The Comic Spirit: Boccaccio to Thomas Mann
por Schilling, Bernard N
- Usado
- Perto de Excelente
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Perto de Excelente/Near Fine
- Livreiro
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 238 pp, acknowledgments, introduction, The Fat Abbot; Fielding's "Preface" and Joseph Andrews; Slipslop, Lady Booby, and the Ladder of Dependence; Mr. Micawber's Difficulties; Mr. Micawber's Abilities; Aristocracy and the King of Schnorrers; Manasseh's Learning and Triumph; "Tranen-Trieschke...Grunlich...Permaneder"; Hanno, Kai and the "Oil of Sorrow"; index. First Edition, 1965. "The author brings together amusing characters from the diverse pens of Boccaccio, Fielding, Dickens, Zangwill, and Mann, each an illustration of "tolerant laughter." These classic authors were to discern the many ways in which men are weak and absurd, always concluding with a sympathetic rather than a sharply critical attitude." from the jacket flap. Price clipped with a 1/4" closed tear to top edge rear panel dj. Foxed along top text block edge, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Maroon cloth..
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 000184
- Título
- The Comic Spirit: Boccaccio to Thomas Mann
- Autor
- Schilling, Bernard N
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Near Fine
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Wayne State University Press
- Local de publicação
- Detroit
- Data de publicação
- 1965
- Palavras-chave
- LITERARY CRITICISM EUROPEAN WRITERS HUMAN COMEDY FICTION BOCCACCIO GIOVANNI DICKENS CHARLES FIELDING HENRY ISRAEL ZANGWILL MANN THOMAS
- Catálogos de livreiros
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- 8vo
Termos da venda
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Sobre o Vendedor
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sobre West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
