Search Results: Titles starting with O from Varennes Books

Very good copy of satirical play on Imperial Germany in five acts 196 pp. Gilt lettering on green boards and spine. Interior bright and clean. Binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4th Printing, 8vo., 230pp. No dust jacket. Bound in original green cloth with titles in black on paper labels on front board and spine. Clean throughout. Spine sunned. Minor edgewear to top of spine.

Numbered 51/650 first edition on vellum of Philippe Soupault's Odes. Soupault was one of France's greatest poets of the 20th century, one of the founders of surrealism with André Breton in 1919, active in the Dadaist Movement, novelist and critic. Vellum wraps chipped at top and bottom corners of sunned spine, tiny cut on edge of rear board, soiling to rear board, but internally crisp and clean with the exception of browning to pages opposite photos of L"ocean by Pierre Boucher; New York & London, Keystone, Paris, René Jacques, Bogota, Ramon Ruiz, Prague, Karel Plicka.

Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff. When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes--war, famine, pandemic--we go in search of consolation. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works--from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi--esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these… Read More

Clean copy of first German Edition of Der Opfergang (Way of Sacrifice), an acclaimed pacifist work by German Expressionist writer and son of a General who served near Verdun. Cloth boards. Some scuffing to cloth binding.

Fine First edition in chocolate brown cloth stamped in silver and gold at spine and on front cover, in a very good green and grey dustwrapper, Edited with an Introduction by Samuel French Morse. 301pp with index. From Collection of Barbara Church.