Villon, First Edition (726 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Lacks jacket. Adhesive residue from absent bookplate on front endpaper, a few light spots on rear board, some loss of gilt from spine titles. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 1937 Hard Cover. 365 pp. A 1937 biographical novel by American author John Erskine that chronicles the tumultuous life of the 15th-century French poet. The story depicts Villon as a brilliant but reckless figure, navigating poetry, romance, and criminal scrapes in medieval Paris. "John Erskine (October 5, 1879 - June 2, 1951) was an American educator and author, pianist and composer. He was first an English professor at Amherst College from 1903 to 1909, followed by Columbia University from 1909 and 1937, during his tenure he formulated the General Honors Course, which later founded the influential Great Books movement. He published over 100 books, novel, criticism, essays including his most important essay, The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent (1915).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 118 pages, red cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover edition with minor shelf wear and lslight soiling; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a good, edge-worn dust jacket with moderate shelf wear and chipping at the folds.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1965, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, book, cover and text in very good condition, binding tight and square, spine not creased, text clean and unmarked stamp of "board of Education " on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Translated by John Heron Lepper, including texts of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound, and others. Loose in binding, dust jacket tattered in Mylarprotector. Working copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good condition. First edition, first printing. No internal markings of any kind. Light soiling to edges of text block. Dust jacket lightly chipped.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First Edition First Printing. Publisher's yellow cloth. Boards with light discoloration; edges sound, corners sharp. Spine significantly toned; spine head and heel with minor bumping. Square spine; tight binding, no loose pages. Interior bright and clean Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Sutton Publishing, 2000. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with light shelf wear and previous owner writing on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with light edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. 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. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Original rust cloth boards, no dust jacket. Darkening to back strip.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Spine darkened due to sunning.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 355 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. B/W Frontis (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; rust c a/gilt titles; . 255 clean, unmarked pages' A critical examination of the 15th century French poet and his lyrical verse; , preface by Hilaire Belloc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/, 4" piece of rear panel gone, unclipped price, in mylar; rust c w/black spine titles; ; 166 clean, unmarked pages.

166pp. 8vo red cloth 1st Printing Ex-library, bottom corners discolored, else Near Fine, in near fine dj 0-374-37276-1.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-toned and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 240 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Parallel French text and English translation. These translations originally published: in 'The legacy, the testament, and other poems of François Villon'. London : Macmillan, 1973. Subjects; French poetry. Poetry in French, 1400-1500 - French-English parallel texts. Poetry in French 1400-1500 Translations. 3 Kg.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK, clean, solid, bright; 246pg pages; ENGLISH TEXT POETRY. .COVER SHOWS MAN STANDING NEXT TO A HANGING MEN & GALLOWS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stated First Edition. Moderate book wear; dust jacket is in tact, but has scuffs and edge chips all around exterior. An adequate study copy. Book.

First edition Ex-library copy with minimal library ID. Opening flyleaf removed. Otherwise clean fascinating text throughout. Hardcover. Nicely illustrated. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Bobbs-Merrill, 1937, stated First Edition, no additional state information. Novelization of Villon's life that includes English translations of his poetry. 365 pages. Condition: Fair: The spine is cocked with rubbing and some bumping on the ends. The front board shows rubbing and staining. The rear board shows rubbing and staining. The board edges show mild rubbing. The board corners show some bumping. The pages are white and unmarked, excepting small faint smudges, one each on the title and contents page. The ffep shows penciled price and state information. The rear end paper shows a small book store label: Book Art Shop, York, PA. The page edges show some dust darkening on the top and fore edges. The book is tightly bound. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair: Not price clipped ($2.50). The front shows some tearing, chipping and rubbing. The back shows some chipping and rubbing. The spine shows some edge tearing, chipping and rubbing. The front panel shows narrow soiling bands and pinching on the top and bottom edges. The back panel shows narrow soiling bands and pinching on the top and bottom edges. The jacket is enclosed in a new mylar cover. This book will be shipped after receipt of payment in an archival bag and bubble wrapped in a new box with a USPS tracking number. International buyers: books heavier than one pound (including this one) will require additional shipping charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 1972. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with library stamps to title page. Dust jacket is very good with left flap reinforced with white paper.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Thus. First Thus. Published by Princeton University Press, 1970. Octavo. Pictorial wraps. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Small previous owner name and date on flyleaf. Light smudge on top page ends. 952 pages. ISBN: 0691017654. 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. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First American Edition. Original price of $5.00 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket has a short archival repaired tear to heel minor moisture indication to same now protected with paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking, xv, [ ], 302 pages.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Paperback, VG. xxvi+228pp, b/w frontis, pages tanned & edges rubbed, otherwise a nice copy. Parallel French English text. Bantam Classics series. The poems of the French poet & vagabond François Villon [ 1431 - 1463 ] who whilst understanding the then popular courtly ideal, often chose to write about the lower end of life in Paris amongst the thieves & poor. 200 grams.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, fifth printing of this French/English soft cover of the Villon poems translated with an introduction and notes by the Pulitzer Prize winning American poet Galway Kinnell . Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, no indications of previous ownership.

First edition Near fine red decorative boards with light sunning to spine and clean text throughout. Tipped in "Wings" catalog issued from the Literary Guild.

First edition With large frontispiece map of Paris in 1530. Near fine maroon boards with paper label to spine and clean text throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 60pp; Stiff cardboard covers, covers slightly age-toned, slight foxing to endpapers, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Libretto for proposed opera about Francois Villon, "father of modern French poetry," as well as "thief, pander, liar, killer and calloused jailbird." The author (1891-1963) was a businessman, poet, playwright and politician who served as a New York State legislator representing the Bronx's 7th district from 1919 until he was expelled in 1920.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, this translation. Octavo bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Condition: minor wear & rubbing to binding; previous owner's inked name appears twice; else very good. Pages: xxxvi, 316.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Printing. Signet Classics CT288, First printing, mass market paperback, light bumps to corners, a few smoothed diagonal creases to rear cover, a touch of rubbing and soiling, a touch of edgewear, otherwise clean and tight, a Very Good + copy.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 29 Pages Included Are Three Of Wharton's Poems And His Translation Of A Number Of Villon's Poems. Inscribed by Author(s).

166 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.