pseudonym kenyon charles frederick (3 risultati)

Small octavo, title page printed in red and black, original brown cloth, front and spine panel stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Twenty-two short stories, dark tales of death, suicide, madness etc. set mostly in Central and Eastern Europe. Hubin (1994), p. 205. Slight shelf lean, a very good copy. (#119574).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Gerald Cumberland (pseudonym of Charles Frederick Kenyon, 1879-1926). Set down in malice: a book of reminiscences. London: Grant Richards & Co., 1919. First reprint, March 1919. 286pp. VG. Maroon board with gilt lettering to front and spine (now a little faded). A little foxing of endpapers, but text all clean and bright. Kenyon was a librettist, a writer of essays and of some pieces of police literature. In 1919 he used the pseudonym Gerald Cumberland to publish his "Books of Reminiscences", two important critical essays on musical life in England. Set Down in Malice was partly based on his two extensive interviews (1906 and 1913) of Edward Elgar and also describes a meeting with G.B.Shaw as A Terrible Walk. His portrayal of Elgar had a profound influence on the composer's reception for many years, and the book remains an essential part of the Elgar bibliography. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in the E. Morrow illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's catalogue dated August 1919 to the rear. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and darkened dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and a chip at the head of the spine extending to the upper panel. Correctly priced 7/- net to the spine. A very scarce dustwrapper. A Hubin listed collection of 22 sometimes dark short stories involving death, suicide, madness etc. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.