Search Results: the works of francois rabelais in by francois rabelais

UK: The Abbey Library The complete works in One Volume. Undated, circa 1950. Aged textblock, clean and tight, illustrated end papers. All page edges are age-toned. Moisture bubbled front cover to the outer corners, bumped head and foot of spine and corners, slight tilt to the spine. Unclipped dust jacket, small tears and creases to the corners, rubbed edges, lightly character-soiled sides, mylar sleeved. 730p.. Boards. Good+/Good+ (in mylar). Illus. by Frank C. Pape. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: The Navarre Society, 1954. Third Impression of 1948 Edition. Cloth. Very Good/None. W. Heath Robinson. Thick 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 3/4"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine; illustrated with B&W frontispiece, 53 full-page sketches, and many in-text vignettes by W. Heath Robinson; xviii + 332 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. François Rabelais (c.1494 - 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, humanist, monk, and Greek scholar. He has been celebrated as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. <br/> <br/> Gargantua depicts a young giant who is rescued from a deplorable education instituted by his father, old women, and dotty professors. Overcoming most obstacles, he becomes a cultivated and most-Christian knight, though his actions satirize chivalric ideals. In Pantagruel, the son of Gargantua, Rabelais further parodied chivalry and satirized major institutions such… Read More

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. Hardcover. Poor/Poor. The jackets are torn. The boards are marked. Some foxing / offsetting. A few pages are torn. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Bodley Head. Two volume set. Bumped and soiled boards with wear to spine ends. Chipped jackets, with tear to spine head of vol. I. Ffeps removed cleanly. Pages crisp and tight. Minor foxing. . Good. Cloth. 1933.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Gibbings and Company Ltd, 1901. 5 volumes, bound in blue cloth with attractive gilt decoration and titles to the covers and spines, top edge gilt, title pages printed in black and red, engraved frontispieces and a few other plates within the text. Very good, gilt dulled to the spine but the panels are bright and clean, cloth rubbed to the corners and a couple of nicks to the fore edge of volume IV, the bindings are firm, text block edges dusty but the text is clean and crisp. A very good set. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. 1901

London, New York: J. Lane ; Boni and Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copies in good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, both now mylar-sleeved.Some sun-toning and foxing along the margins of each copy, no text effected. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes plates 24 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. plates, and covers. Includes bibliographical references.

E-204: Covici, Friede Publishers. Very Good. 1929. Hardcover. Hardcover. Small Folio. Covici-Friede, New York, 1929. 3 Volumes, Volume I xxxviii, 515 pgs; Illustrated with color frontis, 8 color plates, a map, and 7 black and white plates; Volume II 519-865 pgs, Illustrated with with a color frontis, 6 color and 2 black and white plates. Volume III 871-1273 pgs. With a frontis portrait and 120 black and white plates. Limited edition of 1300, this being No. 128. Bound in tan paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, leather spine label, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in red and black, color and black and white plates. Spines sunned, tips and board edges worn and lightly rubbed. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The irrepressibly racy and merrily blasphemous humor of Rabelais is here presented in irrepressibly racy and merrily blasphemous American English by the distinguished scholar Samuel Putnam, who would… Read More

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1933. Hardcover Small Quarto. Hardcover. Very good. leather bound spine, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled boards, 499 pp (vol 1), 730 pp (vol 2) Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London New York: J. Lane; Boni and Liveright, 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Haughton. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Volume 2 dust wrapper lacks of back wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Date is suggested. Physical description: 2 volumes; plates; 24 cm.Notes: Illus. incl. plates, and covers. Includes bibliographical references.Subjects: Rabelais, Fran�ois 1490-1553; Translations into English. Fantasy fiction, French; Translations into English.Gargantua (Legendary character); Fiction. Giants; Fiction. Fantasy fiction, French. Genre: Fiction. illustrated.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1927.. 1927 Two volumes. Handsome bindings in crimson half morocco with matching cloth boards. The spines gilt with raised bands. The spines are slightly faded and there are some marks to the cloth of Vol. 1. There is faint spotting to the plates and more pronounced spotting to the page edges. Otherwise a clean and tight set. Bookplates of Paul Latham, M.P. and restorer of Hurstmonceux Castle. Number 381 of 4300 numbered sets.

New York:: Covici Friede Pub., 1929. 1/1300 copies . Folio, Gray/brown paper boards with green linen spines lettered in gilt. 1274 pp total in all three volumes. Illustrated beautifillu through in color and B&W. Spines slighlty faded otherwise a beautiful set in near fine condition.. Limited Edition. Near Fine. Illus. by Jean de Bosschere. Folio. 3 Volumes.

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1929. Minor chipping to board edges, otherwise the set is in very good condition, text and plates are clean and crisp.. Edition: Limited Edition (713 of 1300)., Binding: Contemporary ¼ blue cloth with paper boards, blind-tooled leather label on spine, top edge gilt, fore- and tail- edges rough-trimmed. , Notes: English Translation.Rabelais was one of the most important writers of Renaissance France, publishing his “Lives” of Gargantua and Pantagruel between the years 1532-1552 (?). He was a champion of humanism and, having left the monkhood in his early years, studied to become a doctor—both domains featuring heavily in his works. They are satirical in nature and, although Rabelais remained a Catholic, in them he attacks the orthodoxy of the Church as well as the strict classicism of contemporary scholarship. He favoured a moderated blend of spirituality, scholarship and the physical sciences, a blend which did not privilege any of those domains over… Read More

Folio. 3 volumes, custom bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with blue leather spines and fore edges. Cloth over boards. Top edges gilt. In custom cloth covered slipcases. Limited edition of 1300 copies. Color and black & white illustrations by Jean De Bosschere. Possibly a unique set, in fine condition.