Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
by Cabell, James Branch
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
The Bodley Head, London, 1925. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Introduction by Hugh Walpole and foreword by author. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with orange coloured decoration and titles to the front panel and back strip. Red coloured tint to the top text edge. First published in 1919, it is a humorous romp through a mediaeval cosmos while sending up the Arthurian legends, and excursion to heaven and hell and other mediaeval obsessions. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners. All other book edges are rubbed and there are a couple of bumps to the top edge of the front panel. Fading, flecking and staining of the book panels, particularly the rear. Sunning and paying spots to the back strip. Browning and foxing of the text block edges with, surprisingly, light age toning of the pages. Offset tanning and foxing of the end pages with previous owners name to the top left hand corner of the front paste-down. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVI, 325, [1], [8] pages, the last being advertising of other books by the author. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Science Fiction & Fantasy. Inventory No: 0290252. .
Synopsis
"Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice," an entry in the Poictesme series, is an epic fantasy voyage as well as an erotic fable. Cabell himself wrote: "This fable is, as the world itself, a book wherein each man will find what his nature enables him to see; which gives us back each his own image; and which teaches us each the lesson that each of us desires to learn." Jurgen was banned for decades because of its explicit content. It was, and remains, a groundbreaking early fantasy novel and a worthy addition to the Wildside Fantasy Classics line.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0290252
- Title
- Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
- Author
- Cabell, James Branch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- BZDB2 science fantasies Juergen Literature & Literary; Science Fiction & Fantasy. Unbranded Cabell, James Branch Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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