Search Results: Erasmus Of Rotterdam by Stefan Zweig

Viking Press, 1956. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Viking Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Prior owner's gift inscription at ffep. Foxed. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Viking Press. Hardcover. Good - Cash/No Jacket. General surface and edge wear to the cover. The corners have been bumped. Soiling to the cover. The binding has a slight tilt. Pages show reader and age wear. Previous owner's name on a bookplate on the inside of the cover and stamped on the inside of the back cover. The back cover is broken with exposed netting. Several cracks in the spine throughout the book. Pages are still secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

The Viking Press, 1934. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Viking Press, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 247pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slightly cocked spine, foxing on the page edges, and spotting thus very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with toning, short tears, and spotting.

The Viking Press, New York, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. Will list of illustrations. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece of Erasmus, drawn by Albrecht Durer in 1520; and there are another 11 illustrations throughout the text. Cream coloured cloth covered boards with red coloured decoration and author' initials to the front panel; and five red coloured stripes and red coloured titles to the back strip. Dark pink coloured tint to the top text edge. Biography of the 15th / 16th century philosopher, theologian, humanitarian and promoter of peace Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus known as Erasmus. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges a little fading of the back strip with a nasty brown stain present for three quarters of the back strip's link – please see photograph. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. A little offset tanning to the end… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. 1934. FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER AND DUSTJACKET. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Tan binding, red designs and lettering, red top edge, frontispiece, illustrations (plates), 247 pages. Deckled fore-edge. Dustjacket with price intact on flap. Condition of binding: Light soiling, age toning, Christmas (1934) inscription. Interior: Scattered pencil underlines (some appear to be erased affecting some words of text), else overall Very Good. Dustjacket: Piece missing from lower left corner of front panel, shelving wear, lightly age toned/soiled; else overall Fair. This is a biography of Erasmus (1469-1536), one of the most famous Humanist of his time - a great scholar of the northern Renaissance, a pacifist, a contrarian, and the compiler of the first edition of the Greek New Testament to be printed and distributed. He hated bigotry, desired freedom and independence, and was called "the man who laid the egg that Luther hatched." He is similar to the liberal minds… Read More

Slight toning, else content appears as unblemished with near fine, decorated, oatmeal colored, Cloth covered boards displaying minimal surface/edge wear, in DJ displaying major surface/edge wear as shown, with reinforced and repaired chipping and tears, as shown. Many of my books are from the 19th Century. Books were not written in at that time, instead an index card with info. Am enclosing the one found in this book for you. Enjoy. The greatest and most brilliant star of his century... His numerous works, written in Latin, sleep undisturbed upon the shelves of libraries; hardly a single one of them, though in their day they enjoyed worldwide fame, has any message to our epoch." - from page 3. Kirkus Review: The success of Marie Antoinette the brilliant genius of the biographer himself, entitle this book to a place on the Must list. But the subject matter of necessity limits his scope, for source material is inadequate, and Erasmus is still somewhat shrouded in mystery.… Read More

H. Good. The Viking Press, 1934. First edition. Spine is chipped at the top. Small tear to the bottom front DJ. DJ is water stained but not wrinkled. In mylar. Spine chipped

New York: Viking Press, 1934. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 247pp.; HB off-white w/red; rubbed,soiled&foxed;wear on corners; heavy fox,spine; bleed-thru&fox on endpapers&pastedwns.; info note tipped-in,ft.endpaper; PONstamp; clean,tight pgs. DJ lt.brwn.w/brwn.&red-portrait cover; heavy rub w/stains; wear on edges&corners; heavy sun on spine; chips&tears. Biography. some illus.