Search Results: Letters from Minotavros Books

Swedan: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine. 6.2" x 8" 367 p.p. Swedish. Illustrated endpapers. Sporatic staining to dust-jacket, very light. Boards clean. Small stain to end of pages. Otherwise, a near fine copy of book.

Paris. No Binding. Near Fine. 4.5" x 7" Undated, ca. 1880s? Single sheet autograph letter, addressed to "Mon cher ami." Addressed from 98, Avenue de Villiers (Paris). Age toned, darkening to edges, fold line through center. Overall about fine given its age, with clear signature. Untranslated. Alexandre Dumas fils [1824-1895] was a French author and playwright, best known for his romantic novel La Dame aux Camelias, which was later adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 oper La Traviata. He was the illegitimate son of French novelist Alexandre Dumas and Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay, and he was later legally recognized by his father. 0.

New York: New Directions, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, tan paper boards. lii, 615 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine overall. Poet H.D. came to Freud at the urging of her companion, the novelist Bryher. H.D.'s letters portray a figure who is far from the disengaged clinician who has come to be associated with "classical" analysis. This volume includes a generous selection of Bryher's side of the exchange as well, plus sixteen letters by Freud to H.D., and a dozen more to Bryher, most of them published for the first time.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Full blue cloth. xiii, 362 pp. Bruise to top edge of front board. Fine in fine jacket.

New York: Penguin Press, 2007. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 706 pp. Some small spots of wear to extremities, fine overall.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo. [1940]. 192 p.p. Jacket chipped at edges with loss to top left front cover. Front and rear covers somewhat soiled. Boards lightly rubbed to edges, extremities with spine ends gently bruised. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Offsetting to endpapers. Else a very good copy. Inspirational letters and guidance for young boys.

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo. lx, 250 p.p. Cloth. Translated from German to English by Roscoe, David. Introductory essay by Zabriskie, Beverley. No marks to dust-jacket. Very slight rubbing to extremities. Interior clean, copy as new.

Liverpool: Samuel Drew, 1820. No Binding. Very Good. 8" x 10" 8" x 10" letter, folded into envelope with address panel, faded franking stamp. Addressed from The Caxton Printing Office, Liverpool, to William McKitrick regarding travel arrangements to visit him in Oldham. Age toned, some brown spotting, a few perforations at folds, wear from clue to verse else in very good condition. Samuel Drew (1765-1833), self-taught metaphysician, former smuggler and shoemaker, author of a successful 'Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul' (1802), and known as the 'Cornish metaphysician.'.

London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full dark green cloth. Top edge green. xiii, 209 pp., [11] pp. B&W photos, incl. frontis. Includes family trees of The British Royal Family from King George III, and the German Hohenzollern from King Frederick William III. Scuff to foot of rear board. Fine condition. This fifth volume of letters between Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter covers the period mid-1878 to 1885, and once again Roger Fulford's skilful editing graphically reveals the characters and courage of these two gifted women. The period covers years of personal sorrow for both correspondents and, internationally, the Zulu and Afghan Wars and the growing influence of Russia caused them grave concern.

Boston: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 198 pp. Fine condition. Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Intimate and candid in manner, they are largely concerned with the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and her death. Countless books have discussed the subject from a necessary distance, but this is the first time that Ted Hughes has given us his personal account.

New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo (imperial). Volume I: xxv, 596 p.p. Cloth. Slight rubbing to spines of dust-jacket. Inner flap price clipped. Spine ends of boards bumped. Small black markings to front and back boards. Hinges bound tightly. Foxing to top edge of pages. Otherwise clean, a fine copy of book. Volume II: xlvii, 716 p.p. Cloth. Small tears to corners of dust-jacket. Very tiny scratch to spine of dust-jacket. Not price clipped. Very light rubbing to edges of boards. Hinges bound tightly. Foxing to top edges of pages. Otherwise clean, a fine copy of book. Jung's work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. C.G. Jung was a famous psychiatrist and psychoanalyst that founded analytical psychology. He worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler and met the famous Viennese founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The two collaborated… Read More

Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo (small). 157 p.p. Cloth. Frontispiece of author. Loss to edges of dust-jacket. Tearing to dust-jacket spine. Light rubbing and discolouration to extremities. Otherwise clean, a very good copy of book.

Toronto: NC Press Limited, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full tan paper boards. 159 pp. B&W photos in text. Spine slightly tilted. Light toning to edges. Acid migration from removed sticker to ffep. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities, damp stained to foot of front cover (visible to reverse). Near fine overall.

Munchen Und Leipzig: Georg Mueller, 1908. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Half paper vellum, blue paper boards, tan paper spine label with gilt lettering. 336 pp. [2] B&W plates, incl. frontis. Spots of staining to boards, some darkening to edges. The collection of love letters of French salon holder Julie de Lespinasse, who is well known for two tragic love affairs with the Marquis de Mora and Comte de Guibert.

Toronto: A Douglas Gibson Book, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black cloth, xiv, 413pp. About fine. "The letters of Robertson Davies are an unmitigated delight." London Free Press.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Bollingen Series XCIV. Full grey cloth. xlii, 650 pp. Eight plates in text, incl. one fold-out plate. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Creasing to spine. Foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket chipped to extremities, perforations to fore edges, a few short and long tears, general rubbing.

New York: Ives Washburn, Inc, 1944. Hardcover. Fair/Fine. Files, Bek. 8vo. 116 p.p. Small nicks throughout top and bottom edges of dust-jacket. Slight scratching to back of dust-jacket, not affecting text. Slight discolouration to edges of boards. Otherwise clean.

London: Peter Owen Limited, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. xxii, 422 p.p. Cloth. Illustrations. Discolouration to spine ends and corners of dust-jacket. Tears to ends of dust-jacket. Bumping to boards, extremities. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Notes in blue ink to head of rear pastedown. Price clipped. Overall a very good copy.

Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Augustan Reprint Society Number 192. Orig. tan card wrappers, stapled binding. xii, 27, 7-26 pp. Fine.

Venezia: Nella stamperia Baglioni(, 1721. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Full limp vellum, lettered spine, [5] 300, [6], 195, [7]. In two parts, containing separate title pages and pagination.Library stamp of the Diocesan Library of St. Louis on front pastedown, with shelf labels on board and spine; occasional foxing and light damp staining to leaves, vellum slightly lifted from front endpaper; shelf number in white at foot of spine with small chip, though otherwise very good. Saint Teresa of Avila [1515-1582] was a Spanish noblewoman and Carmelite nun. Her writings are regarded for her mysticism, philosophical thinking and practice of Christian meditation. In 1559, Teresa claimed to receive manifestations of Jesus that lasted a period of two years. Avila was influenced by St. Augustine's Confessions, and through the Spanish Inquisition she was a monastic reformer.