Moore arthur dowson ernest (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a clean unmarked copy in the publisher's cloth. The cloth is dulled and a bit scuffed at the corners but a good solid copy overall of the authors' scarce second novel published shortly before his early death. Later issue binding.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Cover marked.Corners and spine bumped.Hinges and binding sound with no loose pages.Edges foxed/tanned.Text clear with some tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First One Volume Edition 8vo. pp 304 + 22 pp ads (dated June 1894) Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt on cover and spine, cover has vignette of 3 masks around the title. Tragic decadent poet Ernest DowsonÕs first failed novel (of two) written in collaboration with his friend Arthur Moore. The first edition appeared in 1893 in two volumes and sold very poorly. This is the first single volume (i.e cheap) edition, it also sold poorly. All copies of this book are elusive Copac lists two similar copies. Book in sound used condition, though bumped to corners and with noticeable rubbing and handling wear to spine. Vg minus.…

First One-Volume. 8vo., original blue cloth with pictorial device on upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine. London: William Heinemann, [July] Twenty pp. ads at end dated June 1894. Spine darkened, and slight wear at extremities, but a very good copy with a contemporary ownership inscription.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); light green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; [iv],[1],2-342,[10]pp. Spine-sunned with light shelf-wear and soil; Very Good+. This second novel written by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore is set in 19th century Italy and includes romance, politics, and family drama as British Adrian Rome falls in love with a woman from an aristocractic Italian family. Ten years prior to this novel, Dowson pursued a teenager and converted to Roman Catholicism before she rejected his marriage proposal. His popularity was greater than Moore's, and he was a member of literary magazine contributor, the Rhymer's Club, and translator of French texts. [83843].…

First edition, "Colonial Library" issue. 8vo., original blue diamond-cut cloth. Uncut. London: Methuen & Co., The Colonial Library, As well as the neat overprint of "Colonial Library" at foot of title-page and a half title identifying it as such, this issue identified by its robust blue cloth binding with "METHUEN'S COLONIAL LIBRARY" stamp at foot of spine and endpapers covered with advertisements for other books in the series. Appropriately, the lower paste-down has the bookseller's ticket of "Cole's Book Arcade" of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Evidence of an unidentifiable effacement from the title page and facing page.…

First edition, first issue. 3 vols. 8vo., original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black. London: William Heinemann, [September] With faint traces of labels on the upper covers, presumably of a circulating library, though there is little evidence of circulation, since it is otherwise an exceedingly nice set, joints tight and edges unworn. Written with his best friend Arthur Moore, this was Dowson's first book, handsomely published by a mainstream publisher. Jad Adams writes of its "mine of biographically interesting information" including the portrayal of the artist Oswyn, with this tendency to "lapse from the eloquence to the incoherency of drunkenness" (from the text) as "the closest Dowson came in prose to a self-portrait".…