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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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 1956
Description: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. B000O99A6C. Hardcover: very good+, text clean and tight / no dust jacket; Bollingen Series XLV; Vol. 4; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 195 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1956
Description: Fine in Very Good + jacket. Volume 4 of Valery Collected Works. Bollingen Series XLVJacket has minor wear on folds of jacket flaps. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Light foxing to spine and gutters, name on flyleaf, else a fine copy in near fine, lightly worn dust jacket, priced at $3.00. Volume 4 of the Collected Works in of Paul Valery (this being the first volume to be published). Translated by William McCausland Stewart, and with two prefaces by Wallace Stevens. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, (New York)
Date Published: (1956)
Description: First edition. Volume four only of the Bollingen Series XLV, edited by Jackson Mathews. Translated by William McCausland Stewart. Two prefaces by Wallace Stevens. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, (New York)
Date Published: (1956)
Description: First edition. Volume four only of the Bollingen Series XLV, edited by Jackson Mathews. Translated by William McCausland Stewart. Two prefaces by Wallace Stevens. A small bump on the bottom edge of the front board else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a lightly sunned spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIV PR
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780691018782ISBN:0691018782
Description: New. Valery's dialogues are considered his most important works of imagination in prose. The volume brings together for the first time all the formal dialogues, including Eupalinos and six other pieces. read more
Description: Contains two prefaces by Wallace Stevens. Translated by William McCausland Stewart. Dj panels pasted to endsheets. First Edition. Very good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DEMAND
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780691018782ISBN:0691018782
Description: New. 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... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bollingen-Pantheon Books
Date Published: 1956
Description: Very Good. In a Very Good Dust Jacket. No markings, tight, clean. Translated by William McCausland Stewart. Two Prefaces by Wallace Stevens. Bollingen Series 45-4. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Pantheon, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Volume 4 of the Collected Works in English (actually the first volume to be published). Translated by William McCausland Stewart, and with two prefaces by Wallace Stevens (the first appearance of these two prose texts, written for this volume and later collected in Opus Posthumous). Paper flaw at top edge of one page, otherwise very fine in a lightly rubbed, price-clipped jacket with a touch of fading to spine. Small 8vo. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE K. PAUL
Date Published: 1957
Description: Ex-Library Hardback with D/J. GOOD READING COPY. Ex-library. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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