Verlag: John Lehmann, 1950
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: Fair. 1950. First Edition. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front and rear free endpapers. Water staining to rear pastedown. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild bumping to corners. Visible crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to rear board and spine. Black mark to front board. Textblock is shaky.
Verlag: Readers Union Faber, 1955
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. 1955. Reader's Union Member Edition. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Verlag: Readers Union, London, 1955
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Reprint. An anthology of verse in Britain from 1900-1950. Jacket is tanned at spine, but overall the book is in good clean condition. Used.
Verlag: Faber and Faber, 1953
Anbieter: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irland
Zustand: Very Good. 1953. Hardcover. Very good copy in original cloth covers. Title in gilt to spine. Light nicks. Ex-Libris, remains very good. . . . .
Verlag: Faber and Faber, 1953
Anbieter: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irland
Zustand: Very Good. 1953. Hardcover. Very good copy in original cloth covers. Title in gilt to spine. Lightly foxed endpapers, remains very good. . . . .
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1955
Anbieter: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irland
Zustand: Very Good. 1955. Reprint. Hardcover. 390pp. Second Impression. Not a first edition copy. . . .
Verlag: Faber & Faber, London, 1975
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Third edition. Owner's signature, near fine in about fine dustwrapper.
Verlag: Readers Union / Faber & Faber, London, 1955
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Blurbs from Edwin Muir and one other glued to front fly, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, covers lightly rubbed, very good. Includes poetry by W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Muir, Ezra Pound, Edith Sitwell, Dylan Thomas, W.B. Yeats and many more.
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 1975
Anbieter: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Paperback. Physically B Format (7¾" x 5¼") (0.5 kg); 347pp; 3rd edition. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #171530|| Condition: Good. Gently rubbed at the edges of the spine and wrappers. A little faded at the spine. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank.
Verlag: Faber and Faber, London, 1975
ISBN 10: 0571048870 ISBN 13: 9780571048878
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition thus, revised and expanded "third edition," wrappered issue. 347pp. Wrappers lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned, rear cover has a sticker from "Transatlantic Arts" affixed to it (possibly indicating that this book was for distribution within the United States), a very good copy. Contains a new introduction by the editors, noting that this "third edition" has been revised and expanded from the previous two editions. Contains Basil Bunting's poem, "On the Fly-Leaf of Pound's Cantos," and prints eight poems by E. Pound, three poems by T.S. Eliot, seven poems by W.B. Yeats, and contributions by S. Heaney, S. Plath, G. Hill, P. Larkin, D. Thomas, and more.
Verlag: John Lehmann, 1950
Anbieter: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irland
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Zustand: Very Good. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Nice copy in original cloth. . . . .
Verlag: The Enitharmon Press, London, 1982
ISBN 10: 090528948X ISBN 13: 9780905289489
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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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.
Verlag: The Enitharmon Press, London, 1982
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition, one of five hundred copies printed. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with very faint sunning on spine.
Verlag: Faber and Faber, 1953
Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60149372: 1953. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 390 pages. Texte en anglais. Nombreuses rousseurs. Ex-dono à l'encre en page de garde. Tranche en tête marron. Titre et auteur en doré au dos. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Verlag: Leeds University Union, [Leeds, 1961
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Bonamy Dobrée. Fine in printed wrappers and modestly worn, very good or better dust jacket. Uncommon.
Verlag: Faber, 1960
Anbieter: biblion2, Obersulm, Deutschland
Zustand: Good. Taschenbuch. Zustandsangabe altersgemäß. Sofortversand aus Deutschland. Artikel wiegt maximal 500g. Buch ohne Jahresangabe. Angegebenes Erscheinungsdatum ist geschätzt. Vorsatz beschriftet. 360 Seiten. In englischer Sprache. Erscheinungsjahr circa 1960. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren sowie leicht verfärbt.
Verlag: Oxford: Basil Blackwell., 1943
Anbieter: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition, first printing. Original dark green card wraps with a white paper label lettered in black affixed to the upper-left of the front panel. Crown 8vo. Printed on cream-wove paper, upper edges untrimmed, many pages still uncut. Signed by John Heath-Stubbs following his contribution. From the library of James Booth, former Professor of English at the University of Hull, biographer, editor and former colleague of Philip Larkin, with his pencilled name to the title page, and the publisher's perforated 'Complimentary Copy Not For Sale' notice to the margin of the same page. There are two small manuscript corrections to the final poem in the volume by the South African-born poet, David Wright (1920-1994), suggesting that this was his copy. A crisp, clean, near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. The card wraps and label remain clean and sharp with a couple of diagonal creases to the lower portion of the rear panel and some light rubbing to extremities. Signed by John Heath-Stubbs in blue ink at the foot of p. 32 following his contribution, 'Tchaikowskian Poem'. After taking first-class honours at Queen's College, Oxford in 1942, Heath-Stubbs stayed in Oxford for a BLitt. "[A]fter a preliminary year's work", according to Anthony Curtis in his ODNB article for the poet, "both he and his supervisor, David Nichol Smith, came to the conclusion that in spite of his wide knowledge of literature, scholarship was not his forte. Part of his trouble was emotional: he had by now discovered his homosexuality and fallen desperately in love with Philip Rawson who, while admiring Heath-Stubbs's intellect and offering him firm friendship, was not of the same sexual orientation." Rawson, a poet and painter, also contributes a poem to the anthology. Philip Larkin was taking his final exams at St John's College the summer it was published (he, too, would be awarded first-class honours). It was the first appearance of his work in a published book. In a letter to J. B. Sutton (16 March 1943) he says that he is "trying to gatecrash another anthology, or have I told you? Nothing exciting, 'Oxford Poetry' 1942-3. I crave to get all this fucking exam work over and to settle down to some solid prose." True to his word, he spent the months following graduation at the family home writing his Oxford novel, 'Jill' (dedicated to Sutton). Larkin contributes three poems to the anthology, 'A Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb', 'Mythological Introduction', and 'Poem', the last of which would be included in his 1945 volume, 'The North Ship', the other two having to wait until the 1988 'Collected Poems' to see the light again. Loosely laid in to this copy is a photocopied page reproducing Cyril Connolly's short review in 'The Observer', and unsigned reviews from the 'Whitby Gazette' and the TLS, the latter praising the "brave effort to keep the series of Oxford Poetry going in war-time" (it was an annual publication), noting that "although this number contains no outstanding contributors, the quality of the verse as a whole is sensitive and exploratory". It is to be hoped that the anonymous reviewer lived to witness the career of many of the volume's contributors. Published on 12 June 1943 in an edition of 500 copies. (Bloomfield B1). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.