seven deadly sins de angus wilson edith sitwell cyril (9 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Used in very good condition. Clean cover, pages and text with tight binding. Dust jacket shows shelf life wear and age. It is torn on the front corner at the top right and left corners. There is a water mark on the top front and back and the front bottom. This does not go through to pages! We are a Benedictine Abbey/Seminary library. We appreciate your support.

Etat : Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Deadly Sins, Literature Collections) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's cloth in spine faded dustjacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. First Edition Thus. Slight lean, rubbing and toning, light foxing to pages, and mottling to the boards. Jacket with rubbing, toning, dampstains to the verso, a few tears and chips, and is price clipped. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 87 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First American edition of a famous literary project inspired by Ian Fleming (1908-1964) involved commissioning seven essays from renowned modernist writers. These essays explored the themes of deadly sins: envy, pride, covetousness, gluttony, sloth, lust, and anger. The result was a creative iconography that captured the essence of post-war Western civilization. Text in English. 1 volume. 21,5x14cm. 87 pp. Illustrations in text. Red cloth hardcover binding. Dust jacket slightly sunburned. Near fine condition.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. None stated (illustrateur). First edition. The first edition of this collection of essays on the seven deadly sins, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.An uncommon work.Illustrated with a monochrome illustrated title page which is from a South German woodcut from 1414, and chapter illustrations which come from a 1480-90s coloured woodcut, all in one piece, entitled 'The Seven Deadly Sins and the Devil' from the Albertina collection in Vienna.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work features a collection of essays on the seven deadly sins, written by a host of writers and edited with an introduction by Raymond Mortimer. The essays were first published in the 'Sunday Times' and aroused such interest that they decided to publish them in book form. The essays provide a witty modern analysis and study of the deadly sins and humanity. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with rubbing and slight bumping to the extremities. The wrap is generally smart with fading to the spine and extremities, edge wear, chipping and handling marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Near Fine. book.

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xii, 87, [1]. Black and white illustrations. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dustjacket printed in red, purple, and black. A label (or correction sticker?) removed from title-page verso leaving a blue mark, lightly showing through to recto. Extremities a touch rubbed, dustjacket a little toned and marked. The first edition, published on 29 October 1962, of a series of essays initially printed in the Sunday Times in January of 1962, prompted by Ian Fleming who sat on the editorial board at the time. The New York edition published in November the same year added a special forward by Fleming. Bloomfield & Mendelson B78a; Davis, Doyle et al 942.

[Literary anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.88. With vignette illustrations. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers titled in black in original dust-wrapper priced 15s. UK sheets in the US (Morrow) binding. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Near fine, in a lightly used jacket. Conceived by Ian Fleming; while still a member of the Editorial Board at the Sunday Times, Fleming had the brilliant idea of asking some of the greatest writers of the time (many of whom were his close friends) to comment on their favourite deadly sin - the serial appeared in the newspaper with contributions from Patrick Leigh Fermor, Cyril Connolly, Edith Sitwell, Evelyn Waugh, W.H. Auden, Christopher Sykes and Angus Wilson. From the collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert, with pencil ownership and invoice tucked in. Gilbert B3, p.518.