Geoffrey smerdon (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Pages yellowed; DJ has small chips and tears along edges, some with paper loss and a tear in the middle of the spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition, First Thus. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY. Text/NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/VG showing discoloration. DJ/None. Sunday Times review, dubbing Le Galiienne "the Golden Boy of England's Golden Age", pasted to fEP. Biography and anthology of letters of English author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947) was an English author and poet. 580 pgs. 25 chapters in 4 parts: Book I, The Seed Bed (1866 - 1891); II. The Golden Harvest (1891 - 1903); III, The Long Drought (1903 - 1926); and IV, The Winnowing (1927 - 1947), followed by a Catalogue of the Writings of Richard Le Gallienne and a Chronology. 1897 Le Gallienne produced a verse translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám , subtitled "a paraphrase from several literal translations", in 1897. Some example quatrains include: "Look not above, there is no answer there/ Pray not, for no one listens to your prayer/ Near is as near to God as any Far/ And Here is just the same deceit as There", and, ""Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think/ And at the same time make it sin to drink?/ Give thanks to Him who foreordained it thus--/ Surely He loves to hear the glasses clink!". …

580pp. black & white illustrations 1st American Edition Ex-library, covers & spine sunned, 3/8" x 1/16" piece of spine missing, o/w VG.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Good (in mylar). First Edition. Light age toning down the front and back gutters. Else textblock is clean and tight, b&w photographs. Blue cloth, bumped at corners and to the head and foot of spine, bumping to bottom edges. Unclipped dust jacket, internally taped at head and foot of spine, chipping to corners, chips on back top edge, closed tears to the edges. 580pp., including brief chronology and index. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. B&W Photographs (illustratore). Hardcover.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. 1st US Edition. 580 pp; Light shelf wear and soiling on boards and spine, binding is tight, text is clean. DJ has some edge wear, toning and soiling.

hardcover. Condizione: very good. Frontis, illustrated. 580pp, 8vo, cloth. London: Unicorn Press, 1960. Very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. by Richard Whittington-Egan and Geoffrey Smerdon. London: The Unicorn Press, (1960). First edition, first printing. Twenty-eight photographs on glossy black-and-white plates. An in-depth biography with letters, of the literary poet, who traveled in the literati circles, was married three times, carried his first wife's ashes with him wherever he went, was the father of the famous actress Eva, and was a lifelong friend of Oscar Wilde, with whom he had a brief affair. Fine in polished blue linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine; lacking a dust jacket. Royal Octavo; 580 pages; catalogue of writings, chronology; index.…

Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 580 pages, b&w illustrations. 25 chapters; with a catalog of the writings of Richard Le Gallienne, brief Chronology, and Index in rear. 28 photos and illustrations in section of book including image of Gallienne on frontispiece. Mild fade to spine cloth at bottom. Clean copy. Record # 472356.…

Condizione: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (english, authors, poets) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 580 pages; 25 chapters; with a catalogue of the writings of Richard Le Gallienne, brief Chronology, and Index in rear; 28 photos and illustrations in section of book including image of Gallienne on frontispiece. Acknowledgements in front of book. Pages tight; clean; no markings; no page wear; Blue hard covers with gild silouette of le Gallienne on front;; gild lettering and white image on spine. Minor shelf wear; slight fading near edges and spine ends. Beige dust jacket has black lettering; gild design and oval cut out on front; Several small tears on dj edges and spine ends. Some rubbing and light soiling. Book divided into 4 sections: The Seed-Bed (1866-1891); The Golden Harvest (1891-1903); The Long Drought (1903-1926) and The winnowing (1927-1947). Author became the Golden Boy of England's Golden Age-yet a shadowy figure in the wings of English literature; This new biography restores tLe Gallienne the man as well as the author. The account of the literary and publishing activity moves from London to America then to Paris and to the shores of the Cote d'Azur. RARE VINTAGE COPY.…

ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc) 580pp illus very good+ (sl discolouration to ep's, v sl bruising to spine and corners).

Condizione: Good. English. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

first edition 580pp ills. VG+ (mod.soiled w.sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,paste action to eps,te blue,edges sl.soiled) in VG- d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.sunned w.price sticker to spine,bumps and chipping and minor closed tears to extrems.w.sl.loss to head of spine).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated.Previous Owners Insc.ffep.Scuff marks to top & bottom edges.Some fading[discolouration] to top of the back cover[band].

HARDCOVER. Condizione: G / NONE. G HARDBACK. NO DUSTJACKET. DAMPSTAINS TO CLOTH; ENDPAPERS/FLYLEAFS DARKENED WITH AGE; MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MUSTY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.