Goethe Johann Wolfgang Introduction Translation (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 5 1/2" wide by 8 1/4". Poem is printed in German and English. ; 17 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Early in the history of Penguin Paperbacks, the company released its paperback books with dust-jackets. This exceptionally well-preserved copy of Faust Part 1 by Goethe (Translation by Philip Wayne) was published in 1949, being the First Printing of the Penguin edition. An added value for this copy is the rare wrap-around paper band which is still present on the book, and which has a printed announcement of the arrangement between Penguin and D. C. Heath and Company for distribution to college classes. **************************************** The band reads : Penguin Books for College Classes/ D. C. Heath and Company / Penguin Classics and Selected Titles from other Penguin Books are offered for class use by joint arrangement of Allen Lane, Inc and D. C. Heath and Company. / Orders should be sent to Allen Lane, Inc. 3300 Clipper Mill Road Baltimore, Maryland. / Requests for single copies to D. C. Heath & Company, Boston - New York - Chicago - Atlanta - Dallas - San Francisco. ******************************** TITLE : Faust, Part 1 / AUTHOR : Goethe (Johann Wolfgan Goethe, 1749 - 1832) / TRANSLATOR , INTRODUCTION : Philip Wayne / IMPRINT : Penguin Books / PLACE : Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England / DATEE : (1949) / EDITION : First Penguin Printing / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Dust-Jacket still present / Rare wrap-around paper band detailing arrangement between Penguin and D. C. Heath & Co. pertaining to college distribution still present. PHYSICAL DETAILS : Mass Market paperback; Contains a brief biographical note, and an Introduction; 197 pages plus 8 pages of publisher's list; original dust-jacket still present; publishers announcement band still wrapped about book, which one will be hard-pressed to locate another. *************************************** CONDITION -BOOK : VERY GOOD - JACKET : NEAR VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book which remains clean and attractive. This copy is exceptionally well preserved. I warrant you will be hard pressed to find a nicer copy. (as with almost all copies, the interior paper is unavoidably toned); dust jacket has but modest signs of handling. A clear, archival mylar cover has been added which ensures against further wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1898 printing. Tan cloth boards, navy stamped cover design and spine titles, lt. shelf wear, rub. Pages very good; couple w/notation. Include an eight-page biographical introduction to Goethe. Very solid printing approaching 120 years. College Tutoring Bureau, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. stamp at frt. endp. 213 pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Delacroix, Eugene (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Limited Editions Club release. 1932 latest date at copyright. Later edition; unstated. Richly bound in taupe linen boards exhibiting sharp sheen, gilt stamped cover and spine titles, fine. Leaves of finest paper imported from England, Basingwerk Parchment, more beautiful and permanent than any other. Illustrated by the greatest European Romantic artist, Eugene Delacroix with eighteen painstakingly reproduced lithographs using the collotype method. Frontispiece illustrated bust of Goethe with his signature. Preserved in a light grey slipcase and still possessing the original glassine wrapper. Wrapper separated at spine area, other wise fine. Bind fine, square; hinges fully intact. Includes original Heritage Press literary supplement laying bare the effort and diligence put forth producing this finely crafted, richly beautiful volume and the history of Goethe and Delecroix's amicable, respectful as artists, relation during their lifetimes. Goethe gave high praise to these illustrations during his lifetime, saying they opened new insights into his very own masterwork. The eighteen lithographs are accepted as perfect pictures, enlivening and supplementing Faust's text and stimulating the imagination and intelllect. Considered one of the greatest illustrated books ever. This book utilizes a set of pulls of the original Delacroix lithographs, in the first state of their first edition commissioned to Arthur Jaffe by the New York Public Library. Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Faust, an audacious man, boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate. 183 pages with xiv introductory pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.