Cunningham j s edited (5 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. Number 50. Octavo. 47pp., ads. Printed wrappers with light toning and modest soil, near fine. Contains reviews of Ted Hughes' "Crow" by Neil Roberts and Geoffrey Hill's "Mercian Hymns" by Michael Launchbury; poems by John Dixon Hunt, William Oxley, Brian R.L. Lee, and Michael Launchbury; and an extract from a new novel by Anthony Ward.…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Previous owners name sticker to inside cover. Red cloth with blue lettering. Contents: Introduction. Text: Manuscripts of verse by William Collins. Notes. Appendix I: Lines of Composite Authorship. Appendix II: Oratio ad Portas. Appendix III: Transcript of Swift's Poem 'On the Day of Judgement'. Appendix IV: Warton Manuscripts relating to Collins. 49 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Large softcovers, 29x21cm,216 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles , index,signed & inscribed by the owners by McAleer and Cunningham. Bumped corners, some cover scratches. This memoir chronicles Thomas Arthur Dykes story, from his childhood growing up in country Wangaratta to the working class streets of Abbotsford. At the age of thirty-two, married with four children, he volunteered to serve his country in its hour of need. An original member of the 23rd Battalion, he travelled with his unit from Broadmeadows to Egypt and in typical Digger style he tells it how it was; surviving the sinking of the troopship 'Southland' and the harsh conditions and constant dangers in the trenches at Lone Pine until he was evacuated wounded only weeks before the campaign was given up. From here he is thrown into the horrors of the Western Front: from Fleurbaix to the Somme, from Ypres to Flers, until he fell victim to the winter of 1916/17 and trench feet. A year out of the line, he returned for the final push of 1918 and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his courage and bravery at Mont St Quentin. But his war wouldn't end for him with the armistice, it just set him up for the struggles he would have to endure in those decades that followed. If you ever wanted to know what a soldier of the AIF had to endure in the First World War - this will tell you.…

8 volumes: 244 + 348 + 328 + 362 + 414 + 281 + 379 + 432pp. Frontispiece and vignette title page engraving in each volume Second edition, revised. Covers mostly soiled, a few quite heavily; some have small green paint stains; several volumes have chipped spine ends; volume 6 lacks frontispiece; all volumes have the previous owner's (attractive) bookplate, some hinges/joints cracked: Good to VG-.…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. later printing edition (1st was in 1835), complete 8-volume set. 344 + 348 + 328 + 362 + 344 + 281 + 379 + 431 pages. Illustrated title page and frontispiece engraving with tissueguard in each volume. 12mo. VG condition, all pages and binding tight, no apparent splitting of endpaper joints, a superb set.…