Squire j c john collings (8 risultati)

September Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: The London mercury ; vol. xvi, no. 95. Physical description: 560 p., ill. ; 26 cm. Subjects: English literature ; Periodicals. 1 Kg.

September Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: The London mercury ; vol. xvi, no. 95. Physical description: 560 p., ill. ; 26 cm. Subjects: English literature ; Periodicals. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 90pp, with line drawings. Orange cloth-covered boars with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth a little pushed at corners rounded at spine ends, a tad faded over spine. Some tanning and spotting on endpapers, with a hint of toning throughout, else internally neat and clean. Firmly bound. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped, toned and spotted, chipped and rubbed around edges, shelf worn. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A hard to find collection of humorous verses from John Collings Squire, the once popular but now largely, and unjustly, overlooked English historian, writer and literary editor. Squire occasionally wrote under the pen-name Solomon Eagle. Fenwick, Ian (illustratore).…

paperback. Condizione: Good. 52 Squire, John Collings De Turris, Gianfranco. , Squire, John Collings. Se la storia fosse andata diversamente : saggi di storia virtuale. Milano Corbaccio, 1999. , Corbaccio 1999 italiano, in ottavo 356 45565 52 Titolo Se la storia fosse andata diversamente : saggi di storia virtuale / a cura di John Collings Squire ; edizione italiana a cura di Gianfranco de Turris Pubblicazione Milano : Corbaccio, 1999 Descrizione fisica XVI, 335 p. ; 21 cm     Note generali Trad. di Manuela Frassi.   descrizione: brossura con alette condizioni: molto buono, lievi segni del tempo alle carte NB Questo libro, in quanto usato, potrebbe presentare segni di precedenti proprietari, quali sottolineature e scritte a matita o penna oppure timbri di appartenenza, non indicate nella scheda, come pure lievi abrasioni, piccoli strappi, piegature, tracce d'umidità, ingiallimenti delle carte, incurvamenti e foxing, tipici dei libri usati. Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. A satirical poem attacking proposals associated with the Bishop of London. In the publishers quarter black cloth (no title) over red illustrated boards, black ink titles & tooling, edges rubbed. Internally, signed by the author to verso ffep, title within decorative borders, not paginated but 8 leaves, 9 B&W illustrations by Draper, some faint edge browning & odd light spot to eps gutter. (283*217 mm). The 1924 review explicitly praised the illustrations as being as amusing as the verse. One particularly memorable image, described as the tailpiece, imagines St Paul's Cathedral being towed across the Atlantic to the United States, where it would join a landscape of skyscrapers and American popular culture. DRAPER Christopher (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. 12 pages, Signed Copy of this unusual work of poetry by the leading Georgian School of poets and editor of the Statesman & London Mercury. Signed opposite title page. line drawings and cover art by Christopher Draper. Printed illustrated boards and black strip for spine, minor wear on the covers and tiny nick at spine, some foxing to page edges at title and last leaf. Slim quarto. 1924. *Also wrote under the name Solomon Eagle with satirical overtones on the Great War, His portrait hangs in the NPG, had a least one successful London Play based on a work by Henry James, Knighted in 1933. Christopher Draper. (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. First impression; limited issue. No. 82 of 100 signed copies on Japon. Octavo. Paper-covered boards with printed spine label; 116pp. Two tiny punctures to paper at rear hinge, else a fine, tight copy in the original, rather fragile, publisher's boards. Squire was editor of the London Mercury, an amazingly prolific popular critic and writer of trivial verse, and a frequent tormentor of the more progressive branches of modernism; Virginia Woolf once characterized him as: ".more repulsive than words can express, and malignant into the bargain.". Signed.…

2pp., 4to. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. The first page consists of a typescript in two columns, with names scored through and a few added in pencil. The second page has a few typewritten names, together with dozens added in pencil, clearly at different times. From 1919 the London Mercury's original editor J. C. Squire promoted the traditional verse of the Georgian Poets and their prose counterparts; on taking over in October 1934 Scott-James embraced the more fashionable modernist writing, and that change is reflected in the present list. The names on it include 'Miss Scott-James' (clearly a relation), Isaiah Berlin, Olaf Stapleton, Sir Edward Grigg, Leonard Woolf, William Plomer, Rose Macaulay, Alec Waugh, Liddell Hart, C. E. M. Joad, Sean O'Faolain, Edwin Muir, James Hanley, Sir Archibald Hurd. In a few cases the reviewer's specialities are given (for example 'W. A. Ismay (E. Indies mod politics classics)' and 'F. A Clement (archaeology biology . . . short notes)'). In one case an address is given: 'Richard David (Shakespeare etc) 10 Queen St, Cambs'. The London Mercury ceased publication in April 1939.…