Search Results: The Masters and The Slaves by Gilberto Freyre

Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated. Mass Mkt Pbk, Glued bdg.. Acceptable. Acceptable. Heavy wear. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported

Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1964T. paperback. Good. 1.2000 in x 7.1000 in x 4.3000 in. Significant wear to covers, including rubbing, soiling, bumping, and heavy creasing on spine. Still, the book's binding is sound and the pages are clean and bright.

Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1964T. paperback. Good. 1.2000 in x 7.1000 in x 4.3000 in. extensive underlining throughout.

General wear, edge wear, some foxing, old price on the first page. Text unmarked. Still a decent reading copy.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.9000 in x 9.6000 in x 6.6000 in. Dust jacket is in good condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Second Edition. . Soft cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. lxxi, 537, xliv pages, indexed. Hardcover in yellow dust jacket. The jacket is worn and has some edge tears and chips. Jacket soiled from handling; spine is toned. Heavy damping on the jacket's rear panel. Rear jacket flap has a tear at the top edge. Prior owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (George Breathett, who was a professor at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina in the 1950s-1960s). Endpapers have toning. Text is toned. Includes fold out of the Big House of the Noruega Plantation.

New York: Knopf, 1964-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 432pp. Abridged from the second English-language edition (revised). Pen underlining throughout; spine crease; binding remains sound. Rubbing and soiling to wraps. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

UsedGood. Binding is tight, text block is sturdy and clean, boards straight, no highlights or underlining. Mylar covered dust wrapper shows some chipping/rubbing to edges, tanning to pages. Very well preserved example. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

NY:: Knopf,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam. Seventh printing of the second English-language edition, revised. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. .

Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam. Abridged from the Second English-Language Edition, Revised. This is July 1968 5th printing. Solid spine with no cracks or creases. Unmarked text. However the wraps are heavily scuffed and creased though the corners are only lightly worn. Page edges stained and smudged.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition, stated. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine, decoration blind-stamped to upper cover, uncut, lxxi pp, 537 pp, xliv pp. Near-Fine in a Very Good,mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: This is the long-awaited translation into English of Gilberto Freyre’s masterpiece, Casa-Grande & Senzala. With astonishing erudition, with a sense of style, and with a towering gift for gripping narrative, Senhor Freyre has applied all the modern techniques of social study to the remarkably successful melting-pot culture of “medieval” Brazil. He deals with race, climate, agronomy, sexual habits, architecture, art, religion, sorcery, literature, history, food, economics, and a thousand other factors that made the Brazil of today. In doing so, he throws blinding light into the color problem, the meaning of “civilization” and “culture,” the political and economic… Read More

New York: A Borzoi Book/ Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1971. 7th Printing Sept. 1971 . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): between 6" - 9" tall . Muriel Nasser (Jacket Design). 537 + pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. DJ shows wear in some places. Relevant newspaper article(s)/Clipping(s) included from previous owner.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; bound in black cloth covered boards. Some staining, scuffing and edge wear to exterior. Interior is evenly toned throughout. Creasing to first few end pages. Text is clean and unmarked. Includes large fold-out map. ; 8vo. 9 1/2"h x 6 1/2"w. First American Edition is stated.

Alfred A. Knopf. 1970. Hardcover. UsedGood. Hardcover; translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam; 2nd English-lan guage edition, revised; fading and shelf wear to exterior; gilt titles and illustration on spine, and embossed decoration on front cover; bumps to the lower corners; deckled page edges show some fading; otherwise in good cond ition with clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows fading, light so iling, and edge tears. .

Knopf - Borzoi Books. Used - Good. Good condition. Bookplate inside.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1963. 538 p. + XLIV (44), original green cloth binding. These are the five chapters of this most interesting work: 1) General characteristics of the Portuguese colonization of Brazil: formation of an agrarian, slave-holding and hybrid society. 2I) The native in the formation of the brazilian family. 3) The Portuguese colonizer: antecedents and predispositions. 4 and 5) The negro slave in the sexual and family life of the Brazilian. DJ has small tearon back. Clean. Later Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Knopf. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1970. 2nd English language edition,revised; First Printing. Hardcover. No defects to book or DJ. NO notes. No other markings of any kind. DJ not price clipped ($12.50) ; Ships in a box, USA ; 537 + index pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American edition. 8vo. lxii, 537, xliv pp. Black cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Slight shelfwear to boards. Jacket mildly worn at extremities, sublte toning, front panel lightly dust soiled, unobtrusive 3" tear to head of spine, price clipped. Small bookplate to front paste down endpaper, obscured by front jacket flap. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Some rubbing. Spine crease. Binding corner bump. VG. 2pp. plans Historical Sociology Knopf New York 1956 2nd Edition. orig. cloth 25x16cm, lxxi,537,xliv?, Several pages bear pencilled notes & underlinings. 2nd English-language edition, revised. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam. Contents: General Characteristics of the Portuguese Colonization of Brazil: Formation of an Agrarian, Slave-Holding and Hybrid Society; The Native in the Formation of the Brazilian Family; The Portuguese Colonizer: Antecedents and Predispositions; The Negro Slave in the Sexual and Family Life of the Brazilian.