Phaedra by Robert Lowell (30 results)

Hardcover. Clean pages, tight binding, clean boards, dust jacket splitting at spine, original dust jacket over cloth boards Clean pages, tight binding, clea original dust jacket over cloth.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Parker, Frank (illustrator). 213 pp. Split to webbing before TP, else very good or better. Robert Lowell has translated Racine's Phedre, and Jacques Barzun has Translated Beaumarchais's Figaro's Marriage. ''Hippolytus: What now? His anger turns my blood to ice. / Will Phaedra, always uncertain, sacrifice / herself? What will she tell the King? How hot / the air's becoming here! I feel the rot / of love seeping like poison through this house.'' ''Figaro: I mean, English is a wonderful language--it takes but a few words to cover a lot of ground. With 'God damn,' in English, a man need lack for nothing. Do you want to sink your teeth into a nice juicy fowl? Go into a tavern and make this gesture (turning a spit) and say 'God damn!' The waiter brings you a joint of salt beef with no bread--it's marvelous! Do you want a good glass of burgundy or claret--just do this (drawing a cork) 'God damn!' and they bring you a a foaming tankard of beer--it's perfectly wonderful! Should you meet one of those attractive ladies who go trotting about with their elbows pulled back and their hips swinging a bit, just put your finger delicately on your lips--'God damn!'--and you get slapped as if by a stevedore. That proves they get your meaning. The English people, it is true, use a word or two more, here or there in conversation, but it is clear that 'God damn!' is the core of the langauge--so if your only reason for leaving me behind in Spain is--''.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. A rare publisher's review copy with inserted card. Dust jacket has scuffs, soils and edge chips; normal book wear, including some scuffs and edge wear. 213 pages. Book.

Condition: Good. 1961. First Published in GB. 180 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. French and English text. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

First edition. 213 pp. Previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with one short closed tear and wear to base and crown of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in good dust jacket. Pages light brown. Rear dust jacket and dust jacket flaps yellowed. Small tears on edges of dust jacket spine. Clean cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Translations by Robert Lowell (*Phaedra*) and Jacques Barzun (*Figaro's Marriage*). Top edge lightly soiled, small label removed from rear pastedown, a very good or better copy in a very good or better dust jacket with modest age-toning and edgewear. New translations of classic works by Racine and Beaumarchais.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1961. Hardcover, 213 pp. The two well-known french plays, in English, with commentary by Lowell and Barzun. Very good. Spine titles faded. No jacket. Previously owned by film director George Cukor; his bookplate is on front pastedown. See photos.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1961 used copy with some wear to covers, sunning to pages ,no markings/stains or stickers. fast shipping with tracking number.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. ISBN . Hardback. First printing thus. Very Good condition copy with slight fade to edges of boards and top page edge; slight wear to corners and edge; slight dustsoiling overall. Very Good condition dustjacket with minor wear to corners and edges; slight fade to spine; minor browning overall; $5.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described. No Signature.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:0571097065.

First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 211 pp. Two great French plays rendered into English by Lowell (Racine) and Barzun (Beaumarchais), respectfully. Near fine in a moderately worn, complete dust jacket, a couple of short tears and wear at the edges, the white back panel lightly soiled. Overall easily very good.

Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition. First British Paperback Edition, First Impression. Very Fine in printed coated wrappers. 90pp. English only. Q18700.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by the previous owner on the inner board. Publication of 90 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing on the first and last pages as well as on the inner part of the jacket. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 213. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Cover slightly scuffed at edges, pp. 57-58 with a small tear and scuff, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat soiled and scuffed, slightly chipped dj. Lowell's rendition of Phaedra; Barzun's of Figaro's Marriage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Later Printing. Published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. Octavo. Hardcover. Pink topstain. Book is very good. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with edgewear and nicks. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Farrar Strauss Cudahy, 1961. Octavo. Brown cloth over brown boards stamped in blue with gray endpapers and orange topstain. Book is very good. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Check mark on top right corner of flyleaf and small previous owner name/date on half title page. Light toning to page ends. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, small tears, and light toning. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 214 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Owner name, boards with a touch of edgewear, near fine in a very good jacket with slight tanning to the spine and folds, a few small soil spots on the rear panel and mild edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York, 1961. First edition. First printing. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. A clean copy, which has some fading to top painted-edge. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a few minor closed tears. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Lowell translates the Phaedra into verse. Barzun translates Figaro. Lit-R.

Quarto stapled light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Top corner of front board lightly bumped, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, and moderate edgewear with a short tear on the rear flap. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 22pp. Stapled wrappers. Light foxing on page edges, near fine. Sheet music. Vocal Score.

Condition: Fair. 1963. First Published in England. 90 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Stickers to spine. Moderate tanning and wear marks to jacket. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. [2] 90. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. A crisp, clean copy, with some toning to jacket, especially spine, a closed tear to spine, and a touch of light wear and chipping to edges. Near fine. Robert Lowell was an American playwright with much of his work focusing upon family, the past and the present.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FRANK PARKER (illustrator). 1st Edition. DJ, BACK FLAP WRINKLED.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Scarce title in this condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Tiny owner's name, barely noticeable on the black endpaper, else near fine in lightly spine toned, near fine dust jacket. Signed by Robert Lowell on the titlepage. A very scarce title to find signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. Probably an advance copy of Lowell's translation, with rubberstamped copyright statement. Near fine in wrappers. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. Inscribed by Lowell using his nickname: "For Eleanor and Peter with love from Cal. Robert Lowell. New Year's 1962." Lowell and Taylor were very close friends and colleagues and were influential to each other's careers. They both attended Kenyon College where they were roommates and studied under Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom.