spender richard (33 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: Good. 1945. 3rd Impression. 77 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. 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. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. (World War 2, Poetry) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Bantam Fifty F2011. 4-3/16" x 6-15/16", (iv) + 248pp + 1p publisher's advertising. A mass market paperback printed on acidic groundwood paper and perfect bound in varnished printed card stock cover. Base of spine is worn away to the rooster's feet, exposing about 1/2" of binding glue. Otherwise, moderate shelf, edge wear to cover. Yellow edge tinting all around is now considerably age discolored / darkened. Binding is square and tight. The front cover hinge is fragile. Half title / puff page is lost. Pages are tanned but clean and unmarked. A reading copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Fast Despatch Soft Covers - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. 1946. Fourth Impression. 77 pages. Brown dust jacket with red lettering over blue cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine and edges, with foxing and soiling to DJ.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 160pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. British literary magazine that includes contributions from Carol Lee, D.J. Taylor, Richard Zimler, Beatrice Garland, Fergus Allen, Stephen Spender, John Gohorry, Amanda Eason, Ruth Fainlight, Moniza Alvi, Alice Kavounas, Naomi Wallace, Vernon Scannell, Priest Noin, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Paul Lester, Merlin James, Daniel Hoffman, C.J. Fox, Jason Wilson, David Holbrook, George Sims, Nien-Lun Yeh, Evelyn Juers, Fergus Allen, Oliver Reynolds, Simon Carnell, Herbert Lomas, Ian Gregson, and others. "The Novels of Frank Tuohy" by Jason Wilson, "Afternoons with Lowell" by Daniel Hoffman.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are a bit rubbed. Mild tanning. Soundly bound. one signature. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. The wraps are a bit marked and worn. Internally clean (one signature) and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: New. Idioma/Language: Español. El dios que fracasó es una obra clásica, un documento esencial de la Guerra Fri?a, que reúne los testimonios de algunos de los escritores más importantes del siglo xx acerca de su fascinación por el comunismo y su posterior desilusión. El premio Nobel francés Andre? Gide; el poeta y narrador afroamericano Richard Wright, autor de Hijo de esta tierra, uno de los relatos más crudos sobre el racismo en su país; el luchador antifascista y novelista italiano Ignazio Silone; el poeta brita?nico Stephen Spender; el narrador y ensayista Arthur Koestler, y el periodista estadounidense Louis Fischer, biógrafo de Lenin y Gandhi, cuentan cómo la búsqueda de un mundo mejor y el rechazo a las injusticias del capitalismo los llevó a abrazar el comunismo como una nueva religión, defendiéndola con el celo del converso. Cada uno de ellos fue descubriendo, más tarde, la verdadera naturaleza del credo político al que habían consagrado su fe. Aquel amor inicial se transformo? en rechazo y horror al descubrir que, tras los bellos ideales, se escondían crímenes atroces y retrocesos enormes en las libertades, de los que habían sido cómplices involuntarios. Sin abandonar la preocupación por la justicia, sus relatos apóstatas nos ayudan a entender la mentalidad fanática que puede carcomer una sociedad. «Justificar la mentira, la deshonestidad o el crimen, compartir una fe gregaria y estar en posesión de la única verdad me parecen elementos totalitarios que no han variado ni un milímetro desde 1950. Incluso entre tanta gente que se cree demócrata». Félix de Azúa *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.

Reprint. Owner's name on front pastedown; spine slightly bumped at head. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket).

Zustand: Very Good. 1947. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some minor shelf wear. Price clipped, some wear to the edges of the d.w. Fifth impression. . . . .

Zustand: Very Good. 1947. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some minor shelf wear. Price clipped, some wear to the edges of the d.w. Fifth impression. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 73pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Illustrated reproducing black-and-white photographs of Auden. Few faint soil marks to covers, else a very good copy. Special issue, "W. H. Auden 1907-1973," devoted entirely to W. H. Auden. Prints "A Thanksgiving" by W. H. Auden, and a previously unpublished interview with Auden (by Walter Kerr). Also prints contributions, about Auden, by Louis Untermeyer, Randall Jarrell, Henry Moore, Alexander Theroux, Richard Eberhart, Cecil Day Lewis, Hannah Arendt, Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, Charles Osborne, et al.

First Edition in this form. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 77p. : front. (port.) ; 23cm. Subjects: World War, (1939-1945) ; Poetry. 3 Kg.

Zustand: New. pp. xl + 273.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. First Edition. 77 pages. Blue cloth/gilt titles on spine. Top of spine rubbed. Dust-jacket is foxed, chipped and incomplete on spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 273 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Type: Book N.B. Page edges foxed and spotted. Light rubbing to edges and corners of covers and spine. Some spotting to end pages. Previous owners inscription to end paper.

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First and only printings of the first four volumes in the Guinness Book of Poetry series (the final volume 5 1960-61 is not included). Each volume includes a wide range of contributing poets, including Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Roy Campbell, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Durrell, Richard Eberhart, Gavin Ewart, David Gascoyne, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Jenny Joseph, Philip Larkin, Louis MacNeice, W. S. Merwin, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Anne Ridler, Theodore Roethke, Stephen Spender, R. S. Thomas et al. ***Each volume is in very good condition in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright, and the boards are quite clean - only slightly marked. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and creased. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the bindings. Spines tight. Page block edges clean except Volume 3 which is foxed. Internally the contents are clean and undamaged with no previous ownership inscriptions, except Volume 2 which has a name in ink on the front free endpaper. Interior pages clean with no foxing, and no creases or tears. ***Each volume in very good printed dustwrappers in various colours, all but Volume 2 complete, and retaining the original publisher's price of 10s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper of Volume 2 has a chip at the top edge of the back panel. Other dustwrappers have some rubbing and creasing at the edges, mainly at the top and tail of the spine. Slight nibbles to the bottom edges of the inner flaps to Volume 4 (please see scans). ***128, 144, 148, 138 pages respectively. 221mm x 145mm. ***'In presenting the third Guinness Book of Poetry to the public, it may be as well to repeat how these Anthologies have come to be put together. They represent a short list of some seventy poems selected in the course of their adjudication by the panel of judges for the Guinness Poetry Awards, from all verse published for the first time in the British Isles between 1st July, 1958, and 30th June, 1959. Submissions were not made by the poets themselves either for the Awards or for the Anthology. The poems published are, thus, in no sense chosen by our contributors as being in their opinion the most important that they had published during the year and, as in previous years, no more than a single work has been taken by our judges from any particular poet.' (Quote taken from Lord Moyne's Foreword to Volume 3) ***First and only printings of the the first four volumes of this anthology of poetry, each volume complete in its original dustwrapper, and each in very good condition, albeit with the aforementioned faults. Includes work by a interesting range of post-war poets. Uncommon in the dustwrappers. ***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.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). A collection of poetry by Richard Spender. Third impression of this work, which was first published in September 1944. With a portrait frontispiece of Spender. This is a collection of wartime poetry by Captain Richard Spender of the Parachute Regiment. Spender was from Stratford-Upon-Avon and was already a published poet in several newspapers when he was killed during action at the age of 21 charging German positions in Tunisia during the Allied invasion of North Africa, code named Operation Torch. In original cloth binding in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart with just some minor bumping to the extremities as well as to the head and tail of spine. A few marks to the rear board. Dustwrapper is generally smart with spots internally. Chipping to the head of spine. Closed tear to the head of front wrap. Sunning to the spine of wrap. Spotting to the wrap internally and externally. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned to edges with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. book.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Alexander Calder (Lyre Bird cover design) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 - the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. After a hiatus of around five years since the publication of the final issue of the original series, in 1951, Tambimuttu relaunched the magazine in New York in 1956. However, this version of the magazine only ran to four issues before cessation again in 1960. With the Lyre Bird cover design by Alexander Calder. ***Very good in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Please note that the bottom of the spine has been bumped and this affects all pages (please see scans). Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no tears. Internally also very good with very clean pages. None of the usual foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***40 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: Poems by Walter de la Mare, Roy Campbell, Marya Zaturenska, W. S. Merwyn, Herbert Read, W. H. Auden, Anne Ridler, Jean Garrigue, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Nelson Bentley, Robert Graves, Claire McAllister, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Logue, Tom Scott, Arthur Gregor, Alice Monks Mears, Kenneth Eisold, Babette Deutsch, Diana Menuhin, Amrita Pritam, Buddhadiva Bose, Jibanananda Das. ***Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 of Poetry London - New York, the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***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: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Limited Edition. No. 310 of 1500 hand-numbered copies. Tall octavo (28cm); brown calf over cloth with gilt-printed leather spine label and embossed portrait device to front board; 313pp; illus. In publisher's board slipcase. A clean, Fine copy in the original publisher's slipcase, lightly dusted, Near Fine. Signed.

Original-Leinenband, 302 Seiten, 14 x 21,5 cm, deutsche Erstauflage, gut erhalten.

Zustand: Befriedigend. Taschenbucherstausgabe. 280 (8) Seiten. 18 cm. Austattung: Celestino Piatti. Befriedigender Zustand. Untere Buchecken gestaucht. Inhalt: Die Aktivisten: Arthur Koestler. Ignazio Silone. Richard Wright. Gläubige Jünger: André Gide. Louis Fischer. Stephen Spender." - Koestler, Arthur (eig. Köstler, Pseud. Iwan Steinberg), *5.9.1905 Budapest, 3.3.1983 London (Freitod). K., Sohn eines jüdisch-ungarischen Kaufmanns und einer Österreicherin, wuchs in Ungarn, Österreich und Deutschland auf. Er wuchs mit der ungarischen Sprache auf; nach dem 17.Lebensjahr sprach und schrieb er deutsch, seit 1940 benutzte er die englische Sprache. - Sein Ingenieurstudium an der TH in Wien (1922-26) brach er kurz vor dem Staatsexamen ab: er verbrannte sein Studienbuch und ging als Landstreicher nach Palästina. Nach Tätigkeiten dort als Kibbuznik, Architekt und Limonadenverkäufer wurde er Auslandskorrespondent (später auch wissenschaftlicher Korrespondent und Berater) beim Ullstein Verlag und verbrachte die Jahre 1926-31 in dieser Eigenschaft im Nahen Osten, Paris und Berlin. Sein leidenschaftlicher Einsatz für die zionistische Bewegung drückt sich literarisch vor allem in zwei Büchern aus: In Promise and Fulfilment (Versprechen und Erfüllung), wo er den Kampf in den Jahren 1919-49 um eine Heimat für das jüdische Volk im klaren Überblick darstellt, und in dem Roman Thieves in the Night. Ende 1931 trat K. der Kommunistischen Partei bei. Dieser Wendepunkt sowohl wie seine späteren Enttäuschungen über den Kommunismus und sein Austritt 1937 aus der Partei sind in knapper Form in seinem Beitrag zu dem Buch The God That Failed (Der Gott, der versagte) zusammengefaßt und ausführlicher behandelt im Schlußteil des ersten Bandes seiner Autobiographie, Arrow in the Blue, und im zweiten Band, The Invisible Writing. Vor allem aber bestimmte sie sein berühmtestes Werk, den politischen Roman Darkness at Noon. Im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg arbeitete K. als Korrespondent und Agent. Er wurde gefangengenommen und zum Tode verurteilt, nach mehreren Monaten aber nach Frankreich ausgetauscht. 1941/42 diente er als Freiwilliger in der französischen und britischen Armee. Bis zu seinem Tode lebte K. in London und schrieb vornehmlich halbwissenschaftliche Bücher über psychologische und evolutionstheoretische Themen. - K.s Romanwerk dreht sich, wie der Autor selbst erläuterte, wesentlich um die Fragen, ob grundsätzlich der Zweck die Mittel heiligt, inwiefern dem einzelnen für das Wohlergehen aller Leid zugefügt werden darf, warum revolutionäre Bewegungen "als frischer Bergquell beginnen und als verschmutzte Flüsse voller Leichen enden". Die Revolutionsthematik beherrscht K.s erste drei Romane: The Gladiators hat das Scheitern des Spartakusaufstands zum Gegenstand, Darkness at Noon die Moskauer Prozesse und Arrival and Departure eine Individualentscheidung zwischen hedonistischer Selbsterfüllung und politischem Engagement. Am eindringlichsten geschildert ist das Schicksal des bolschewistischen Revolutionärs Rubaschow (Darkness at Noon), der den stalinistischen Säuberungen zum Opfer fällt. Obwohl Rubaschow objektiv unschuldig ist, gesteht er die Verbrechen ein, weil er der Partei einen letzten Dienst erweisen will. Die Revolution frißt ihre Kinder. In dem Roman spiegelt sich K.s Entwicklung zum überzeugten Revisionisten. Autorenlexikon/Systhema. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 205 Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Laminiert. Glanzfolienkaschierung.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. in-8, broché, couverture rempliée, 307 p.; excellent état. Édition originale de la traduction française de ce recueil de six essais par des écrivains sur leur désillusion et abandon du communisme. Tirage à 230 exemplaires. Un des 200 exemplaires du tirage de tête numérotés sur vélin alfa filigrané du Marais, seuls grands papiers avec 30 hors commerce.