tobin alice (4 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 10.50x8.40x1.06 inches. In Stock.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for John Howell, 1958. 4to, (iv), 80, [2], pp. Original quarter linen with blue paper-covered boards. A fine copy in the original plain dust-jacket, spine panel lightly toned and chipped at head and foot. § One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. A translation of Racine's Phaedra by Agnes Tobin, a little-remembered American woman of letters. Born into a wealthy San Francisco family in 1864, she spent many years in London where she became a great friend of Alice Meynell and a beloved member of her literary circle (which included Yeats, Pound, Gosse, and Augustus John). Something of a poet's poet and a translator's translator, she won respect for her translations of Petrarch and her original poems, which were often on religious themes.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Graham Robertson (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this scarce collection of poetry from Petrarch, illustrated with plates by Graham Robertson. The first edition of this scarce work.Six sonnets and a canzone by Petrarch are translated by Agnes Tobin, with a preface by Alice Meynell.Illustrated with ten charming plates by Graham Robertson, alongside ten further ornate pictorial initials.Collated, complete.A charming edition of a selection of poems by the fourteenth century Italian poet Petrarch. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with yapp edges. Ink mark to head of front board. Boards lightly age toned to back strip and perimeters. Back strip titled in ink by a prior owner. Lacking majority of front and rear tie. Internally, firmly bound. Offsetting to pages facing plates. Light spotting and instances of foxing throughout, with handling mark to title page. Very Good. book.