condition. It may well be wrote the French critic Francois Nourissier in Le Point, that in a few years we will come to realize that The Hermit is one of the essential works of our time, probing and detailing the illness of our century (publisher blurb). First UK edition. Good condition for its.…

paperback. Condition: As New.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

paperback. Condition: new.

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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Translated from the French by Richard Seaver. Small octavo. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Slightly sunned spine, else near fine. Signed twice by the author, once on the half-title and again on the title page. The playwright's only novel, about an unnamed clerk who receives a large inheritance which allows him to quit his job and meditate on the human condition.…