Squire sir john editor (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. xii, 340pp. In red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge sprayed pale blue. Pale blue endpapers. 12mo. Very slightly rounded at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, a little rubbed at corners and spine ends, price clipped, note regarding sizing and pricing of the new format series crossed out on front inner flap. A collection of sketches on English village life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many of which first appeared in the Lady's Magazine. No. 927 in the Everyman's Library series. Everyman's Library series, Series Books, Villages.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

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

2pp., 4to. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. The first page consists of a typescript in two columns, with names scored through and a few added in pencil. The second page has a few typewritten names, together with dozens added in pencil, clearly at different times. From 1919 the London Mercury's original editor J. C. Squire promoted the traditional verse of the Georgian Poets and their prose counterparts; on taking over in October 1934 Scott-James embraced the more fashionable modernist writing, and that change is reflected in the present list. The names on it include 'Miss Scott-James' (clearly a relation), Isaiah Berlin, Olaf Stapleton, Sir Edward Grigg, Leonard Woolf, William Plomer, Rose Macaulay, Alec Waugh, Liddell Hart, C. E. M. Joad, Sean O'Faolain, Edwin Muir, James Hanley, Sir Archibald Hurd. In a few cases the reviewer's specialities are given (for example 'W. A. Ismay (E. Indies mod politics classics)' and 'F. A Clement (archaeology biology . . . short notes)'). In one case an address is given: 'Richard David (Shakespeare etc) 10 Queen St, Cambs'. The London Mercury ceased publication in April 1939.…