sitwell edith john lehmann (36 risultati)

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hard cover book/ closed tears otherwise very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 80 pages. George Barker "Epitaph (poem)" / Tom Hopkinson "You Really Are a Pet" / C Day Lewis "Ariadne on Naxos (poem)" / David Conde "Harvest Home" / Thom Gunn "Thoughts on Unpacking (poem)" / Edith Sitwell "Coming to London - XIV" / 3 poems by Bernard Spencer / Elizabeth Bowen "Persuasion" / Louis MacNiece "Lost Generations?" / A Letter from Geoffrey Moore.

British first edition. 176 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Blue cloth; spine head chipped and frayed with lesser wear at heel; some slender wear and loss at board corners; spine's gilt lettering dulled but legible with front board's gilt stamped lettering still bright. Strong toning to edges with interior text leaves affected likewise but with toning diminishing inward from margins (paper stock utilized by printer affected by "economy standards," i.e. wartime-period rationing regulation). Light toning to endpapers; novelist Nancy Hallinan's name handwritten in green ink at top of front free endpaper recto with additional notation in the same green ink handwriting "from Hal Christmas-1945" at bottom of page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy. Features a collection of essays, commentary, poems, etc.: "In Daylight - I" and "Elegy" by John Lehmann, "The Two Loves" and "Some Notes on 'King Lear'" by Edith Sitwell, "Lament" by George Barker, "Island Dances" by George Seferis, "I Hear You Say So" by Elizabeth Bowen, "Five Poems" by Terence Tiller, "No News From Home" by Cecil Keeling, "The Woman Who Was Loved" by James Stern, "The Poems" by Peter Yates, "Two Poems" by Odysseus Elytis, "The Man Who Killed" by Jiri Weiss, "War" by Andre Chamson, "The Hidden Force" by William Plomer, "The Pre-Raphaelite Literary Painters" by Stephen Spender, "W.H. Auden in America" and "The Place and the Person" by Henry Reed, plus other contributions by Heinrich Fischer, Hero Pesopoulos, Demetrios Capetanakis, Alexander Astruc, J. MacLaren-Ross, C.H. Peacock, J.P. Hodin, and Percy Coates. The eldest daughter of Charles T. "Hal" Hallinan (1880-1971), novelist Nancy Hallinan (1921-2014) authored the critically acclaimed novels "Rough Winds of May" (1955), "A Voice from the Wings" (1965), and "Night Swimmers" (1976) as well as the 1980 O'Henry award winning short story "Women in a Roman Courtyard." Her papers are held by Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Second Printing. 8vo. 242 pp. Index, b/w plates, red/blue cloth-backed boards. Cover corner slightly bumped, edges of 4 plates lightly nicked and scuffed, very good-; dust jacket priced clipped, edge tears mended, good. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 112 pages. Edith Sitwell "A Young Girl's Song" (poem) / William Sansom "Question and Answer" / Thom Gunn - 2 poems / Eugene Walter "Love with a Drum" / Jean Ferry "Four Stories and a Foreword" / Eleanor Farjeon "Edward Thomas and Robert Frost" / Maurice Cranston "Simone de Beauvoir" / Geoffrey Hill "Letter from Oxford".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 176 pages Illustrated Very Good + condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket Original owner's inscription on front end paper.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. 8vo. Frontis., 264 pp., illus. Dustjacket has small tear and one small stain and some fading.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First American Edition. 104 pages, 12mo, floral paper covered boards/black cloth, title label spine. Label darkened, spine ends, paper covered corners worn lightly, very good-; no dust jacket. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. Bibliography. Original stiff cream wrappers. Fine. 40 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

(1970). First edition thus: Revised. Published for the British Council in their Writers and Their Work series. This is pamphlet # 25. Very very mild creasing at the front cover corners, equally mild crease at the upper staple, else near fine in printed wraps. A 39-page chapbook. Stirringly eloquent, admirably concise monograph on the extraordinary and controversial avant-garde British poet, with frontispiece photo-portrait of Sitwell and a select bibliography of her works and of critical studies.

First printing. Very Good condition.

8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Page edges browning. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 176pp + plates. 8 b/w plates.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 168pp + plates. 8 b/w plates.

Paperback. 160p. + 16p. illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 128pp. 16 plates. Wrappers. Illustrated in color and in black and white from photographs and reproductions. Pages age-toned and some wear along the spine, still very good. Contributions by Edith Sitwell, Denton Welch, Terence Tiller, James Stern, Peter Yates, and more.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American edition with cancel title page. 168pp. Illustrated. Pages lightly age-toned, spine with a few tiny spots, boards with modest edgewear, very good in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket with a small round tear on the spine (affecting the title), tanning, an ink mark on the front flap and small chips and tears along the edges. Prints an essay on Paul Valêry by Andrê Gide; additional contributions by Louis MacNiece, William Sansom, George Seferis, Rose Macaulay, V.S. Pritchett, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lawrence Durrell and more.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1944 first edition. Size octavo, 8.5" tall, 168 pages. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the front cover and spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition good, covers are grubby with agecorners bumped, spine ends and hinges rubbed, pages are rather toned otherwise clean. Dust jacket condition good, rubbing and chipping to corners and spine ends and slightly to the edges, spine a little sunned, not price clipped. Contributors include Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, John Lehmann, Noel Blackiston, Roy Fuller, Denton Welch, Peter Yates et al.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Page edges browning. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 180pp.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Page edges browning. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 175pp + plates. 4 b/w plates.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Frontis., 264 pp., illus. Near fine in price-clipped dustjacket which has a faded spine and some light edgewear.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Keith Vaughan (dust jacket) (illustratore). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 175. Illustrated with two leaves of black & white photo reproductions. Red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Spine titles a bit rubbed. Discreet bookplate on the front pastedown. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, flap price 10s. 6d. intact, showing slight edge-wear. Fourth installment of Lehmann's hard-back periodical, a well-curated miscellany of British, Dominion and foreign writing. Includes work by Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Jirí Mucha, et. al. Produced under wartime economic restrictions, the inferior paper has darkened but the text remains bright. The dust jacket has a superb Blake-ian illustration by Keith Vaughan. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First. Used hardback with dustwrapper. No torn or missing pages. Previous owner's name ffep. Small shop stamp inside front board. Some age spotting to closed edges. Dustwrapper is faded along the spine & has a closeable tear to top rear. A fascinating portrait of not only Edith Sitwell herself, but also of the world in which she and her brothers lived. 264 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001010.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This true first edition, first printing (first impression) with the statement 'First Published 1937' to the title page. A good clean copy in a good jacket, not price clipped. rubbing and marks to jacket, wear to edges. Inscribed to the front end page by Edith Sitwell. [ To Vernon with fondest love from Edith, Xmas 1937]. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in stappled wraps. Crease to rear panel on bottom corner. Select Bibliography This was issued as a Supplement to British Book News: No. 25. This was published for The British Council and the National Book League.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

Cloth DW (sl sunned) frontis + 264pp .Cover tips sl rubbed, otherwise Fine.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Vaughan, Keith (illustratore). First Edition. First UK edition. Includes verse and essays by Capetanakis, an introduction by Lehmann and pieces by Sitwell, Plomer and Canellopoulis. The boards have some light edge wear. Page edges browned with scattered light spotting. Endpapers browned with a little light browning and spotting to the adjacent pages but the pages are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has browning to the spine which is chipped at the top and the bottom. The rear panel has quite a bit of brown spotting. The front panel has some browning and light spotting to the white areas at the corners and a small closed tear at the top left corner. Brown spotting to the jacket flaps. Jacket design by Keith Vaughan. First printing.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Plates (illustratore). 1st Edition. Sixteen Issues, First Printings. From The Library Of Ian Ballantine, Then The American Representative For Penguin Books, Prior To His Founding Of Ballantine Books. The Issues Contain A Mixture Of Original Items And Reprints From Earlier Publication. All Are Near Fine Or Fine, Unread, No Marks. American Issue Dust Jackets Present On #6, #7, #8, (With 25 Cent Prices On Front Flap, List Of "Recent American Releases" On Rear Flaps, Flight To Victory Ads On Rear Panels), All Near Fine Or Fine Except 23 Which Has A 1" Open Tear At Bottom Of Spine Panel, 31 Which Is Worn And Only Very Good, And 33 Which Has Slight Rubbing At Corners. A Few Issues With Ballantine's Tiny Handwritten Editorial Note "Anthol 436" At Upper Left Corner Of Front Cover, No Other Marks.