muir edwin introduction (12 Ergebnisse)

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.

Zustand: Good. 4th impression. Cloth, G. 320pp, spine faded & lettering dulled, cloth subbed to the spine, a solid copy. Kafka's 1926 unfinished novel Der Schloss which was first translated into English in 1930. A bleak tale of man's futile & pointless struggle against authority, the system & the pursuit of unattainable goals. 400 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very good condition, octavo, grey cloth, in very good dust wrapper, previous ownership on front free end paper, ix plus 225 pages. [QP].

8vo. Pp: xxiv, 114. First edition thus. Grey dust jacket with colour illustration and black and white text to front. Dark green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signed by Allan Massie.ISBN: 0904919609 Very good plus with foxing to top edge. Small marks to front board. Creases to spine ends to boards and dust jacket, otherwise very good plus.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good to Very Good. Aleksander Zyw (illustrator). First Edition. 1943. First trade edition - 100 copies signed by the artist were also issued. 128pp, with pages 8 onwards consisting of sketches by the Polish artist Aleksander Zyw (1905-1995). Zyw joined fellow Poles in France where the Polish Army was reforming, and after training he was promoted to Sergeant and served with the heavy machine gun unit in the 2nd Regiment of 1st Division of Grenadiers. Soon after the French surrendered they were ordered to try to make their way to Britain where the Polish Army was regrouping. After a miraculous escape through France, Spain and Portugal, ?yw made his way to Scotland where he was appointed war artist to the Polish army, where he served again in 1944 in the liberation of France. This sketch book illustrates the life of the Polish armed forces in Britain from 1940 to 1943, and all are drawn from first hand knowledge. For the sketches of the navy he made a journey in the 'Piorum', the Polish destroyer made famous by engaging the 'Bismarck' in battle. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with bumping to the top of the spine. The contents are tight and clean with a crease running down from the top corner of pages 15 to 20. The front free endpaper has a vertical crease about 4" from the fore edge and also bears a gift inscription from a Polish serviceman, dated June 1943. The inscription is to a GP and is wife, who lived at East Lothian, in thanks for the hospitality they showed him at their home. The unclipped dustwrapper is in good to very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling. Small pieces are missing from the corner tips, spine ends and bottom front edge, and larger pieces are missing from the top and bottom rear edges. There are a few tears of up to about 1" on the edges. The wrapper is in an easily removed clear plastic protective cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943 (First Edition was issued in 1930).  XVI+ 340 pages + VII pp Introductory note to the First American Edition by Edwin Muir. NearFine to Fine Hardcover, no dj.    Illustrated Gray cloth, Black spine title. No Wear.  Clean book except  personal bookplate on the inside Front cover. Strong Tight binding and hinges.  8.33X5.75"X1.3".   be36. .

First Edition. Fine copy in dust-wrapper that is faded at spine panel Reviews published between 1924 and 1958.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Second Edition.NearFine Hardcover, no dj. XVII+340 pages, Also VII pages of the Introductory Note to the first edition added in the back of the book. Gray cloth with Black stamping in front, Black/Blue spine title.Minimal wear to the top of the spine. One word (looks like a last name) penned on the Flyleaf otherwise clean throughout. Strong Tight binding and hinges. 8.25"x5.5"x1.5". be31.

First Edition. Fine copy in dust-wrapper.

Zustand: Good. Marks to cover & bumps to edges. 2cm tear to front edge of spine at top. Tanning/foxing/marks to textblock edges. Text very good.