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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. No dust jacket. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928, first printing. 8vo., xv+85pp. Black cloth with gilt titles. Fade to the edges of the cloth, soiling, bookplate remnants on flyleaf, toning offset from newspaper clipping on Hardy pasted. Text clean. Good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, previous owner signature to inside board, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Reprint. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain. Physical description; xv, 84 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 Interviews. Authors, English 19th century ; Biography. 1 Kg. …

paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. paperback, printed card covers a little discoloured, published in an edition limited to 300 copies, the text is clean and unmarked, xiv + 84pp.

Zustand: Fair. 1928. No Edition Stated. 84 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth. Spine is completely missing. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Front hinge cracked. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear to board edges and corners. Notable scuffing and marking to boards. Dewy code to base of spine area.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd 1978, reprint. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Price-clipped Dust Jacket. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Zustand: Good. 1958. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green and black paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Zustand: Good. 1928. No edition remarks. 85 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, heavy to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Notable marking to p.14-5. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Notable scratching and marking to boards. Boards are notably warped. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. hardback bound in red cloth with blind stamped titles to front and gilt titles to spine. With 17 black and white illustrations to front section. Interior extremely clean with no writing, marks or tears. Covers clean and unscuffed, very lightly rubbed to spine edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 84pp. Owner bookplate with light offsetting to front pastedown, small bookseller ticket, boards slightly spotted with modest edgewear, about very good, lacking the dust jacket.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xv + 84 (previous owners' bookplates on front paste-down and neat inscription on prelim facing half title).

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 258 Seiten Zustand: Einband leicht beschädigt, Seiten geringfügig fleckig, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! Regalux 2 4 Reihe hinten Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First edition. Octavo. 84pp. About fine in toned and worn, good or better dust jacket with small chips and tears.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 84, [1]pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with small nicks and tears at the spine ends.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Young's Te Crescent Moon, Conrad's Typhoon, Stacpoole's The Ship of Coral, Collin's Ordeal make up this collection of adventure stories. Embossed red cloth binding, gilt on spine,decorated endpapers. Hinges weak at front and back. Some damage to a few pages and some of the print is faded but readable. Possible first edition.…

8vo, xvi, 85pp, orig. cloth gilt. A practically fine clean copy in a dustwrapper which has a complete split along rear joint.

Hardback, 9 x 5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. In very good condition. Some minor light handling marks to cloth else clean and smart. Slight tanning to endpapers. No inscriptions. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 85pp. The author, an admirer of Hardy, recalls some conversations at Hardy?s home, Max Gate, Dorchester.…

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. The author was Educational Manager at OUP; he recorded five long conversations with Hardy between April 1920 and August 1922.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with a crease, dogeared corner and small nick. Folded once for postage. Signed 'Michael Sadleir'. He is grateful to Collins 'for pointing out the careless grammatical mistake of mine in the SUNDAY TIMES review. It is only too easy to slip into a conversational style (for I think that what I meant was perfectly clear) when writing rapid condensations for a newspaper. But of course you are perfectly right about the word otherwise.' He ends (perhaps with a hint of irony): 'I am sending an order to Longmans for a copy of THE CHOICE OF WORDS.' Collins's book had been published in the previous year.…

See his entry by Ruari Maclean in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. With Bentley's distinctive stylized signature 'Nicolas Bentley'. After thanking him for his letter he writes (apparently with reference to a newspaper article): 'I am sorry if in using the phrase "I am afraid" I ruffled your grammatical sensibilities. I used it because I meant it. I am always afraid of hurting people's feelings, and I know that sometimes the return of a manuscript must give pain to an author.' He agrees that the phrase is used to often, as a substitute for 'I am sorry'.…

An interesting letter, revealing some of Cecil's views on the art of writing. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler, and Cecil has clearly been on the receiving end of a ticking off. 2pp, 4to. On grey paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with creasing and a short closed cut at the foot. He begins by stating that he found Collins's letter 'very interesting': 'I take a great interest in the small points of style.' He agrees with some of Collins's 'strictures', 'in particular that about the exclamation mark. As a matter of fact I didn't put any exclamation marks, they were put in by the newspaper. However, I am partly responsible, for I didn't notice them in the hurry of looking through the proof at the last minute.' He responds to another question of punctuation, before stating: 'I do not take the view that no sentence should begin with 'and'. It may be necessary to begin one with 'and', in order to convey the precise modulation of thought in the mind of the author.' He continues: 'You are wrong in thinking "whether or not" unnecessary. I wished to give the impression of the controversy raging in the Norton household - with Caroline saying the children should go to stay with her brother, and George Norton maintaining that they should not do so - this could not be conveyed so well by simply using the word "whether".' He proceeds to explain his disagreement with Collins's point regarding 'consternated', commenting: 'I note that you quote Fowler [H. W. Fowler, author of 'Modern English Usage'] as an authority. Believe me, he is no such thing. His books are lively and vigorous, but they reveal him as a man who does not understand much about the art of writing. Almost every rule he propounds has been broken by great writers.' After conceding Collins's points on 'slips in punctuation', he concludes: 'You are surely right to protest against slipshod writing; but you should remember that the writing of English is a flexible art.' The letter carries numerous pencil annotations by Collins, including - concerning the point about sentences beginning with 'and' - 'Nor do I nor does any sensible person'. And on the question of Fowler: 'No argument. There is not a glaring error in grammar or style of which an example could not be found in a famous writer. The quality of their [?], like Homer, nods.'.…

A poignant letter, written during Joad's final illness (he died on 9 April 1953). Joad's entry in the Oxford DNB ends with this assessment: 'Cyril Joad was an outstanding educator, a tireless proponent of 'progressive' causes, and one of the best-known broadcasters of the 1940s.' The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler, and the letter concerns his 1952 book 'The Choice of Words'. 2pp, 4to. Aged and discoloured, and cropped at the head with loss of a line of text. Folded once for postage. Date given in ink at head, presumably by Collins. Written in pencil in a barely-legible hand. Signed 'Your old friend / Cyril Joad' and beginning: 'Vere, / You've written a lovely book. I'm ill in bed - have been for a very long time; prostate! - and have therefore read it with continuity and attention as it is "sweet" in the Victorian good sense of the word - the sense in which there aren't any 'sweet' girls now.' The concluding half of the letter is difficult to decipher. Postscript: 'PS For the next impression should not "Sydney" on p 154 be Melbourne? / PS (2) Why not continue in the same vein up to our time / Come and see me'.…

See Sir William Beveridge's entry in the Oxford DNB: 'An overbearing and temperamental Scotswoman, Mrs Mair had come to the school [the LSE] with Beveridge in 1919 (having been his secretary and aide during the war) and was highly unpopular with many of the school's professors. Throughout the 1930s there were complaints about the 'BeveridgeMair dictatorship' and a general sense of relief when Beveridge decided to leave the school to accept the mastership of University College, Oxford, in 1937.' 1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged, with one dog-eared corner. Folded twice for postage. Signed 'Janet Beveridge'. The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler. She thanks him for writing to her about her letter to The Times, and reminding her that they had met 'in my sister's flat in London. Her death two years ago was very sad for me; I miss her more than I ever thought possible.' She discusses her use of the word 'Lady' in the letter, which she says was done 'for the very special reason that I felt that the women making a fuss about the kilt would describe themselves as Ladies'. She is on his side 'about the nomenclature in general', and asks him to 'read the book I had published a month or so ago, "Beveridge and His Plan," and let me know if I have transgressed the rules in my use of language.' She cannot understand 'how it came about that William did not acknowledge your letter to him - he is puncilious in this as a rule'. The reason may be that they have spent a couple of months in America without a secretary. She concludes with reference to 'some members of our society who, being indignant at such vulgarians as myself for wearing a kilt, would equally object to my calling them women!'.…

The third letter gives an excellent indication of Birkett's pride in his use of language. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler. All three signed 'Norman Birkett'. In fair condition, lightly aged and little grubby. The first letter with a small hole to one corner, and the two leaves of the last letter held together with a pin. ONE: ALS, 9 July 1953. 1pp, 4to. He is adding Collins's book to his 'select library on "words"'. 'I am afrait that "finalise" is in frequent use as "I was sent to finalise the arrangements", and it is often used by witnesses in court, and sometimes (not without protest from me) by barristers.' He ends: 'But the purpose of this letter is to thank you, if somewhat belatedly, for the interest you took in the subject of my address, and for your kindness in writing to me.' TWO: ANS, 14 July 1953. 1p, 4to. He has no objection if Collins adds the note he sends him 'to the book now at the printers'. He will get 'One Word and Another' when it is published. THREE: ALS, 11 May 1954. 3pp, 4to. He will read the book Collins has sent him with great pleasure, 'for, as you know, anything written about words has a great fascination for me'. Turning to Collins's 'criticism of some remarks of mine uttered in the course of an after-dinner speech', which have appeared without Birkett's knowledge or consent, he is for the most part in agreement, 'but I take it a little hard that the unpremeditated effusion of the moment should be treated as though it were a carefully prepared essay. I will say no extempore speech can survive a scrutiny such as the scrutiny you send to me.' With regard to Collins's seven points, he feels he should 'keep in mind the difficulties of extempore speaking. The perfect word does not always come readily to the tongue. The sentences do not always flow as one could wish, and the "verbal expert" seated in his comfortable study might make a little allowance for human frailty!' In the following paragraph he turns the tables on Collins, analysing his use of language in his letter to Birkett. With a veiled criticism of Collins he explains how 'the lover of words (as I am) can become a "tiresome pedant" ' Collins's criticism has clearly hit home, as Birkett adds a fourteen-line postscript in his distinctive close hand, ending: 'I cannot even be sure that the reporter took down accurately what I did say: I had no notes, and never dreamt that what I said would receive this unwanted publicity, and subject me to the criticism of lovers of good English!'.…