John gascoyne (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good - Cash. Light reader wear and rubbing to the edges, corners, covers, and pages. The book is in great condition! Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 47, [1] pp., 8vo, stapled card wrapper. Very good copy overall; contents fine, wrapper dust and finger-soiled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Black cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 550 copies of which 450 are for sale. Contains the first appearance of "Little Whale Song" by Ted Hughes and "Sweeney's Praise of Farranan" by Seamus Heaney.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition, one of five hundred copies printed. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with very faint sunning on spine.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, particularly on the front cover. Top corners of pages quite creased, and bottom corners of pages slightly creased. Interior pages clean - just a pencil annotation to p.153 - could be rubbed out if so wished (please see scans). Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 254pp + [xviii] publisher's catalogue at the rear. Blue smooth weave cloth lettered in gilt and red, and decorated with gilt-stamped stars. Publisher's monogram blind-stamped to the rear board. David Gascoyne's copy, with his name and the date 1943 inked to the front free endpaper. Cloth discoloured at the backstrip. Front hinge tender at the half-title yet the binding perfectly sound thereafter. Some darkening to the endpapers and pastedowns. A lovely crisp copy of an extremely uncommon science fiction novel: an account of a journey to an idyllic utopia of Venus, with a brief excursion to Mercury, written by a Bristol-based mechanical engineer. The first chapter, 'A Message from Mars', was originally published as a stand-alone short story in 'Cassell' magazine (1895), and was subsequently revised into this current form. …

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Very good in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, with very light sporadic foxing to the fore-edge of the front cover. Interior pages clean. Staples rusted as is often the case. No tears. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce in any condition, and this is a very clean largely uncreased copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator).…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol.1, No.5 - the fifth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu, with a cover design by John R. Biggs. ***Rare variant with 'The Gotham Book Mart, 51 West 47th Street, N.Y.C.' on the bottom of the front cover, indicating the American distributor of the magazine (please see scans). ***Near fine in the original thin cream, black and ochre-yellow printed stapled covers. Some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are exceptionally clean. Staples rusted as usual. Internally also near fine - pages clean without any of the usual foxing. No tears. Lower corners just very slightly creased. Spine tight. ***36 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers). ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Fifth Letter by Tambimuttu, dated 24.ii.1941; Stephen Spender: A Childhood; G. S. Fraser: A Letter to Anne Ridler: Alan Rook: The Retreat; Alun Lewis: Christmas Holiday, Easter in Christmas, The Public Gardens; George Barker: Six Poems in America: To My Mother; To My Brother; To David Gill; To T. S. Eliot; To Stephen Spender; To C.B.; Desmond Hawkins: This Garden; Lawrence Durrell, [Corfu 1936]: Daphnis and Chloe; J. F. Hendry: From "4 Seasons of War"; J. F. Hendry: The Constant North; Paul Eluard: "Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish"; Tom Scott: Sea-Dirge; George Scurfield: Song; Herbert Corby: Sonnet, August 1940; John Waller: Nigel, At Burlington House; Tom Scott: Poem in Time of Search; G. S. Fraser: Poem for M. G.; David Gascoyne: The Moths; Alan Rook: London, 1940; David Gascoyne: Nada; Reviews; Correspondence. ***Vol. 1. No. 5 - the fifth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the early years of the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. John R. Biggs (Cover design) (illustrator). …

SOFTCOVER. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. A rare copy of this short lived journal. Medium size 4to in printed paper wrappers, pages numbered 101 to 149, plus advert leaves and 4pp b/w plates on glossy paper. Includes a typed letter to Count Potocki (poet and pretender to the Polish throne) signed by John Fleming (the subsequent and noted art and architecture historian), in which he discusses future contributions from Potocki. However Fleming, already in the British Army Intelligence Corps, was shortly after sent to Cairo and no further issues of Babel were published . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (hint of foxing to wrapper, slightest of curling to page-block fore-edge bottom corner tip). The letter is in fine condition ] . . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…