colin mare (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1932. 1st Cheap Edition. 469 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Splitting to spine joints.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy of the 1931 first printing without dust wrapper. In original black cloth with spine lettering almost completely faded. Unsightly diagonal crack across the front board evidenced as a blind crease on the front cover but a more obvious crack on the front paste down. A little fading to the bottom of the rear board. Top edge pink. The book itself is clean with the text block still firm. Ownership signature to front free end paper. 18 classic stories by authors including Wharton, Blackwood, James, Le Fanu et al. As well as an important introduction by Walter de la Mare. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good/Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo.,469pp. Solid Stated First Edition of this scarce anthology of this anthology of 18 stories by Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, William Hope Hodgson, Edith Wharton, Lord Dunsany, L.P. Hartley, and many others including Walter de la Mare who also wrote the introduction. Faber & Faber published the First British Edition in the same year though priority is unclear. Bound in green cloth with lettering in gilt on front board Square, tight and clean throughout with no toning or foxing. Corners bumped an drubbed. Wear to spine ends. Spine panel toned. Mild soiling. A very presentable, collectable copy of a very scarce title and much rarer than the British edition. (Bleiler Checklist, p.58).

FIRST EDITION, pp. 469, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettering ghostly white, top edge sanguine, dustjacket a little nicked, some internal paper repair, principally to a horizontal tear at head of backstrip panel, the glorious design to the front panel by Mabel Lapthorn (see below) in excellent shape, very good. A scarce book, this copy inscribed by the editor on the flyleaf: 'To R.N.G-A., With love and gratitude from Colin, May 4th 1931'. The recipient was Robert North Green-Armytage, a barrister and book-collector from Bath - whose collecting interests included Walter de la Mare, and who had cultivated a friendship with the family. The choice of poems in Faber's 1954 'Selected Poems' of Walter de la Mare' was made by Green-Armytage, whose other literary connections included being the uncle of Vivien Greene. Laid in, within its original envelope, is a 2pp. autograph letter from Colin de la Mare to the same, on the headed paper of his parents' home at Hill House in Taplow, thanking Green-Armytage for the invitation to speak at the Bath Preservation Society - joking (presumably) that he will only commit to such engagements if 'there is a Duke in the chair', and admitting that the idea caused him alarm, and 'I might have disgraced you'. He closes by inviting Green-Armytage to come to London to see Elisabeth Bergner in the film 'Der Traumende Mund', calling her 'the finest actress that I have ever seen', and with a post-scriptum in reference to the recipient's son, Adrian ('ask him to put me on to something "hot"!') - the latter a Merton friend of Louis MacNeice, and the author of a couple of books on religious themes. Colin de la Mare was Walter de la Mare's youngest son, aged only 25 when he edited this highly-regarded anthology - his relative youth may in part explain his reluctance towards public speaking. It is his only published literary work, to which he contributes a slender prefatory note, largely in acknowledgement, followed by his father's more substantial 23pp. exposition on its theme. Walter de la Mare also provides the contribution 'All Hallows'; other contributors include M.R. James, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, E.F. Benson, Richard Middleton, J.D. Beresford, Oliver Onions, et al. The editor's elder brother Richard was for many years principal director at the book's publisher. Mabel Dickinson Lapthorn, the dustjacket designer, was a London-based artist, who gained a reputation for her film posters, and for her book cover-designs in England (these numbering only a few) and Amsterdam - where she was particularly associated with the work of Sigrid Undset for publisher J.M. Meulenhoff.