Literary executor (11 Ergebnisse)

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

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. James F. Weiner is Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National UniversityThis is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology. Heideg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Hudson edition. Author's revised edition. Copyright 1866, this edition undated [circa 1890]. Attractively bound volume in three quarter tan polished calf leather over marbled boards, dual spine labels in red and black, slightly raised spine bands, gilt decorated bands and compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, tissue-protected frontis engraving, just under 8.5 inches tall. Minor shelf rubbing and scuffing, rubbing to spine ends, spine slightly darkened, gilt bright and clear, firm text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. Single volume from a larger set of Irving's works. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Einband - fest (Hardcover). Zustand: New.

Zustand: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original deep midnight blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, duck egg blue title and border lines to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, red and black printed title, (xxiv), 540 pp + x pp catalogue with 3 further monochrome plates throughout. Partially removed book plate to the front paste down, spotting to the closed text block edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

See the Oxford DNB entry for Samuel Butler, which describes his close friendship with Jones ('It has been said that for twenty years they shared the favours (for a consideration) of the same woman, on different days of the week.') and musical collaborations. Signed 'Henry Festing Jones'. 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, on aged and lightly creased paper. As he is 'intending to be out of England by 1 July', he asks him to 'ask Lord Tennyson not to nominate me as Steward of the Royal Literary Fund & assure him that at the same time I am sensible of the honour he proposed'. …

Zustand: leido. Hutchinson Publishers, London - ISBN:0091791529, 1995, 1995. hardcover, 6?" x 9?", with dust jacket As a five-year-old, William Graves was taken from England to the magical mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had returned with his new family. William deftly conveys the texture of life in Majorca - the food, the pattern of the seasons, the camaraderie and rivalries within the village, and the growing sense, particularly in the 1960s, that his fragile paradise was under threat.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. First Edition, Third Printing. Octavo, 140pp, [1pp ads]. Green cloth, beveled edges. Title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. The third printing, with advertisements for Whitman books published by McKay on page [141]. Contains corrected "melee" for "m lee" on page 6, and "least" for "last" on page 11. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, light wear to spine ends and corners. (Myerson A12.I.c) (BAL 21430) Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "A first edition / With the compliments of Thomas B. Harned / Literary Executor to Walt Whitman / April 15, 17." Two letters laid in: one is a facsimile copy of a letter from Walt Whitman to a magazine publisher sharing his latest manuscript, and the other is a handwritten letter from Thomas Harned explaining the story of the former letter. Thomas Biggs Harned (1851-1921) was Walt Whitman's third and final literary executor. Harned was 22 years old when he met Whitman, and the two were engaged almost daily in the final years of Whitman's life. Harned received the facsimile letter included with this copy from Dr. Edward Everett Hale. The letter is addressed to Nathan Hale, Jr., Edward Everett Hale's brother, who was editor of the Boston Miscellany. Whitman was writing Hale asking to have his latest manuscript titled "The Angel of Tears" published in the magazine. "The Angel of Tears" was eventually published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review in September, 1842. November Boughs by Walt Whitman, inscribed by Whitman's literary executor, Thomas B. Harned, with laid-in letter from Harned to Dr. Andrew A. Gour of Chicago. (illustrator). Signed.…

8vo, 1 p. Typed and signed in light-blue, beneath green letterhead, and with 'CARL VAN VECHTEN' 'watermark' at centre of page. Text clear and complete. On lightly aged paper, worn and dogeared at extremities. He thanks her for the copy of 'the Academic Observer (Gertrude Stein number) which intererested me so much that I am writing to ask if I may have another copy for a friend of mine, Please.' Autograph note explains that the 'friend' is one 'who also collects Steiniana'. Docketed in pencil on reverse: 'Miss Mallory | Keep this until I call - someday I will. | [signed] M. Lucha'.…

One page (with part of bifolium leaf), 12mo, sl. water-stained, fold marks, small closed tear on central tear, text clear and complete, as follows: "I delayed thanking you for your attention in sending me your work which I am satisfied I shall find highly valuable [elision of word] but I have not received it from the Board of Agriculture. I shall laways be happy to hear from you - I have ordered enquiry to be made at the Board of Agriculture for your work.…