Macmillan 1981 edition first edition (17 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Covers are rubbed at spine tips and corners. Dust jacket is bumped at top of spine and top back corner. 320 pages with index and many illustrations.

Near fine with near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has a light three inch scratch on front panel near spine and is very lightly bumped at top of spine. 279 pages with index and 77 illustrations.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, x, 218 pp, 10 ills. From the blurb - "This collection of essays, by two well-known critics of the novel, explores the ways in which a number of novelists - Sterne, Jane Austen, * Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, James - have made the influence of literature on life their subject. The traditional task of the realist to imitate life takes on a further refinement when the novelist elects to imitate life imitating novels. Don Quixote, who set out on a quest to live a romance, is the ancestor of numbers of characters, like Elizabeth Bennet, Mrs Merdle, and Isabel Archer, who seek to invest their lives with aesthetic style. Juliet and Rowland McMaster show how the inevitable self-consciousness of the novelist who portrays characters acting according to literary precedent often manifests itself as an intense concern with the powers and failings of language. Words, as Sterne, Thackeray and Trollope are aware, may create their own structures that are independent of their intended use as pellucid expression. Tristram Shandy draws attention to 'tall, opake words,' which may be a barrier as often as a means to under- standing, and he weaves his doubts into the very fabric of his verbal communication with his reader. Trollope, in a concentrated study of a disintegrating marriage in He Knew He Was Right, shows similarly how his characters become entrapped in their own verbal structures ." Contents: Experience to expression in Tristram Shandy -- Pride and prejudice: acting by design -- Dickens and the horrific -- Dickens, the dandy, and the savage: a Victorian view of the romantic -- Great expectations -- Thackeray's things: time's local habitation -- The Pygmalion motif in The Newcomes -- An honourable emulation of the author of The Newcomes: James and Thackeray -- The portrait of Isabel Archer -- The turn of the screw -- The curse of words in He knew he was right. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ original charcoal cloth, mild age-toning to pages, otherwise a very clean and straight copy, in VG price-clipped DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket photo by Bill Richmond.

HB BLUE CLOTH NEAR FINE PP186 DW FINE 8V0 Sub-titled The American Bounder.

HB CREAM BOARDS FINE PP130 DW FINE 8VO The English writerÕs period in Australia.

HB BLUE BOARDS FINE PP188 DW FINE 8V0 Stories by Harold Acton, Murray Bail, Graham Swift and others.

HB CREAM CLOTH FINE PP130 DW FINE 8V0 About LawrenceÕs visit and time here in 1922.

8vo, 239pp. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Tanned paper stock.

Etat : Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original donkey brown cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt rope design to the upper panel. Landscape 5½'' x 7¼''. Contains full-page colour illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0333306740 ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).…

Etat : Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 236 printed pages of text. Lower edges slightly scuffed. Near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0333227972 ITALY (History & Culture).…

Etat : Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original leaf green cloth covers, silver lettering to spine. 8vo 8'' x 5¼'' 190 pages ISBN 0333309766. Cheap paper slightly browning to page margins. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, red spine colour not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

h/c + d/j, large format, 31x24cm, profusely illustrated by Gill, 160 pages, light corner bumps, nice copy. Fabulous selection of Gill's early works on Australia.

Etat : Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original indigo paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 189 pp. A little age darkening to closed edges. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0333310721 MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

Etat : Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original maroon paper covers, silver lettering to spine. 8vo 8'' x 5¼'' 191 pages ISBN 0333318471. Cheap paper slightly browning to page margins. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, red spine colour not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Etat : Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original forest green cloth effect covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8¼'' x 5¼''. Contains 220 pp. Light spotting and tanning to the text block edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £5.50, red spine not faded. Dust wrapper protected. Two Macmillan slips loosely inserted: (i) Compliments slip (ii) Review Copy slip dated 29th May, 1981. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…