hugh gordon porteus (10 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 36 pages. Louis Becke 1855-1913 works published (3 published) / Rachael Cohen "A Book Collector" / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig 901-1000 / Walter Crane titles & Horn Books & Kate Greenaway titles sold at Sotheby's on 16 March 1970 Hugh Gordon Porteus "A Few Dry Leaves" / A A Milne titles & Chapbooks sold at Sotheby's 16 March 1970.

Etat : Fair. 1932. First Edition. 297 pages. No dust jacket. Black paper covered boards. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine end with splits to spine edges. Wear marks overall.

Pamphlet. Etat : Very Good. 8p, slim pamphlet, stapled, yellow paper, "especially written for the exhibition on Chinese Art heal in July 1951 at the Wakefield City Art Gallery" Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Language: English.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing octavo hardback 315 pp Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (slightly chipped at edges No inscriptions.

Publisher's original grey card wrap covers, black title, volume number and contents lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. The overlapping edges with small nicks, spine age tanned and with a little foxing to the light grey card covers, without any ownership markings and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 4to, 64pp, printed wrappers. Another impressive issue of this seminal 1950s British little magazine. Includes work by W. H. Auden, William Empson, and an impressive roster of other contributors. Unmarked copy, spine has rolling, light toning to wrappers. Not Signed.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 301-356pp. Perfect bound paper wraps. Slight tanning to the wraps, crease to corner and miniscule chip, about near fine. Poetry anthology with contributions from Lawrence Durrell ("Deus Loci"), Rachel Annand Taylor, Wilfrid Gibson, R.H. Mottram, Wilfred Rowland Childe, Stanley Snaith, D'Arcy Cresswell, Wrenne Jarman, Geoffrey Johnson, Gawsworth, Hugh Gordon Porteus, Phoebe Hesketh, John Heath-Stubbs, David Marcus, George Moor, Arthur Caddick, James Brockway, Theodore Roscoe, Lionel Johnson, and Marvin Magalaner.

HARDCOVER. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Hardcover edition. 297pp, octavo in black cloth. light wear to book covers yet clean, binding remains strong, foxing to endpapers, mild dampstain along top and bottom edges of page block, text clean throughout, Good+; black dj covers mildly worn on rear, chipping to top fore-edge corners and spine, front dj cover detached along dj spine edge, Fair.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with white lettering to spine. Black endpages; black topstain. In scarce dustjacket showing some very light wear to outer corners and to head and heel of spine panel.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good Indeed. Etat de la jaquette : Good. None (illustrateur). First edition. The first edition of Hugh Gordon Porteus' critical exploration of the works of Wyndham Lewis, with the original, very scarce dust wrapper. The first edition. With the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first critical study of the works of Percy Wyndham Lewis, the British author and critic who co-founded the Vorticist movement in art and edited BLAST, the literary magazine of the Vorticists. Written by Hugh Gordon Porteus, known for his influential reviews of various works of art and literature of the 1930s. Porteus was a huge admirer of Wyndham Lewis, with Lewis portraying Porteus as the character "Rotter" Parkinson in his novel Self Condemned. With essays on The Split-Man, The Visionary, The Satirist, and more. With a newspaper cutting containing Porteus's obituary, loosely inserted, and an inscription from H. A. Mason, possibly that of the renowned literary critic and lecturer, Henry Andrew Mason. Bound in the publisher"s cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light bumping to the extremities and the odd mark. Front hinge is a touch strained, but holding firm. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Dust wrapper is sound, with chipping to the extremities, causing a little loss to the backstrip head and tail. Label remnants to backstrip and the odd mark. Tear to the front joint, with a horizontal tear to the backstrip center. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Offsetting from newspaper cutting to title page and page facing. Very Good Indeed. book.