Kinross john patrick douglas baron (9 risultati)

American first edition (not stated). xiv, 306 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket lightly soiled; spine panel sunned with bumping and light wear at ends; toning to rear panel and at flap edges. Red cloth spine lightly bumped at ends; mustard colored boards. Black top edge; slender short swath of color marker on bottom edge. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket.…

First edition (per publisher's "First published" statement upon copyright page). xii, 167 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.5cm. Aquamarine dust jacket rubbed; shallow chipping at spine and flap fold ends; several short tears along panel edges as well as 2cm tear at heel of front joint; small patch of surface peeling at lower spine panel causing some loss to the lettering of the author's name; bottom corner of front flap is price-clipped; some toning and soiling to white rear panel; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Tan cloth boards with bright gilt stamped spine lettering. Some mild foxing and soiling upon top edge but interior leaves are clean. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardback. 179pp, 16 plates map 1956. *Turkey 77. VG in DW.

Hardback. 615pp 8 plates NY 1965. *Turkey 347: A fair & sympathetic portrait. Small repair to base of spine.

Hardback. The Creation of the Suez Canal. 306pp NY 1969. VG in worn DW.

Hardback. 615pp 8 plates, William Morrow & Co., NY 1965. *Turkey 347: A fair & sympathetic portrait. Very good copy.

Hardback. The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. 638pp ills. & maps endpaper maps, NY 1977. *Turkey 225. VG in DW.

Puzzlingly, considering his prominence in his field, Kinross is denied an entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See 'Death of a Bookman' by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of 'Books and Bookmen' at the time of Dosse's suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. Each letter is 1p, landscape 12mo. One of the nine items has creasing to one edge, otherwise the collection is in good condition, with light age and wear. Seven of the eight letters are signed 'Patrick K', the eighth is signed 'Kinross' and the card is signed 'K'. The correspondence demonstrates Kinross's not-inconsiderable involvement with 'Books and Bookmen'. On several occasions he asks for payment for contributions, as on 22 July 1974, when he writes 'My dear Philip, / I feel I must prod your memory again, now that the July issue is out, with my article. I am now owed £120 for four pieces, with another in the pipeline for August. / As this represents quite an important item in my personal mini-budget, perhaps you will now find time to see to it, among your numerous other [activities?].' On 26 September 1975 he asks 'to be considered for Cyril Connolly: A Romantic Friendship: The Letters of CC to Noel Blakiston when it comes out (Constable) unless of course it has already been bespoken by that other "well-known book-reviewer", Auberon Waugh. But I do feel strongly that this is a book to be done by a friend, not an enemy, of Cyril'. He makes several suggestions, including the following, 27 January 1974: 'I don't know whether you saw this, by my old friend Lionel Hale. You will know of him as a critic, playwright, writer & broadcaster, with a wide public at one time. He has dropped out of things rather in the last ten years or so, largely through ill-health and so on. But now he is beginning to come back, and it seemed to me you might find it worth while to include him among your writers. He would be good on anything to do with any of the media, particularly the stage.' He gives Hale's address, but asks Dosse 'not to mention to him that I suggested it'.…