chamson andre wyck brooks (10 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Very good clean tight copy. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good DJ. First UK Edition. 128 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Printed In Yellow. First Uk Edition. Very Good, Light Wear At Corners With Some Browning To Endpapers And Small Foxing Spots On Foredge Of Page Block, In Very Good Yellow And Black Dj, Browning To Spine And Edges, A Few Short Tears At Ends Of Spine, A Few Minute Losses At And Around Top Of Spine, And Small Brown Tape Interior Reinforcement At Foot Of Spine. Entire Dj Is About 1/16" Shorter Than The Book, Probably Trimmed Long Ago. "The Story Of A French Conscientious Objector Of 1914. Who Escapes Into The Mountains, Where He Lives For Over Three Years, Alone And Amid Terrible Privations. He Is Eventually Caught And Imprisoned, But Not Before He Has Become An Almost Supernatural Figure In The Eyes Of His Folk. It Is Based Upon An Actual Case Now Fast Becoming A Legend. Roux The Bandit, Though Essentially A Work Of Art And Not In Any Sense Propaganda, Embodies The Only Kind Of Pacifism Which In The End Can Prevail- The Pacifism That Knows That War Is Spiritually Wrong And Not Merely Wrong Because It Is Horrible" [From The Dj]. Per Wikipedia, Chamson (1900 - 1983) Was A French Archivist, Novelist And Essayist. Chamson Was The Founder-Director Of The Journal Vendredi And A Museum Curator Before The Second World War. As An Activist In The Popular Front , He Founded In 1935 With Jean Guehenno And Andree Viollis The Weekly Friday. During The Spanish Civil War , He Joined The Side Of The Republicans . After The War He Was On The Editorial Board Of The Magazine Europe At The Time Of Its Revival In 1946; He Was A Curator At The Musée Du Petit Palais, And (From 1959 To 1971) Director Of The Archives De France. He Was President Of Pen International, The Worldwide Association Of Writers, From 1956 To 1959. He Was Elected To The Académie Française On 17 May 1956 By 18 Votes - Including Jules Romains, André Maurois And Georges Duhamel - To Succeed Ernest Seillière. In 1958, He Was Elected Mainteneur Of The Académie Des Jeux Floraux. A Protestant, Generous And Sociable In Both His Life And His Writing, He Set Most Of His Tales In The Cévennes, His Birthplace (Roux Le Bandit, 1925; Les Hommes De La Route, 1927; Le Crime Des Justes, 1928; L'auberge De L'abîme, 1933; La Neige Et La Fleur, 1951; La Tour De Constance, 1970). He Was The Father Of The Novelist Frédérique Hébrard.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine DJ. First UK Edition. 128 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Printed In Yellow. First Uk Edition, With Gollancz Review Slip For Oct. 7, 1929 Publication. Fine With Slight Browning To Endpapers, In Fine Yellow And Black Dj, Two Tiny Closed Tears At Bottom Edge Of Spine Panel, Unfaded And Unworn. "The Story Of A French Conscientious Objector Of 1914. Who Escapes Into The Mountains, Where He Lives For Over Three Years, Alone And Amid Terrible Privations. He Is Eventually Caught And Imprisoned, But Not Before He Has Become An Almost Supernatural Figure In The Eyes Of His Folk. It Is Based Upon An Actual Case Now Fast Becoming A Legend. Roux The Bandit, Though Essentially A Work Of Art And Not In Any Sense Propaganda, Embodies The Only Kind Of Pacifism Which In The End Can Prevail- The Pacifism That Knows That War Is Spiritually Wrong And Not Merely Wrong Because It Is Horrible" [From The Dj]. Per Wikipedia. Chamson (1900 - 1983) Was A French Archivist, Novelist And Essayist. Chamson Was The Founder-Director Of The Journal Vendredi And A Museum Curator Before The Second World War. As An Activist In The Popular Front , He Founded In 1935 With Jean Guehenno And Andree Viollis The Weekly Friday. During The Spanish Civil War , He Joined The Side Of The Republicans. After The War He Was On The Editorial Board Of The Magazine Europe At The Time Of Its Revival In 1946; He Was A Curator At The Musée Du Petit Palais, And (From 1959 To 1971) Director Of The Archives De France. He Was President Of Pen International, The Worldwide Association Of Writers, From 1956 To 1959. He Was Elected To The Académie Française On 17 May 1956 By 18 Votes - Including Jules Romains, André Maurois And Georges Duhamel - To Succeed Ernest Seillière. In 1958, He Was Elected Mainteneur Of The Académie Des Jeux Floraux. A Protestant, Generous And Sociable In Both His Life And His Writing, He Set Most Of His Tales In The Cévennes, His Birthplace (Roux Le Bandit, 1925; Les Hommes De La Route, 1927; Le Crime Des Justes, 1928; L'auberge De L'abîme, 1933; La Neige Et La Fleur, 1951; La Tour De Constance, 1970). He Was The Father Of The Novelist Frédérique Hébrard.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 128. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered green on spine. Pacifist World War I novel. Slight browning to endpapers, otherwise very good+ in very good+ dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 246pp. Green boards, gilt titles on spine and front board. Tight, clean copy, map endpapers, pages toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, original $2.00 price on front flap. Chamson's novel of the tensions between life in the city and life in the town, at a time of change in France. Handsome copy, foreword by Ernest Boyd, translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American edition. About fine in attractive, vry good dust jacket with a large but closed tear on the rear panel. Novel by a young Frenchman who apparently attracted some attention in the U.S. for his modernist novels. Scarce in jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American edition. Bookplate on the first blank page, light wear to the spine ends, about fine in a near very good dustwrapper with soiling, and several modest chips and tears. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Novel by a young Frenchman who apparently attracted some attention for his modern novels in the U.S. Scarce in jacket.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. 1st Printing. 128pp. Black cloth with clean yellow dust jacket. Has Gollancz Review slip for Oct 7, 1929 publication. Story of a World War 1 French conscientious objector. Clean with no marks and unclipped dust jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.