Edwin muir et al (6 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Good+. First Edition. B & W plates; color frontis; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 91 pages; 1925 Dial Press. Volume LXXIX, Number 2. August 1925. Single issue magazine in original lettered wraps. Soundly bound and clean but with covers toned and dakened at spine and with rubbing and shallow furring to yapped edges. Includes pieces by Lawrence and Muir, reproductions of art by Demuth and Cocteau, including two of Demuth's poster portraits, Georgia O'Keefe and Arthur Dove, both of whom have also contributed pictorial work reproduced in this issue. G++.…

First Edition. Collection of poems by contemporary poets by MacDiarmid under the Grieve name, including three under his MacDiarmid nom de plume. Softcovers, 31pp. VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First and only printings of the first four volumes in the Guinness Book of Poetry series (the final volume 5 1960-61 is not included). Each volume includes a wide range of contributing poets, including Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Roy Campbell, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Durrell, Richard Eberhart, Gavin Ewart, David Gascoyne, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Jenny Joseph, Philip Larkin, Louis MacNeice, W. S. Merwin, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Anne Ridler, Theodore Roethke, Stephen Spender, R. S. Thomas et al. ***Each volume is in very good condition in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright, and the boards are quite clean - only slightly marked. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and creased. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the bindings. Spines tight. Page block edges clean except Volume 3 which is foxed. Internally the contents are clean and undamaged with no previous ownership inscriptions, except Volume 2 which has a name in ink on the front free endpaper. Interior pages clean with no foxing, and no creases or tears. ***Each volume in very good printed dustwrappers in various colours, all but Volume 2 complete, and retaining the original publisher's price of 10s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper of Volume 2 has a chip at the top edge of the back panel. Other dustwrappers have some rubbing and creasing at the edges, mainly at the top and tail of the spine. Slight nibbles to the bottom edges of the inner flaps to Volume 4 (please see scans). ***128, 144, 148, 138 pages respectively. 221mm x 145mm. ***'In presenting the third Guinness Book of Poetry to the public, it may be as well to repeat how these Anthologies have come to be put together. They represent a short list of some seventy poems selected in the course of their adjudication by the panel of judges for the Guinness Poetry Awards, from all verse published for the first time in the British Isles between 1st July, 1958, and 30th June, 1959. Submissions were not made by the poets themselves either for the Awards or for the Anthology. The poems published are, thus, in no sense chosen by our contributors as being in their opinion the most important that they had published during the year and, as in previous years, no more than a single work has been taken by our judges from any particular poet.' (Quote taken from Lord Moyne's Foreword to Volume 3) ***First and only printings of the the first four volumes of this anthology of poetry, each volume complete in its original dustwrapper, and each in very good condition, albeit with the aforementioned faults. Includes work by a interesting range of post-war poets. Uncommon in the dustwrappers. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. With a preface by V.S. Pritchett. ***Near fine in sea-green cloth-covered boards with black titles on the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper since 1936. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Extremities just slightly rubbed. No bumps. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions, but with an attractive bookplate "Anthony John Poucher" on the front free endpaper, and a very small bookseller's label "B. H. Blackwell Ltd., Oxford" on the front pastedown. Some offsetting to the endpapers, but no internal foxing. Pages clean. Paper stock slightly tanned with age. No creases or tears. ***In a very good original printed dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price clipped. The dustwrapper is complete with no loss, and no creases or tears. There is some browning to the spine and a little browning to the edges. ***293 pages. 214mm x 144 mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Derek Verschoyle, Geoffrey Chaucer by Frederic Prokosch, Sir Thomas Mallory by Louis MacNeice, John Lyly and Sir Philip Sidney by Rose Macaulay, Daniel Defoe by V. S. Pritchett, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett by David Garnett, Laurence Sterne by A. Calder-Marshall, Jane Austen by Elizabeth Bowen, Sir Walter Scott by Edwin Muir, Thomas Love Peacock by Henry Romily Fedden, Charles Dickens and W. M. Thackeray by Sean O'Faoliin, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte by E. F. Benson, Anthony Trollope by L. A. Pavey, George Meredith by Bonamy Dobree, Samuel Butler by Catherine Carswell, Henry James by Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad by H. E. Bates, D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley by Peter Quennell, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf by E. B. C. Jones, James Joyce by L. A. G. Strong. ***'There are so many books about the English Novel already in existence that an addition to their number may seem to call for an explanation. We are confident that this book is justified by its unusual aim and method, which distinguish it from any previous volume. It differs in aim, because Mr. Verschoyle has not compiled just another catalogue of the achievements of English novelists, major and minor, through the five centuries during which English novels have been written, but has attempted to trace the development of the English novel, from its primitive origins to its contemporary complexity, in terms of the contributions of its twenty-five most important exponents - the book, in fact, provides a bird's-eye view of the novel's progress. It differs in method, because it is not the work of a single writer but of twenty of the most distinguished of contemporary novelists, each of whom provides a chapter in judgment on a great predecessor.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A really nice example of this anthology, with contributions from many of the significant literary writers of the inter-war period, including Graham Greene. Very hard to find now in the original complete dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. viii, 415-518 pages. Contents include: Modern Drama - the architectural hold-up; The Storm - a tale of the sea; Sardine Fishers; The Paradigm of Literary Introspection; The Jolly Party; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…