edited herbert read (28 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. 2nd. 352 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ. 1st. Cloth, 104 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. A solid copy, lacking the DJ. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing. 71pp. Original cloth faded to the spine and rubbed to the edge of the top board. Neat contemporary name and date to the front free endpaper. Internally fine. An uncommon war-time collection covering a wide spectrum of neo- Romantic and other lyric poetry by 25 contemporary poets, including, inter alia, Nicholas Moore, Wrey Gardiner, Francis Scarfe and the mysterious Surrealist F.T.M. Smith or E.T.M. Smith.

hardcover. Etat : Good. 1954 reprinted second edition No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good+. Card wraps. Light soiling on front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 94, [2] pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. British poetry journal: poems, essays, and reviews.

Hardcover. Etat : UsedGood. Hardcover, 2nd edition, reprinted in 1954; International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method; fading and shelf wear to exterior; bookseller's sticker inside rear board; otherwise contents in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. 3rd Edition. ** 3RD EDITION, 1972 ** SOFTCOVER ** CLEAN, STAIN-FREE, UNMARKED ** NOT A LIBRARY BOOK ** COMPLETE AND INTACT ** Published by Schocken Books, 3rd edition 1972, 8vo, with 180 pages, numerous full-page illustrations in black-&-white. Near Fine, with one unobtrusive soft crease to the spine, otherwise book would be Fine, only very occasional, slight signs of use. Book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, still firm and tight in its binding, no pages loose, torn, creased, or missing. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or markings of any such kind in the book. All pages are clean and stain-free, and all text is sharp and legible. Covers have no rears, no pieces missing. Buy with confidence, five-star seller, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. LR1.

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. 80pp. Printed wrappers. One line of text affixed on page 3 (presumably by publisher), front cover with a tiny abrasion, spine ends slightly bumped, near fine. Contains "Two New Odes" by Basil Bunting with essays on Bunting by Robert Creeley, Herbert Read, Charles Tomlinson and Kenneth Cox; additional contributions by Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Hugh MacDiarmid and more.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Cover by McKnight Kauffer. Small quarto. 97pp. Heavily illustrated in black and white with a color frontispiece. Pictorial papercovered booards. Boards with moderate wear, a heavily toned spine, and a tiny cover stain, very good. Prints first appearance in America of T. S. Eliot's "Defense of the Islands" (see Gallup E2d).

Paperback. Etat : Acceptable. Well-illustrated (illustrateur). 1971 Praeger paperback - reading copy only; poor condition; standard-sized, ACCEPTABLE Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Hardcover Good Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954 printing hardcover Edited by Herbert Read Cover and contents clean, binding tight Dust jacket poor.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. Revised, expanded and updated edition. 352 pages. 376 b/w photographs and other illustrations. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 21 Cm x 15 Cm.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd. ***please read*** 1965 printingname inside cover with light pencil - no marks on text - dj is very good and is inside a mylar sleeve - my shelf location - 27-e-14*.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. First printing of the Second Edition. This edition features the correction of a few misprints in the 1924 edition and draws attention to the 1925 publication of 'Notes on Language and Style' with the comment that it is not likely that any other material remains to be published. Slight marks to the original black cloth gilt and light spotting to the fore edge otherwise a firm clean copy. Although the date of publication is 1936 the 20 page Routledge and Kegan Paul listings for the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method bound in at the rear is dated 1939.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Reprint. 9.7 X 7.3 X 1.0 inches.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Editorial and prefatory notes by Eva van Hoboken, Sazo Idemitsu, Basil Gray and Herbert Read. Handsomely bound book published by the New York Graphic Society. Grey buckram covered boards with title in a red spine panel outlined in gilt. 191 pages printed on a thick glazed paper stock. Sengai was one of the great Japanese Zen masters. Daisetz Suzuki considered his explanatory notes and texts on Sengai's scrolls as the summing-up of his work. Reproductions of 127 ink drawings and calligraphies with Suzuki's commentaries. No name or other markings. The dustjacket is price-intact with slight browning along the edges. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Lucian Freud & John Craxton (illustrateur). Soft cover. 21.5x13.5cm. 70 pages, plus 4 pages of black & white reproductions of paintings by Lucian Freud & John Craxton. Spine top has a little damage. Clean. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F9149.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Selected Essays and Critical Writings. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Foxing to end inside covers, edge and some pages. Slightly sunned spine to cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: The Art of Reading. Talks With Katherine Mansfield. Readers and Writers. Art. What is the Soul? We Moderns. From The New English Weekly. On Love. On Religion. 216 pp. Plastic protective covering. (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, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Publisher's original colour illustrated laminated card covers. Folio 14'' x 10¼'' ISBN 0834300060. Double-page and full-page colour illustrations throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. From the estate of a private library belonging to the children's author and illustrator Valerie Littlewood with her signature to the front end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Flemish and Dutch].

Original Wraps. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. Alexander Calder (Lyre Bird cover design) (illustrateur). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 - the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. After a hiatus of around five years since the publication of the final issue of the original series, in 1951, Tambimuttu relaunched the magazine in New York in 1956. However, this version of the magazine only ran to four issues before cessation again in 1960. With the Lyre Bird cover design by Alexander Calder. ***Very good in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Please note that the bottom of the spine has been bumped and this affects all pages (please see scans). Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no tears. Internally also very good with very clean pages. None of the usual foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***40 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: Poems by Walter de la Mare, Roy Campbell, Marya Zaturenska, W. S. Merwyn, Herbert Read, W. H. Auden, Anne Ridler, Jean Garrigue, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Nelson Bentley, Robert Graves, Claire McAllister, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Logue, Tom Scott, Arthur Gregor, Alice Monks Mears, Kenneth Eisold, Babette Deutsch, Diana Menuhin, Amrita Pritam, Buddhadiva Bose, Jibanananda Das. ***Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 of Poetry London - New York, the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Etat : Fine. Number of pages: 74p 40 pages Size: 22.5x16 Number of books: 1 book.

Original Wraps. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrateur). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers hardly rubbed or creased at all. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Virtually no creasing and no tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue and exceptionally rare in this near fine condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 232pp. Blue cloth w faded gilt title to spine which is worn at head. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DEREK STANFORD TO IRIS BIRTWISTLE on ffep and with typed poem to separate piece of paper. Contents clean and tight with just a hint of tanning, a very nice copy. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. ENGLISH TEXT (ALSO APPEARED IN FRENCH TEXT)EXTREMELY SCARCE.LARGE SIZED CARD COVERS.SOME DAMAGE TO SPINE.INTERNALLY CLEAN.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Vol 1: Illustrations throughout, including frontis piece. End papers slightly sunned. White cloth covered boards bottom edge is darkened , slight bumping to head of spine. Very good indeed. Dj, slight bumping and wear to extremities, very good indeed. Vol 2: Illustrations throughout, including frontis piece. Blue cloth boards, slightly bumped head and foot of spine, minor marks, very good indeed. Dj is smudged with wear to extremities, particularly head and foot of spine, also slight folding to top edge. Very good. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".

Original Wraps. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrateur). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers slightly creased and rubbed, with a surface crease across the top corner and a smaller surface crease across the bottom corner of the front cover, and a slight bump to the tail of the spine. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

First Edition. Portrait frontispiece by Buckland Wright after B.R. Haydon End-papers and margins somewhat browned, but a nice copy in rather spotted dust-wrapper; ownership inscription and bookseller's stamp on front pastedown; bookplate.

Leather Bound. Etat : New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1924. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 302, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 302 302.