9780374156442 - Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy de Bloom, Prof. Harold (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. New York, 1979; red cloth covered boards; minimal shelf wear; illustrated jacket with top edge wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 240 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Foxing along the page block edges. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ shows scuffing, boards show scuffing, interior pages clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a minor skew to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends, faint foxing to the edges of the text block, and a publisher's remainder stamp to the tail. Overall, a solid, bright, Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has slight bumps to the spine ends and corners, mild sunning to the spine, rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers, and a shallow area of dark toning to the inside at the head of the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket is wrapped- minor wear, rubbed at jacket spine ends- jacket price not clipped. Red cloth boards. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. First Edition, First Printing. 240 pages. Signed.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the endpaper; and also SIGNED by the author on the title-page.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - signed with inscription and date by Bloom on front end paper - some foxing to closed page edge - otherwise dust jacket and cover fine binding strong contents clean - now in mylar cover - enjoy. Signed.

** SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING ** As New copy of this book, Fine Dustjacket. It was the best copy of this book that I could find. Pages appear unread and are bright with sharp page corners, with no foxing. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing on the extremities, boards are tight and clean, spine is solid. Protected in a removable mylar protective covering. Enjoy!!!

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 240 pages. Published in 1979. Rare Harold Bloom and David Lindsay collectible set. A very near-fine copy of "A Voyage To Arcturus" 1968 Ballantine First Softcover Edition, rare in its First Printing and in this condition, with a fine copy of "The Flight To Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy" First Hardcover Edition, signed by Harold Bloom. The author's debut and only novel. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Harold Bloom's "The Flight To Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy". An epic set in another world, where time has been arrested and where the conflicts of the ancient world still prevail. The animating idea of Gnosticism is the problem of evil because orthodox religion has never been able to address it satisfactorily. Bloom's insight - that what we have in America is an anti-materialistic, Gnostic religion (fully examined in his great book, "The American Religion") - is given narrative expression in his otherworldly fantasy. It is wholly, not just partly, inspired by David Lindsay's "A Voyage To Arcturus", and is his attempt to re-write the latter. Bloom subsequently reaffirmed the superior literary quality and achievement of Lindsay's novel as compared to his only literary endeavor. It is therefore fitting that a copy of "A Voyage To Arcturus" comes with and completes this set, for comparison and illumination. First published in 1920, it was an abject commercial failure that has since been re-discovered to ecstatic praise: "The greatest novel of the twentieth century" (Colin Wilson). Another great Gnostic novelist sums up Lindsay and Bloom succinctly: "How can there be such monstrousness in the world if a Good God created it? The answer is that there is not one Creator but two. The true God is concealed in His realm of light. The affairs of the material world are handled by the secondary Creator God, the Demiurge. The Demiurge is powerful and bars humanity's way to its true purpose. He is the jailer who holds us all captive in the prison of matter. Only escape from the prison of the body leads the soul into the otherworldly realm of light. At most, sparks of this light are scattered in the material world" (Vladimir Nabokov). An absolute "must-have" set for Harold Bloom and David Lindsay collectors. This copy of "The Flight To Lucifer" is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Harold Bloom. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a near-fine and rare copy of David Lindsay's "A Voyage To Arcturus" 1968 Ballantine First Softcover Edition/First Printing, upon which Bloom's novel is based. As far as we know, this is the only set available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare set thus. Two of the greatest literary figures of the Modern Age. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BLOOM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374156441. Signed by Author.