housman laurence preface (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1936. First (1st) Printing (no later printings listed) of First American Edition. Fine- Condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, off-white, tight, straight and square, with bright gilt top-edge, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full liberty blue cloth (color uniform throughout) with gilt design. title, and author's name to front board, gilt design, title, etc., to spine, unmarked, off-white endpapers, and corners square but showing some wear at tips. No Dust Jacket. See photos. xiii + 73 + i pages. 55 7/8" x 8 3/8". Preface by Laurence Housman, this is a collection of poems gathered after the author's death. Published at the same time as the British text, it contains textual variations.

hard cover. Etat : Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. London:Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. 1922. 1st edition. xxii+287pp. Illustrated with chapter headings. Signed by Author on 1st free end-page. Hardcover. Beige boards soiled and selfworn, with wear to edges and spine label chipped. Page edges soiled.  Internally, end pages age-toned with old penciled bookseller notes to inside front board as well as a bookseller ticket to bottom edge, with Author's signature on 1st free end-page. There is an extra spine label bound in to rear. The binding is tight and hinges intact. Signed by authors.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Gilt-titled and ruled brown quarter-leather and gilttitled cloth, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 71 pp., frontis. portrait. No. 128 of an edition limited to 379 copies. Spine just a bit faded with light wear at head and heel, small stain at rear edge; lower corners of boards and lower edge of front board bumped; page edges foxed, attractive contemporary book plate on verso of front free endpaper, light soiling to front blank page, light foxing to a few pages. Size: 8vo.

Orange Cloth. Etat : Very Good + Book. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good + DJ. Drawings By Quentin Crisp (illustrateur). First Edition, First Printing. 75 Pp. Radical Verse. With A Two Page Holograph Letter Dated In August 1949, Explaining His Discomfort When Speaking Before A Group, Etc. He Also Explains That He Stopped By Unwin's To Ask Them To Send The Recipient A Copy Of This Book, And Discusses The Book, Including Instructions That The Verses Are Meant To Be Chanted Out Loud. Book Clean, Lightly Used; Dj Very Lightly Used, Not Price Clipped, 1/8" + Chip At Top Of Spine Well Above The Lettering. Inscribed by Author(s).