introduction david garnett (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Traveller's Library Edition. 288; 39pp. Sextodecimo [17.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards, with the title and a gilt stamped design on the backstrip. Boards a bit bowed. Two contemporary owner names on the front free endpaper. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. A selection of the author's most popular short stories, chosen by the author himself. Contains the following fantasy stories: Alexander, The Barber, The Child, A Comic Actor, A Tinker's Donkey, Lanko's White Mare.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1946. First edition. xiii, 473pp. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author, who became a British citizen in the last year of his life. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. This volume contains fourteen short stories, selected and with an introduction by the English writer and publisher David Garnett (1892-1991). The stories are - The Diary of a Man of Fifty, Brooksmith, The Pupil, Sir Edmund Orme, The Marriages, The Real Thing, The Private Life, Owen Wingrave, The Tree of Knowledge, Paste, Maud-Evelyn, The Abasement of the Northmores, The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner. The book is bound in the original brick-red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with a name, place and date neatly written on the front free endpaper. The clipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling and the spine is sunned. The spine ends and top corners are lightly bumped with some nicks at the top of the spine that have been repaired on the reverse with a strip of paper that appears to have been taken from the price clip. There is a light crease across the bottom front edge with a small nick and there is a tear of about 1/4" on the top rear edge.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 514 pp. 10 black and white plates and in-text illustrations. Light brown buckram with a panel and gilt lettering to spine, in dustjacket. Spots to top edge, a bump to spine's tail, otherwise very clean and a fine copy. 0224619543 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. xxii, 982pp.

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original raspberry cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 366 pp. Monochrome frontispiece. Light foxing to page edges and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper, spine not faded and without any rubbing to the cloth. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILE.

Gebundene Ausgabe. 515 S. Schutzumschlag etw. berieben u. bestaubt u. rissig, Buchschnitt etw. bestaubt // LETTERS,LITERARY,COLLECTIONS L043 *.* Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 930.

Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket. Very Good. Creasing, especially along spine. Price clipped. (Dust Jacket only. Book not included).

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet buckram cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered blue back. 8vo. 8¼'' x 6''. Contains (xxvi), 982 pp. Ink name of the author 'Gordon MacKay' to the front free end paper. Just a little fading to the top of the spine where the dust wrapper is chipped. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips to the corners of the spine head, rubbing to the corners, not price clipped, 18s. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Zustand: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo, pp. 106 + b/w frontis. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Light lean to spine, band of sunning to top of front board, rubbed, scuffed and mottled. Light spotting, POI in black pen to ffep: "W. T. Newlyn/ Department of Economics/ University of Leeds/ Aug. 1949". Else, clean and tight. Good+ Professor Walter Tessier Newlyn (1915-2002) was a British economist and educator, known for his work on monetary theory and with African nations, especially Uganda. In 1945 Newlyn was accepted as a mature student to read economics at LSE and by 1948 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Leeds (UoL), to which he remained affiliated throughout his career, despite working extensively in Africa. From 1967 (until his retirement in 1978) Newlyn was Professor of Developmental Economics and in 1964 had founded UoL's African Studies Unit, now LUCAS (Loxley, 2003).