Pretexts by Gide Andre (74 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Selected, edited, and introduced by Justin O'Brien. First UK edition, with Meridian Books slug blacked out on copyright page. No jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Spine tight, pages clean. Cover has edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library: Lib markings on title page, endpapers, and fore-edge of leaves; Pocket; Tape residue on boards; Cat number on DJ spine. Good reading copy. DJ rubbed. Couple tiny tears. Stain to top edge of leaves, does not bleed into or effect text. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Green cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket in a mylar protector.352 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Original cloth. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket with minor edge tears and slight edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1959 Meridian Books hardcover stated 1st (US) printing with illustrated endpapers. Sunning, soil/tanning and slight edgewear on dj, a bit of sunning and soil on cover, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight .

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Greenwich/Meridian, 1959, first printing. 8vo., 352pp. Very good in very good minus dust jacket with edgewear, closed tear along the rear inner flap fold.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. EX LIBRARY BOOK.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1959 Greenwich Editions, Meridian Books, Inc. Selected, edited, and introduced by Justin O'Brien. First Edition thus. "First Published by Meridian Books 1959; First Printing 1959" on verso. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has black cloth-covered boards with white cloth-covered spine and black and gold spine lettering. Gild initials "A.G." on front cover. Top page edges are black. Yellow endpapers illustrated with black facsimile manuscript. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends very lightly bumped. Edges of covers very lightly tanned. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 352 pages. Dust jacket has light surface and edge wear, with chips at the corners and spine ends; half-inch tear at the top of the front panel. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped; jacket spine lightly sunned. Essays translated from the original French texts by Angelo P. Bertocci, Jeffrey J. Carre, Justin O'Brien, and Blanche A. Price. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Edited by Justin O'Brien. Slightly smaller book, smooth white cloth spine and sides, dark gray cloth boards, very slightly browned at top edges, bright gilt initials on front right, bright gilt lettering and black lettering on spine, 352 lightly browned heavy pages. Essays on art, literature, theater, Mallarme, Wilde, Proust, Cocteau, Ten French Novels. Near Very Good. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. General wear, but clean and solid. ; 8vo; 352 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Ptg. White and black cloth covers, gilt initials on front right, very slightly rubbed, spine browned, inside covers and adjacent end papers have a facsimile signature. Light scratch down middle front. Essays on The Barres Problem, Mallarme, Wilde, Baudelaire, Germany, Proust, Cocteau letter, Myth, Guatier, Valery, Dadism and others. Good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location 43-d-46.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (US) in dust jacket. The book has mild sunning to the top edges of the front boards. The unclipped dust jacket has some mild soiling to the front and back covers; mild sunning to the spine.

hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Selected, Edited, and Introduced by Justin O'Brien. Translated by Angelo P. Bertocci, et al. 352pp. 8vo, two-toned cloth (worn and toned at edges), rubbed and edgeworn dust wrapper. N.P.: Meridian Books, Inc., (1959). A good copy in a good dust wrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Very good / good DJ has wear at the corners and a chip at the spine. A clever fellow that GIde.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy with a tiny chip to the spine top corner. In a Brodart cover, an attractive copy.

NEAR FINE IN A VERY GOOD D.J. TRANSLATED BY ANGELO P. BERTOCCI, JEFFREY J. CARRE, JUSTIN O'BRIEN, AND BLANCHE A. PRICE/ EDITED BY JUSTIN O'BRIEN BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT EXCEPT FOR A LIGHT PEN STROKE TO THE BOTTOM EDGE AND LIGHT WEAR TO THE BOTTOM FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER. D.J. HAS A 1/2" DEEP BY 1 1/2" WIDE CHIP AT THE BASE OF THE REAR PANEL WITH LIGHT WEAR AT THE CORNERS AND ENDS OF A SLIGHTLY COLOR-FADED SPINE PANEL, A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A NICE CLEAN, AND TIGHT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this translation. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, DJ unclipped but has dipping and rough spots at the top of the spine, no indications of previous ownership.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover. Name inside front cover. Pages light brown, ink on copyright page. Nice green cover. Selected, edited and introduced by Justin O'Brien.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Selected, edited, introduced, and translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. First printing thus. Slight spine slant, else very good in a very good (one short closed edge tear, fading along the spine) dust jacket.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (literature, morality, essays) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality; 0. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Very Good Greenwich Edition Original, 1959 hardcover First American Edition Text is clean, binding tight Dust jacket shows very minor wear A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. First edition in English. 8vo. Hard cover binding. A collection of Gide's essays. Previous owner name and note on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has light wear at extremities. Very good in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.…

First printing. 8vo, pp. 352. Selected, edited, and introduced by Justin O'Brien. Ex library, with rear flyleaf removed. VG.