wordsworth clark lectures 1929 1930 von herbert read (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1930. First Edition. 271 pages. Blue dust jacket over purple cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and faint marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Notable sunning to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine and to panel edges. Light rubbing and marking all over. Droplet to rear panel.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition first edition rebound ex library hardback with usual stamps and stickers. No dust jacket. Light wear to boards with main text in good clean condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. . 1930 1st ed, maroon boards, no dustjacket, clean tight copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Jonathan Cape, London 1930. 271 pp. Publisher's cloth.

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Writing inside. Owner's name on endpage. (William Wordsworth, Clark lectures).

First Edition. First impression. Octavo (20.5cm). Maroon cloth with gilt titles; dustjacket; 271pp. Tight, clean, and unmarked - a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 10s.6d. at base of front flap); mildly toned on spine with a touch of edgewear, still easily Very Good. A collection of biographical and critical essays, originally delivered in the course of Read's tenure as the Clark Lecturer at Oxford in 1929-30. A tidy, pleasing copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First published in 1930, this is the first edition in *The Life and Letter Series*. Slight tears to the corners of the crown, and the spine uniformly faded, very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "Ragnar Nurkse from Herbert Read. Edinburgh, 1932." Nurske (1907-1959) was a prominent economist at Columbia University whose works on international economics were very influential in the middle of the century. Today he is primarily noted for his attention to developing nations and his theory of a "vicious cycle of poverty" that prevents economic growth.

Zustand: Good. Light scuffs and nicks to jacket edges with 1 appx tear at top front panel fold. Gentle bumps at board corners. Minor tanning and foxing to endpapers and edge of text block.