About this title: Valery's dialogues are his most important works of imagination in prose. Many consider the prose masterpieces Eupalinos and Dance and the Soul as the fullest and most characteristic expression of his genius. The dialogue form, "the most supple of the forms of expression, " was natural to Valery. "I found I was talking to myself in two voices, and began to write accordingly, " he said. His imagination and his philosophical mind found in his major dialogues the common ground they were always seeking. In the present volume, all the formal imaginary dialogues are brought together for the first ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Dustjacket is price clipped and slightly creased with some edgewear and two marks. Part of number XLV in the Bollingen series. Some plays are all in English, some appear with the French and English on facing pages. Notes, 376 pp.; Octavo. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, New York
Date Published: 1960
ISBN-13:9780691098449ISBN:0691098441
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0691098441. A clean copy in a clean jacket! Small sticker to the front panel of the jacket. The First Edition! ; 1.25 x 8.25 x 5.25 Inches; 377 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, New York
Date Published: 1960
ISBN-13:9780691098449ISBN:0691098441
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0691098441. A clean copy in a clean jacket! Small sticker to the front panel of the jacket. The First Edition! ; 1.25 x 8.25 x 5.25 Inches; 377 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780691098432ISBN:0691098433
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0691098433. Text clean and solid; light wear and soiling to dust jacket with clipped price corner (Title: The Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 9: Master and Friends); Bollingen Series; 1.25 x 8.25 x 5.25 Inches; 490 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1960
ISBN-13:9780691098449ISBN:0691098441
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0691098441. Text clean and solid; light wear and soiling to dust jacket with clipped price corner (Title: The Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 3: Plays); Bollingen Series; 1.25 x 8.25 x 5.25 Inches; 377 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 1960-06
ISBN-13:9780691098449ISBN:0691098441
Description: Good. Volume 3 of the collected works of Valery. Ex-library with clear cover over jacket. Pages unmarked. Spine faded, moderate usage wear, some aging. read more
Description: Translated by Denise Folliot, with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot. (Bollingen series XLV.7. ) NY: Pantheon Books, 1958. 345pp. Very Good without dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. First Thus Edition. Introduction by Joseph Frank. Translated by Martin Turnell. VG+/VG+. Hardcover, beige cloth with gilt titles on brown band, DJ, 406 pp, Paul Rand jacket design, brown topstain; very light rubbing and edgewear to jacket, else a nice, clean, very good or better copy. read more
Description: Very Good+; Princeton University Press; 1973; Hardcover; Ex-library copy with some library markings. Minor bumps to corner points. No markings to spine, which is as crisp as new. 0691099340. Book appears unread. Bollingen Series XLV. No. 6 in the Collected Works of Paul Valery series. Translated and with intro by Jackson Mathews.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 167 pp. read more
Description: Vol. 3: Plays. Translated by David Paul and Robert Fitzgerald, with an Introduction by Francis Fergusson and a Memoir by Igor Stravinsky. (Bollingen Series XLV.3. ) NY: Pantheon Books, 1960. 376pp. VG+ / Price corner clipped, slightly chipped, rubbed and torn dj. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge Kegan Paul, London
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good/No Jacket. Volume 4 in a series devoted to the collected works of Valery, translated by William McCausland Stewart and with two prefaces by Wallace Stevens. Includes "Socrates and his Physician", "Pride for Pride", "Colloquy Within a Being", "Dance and the Soul", "Eupalinos, (or The Architect)", "Dialogue of the Tree", "Paradox on the Architect. " Book condition: Good condition, bears a few sporadic marks on cover. Strong binding. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University, New Jersey
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780691099347ISBN:0691099340
Description: Fine in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1973 Princetion Univ. Press, Volume 6, Book is fine, clean, faint foxing on edges, Jacket is only good in Mylar, price clipped, mild soiling, rubs, 1/2" chip missing at bottom of spine, rub on front, edgewear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780691099347ISBN:0691099340
Description: Very Good. 167pp. DJ: Very Good w/ some fading, minute edge/corner wears. The Book: Very Good++. The Collected Works of Paul Valery Volume 6, translated w/ intro by Jackson Mathews. read more
Description: Fine. In very good condition with cover, spine and pages clean and intact. Neatly stored. International orders via air mail except large books. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books. Bollingen Series XLV, New York, New York USA
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 376 pp. Edited by Jackson Matthews. Translated by David Paul and Robert Fitzgerald. With an Introduction by Francis Fergusson and a Memoir by Igor Stravinsky. The book and unclipped jacket display moderate toning and wear. What wear there is can be found along the periphery and mainly at the head and foot of the spine. Very light foxing evident to outside text edges and to the endpapers. Light foxing to the boards. Previous owner's last name in a small hand on the ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books. Bollingen Series XLV, New York, New York USA
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 125 pp. Edited by Jackson Matthews. With a Preface by Jackson Matthews and an Introduction by Philip Wheelwright. The book and unclipped jacket display moderate toning and wear. What wear there is can be found along the periphery and mainly at the head and foot of the spine. Very light foxing evident to outside text edges and to the endpapers. Light foxing to the boards. Previous owner's last name in a small hand on the front free endpaper. The book is free of ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books. Bollingen Series XLV, New York, New York USA
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 125 pp. Edited by Jackson Matthews. With a Preface by Jackson Matthews and an Introduction by Philip Wheelwright. The book and unclipped jacket display moderate toning and wear. What wear there is can be found along the periphery and mainly at the head and foot of the spine. There is a moderately sized scuff to the front jacket. Very light foxing evident to outside text edges and to the endpapers. Light foxing to the boards. Previous owner's last name in a small ... read more
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