william blackburn editor (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Pages unmarked. Dust jacket moderately edgeworn. Binding square & firm. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Clean pages. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Short gift inscription at top of front free endpaper. Dust jacket is bumped along top edges with a 1/2 inch tear and a one inch tear at top front edge. 240 pages.

Softcover. First Paperback Edition. Octavo, 240 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Wraps have mild bending wear to front fore corners and along head edge, mild shelving wear along extremities, and mild general soiling. Textblock head edge has faint smudging along head and tail edges. Contains slip from previous seller stating the first appearance of Anne Tyler's work. Signed flat on p. 146 by Anne Tyler [Author]. Signed on p.205 by Reynolds Price [Author]. Shelved Room C. 1398298. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by William Styron. Fine in near fine dust jacket, with slight toning at the spine. An anthology of writings by Duke students, including two of Anne Tyler's earliest book appearances, two stories: "I Never Saw Morning," eventually incorporated into her first novel, *If Morning Ever Comes*; and "The Saints in Caesar's Household." Other contributors include Reynolds Price, Guy Davenport, Fred Chappell, and James Applewhite.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing. A near-fine copy, without a jacket. A clean, unmarked copy. Features William Styron's very first stories in print, "Autumn" and "The Long Dark Road." Selections from William Styron, Frances Gray Patton, Frances Wright, Lorenz Eitner, Ovid Williams Pierce, Harold Grier McCurdy, Archie Robertson, R.P. Harriss, Newman Ivey White, Julian Lee Rayford, Richard Austin Smith, Ralph Nash, H.P. Koenig, and others. Fiction-S.

3pp., 12mo. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. In original envelope, with stamp and postmark, addressed by Bennett to 'John T Baron Esq. | 48 Griffin Street | Blackburn | [signed] W C Bennett'. He begins by informing Baron that four numbers of 'The Lark' have already been published. 'Messrs Hart & Co 22 Paternoster Row are the London Publishers No 5 for December is now at Press with Christmas supplement - 16 pages size of Punch - with eg Poems by Tennyson - Lord Lytton - Sir Theodore Martin - Sir Samuel Ferguson - Austin Dobson - G R Sims - Mrs Craik & other fine living English Poets - such a pennyworth for eminent contributors & quality of Contents as has never been issued before'. He proceeds to list seven individuals, including 'Mr Gladstone', who will contribute to the sixth issue. He continues: 'I defer for the present the consideration of original contributors having had the gems of 60 living poets placed at my disposal - Make it known in Blackburn - & buy a copy at each of the Newsvendors you know If they once get it they will keep it.' He ends by describing the magazine as 'a powerful influence set in action to refine & delight the People'.