edward sackville (247 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good Plus. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Light scratching, creasing, edgwear and some sunning to covers. ; Clean and tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 580 pp.

Paper. Condizione: Good. Good paper copy 16 pp, 15 color plates, 16 monochrome illus. essay by Edward Sackveille-West.

Condizione: Good. New Ediiton. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Revised edition. (7 x 8.5 inches). 14pp of text followed by 32 plates, some color, some b&w. VG+/Poor. This is a paperback book with a dust jacket. Book has a little rubbing to edges, especially at spine ends, bottom corner lightly bumped. Otherwise clean and tight, no markings. The DJ is rubbed and soiled, has edgewear with chipping, tape mended tear at head of spine. Series: Penguin Modern Painters.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Slightly chipped d/j.

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Graham Sutherland (illustratore). 2nd Edition. Revised Edition. Softback with card covers in illustrated unclipped dust jacket. 16pp. Text plus 32 colour and 31 b/w plates at the end. A clean copy with no markings or inscriptions. A couple of faint scratches to front cover and edgewear to dust jacket. A VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 2nd. 16 pages, 32 plates (some colour); 18 x 22 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name & blind stamp/title page. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. Size: Oblong.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Moderate wear to extremities. Light cover spotting wear. GRAHAM SUTHERLAND GRAHAM SUTHERLAND was born in London on August 24th, 1903. The first nine years of his life were spent at Merton Park, Surrey, and at Rustington, in Sussex. In 1912 he went to boarding school at Sutton; and it is from this time, during some holidays spent at Swanage, that he himself dates that mysterious intimacy with Nature which has since developed into the basis of his art?its raison d'etre. I say "mysterious" advisedly, for there is nothing so occult, so removed from usual understanding, as the interaction of two planes of life: the human being on the one hand, on the other all that vast theory of organisms, from stones to trees, in which the characteristic movement of life is not adjusted to our vision; so that we can only feel it, if we be exceptionally sensitive, or perceive it at most in that immobility?ominous or serene or merely intense?which is like that of the gyroscope a-spin. In childhood this experience of "inanimate objects"kas living with a life that is both like and unlike our own, is common to all of us, because the younger the human being the less distinct are the senses one from another, so that what is perceived at all tends to be experienced by the whole body at once. But in adults the faculty of retaining this .valuable intuition of Essence is the prerogative of artists, though not all of them care to use it. In Graham Sutherland, however, the experience was too constant and too vivid to be obliterated: the luscious pastures and leafage in the neighbourhood of Rustington, the whites and silver greens of the country behind Swanage, stepped down out of the background, so to speak, and offered themselves to a pair of eyes that were henceforward to act as a powerful magnifying glass to every grass and leaf, every wrinkle in an old tree-stump. These years were fairly happy ones, for the boy had an aptitude and liking for Latin and Greek, which the school taught particularly well. But in 1914 he was sent to Epsom College, where T*.

Good plus or better, light general wear, corners bumped. Cloth Worn, foxed and soiled jacket with tears and chips, a few taped repairs. Pages browned, endpapers foxed. Friday, May 21, 2010 11:56:54 AM Prev owner's name on front fly.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth, no dust-jacket. 246pp., A collection of essays, primarily about 19th century literature. Slight glue residue to front endpaper. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, square used copy. Near very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xiii, 352, incl. index, + "four plates in photogravure" (among these, portr. fp.) Handsome copy of this first edition: fascinating life of a brilliant polymath. Burnished blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, darker blue topstain. Extremities of spine a bit taxed; topstain rubbed and chipped near spine head; fore-tail corner of rear board bumped; else, quite sharp, with clean--tho' tanned-- edges. Within, bookseller's label pasted front paste-down; sometime owner's dated signature, FFEP, this latter having passed its acid on to first p. of text; paper stock generally tanned; we find only two light pencil marks throughout. Our copy is without DJ; archival cover supplied. This book falls fairly on the eye. (Photos.).

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Softcover, unpaginated, about 16 pages, about 3 full page color plates and 2 full page black/white plates. Catalog of exhibit held at Musee National D'Art Moderne. Text in French. Front cover partly sun fadedback cover has inch crease. Contents clean.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket As Issued. Illustrated with 32 b&w and Color Plates (illustratore). First Thus. In wraps, 4to oblong, 16pp + 32 b&w / color plates. The Penguin Modern Painters series. (light fading to wraps). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2nd printing, Ex-library copy with typical markings, head of spine frayed, top edge tanned, spine cocked. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Condizione: Good. 1947. First Edition. 235 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned, heavy to endpapers. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy sunning to spine and edges. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First U.S. Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. B/w illus. Some foxing and light browning.Top corners slightly bumped. Nice copy none the less.278 pages.

Wraps. Condizione: Good. Printed wraps. Single issue of this little magazine devoted to literature, poetry and art. This with "Religion and Temperament," by Aldous Huxley; "An Appraisal: Ivy Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth Bowen," by Edward Sackville West, etc. GOOD+ condition. Minor toning to the wrappers, with light soiling. Spine rather darkened. Minor curling and creasing along the edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. deluxe edition. 112 pages. 7.81x5.05x7.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. London, 1949; brick red cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges bumped; gray jacket with edge and corner wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; signature of Morris Greenhut, University of Michigan English prof. emeritus on free front end paper; 1950 TLS review of book with offset on 2 inner pages; interior clean and unmarked; 246 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Thus. First [US] edition stated. Full black cloth with orange decoration and gilt lettering, 8-1/4" tall, 364 pp. Minor edgewear to boards, evidence of having been read. A novel of a children's nurse.

Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with light toning to the rear.

Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. First Edition, 1936. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with sunned spine. A tan to the page edges. Contents clear and unmarked, with firm binding throughout. A lovely copy overall.