harvard classics prefaces prologues famous de eliot charles editor (20 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.23.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. A collection of prefaces and introductions to famous books by noted authors such as Caxton, Copernicus, Raleigh and many others. The 39th entry in The Five-Foot Shelf of Books series, "The Harvard Classics", edited by Charles W. Eliot, who has supplied introductory notes. With sepia frontis portrait of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards with the Harvard crest in gilt on the cover; gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations and grey-green topstain. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With mild sunning to spine, partial splits near front and back of volume, slightly bowed boards and with chafing to cloth at spine ends. Though damaged, the book remains intact and fully readable.; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); 462 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Registered Edition.

hardcover. Condición: As New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in green boards with gilt border and design. deluxe edition. 437 pp. frontis of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine. No dustjacket, as issued. Includes Caxton, John Calvin, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton among others.

Leatherette. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Frontispiece Ilustrador. De Luxe Edition. Dark green leatherette binding with gold print and design on spine. Cover has gold decorative banding and Harvard logo in center.Light rubbing near top edge of rear cover. Yellow end papers. Tight, sound and unmarked. 437 pages. If binding is of interest, we have matching books, same design. Size: 5 3/4 X 8 1/2.

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket as Issued. Harvard Classics Collector's [Registered] Edition. Pages [437] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square; gold satin ribbon bound-in page marker, gilded top page edges, one very small and faint spot at front page edges. Brown leatherette boards, bright gilt decorations and lettering, clean, minor shelf wear at extremities, one 1 1/2" corner bend. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Deluxe Edition. Dark green leatherette boards with decorative gold boarder on face and lettering on spine. Gold end papers. Registered Edition. Binding is crisp, tight and square. Pages are clean throughout. Includes introduction and notes.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Collector's Edition. Dark brown leatherette boards with gilded decorative lines and lettering on face and spine. All page edges are gilded. Brown end papers. Crisp, clean, bright and tight. An attached gold silk page marker. Looks brand new. The Harvard Classics Registered Edition. Includes introduction and notes.

Hardcover. Condición: As New.

leather_bound. Condición: Very Good. Sixty-second Printing.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 62nd Printing. Very Light Edgewear. Very Light Wear. Very Light Soiling. Dark Green Covers With Gilt Lettering & Decor On Front Cover & Spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Presumed First printing thus. [4], 462, [2] pages. Volume 39 (of 51). Occasion footnotes. Small tear at bottom of Table of Contents. Decorative Binding. Frontis With Introduction, Notes and Illustrations Includes Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers; Prologue to Golden Legend; Prologue to Caton; Epilogue to Aesop; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur; Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos; Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion; Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies; Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland; Prefatory Letter to Sir William Raleigh on the Faerie Queen; Preface to the History of the World; Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, Etc.; Preface to the Novum Organum; Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays; and Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern; Preface to Joseph Andrews; Preface to the English Dictionary; Preface to Shakespeare, Introduction to the Propylaen, Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems, Appendix to Lyrical Ballads, Essay Supplementary to Preface, Preface to Cromwell, Preface to Leaves of Grass, and Introduction to the History of English Literature. Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 - August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the college into the pre-eminent American university. Eliot served until 1909, the longest term as president in the university's history. The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result. Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400-450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Deluxe Edition. Dark green faux leather boards, gilt lettering, trim and colophon, rubbed at corners, chipped at tip, front hinge cracked on bottom 3". Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Dark green leather boards with gold titles and decorations, all in fine condition, crisp, fresh, unworn. Corners sharp, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, no shelf wear. No Jacket As Issued. DELUXE EDITION. Bound in rich, forest-green faux leather with bright gilt border and Harvard Classics colophon on cover and gilt lettered, decorative spine. GIFT QUALITY COLLECTIBLE. Quiet Companion has 10+ volumes in this "five foot shelf of books". Most have copyright date 1937 or 1938, and include the number 172 beneath the notation "Manufactured in U.S.A.". Two have copyright date 1969, and don't include the number 172. All are equally fresh and new, with their condition indistinguishable from each other. The Quiet Companion ID numbers are 2453 thru 2456, and 2551 through 2559. See separate listings. Discounted price for set. (set is #2456). You will notice that my book descriptions are not generic, saying "may have." certain conditions. All descriptions are written with actual book in hand.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. The Harvard Classics Millennium Edition. Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, Hardcover. Very Good, Presents Some Aging Spots On Paper, And White Spots On Edges. Please Check Pictures Accented In 22Kt Gold, Printed On Archival Paper With Gilded Edges, Bound In Full Leather.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. An edition in Fine condition ; This monumental collection of classic works includes prefaces and prologues by some of the greatest authors of the Victorian era, including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and James Fenimore Cooper. The editors' introductions provide fascinating insight into the writing and thinking of these authors, and the selections themselves are some of the most celebrated and enduring works in the English language.; Vol. 39; 8vo; 437 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Sixty-Second Printing. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, light scuffing to rear board, mild soiling/spotting to top edge else a bright and solid copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. Brown cloth boards with gold lettering. Glossy frontispiece tipped in. A little edgewear, light foxing along edge. "The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century." William Allan Nielson states: " The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.