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Price: US$150.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4-1/8" x 7-1/2", (viii) + 393pp. Sewn binding with red/white/brown tailbands in calf skin covered boards stamped with gilt band border design. Raised bands on spine; scarlet label with title has fallen away and is now lying loose. Binding needs some repair; front board has separated from book. Blue end papers. Gilt edging on top of book block. Binding remains square and tight. Pages are gently age toned but remain clean and unmarked.
Seller: The People's Co-op Bookstore, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound by Riviere & Son, 7.5 x 4.5", 3/4 gilt ruled green leather, spine with raised bands, gilt floral panels, gilt lettering and date, marbled boards and endpapers, teg, 393pp + ads. Covers have light wear, scratches/scuffing, spine sunned to an attractive brown color, lettering and parts of some of the panels a little light else very good condition. Binding tight. The words "Bound by Riviere & Son" indicate it was rebound after 1880. The six lectures: Odin; Mahomet; Dante & Shakespeare; Luther & Knox; Johnson & Rousseau; Cromwell & Napoleon. Bound in at the rear is the original cloth and gilt spine. FIRST EDITION, very attractively bound. One of his most popular works.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$324.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Illustrated throughout with engraved frontispieces and a great profusion of maps, many folding. 8vo, bound in original brown textured cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and in blind on the covers. 393, [1], [2 ads.] pp. A handsome and pleasing copy, some light aging and sophistication to the bottom of the spine panel, hinges strong, the text-block clean. FIRST EDITION. SIX LECTURES BY THE RENOWNED SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHER. Classic discussion of the need for heroic leadership. 'The book was based on a course of lectures Carlyle had given. The French Revolution: A History had brought Carlyle recognition, but little money, so friends organized courses of public lectures, drumming up an audience and selling one guinea tickets. Though Carlyle disliked lecturing, he discovered a facility for it; more importantly, it brought in much-needed income. Between 1837 and 1840, Carlyle delivered four such courses of lectures, the final of which was on "Heroes". His lecture notes were transformed into the book, with the effects of the spoken discourse still discernible in the prose.' Rines For Carlyle, the hero was somewhat similar to Aristotle's "magnanimous" man a person who flourished in the fullest sense. However, for Carlyle, unlike Aristotle, the world was filled with contradictions with which the hero had to deal. All heroes will be flawed. Their heroism lay in their creative energy in the face of these difficulties, not in their moral perfection. To sneer at such a person for their failings is the philosophy of those who seek comfort in the conventional. Carlyle called this "valetism", from the expression "no man is a hero to his valet". wiki
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.