Genius and Character

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth printing. Octavo. 346pp. Translated by Kenneth Burke. Illustrated with black and white plates of Da Vinci, Baron Vom Stein, Stanley, Lenin, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, and an Officer. Contemporary owner's name on front pastedown, gutter cracked, spine lightly sunned with ends worn, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Contents:… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1930. Second Impression. 330 pages. Signed by the author. Green dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to pages 142-143. Some brown staining to pages throughout. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have mild… Read more about this item

Harcourt, Brace & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 4th printing. Good hardcover with clean pages. No dust jacket. Minor wear and fraying to edges and corners of cloth covers and spine. Text on spine is faded and barely legible. Previous owner wrote name on the front end page in pencil. Interior hinge… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 330 pages. Black boards stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. A series of biographical sketches on such figures as Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and Machiavelli. Boards are lightly worn at edges with some general scuffing. Binding gives a little but is… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First printing. Red boards, 8vo, 346pp. Biographical summaries of historical figures of great genius and character; : Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Wilson, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Balzac, Baron Von Stein, Stanley, Peters, Rhodes, Wilson, Rathenau, Dehmel, and Portrait… Read more about this item

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1927. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket, DJ is chipped and worn, inscription on flyleaf. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 1927. First Edition. 330 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing… Read more about this item

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. Hardcover. Good/None. Boards are soiled, with bumping and fraying at corners. Spine ends are softened and frayed. Pages are clean and unmarked, aside from previous owner's blind stamp on front endpaper. Gilt title lettering and deco is browned and faded, but still fully legible. Binding is starting throughout and partially cracked near center… Read more about this item

Blue Ribbon Books, 1932. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 346 pages, 11th printing. Ex-university library book, sunned covers and spine; pages tanned; a good reading copy. No jacket. Translated by Kenneth Burke. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 211662. .

USA: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good+ Condition. No jacket. Fourth Printing. Translated by Kenneth Burke. Biographical portraits of historical personages of "genius and character". Dark red full cloth binding, edged, lettering on spine with gilt completely rubbed off. Clean and unmarked, with… Read more about this item

New York: Hartcourt, Brace, and Company. Very Good. (1927). Hardcover. Translated by Kenneth Burke. 346 pages. Maroon cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. There is a small stain to the top of the front cover and a previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown. Otherwise, this is a clean, nice copy.… Read more about this item

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1927. Very Good Hardcover, no dustjacket, previous owner's inscription. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1933, 1933. Hardcover. Good. loose page or two

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Cloth. Very Good. Biographical sketches including Frederick the Great, Stein, Bismarck, Stanley, Rhodes, Wilson, Rathenau, Lenin, Goethe, Dehmel and others. Slightly smaller book, black cloth, gilt lettering very good on spine, light foxing to inside covers and adjacent end papers, 330 lightly browned pages, illustrations throughout. Light wear to top tips, micronicks at spine… Read more about this item

Harcourt Brace and Co., 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harcourt, Brace and company, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good

New York: Blue Ribbon, 1933. 346pp. + Frontis. Translated by Kenneth Burke. Beige cloth, black stamped lettering on spine.. Twelfth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8 1/2 X 5 3/4.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1931. 10th printing. Hardback. none . Gift inscription/cover worn and slightly soiled; Translated by Kenneth Burke .

New York NY: Blue Ribbon Books. 1931. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Exlibrary with markings. Front endpaper is missing. ; Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke; Ex-Library; 346 pages .

New York NY: Blue Ribbon Books. 1931. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name. ; Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke; 346 pages .