Selected edited commentary (12 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Slip case : acceptable. 444 p., clean and unmarked on strong paper only faintly age-toned; ill.; binding firm; beige boards with still bright gilt lettering on red and blue patches on spine have minimal edge wear but very faint smudging (sunning?) near corners.Teal slip case is detaching at seams and needs skillful repair.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Very lightly faded spine, some very light browning on back cover, light shelf rubbing, cover edges and spine ends lightly rubbed, slight flare to cover edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. Small quarto. 315pp. Cloth with a touch of wear and soil, rubbed through at the base of the spine, near fine in a toned, about very good dust jacket with several chips and tears along the edges, a few holes along the spine, and a small interior tape repair at the base of the spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Slipcase: fair. 333 p., clean and unmarked on strong unaged paper; beautiful ill.; binding firm;beige linen-look boards with still bright gilt lettering on red and blue patches on spine have minimal wear; blue slip case detached at two seams but intact; ding on one edge, rubbing at crown and corners, real abrasion at foot of spine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Near Fine. First edition. 502pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Slightly cocked spine, foxing on the top page edge, and faint spotting on the boards thus very good in a near fine dust jacket with internal toning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1950. First edition. First printing, with the Scribner "A" on the copyright page. Fine in a very good jacket, with one large chip to the rear panel, a few small closed tears, and edgewear. Full burgundy cloth; spine lettered in gilt. A tight, clean copy. 8vo, xiii, 315 pp. Frontispiece portrait in black and white. Edited by John Hall Wheelock. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A substantial selection of letters by legendary Scribner editor Maxwell E. Perkins, illuminating his work with authors including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine in grey cloth-covered boards with bronze-gilt titles and borders to spine. Sylvia Plath's juvenile writing and photographs illustrate the front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Tiny crease to a couple of bottom corner-tips. Spine tight. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages bright. In a near fine grey and sepia and white and burgundy printed and illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original price of £6.75 net. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. No tears. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. 240mm x 162mm. 502 pages including List of Poems to rear. ***'When she died at thirty, Sylvia Plath left behind as well as the poetry and fiction, many notebooks, journals and letters.---***---After a successful last year at Smith, Sylvia went to Cambridge on a Fulbright, and it was there she met her future husband Ted Hughes. From this point on the letters take on a new tone, shifting into high gear. They continue through the Hugheses' great happiness to the eventual collapse of their marriage and her suicide. ***Letters Home forms a kind of autobiography of at least one aspect of Sylvia Plath's very complex life; it also documents the flowering of a talented young woman into a writer of genius.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice bright condition. Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition, dent to front panel edge, in edge-worn Good+ dust-jacket, lightly stained. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number on front paste down; This volume of Mencken's collected writings covers the period from the early 1800s to the early 1930s. It includes essays, reviews, and speeches on a variety of topics, including politics, culture, and society.; 8vo; FSA.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated with four photographic plates. Printed wrappers. Text block edges and a few pages slightly foxed, front wrap with a small stain, very good in a very good dust jacket with three light vertical creases (one each on the front panel, spine and rear panel), and modest foxing. "Advance Copy" stated on front wrap. Prints 226 selections from essays, columns and reviews written by Willa Cather between the ages of 20 and 23; also prints as appendices essays and an uncollected short story from 1893. An uncommon title in the advance proof format.…