Search Results: from centaur to cross by maurice de guerin

NY: Covici-Friede,, January 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

New York: Covici Friede Inc., 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt on spine. Spine is darkened and boards show light spotting and fading. No signatures or personal bookplates present. Rear pastedown has small book shop sticker in corner. Binding good, no hinge cracks, no torn or loose pages. Pages toned due to age with a few smudge prints noted. First edition thus. Sections of pages are still uncut throughout the book. Top edge dyed gray.

New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1929. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [vi], 214 pages of text. Hardcover binding is moderately darkened on the spine, with minor shelfwear and rubbing. No dustjacket. The front endpaper is creased. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of FROM CENTAUR TO CROSS, THE UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE & THE CENTAUR by MAURICE DE GUERIN, translated by H. Bedford-Jones, with an Introduction and Notes by Gilbert Chinard. Out of Print, Rare. While the above title appears on the Title Page, the ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET carries a different title: THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MAURICE DE GUERIN (with the "CENTAUR" complete). That same jacket tells us that the packet of letters was discovered in the smoking room of a Westbound Ocean Liner. 6" x 9", 213 pages, with ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. No subsequent printing number, hence a first. Overall book condition is VERY GOOD. Pages = Very Good Plus, with mild tanning to all, owner name and address plus old pricing info on first fep, else no marks, tight, square, clear. Cover (orange cloth boards small black particulars on spine only) = Very Good, with moderate rubbing front and back, else clear,… Read More

New York: Covici Friede, 1929. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good plus with minor spottiness or offsetting to endpapers, jacket very good with light soil and fading.

New York: Covici Friede. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding slightly rubbed at spine ends, corners; a bit of pale spotting along top board edges; owner's name inked on front endpaper; leaf edges lightly foxed/smudged, else very tight & clean. Dj rubbed at edges; spine ends, corners chipped; backstrip foxed; surface smudged, jacket now protected in clear cover. ; Trans. from French by H. Bedford-Jones; intro & notes by Gilbert Chinard. ; 8vo; 213 pages .

New York: Covici Friede. 1929. Endpapers foxed, very light wear, no dj, else near fine; hardback .

Covici, Friede, New York: 1929., 1929 214 p. 225mm. Original full green cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket, chipped and stained with old tape repairs. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. Mr. Bedford-Jones discovered these letters in the smoking room of a west-bound ocean liner. BIO BX 2 0.0. 1st Edition.. Hardcover.

Covici-Friede, 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. DJ spine chipped, else a better than very good, clean and unmarked copy. Out of print and scarce.

New York, NY: Covici-Friede, 1929. Book. Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Covici-Fried, 1929. First edition. 8vo. Dark navy-blue cloth with embossed lettering on spine, rough-cut pages, 214 pp. This manuscript was not found in a bottle; it was literally found on the ocean. The discovery of a little packet by a well known American writer looking for stamps amid a mass of old letters; the deciphering of these letters, creased, worn in parts, and hardly legible, brought about the realization that they contained priceless material for the life history of one of the greatest writers of French prose, Maurice de Guerin. An intriguing and revealing look at de Guerin. Spine sunned, rubbed at top and bottom, repaired. Corners rubbed, minor foxing on endpapers. Most of the pages uncut, appears unread. Good..

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1929 1st edition. Translated by H. Bedford-Jones. 8vo. Corners slightly bumped, some wear along spine. A fine copy. Correspondence from the last ten years of Guerin's life and the story, The Centaur..

New York: Covici Friede 1929. (Hardcover) 214pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illustration, notes. The covers are lightly wrinkled, the dust jacket is price-clipped, edgeworn and lightly soiled along the spine. "This manuscript was not found in a bottle; it was literally found on the ocean. A well known American writer looking for stamps discovered a little packet in the smoking-room of a Westbound liner. The deciphering of these letters revealed priceless material for the life story of one of the greatest writers of French prose - Maurice de Guerin". Includes The Centaur. Identified on spine as The Life and Letters of Maurice de Guerin with the Centaur. Translated by H. Bedford-Jones. Introduction and notes by Gilbert Chinard. Locale:. (Biography, Authors, Biography, Correspondence, Letters).

Covici-Friede. New York. 1929.. pp. (viii), 214, (ii). Original cloth with good dust wrapper, the cloth scuffed around the edges, front joint weak, overall a good copy.

New York: Covici, Friede, Publishers, 1929. First American edition, with the bookplate of the translator on the front pastedown and his signed manuscript note on the front endpaper "Two copies uncut and bound by hand, of which this is No. I / Paris 1929 / A Little Gift for the Shining Lady". 8vo. (6), 213, (1) pp. Correspondence in French and English on facing pages; "The Centaur" is in English. Guerin's "death-bed letter" (he actually died several years later), dictated to his friend Barbey d'Aurevilly and signed by Guerin, is affixed to an internal page in its chronological sequence. Maurice de Guerin (1810-1839) was a French Romantic poet who achieved cultish admiration as one of the earliest practitioners of the poem in prose; with his friend Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889), he would have a decisive impact on the later "Decadent" writers. Very good untrimmed copy. Three-quarter black morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt spine title, top edge gilt. (#6162).