Waugh alec introduction (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Smaller sized hardcover with half bound, marbled boards, no dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. Title label attached to the spine is creased front side. Spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block is blemished and bumped in places. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

[Haynes, E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock], [1877-1949]. Waugh, Alec, [1898-1981], Introduction. A Lawyer's Notebook. London: Martin Secker, 1932. [2], 246 pp, 1 leaf. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards. Paper label to spine. Moderate shelfwear. Minor offsetting to endpapers. Some penciling internally. A good copy. $30. * A collection of short essays, notes and personal reflections published anonymously by British solicitor and author E.S.P. Haynes. Although it was printed without the author's name, readers quickly recognized Haynes's distinct wit, vast learning and highly independent opinions. The book became a major literary success.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 272. Original publisher's cloth binding in beige shot with orange, lettered brown at spine, with orange abstract print. Dust jacket in ivory, lettered black with a Wood cut of a rocky landscape. Endpaper map of America showing the route of the girl who hiked alone across the United States. Autobiography of "an American girl, in the middle Twenties. To say 'modern American girl' would be to evoke a picture of speakeasies, nightclubs, cocktail and petting parties. Yet 'modern American girl' would be the accurate label, for only in these last ten years would it have been possible for a girl to have done and written of the things this book describes; and in no country but America." Very good in very good dust jacket. Faint wear. Dust jacket slightly marked and nicked at edges. Decent copy.…