harold monro ed (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 8vo., 255 pp., Good, Green Cloth, edge wear, shelf wear.

Zustand: Good. 1925. Hardcover. Clean copy in original paper covered boards. Cover of spine completely worn away. Boards dulled and showing light shelf wear. Previous owner's inscription to FFEP. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd ed. (1970). 217pp. VG/VG copy but for closed tear to rear cover internally tape repaired (hardly visible), a couple of nicks to jacket, now preserved in mylar jacket protector.

Zustand: Good. 1925. Hardcover. Clean copy in original paper covered boards. Cover of spine completely worn away. Boards dulled and showing light shelf wear. Previous owner's inscription to FFEP. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a good copy. . . . .

Hardback. Zustand: Good Only. None (illustrator). First edition. Three first edition issues of Harold Monro's poetry periodical 'The Chapbook' presenting a wonderful variety of poems published in the 1920s. Three issues of this early 20th century poetry periodical, in the publisher's original bindings.These issues feature a variety of poems, prose, essays and illustrations by contemporary writers and artists of the day, with the work being edited by Harold Monro, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London.Present here are:No. 32, December 1922, featuring 'One Day Awake, A Morality without Moral' by Harold Monro. This was issued when the periodical was published monthly.Also present are the annual volumes for 1924 (No. 39) and 1925 (No. 40), produced when the periodical had switched to annual publication.With contributions from poets including Theo Sharf, Osbert Sitwell, T. S. Eliot, Sacheverell Sitwell, Anna Wickham, Eleanor Farjeon, and others.With vignette illustrations throughout. In the publisher's original paper wraps and paper covered boards. Boards bright, if a touch age toned to perimeters. Lacking back strip of 1924 volume, with joints starting and boards firmly held. Small loss to back strip head of 1925 volume, with joints starting, and boards firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 122, [2] pp., 8vo, illustrated paper-covered boards, dustjacket. With an impressive roster of contributors, both literary and artistic. The latter includes engravings and drawings by Paul Nash, Wyndham Lewis, David Jones, E. McKnight Kauffer, Blair Hughes-Stanton and E. Gordon Craig. Overall, a very good, well-preserved copy; quarter-inch of light damage at head of backstrip, offsetting to front and rear flyleaves, contents otherwise fine. Dustjacket somewhat age-toned, lightly soiled and missing thumbnail-size piece from front panel and the head of the lightly worn spine panel.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Three first edition issues of Harold Monro's poetry periodical 'The Chapbook' bound together, including the very scarce nos. 15 and 16. Three issues of this early 20th century poetry periodical bound in a single volume, retaining the publisher's original front and rear wraps.These issues feature a variety of poems, prose, essays and illustrations by contemporary writers and artists of the day, with the work being edited by Harold Monro, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London.Present here are:No. 15: Old Broadside Ballads, edited by Claud Lovat Fraser. This is a very scarce issue.No. 16: Sixteen New Poems by Contemporary Poets. With contributions from Camilla Doyle, Marguerite Few, Mary Morison Webster and others. This is also a very scarce issue.No. 17: The Younger French Poets, by F. S. Flint. Rebound in paper covered boards, with calf spine label. Minor rubbing to boards, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

9 x 7, cloth, uniformly bound in blue cloth backed blue marbled paper boards with original wrappers bound in, edges trimmed, moderate wear to board edges else vg. FIRST ED.

A rare complete set of the longest-running literary "little magazine" of the 1920s, including ten copies from the library of a contributor, H. H. Abbott. Through poetry and essays, The Chapbook provided "a critical survey of contemporary literature, and numerous examples of the creative work of the present period" (Number 1). Its collection of both Georgian and modernist poets reveals a changing literary landscape. The editor, Harold Monro (1879-1932), was a key player in the publication of poetry in early 20th-century Britain. His Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury was a hub of literary activity and published famous anthologies such as the Georgian Poetry series and Ezra Pound's Des Imagistes (1914). The Chapbook follows in the tradition of "little magazines", which flourished in the early 20th century by offering editorial visions marked by originality and independence. "The mere size of The Chapbook and the diversity of its range disqualified it from competing with papers like The Athenaeum or The London Mercury. The paper was a rather light-weight production, presenting new verse, new verse-drama or criticism, in convenient, bite-size portions. The casualness and freedom that resulted was one of The Chapbook's attractive qualities" (Grant, p. 138). Number 34 of February 1923 followed the publication of The Waste Land (1922). "The poetry of the future had at last arrived, and [Monro] was one of the first poets to recognize it" (Hibberd, p. 224), publishing his essay on the poem in the form of an imaginary discussion between himself and his friend T. S. Eliot. The Chapbook also covered international developments. F. S. Flint discussed the Dada movement in The Younger French Poets (Number 17, November 1920), and John Gould Fletcher wrote the issue Some Contemporary American Poets (Number 11, May 1920). In praising figures such as Robert Frost, Fletcher's issue gave "the first competent account of American poetry to appear in England for a very long time, [correcting] the illusion of the English reader that Vachel Lindsay was the only serious modern American poet" (Grant, p. 156). The headmaster H. H. Abbott (1891-1976), who contributes eight poems to Number 7 (1920), has pencilled his name and address of 90 Park Grove on the wrappers of ten later numbers. Monro launched Abbott's brief career as a poet of the Essex countryside and reprinted his contributions to The Chapbook in a separately published collection, Black & White (1922). The first two portfolio cases have the ownership inscription of the liberal MP Cecil Harmsworth, first baron Harmsworth (1869-1948), younger brother to the press lords Northcliffe and Rothermere and the former owner of the home of Samuel Johnson. The other contributors included Herbert Read, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon, Edith Sitwell, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and many more. The covers and occasional illustrations were attractively designed by artists such as Paul Nash, Wyndham Lewis, E. McKnight Kauffer, and Jean de Bosschère. The final issue of The Chapbook brought Monro's influential career as an editor to an end. Hoffman, Allen, & Ulrich, p. 256. Joy Grant, Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop, 1967; Dominic Hibberd, Harold Monro: Poet of the New Age, 2001. Together, 40 issues, octavo. Woodcuts and line drawings in the text. Numbers 1-12 and 13-24 bound in the publisher's two quarter cloth portfolio vols with marbled sides and paper labels, original wrappers bound in, Numbers 25-32 bound in wrappers housed in the publisher's portfolio chemise, Numbers 33-38 in wrappers, Numbers 39-40 in hardcover boards, Number 40 with dust jacket. Assortment of Poetry Bookshop ephemera loosely inserted. Slight wear and foxing externally, contents generally clean, wrappers of Number 25 neatly repaired. In well-preserved condition.