Brief interlude letters george (5 Ergebnisse)

Brown Card Wraps. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1987. First edition in a limited edition of 170 copies, of which this is number 140. 41pp. plus 1 page giving edition details. George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) was an English writer and novelist, probably best known as the author of The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893). This book contains letters he wrote to Edith Helen Sichel (1862-1914), an English author and sister of Walter Sichel, edited and with commentary by Pierre Coustillas. The book is bound in the original brown card wraps with a paper title label on the front cover. The book is in very good condition with some shelf wear on the covers and rubbing to the corners and spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Café-au-lait wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 170 numbered copies. Edith Sichel was a writer and "amateur philanthropist" whose critique of George Gissing in Murray's Magazine in 1888 attracted Gissing's attention (though he didn't take to the title, "Two Philanthropic Novelists: Mr Walter Besant and Mr George Gissing"). The two corresponded frankly between 1889 and 1890; on their meeting he was disturbed by his feelings towards her. Halliwell A122. Coustillas G13a.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth-backed patterned boards, printed paper spine-label. Edition limited to 170 numbered copies. of which this is one of 30 specially bound and printed on paper made by Amatruda of Amalfi. Edith Sichel was a writer and "amateur philanthropist" whose critique of George Gissing in Murray's Magazine in 1888 attracted Gissing's attention (though he didn't take to the title, "Two Philanthropic Novelists: Mr Walter Besant and Mr George Gissing"). The two corresponded frankly between 1889 and 1890; on their meeting he was disturbed by his feelings towards her. Halliwell A122a. Coustillas G13b.…

Soft cover. 8vo. pp 41, [2]. Large format paperback. Original publisher's brown paper cover, lettered black on the front cover label. Describes an 18-month correspondence between the two writers and includes the letters from Gissing to Sichel. Edition limited to 170 copies, this being no. 57. About fine.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Printer's corrected page proofs: 36 leaves, loose, printed rectos only, lacking only pp. [1] (half-title), [4] (copyright page), [43] (limitation page) and the illustrations facing pp. 18 and 26; with the editor's manuscript queries and printer's corrections on 21 pages. Some pages mildly creased, title-page slightly marked. The published edition was limited to 170 numbered copies. Edith Sichel (1862-1914) was a writer and "amateur philanthropist" whose critique of George Gissing (1857-1903) in Murray's Magazine in 1888 attracted Gissing's attention (though he didn't take to the title, "Two Philanthropic Novelists: Mr Walter Besant and Mr George Gissing"). The two corresponded frankly between 1889 and 1890; on their meeting he was disturbed by his feelings towards her. "Few literary scholars have laboured quite so devotedly in the service of a single subject as Pierre Coustillas [1930-2018]," D.J. Taylor opened an obituary for The Guardian. That subject was George Gissing.…