skinner martyn (39 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1949. First Edition. 41 pages. Beige paperbook. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Zustand: Good. 1947. Reprinted. 63 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (poem, poetry, letter, malaysia).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Stapled booklet with light handling wear including a little scuffing on the spine, a few minor dust marks on the cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Near fine in an about very good dust jacket with loss of spine ends, spine faded, small tears along the extremities. Poetry.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Wrappers. Slight rubbing and toning else about near fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Ultimately personal letters written to a member of the Malayan Civil Service by his friends and family in England as the world was on the brink of the Second World War. The letters were written in verse. 63pp. Gift inscription dated 1941 to free end paper. DJ worn and chipped at edges with slight loss to head of DJ spine and several small nicks to the upper DJ edge. Some foxing to end papers and occasional page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Good tight condition, owners label on pastedown and name on end page, rough cut pages, grey cloth boards, soiled, shelf wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Nice copy in dustwrapper very slightly faded at the spine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "Geoffrey Hayward from Martyn Skinner" and "Geof from Martyn November 1984". "Old Rectory is set in the wilderness of post-plague Somerset, after the world has been depopulated by the Porton Sneeze . . ." (dustwrapper blurb). First printed at the Rampant Lions Press by Will and Sebastian Carter; the dustwrapper of this new edition is designed by their cousin Humphrey Stone. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Speckled brown/white cloth hardcover - spine darkening/Good. 63 pages. Content Good+. (188g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 94, [2] pages ; 21 cm. rebound in leather.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. pgs:207. 1955, with foxing to dustjacket & paged edges, text clean no markings, reading copy, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The jacket is a bit torn and marked but has suffered little paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. The endpapers are a little marked. Some minor foxing. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Letters to Malaya. III and IV. These new Letters, like the earlier ones, express that community of mind between friend and friend which has enriched the poetry of every age. But now these friends are separated by more than distance. War that threatened has intervened, with distant barriers of uncertainty and silence, as well as present horros. It is from such an England to such a Malaya that the poet describes the world we live in. 94 pp. Plastic protective covering. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good +. Limited. Hardback, paper label to front board. 26cm x 20cm. 21pp. A limited edition of only 300 copies. 1st edition 1970. Head of spine frayed. Clean inside. A very pleasing copy. (an34).

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited. Hardback, paper label to front board. 26cm x 20cm. 29pp. A limited edition of only 150 copies. 1st edition 1977. Extremities a little worn. Clean inside. A very pleasing copy. (an34).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No jacket. Putnam, 1947/46/47, I&II and III&IV reprints. Three volumes, hardback, 8vo, 63;94;78pp. Light foxing to endpapers, no d/js. A fair set. /0.6uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardcover. Zustand: good. pgs:29. Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge 1977, limited edition 150 copies, bright clean copy, with feint foxing to front cover, no other markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

First edition. Octavo. 47 pages. Boards. The author's first book, issued anonymously.Front cover a bit marked. Spine slightly darkened. Very good. Not issued in dustwrapper.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust wrapper. Not-price clipped; remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 208 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Arthur, King Poetry. English poetry 20th century. 3 Kg.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. First Editions. 3 volumes good condition. No dustjackets. Vol. I: Parts I & II, 1941, 63pp, parts of dustjacket pasted inside front cover. Previous owner's name inside cover. Vol. 2: Parts III & IV, 1943, 93pp, parts of dustjacket pasted inside front cover. Previous owner's name inside cover. Vol. 3: Part V, 1947, 78pp, parts of dustjacket pasted inside front cover. Previous owner's name inside cover. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. DJ is clean but has a few small tears. It has been price clipped. Contents are lightly age toned. Flat signed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Martyn Skinner (a collection). Three volumes as follows: 1. "The Return of Arthur". A poem of the future. 1955 1st Chapman & Hall. 208 pages all original Fine HB in Fine protected DW. This copy signed on Title Page "Martyn Skinner" (see first image). 2. "Letters to Malaya. 1 & 11". 63 pages Putnam WC1. 1947 Reprint., 3. "Alms for Oblivion". 1983 1st. Michael Russell. 127 pp. Mint HB (as new) copy in Mint (as new) DW. Sold as one Lot. [Martyn Skinner, 1906 - 1993, was a British poet. He won the 1943 Hawthornden Prize for "Letters to Malaya" and the Heinemann Award in 1947, for his last volume of that title. Wiki].

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardback, paper covered boards. 16.5 x 16.5cm [6], 21pp. [2]. One of an edition of 300 copies. An excellent copy. With the original prospectus sheet loosely inserted.

1st ed. Firm copy in tight binding. Signed by author on title page, with a letter from author (to Eric Gillett) loosely inserted. Beige cloth boards; yellowed on spine. Eric Gillett's name & part of an adress inked onto front free end paper. Text bright & clear. Dust jacket shelf worn on edges; marked on front cover; yellowed on spine; not price clipped. 2 numbers inked onto inner front flap; jacket covered in removable clear film. Used - Very Good. VG SIGNED hardback in good-poor dust-jacket Used - Very Good. VG SIGNED hardback in good-poor dust-jacket.

Zustand: Fine. First edition. Hardback. Signed by the author. Very faint browning to spine otherwise fine in very good indeed dust jacket, slightly rubbed at spine edges and small nick at lower front corner. Excellent copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition copy of Martyn Skinner's brilliant science fiction poem in which he places a reborn King Arthur in a dystopian England. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.An ambitious novel-length poem set in a totalitarian Dystopia, seeing King Arthur be reborn to save England.By Martyn Skinner, who is best known for this work as his award winning 'Letters to Malaya'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with only a few light marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Minor edge wear to the dust wrapper. Some light spots to the wraps, including to the reverse. Ink signature to the front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 127. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt on spine. Red dust jacket lettered white on spine and upper cover. Presentation copy: 'Colin Welch from Martyn Skinner. December 1983.' Handwritten signed letter from Martyn Skinner to Colin Welch loosely inserted written on headed notepaper from Ilex House, Fitzhead, Taunton dated December 26th 1983 and consisting of about 125 words in which Skinner says he remembers Welch saying in a letter that he admired his poetry. He encloses some specimens of his poetry and goes on to admire Welch's articles in 'The Spectator' particularly the one about Beatlemania. He thinks 'our attitudes to the general state of things seem largely to correspond.' Colin Welch (1924 1997) political journalist, satirist and deputy editor of 'The Daily Telegraph' also wrote under the pen name Peter Simple in which he mocked and abused the so-called permissive society. Martyn Skinner (1906 1993) was a writer who won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Heinemann Prize for Literature for 'Letters to Malaya', extracts of which are included in 'Alms for Oblivion'. Small mark on half-title and title page, otherwise about fine. 0859551032 About fine.