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The Certain Hour: Available Copies
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The Certain Hour (Mint Editions-Fantasy and Fairytale) by Cabell, James Branch
Paperback
ISBN: 9781513295749
Publisher: 0 (2021)
Seller: Lakeside Books (Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $7.41
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Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!
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The Certain Hour (Dizain Des Poetes) by Cabell, James Branch
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Publisher: Robert M. McBride & Company (1920)
Seller: The Parnassus BookShop (Newport, WA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $12.39
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Type: Hardback Early reprint. Hardcover in Good Condition. No jacket. Brown cloth binding with gilt debossed sketch of a horse on the lower front corner, title on spine with gilt rubbed off is difficult to see. Binding if wuite clean and unmarked. Boards are rubbed along edges,light wear to corners, with bottom rear corner scuffed; spine heel cloth has tears; spine head cloth has a less than quarter inch piece missing from the top. Sewn binding is tight and solid. Rough cut on fore edge and lower edge. Pages very clean and unmarked, some tears along fore edge where pages were cut open, no creases, evenly toned, with some pages having small pieces out of fore edge, it looks like from when pages were cut. Consists of ten short stories around the works of ten poets plus two poems. James Branch Cabell (1879- 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction. Although escapist literature, his works are ironic and satirical. 253 pages. 5 x 8 inches. Robert M McBride Publishers, New York, 1920.
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Print on Demand. This book explores medieval French history through the lives and closely intertwined destinies of poets and warriors. The book analyzes some of the most well-known figures of the era including Raimbaut de Vaquieras and Guillaume de Baux to explore the role historical context plays in shaping not only one's actions but their legacy. The book offers a unique perspective on the role of the Church, particularly the papal court, and the constant state of feudal warfare in the shaping of medieval Europe. The author analyzes the intense love affairs, constant tension between power and art and struggle between private ambition and public duty that defined this era. Through the lens of these men's lives, the author shines a light on one of the most fascinating periods in history and asks readers to consider how different our world would be if these powerful men had chosen a different path. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.
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The Certain Hour (Paperback) by James Branch Cabell
Paperback
ISBN: 9781513295749
Publisher: Mint Editions, Portland (2021)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $22.24
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Paperback. A Certain Hour (1922) is a collection of stories by James Branch Cabell. Recreating the lives of some of history's most celebrated poets, A Certain Hour is a relative outlier among Cabell's body of work, and is included in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. "Indisputably the most striking defect of this modern American literature is the fact that the production of anything at all resembling literature is scarcely anywhere apparent. Innumerable printing-presses, instead, are turning out a vast quantity of reading-matter, the candidly recognized purpose of which is to kill time, and which-it has been asserted, though perhaps too sweepingly-ought not to be vended over book-counters, but rather in drugstores along with the other narcotics." Moving away from his usual setting of 13th century France, Cabell begins his collection with an impassioned essay decrying the state of American literature in the early twentieth century. Interested in the nature of literary genius, he imagines the lives of such poets as Robert Herrick and Alexander Pope, whose wit and wisdom remain essential centuries after their deaths. A Certain Hour is a captivating collection of tales from a historical period not so different from our own. Cabell's work has long been described as escapist, his novels and stories derided as fantastic and obsessive recreations of a world lost long ago. To read A Certain Hour, however, is to understand that the issues therein-the struggle for power, the unspoken distance between men and women-were vastly important not only at the time of its publication, but in our own, divisive world. This edition of James Branch Cabell's A Certain Hour is a classic of fantasy and romance reimagined for modern readers.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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THE CERTAIN HOUR by Cabell James Branch
Hardcover
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Publisher: McBride (1923)
Seller: Fantastic Literature Limited (Rayleigh, ESSEX, United Kingdom)
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Book Price: $19.97
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very good hardcover, there's a split to the rear cover/spine join and some frayi9ng to spine ends 3rd edition. Lyrical, historical, romantic,intriguing, unpredictable, vivid and delightful. The second best of Cabells works I've read to date.
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