Lieut c a macartney (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. First Edition. Very Rare First Edition (London, June 1915; 1000 copies). Flyleaf likely removed, dedicatory inscription to the half-title page, fine thereafter. No textual markings or annotations. Blue cloth with titling card affixed to upper front board. The boards remain sound and secure, with rubbing to the corners and the spine ends and a few surface scratches to the back. (Please note: the page block has almost certainly been rebound in the boards for durability.) 40pp. (Carlile Aylmer Macartney, wounded in action in the First World War, was a research fellow at All Souls, Oxford, and from 1951-1957 the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. He became an authority on Hungary and on the Habsburg Empire.).…

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. An inscribed first edition of these lovely poems by British academic Carlile Aylmer Macartney. The first edition of the work.In the original paper wraps.Inscribed to R.H. Hathaway by the author to the front free endpaper.A collection of poems written by Carlile Aylmer Macartney, a British academic specialising in the history and politics of East-Central Europe.Includes poems such as Poppies, Lost, Dreams, March Nights, and many more. In publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, excellent. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Author's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Text 40pp, with 6 unnumbered pages of advertisements for books, apparently re-bound (judging by the image of the other copy currently on the Net), hf-lea., sl. speckled, one corners sl. damaged, faint foxing first few pages, with decorated endpapers (gold and silver shells), with the bookplate "Ex libris C. and G.M. Bonham-Carter". Editor's Note (p.[8]): "These poems are the work of a young lieutenant of the New Army. Written for the most part before the war, they reflect it in one instance only : the poem immediately following the introduction and dedication [.]". To quote: "The stark howitzers frown | Remorseless cruelty, | A sullen shell screams by [.]".…