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Order Now!  BookId: A3-001731

Title: Performing Arts a Guide to Practice and Appreciation
Author: Michael Billington
Publisher: New York: Facts on File, 1980
Price: 28.00
Description:A beautiful large book , Performing Arts , a Guide to Practice and Appreciation . by Consultant Editor Michael Billington , foreword by Sir George Gielgud. and with the contribution of over 20 editors . 225 pages , many color and black and white illustrations . A comprehensive content including both the usual and unusual . as well as Theatre, opera , concerts and ballets for instance , feats of daring, mime and amgic are among the subjects covered . cloth cover, good dust jacket . anice book for your library , and an avaluable asset for spectator and performer alike.



Order Now!  BookId: A3-001736

ISBN: 086051711x
Title: Vaslav Nijinsky A Leap Into Madness
Author: Peter Ostwald
Publisher: London: Robson, 1991
Price: 35.00
Description:Decorative Cloth. A first edition this is a brilliant, compassionate and well-researched study of that highly gifted , deeply wounded , and much misunderstood child of God. Vaslav Nijinski , a leap into Madness by Peter Ostwald . , ex-library book , but good condition , good dust jacket , just a stamp on first title page , 372 pages . Most incisive book into the life of the Great dancer Vaslav Nijinski . a must for any lover of Dance .



Order Now!  BookId: A3-002

Title: On English Poetry
Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: William Heinemann
Price: 259.00
Description:First edition , very rare in this condition but no dust jacket . On English Poetry by Robert Graves is a valuable book on writing and valuing poetry, as well as on the life and calling of a poet. It is a heartbreaking task to reconcile literary and scientific interests in the same book. Literary enthusiasts seem to regard poetry as something miraculous, something which it is almost blasphemous to analyse, witness the outcry against R. L. Stevenson when he merely underlined examples of Shakespeare's wonderful dexterity in the manipulation of consonants; most scientists on the other hand, being either benevolently contemptuous of poetry, or if interested, insensitive to the emotional quality of words and their associative subtleties, themselves use words as weights and counters rather than as chemicals powerful in combination and have written, if at all, so boorishly about poetry that the breach has been actually widened. Robert Graves was born to parents Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke Graves in 1895 in Wimbledon, near London, England. He was one of ten children. His father was a Gaelic scholar and poet, and his mother was related to influential German historian Leopold von Ranke. Though he won a scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, Graves left London in 1914 to serve as a junior officer in World War I. He published his first book of poetry, Over the Brazier, in 1916. His numerous other collections include Poems: Abridged for Dolls and Princes (1971), Love Respelt (1966), The Poems of Robert Graves (1958), Country Sentiment (1920), Fairies and Fusiliers (1918), and Goliath and David (1916). Graves often stirred controversy in his endeavors as a poet, novelist, critic, mythographer, translator, and editor. Stephen Spender in the New York Times Book Review characterized Graves as a free thinker: “All of his life Graves has been indifferent to fashion, and the great and deserved reputation he has is based on his individuality as a poet who is both intensely idiosyncratic and unlike any other contemporary poet and at the same time classical.” A rebel socially, as well as artistically, Graves left his wife and four children in 1929 to live in Majorca, Spain with Laura Riding, an American poet. Douglas Day commented on the importance of this move in Swifter Than Reason: The Poetry and Criticism of Robert Graves: “The influence of Laura Riding is quite possibly the most important single element in his poetic career: she persuaded him to curb his digressiveness and his rambling philosophizing and to concentrate instead on terse, ironic poems written on personal themes. She also imparted to him some of her own dry, cerebral quality, which has remained in much of his poetry. There can be little doubt that some of his best work was done during the years of his literary partnership with Laura Riding.” It has been suggested that one of Graves’s debts to Riding was his long-standing fascination with the Muse of poetry. Anne Fremantle noted in Nation that T.S. Matthews gave Riding credit for Graves’s “mystical and reverent attitude to the mother goddess,” that muse to whom he referred by a variety of names, including Calliope and the White Goddess. In his Third Book of Criticism, Randall Jarrell noted that Muse symbolism permeates Graves’s writing: “All that is finally important to Graves is condensed in the one figure of the Mother-Mistress-Muse, she who creates, nourishes, seduces, destroys; she who saves us—or, as good as saving, destroys us—as long as we love her, write poems to her, submit to her without question, use all our professional, Regimental, masculine qualities in her service. Death is swallowed up in victory, said St. Paul; for Graves Life, Death, everything that exists is swallowed up in the White Goddess. The book is hard cover with yellow and black cover , in good condition, no dust jacket . The inside is clean, , some fading inside the end paper on front and back , no name of past owner, no writing, marking or spoiling...149 pages ... A rare book in first edition.



Order Now!  BookId: A3-002251

ISBN: 0385153406
Title: Pavarotti, My Own Story
Author: Pavarotti, Luciano / William Wright
Publisher: Doubleday
Price: 22.00
Description:First Edition , Autobiography of Lusiano Pavarotti by Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright. Not since the legendary Caruso has an Opera personality captured the world's imagination as has tenor Luciano Pavarotti . Good book, dust jacket in fair condition (small used tears) 316 pages plus 32 pages of photographs , some monologues by people closed to Pavarotti personally or professionally , are adding a perspective to the narrative (such people as Dr Umberto Boeri, Arrigo Pola, Adua Pavarotti, Joan Ingpen, Judith Raskin, Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, and more ).



Order Now!  BookId: A3-002318

ISBN: 0688126596
Title: Model the ugly business of beautiful women
Author: Michael Gross
Publisher: William Morrow
Price: 18.00
Description: published by William Morrow and Co., 1995., 1995. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is slightly bumped at spine tips and corners. 524 pages with index, bibliography and photographs. a very good book.



Order Now!  BookId: A3-002735

Title: Chanel , a Woman of Her Own
Author: Madsen Axel
Publisher: Henry Holt
Price: 20.00
Description:Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1990. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good . Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good 388 pages . An intimate biography of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the passionate woman who conquered dukes, artists, and politicians, the designer who revolutionized the way women looked, . Coco Channel led an extraordinary life. 40 plus photographs , nice clean book. A Must for the fashion lover .



Order Now!  BookId: A3-003

Title: Chamber Music
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Price: 55.00
Description: Chamber Music is a book of various verses composed by James Joyce, first issued in May of 1907. The selection is primarily consisted of 34 verses about love, but two more verses were included before printing... London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1956. Eighth impression. Hardcover. A tight very good copy in a close to near fine dust jacket . No marking, soiling or writing in this book which look newer than it is. Only 40 pages, price is uncut on the dust jacket, and great advertisement for the other books of James Joyce on the back . The book cover is pale blue. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), {we will have a copy of Ulysses for sale very soon on this site }, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.



Order Now!  BookId: A3-003051

ISBN: 044652087x
Title: My Sergei A love story
Author: Ekaterina Gordeeva
Publisher: Warner Books
Price: 22.00
Description:Hard cover , first printing , very good condition including dust jacket .... The love story of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, , the most celebrated pairs skaters of all time.... She Idolized " her Sergei" ....292 pages .



Order Now!  BookId: A3-004

Title: The Orators
Author: W.H Auden
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Price: 300.00
Description:Rare First Edition of a Great Poet . The Orators: An English Study is a long poem in prose and verse written by W. H. Auden, first published in 1932. It is regarded as a major contribution to modernist poetry in English. The Orators is divided into three main sections, framed by "Prologue" and "Epilogue". Wystan Hugh Auden was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content. the Orators is not a collection , but a single work with one theme and purpose, partly in prose and partly in verse, in which the author continues his exploration of new form and rhythm . It will not disappoint those have been excited by the unfamiliar metric and the violent imagination of the earlier book. I suggest you read the cover to have a better idea of what the book is about .... Highly collectible as a first edition of 1932 , the dust jacket has suffered from the ages , but the book itself is perfect navy-blue/black cover with gilded letters for title and author name , very solid , a few poems are included , 116 pages , a great book fro the collector



Order Now!  BookId: A3-004262

ISBN: 0753807319
Title: Nureyev his life
Author: Diane Solway
Publisher: Phoenix
Price: 17.00
Description:Phoenix / Orion, London, 1999. Paperback, 20cms x 13cms Rudolf Nureyev's sensational defection to the West in 1961 sparked a Cold War showdown and grabbed headlines worldwide. Having secured secret Soviet government documents, and eyewitness accounts from most of the participants, Diane Solway provides startling new details about this historic event. Overnight, Nureyev had become a superstar, as renowned for his flamboyant lifestyle as he was for his formidable artistry. This is the first full account of Nureyev's intense and vibrant life. Book in VERY GOOD condition 626 pages.



Order Now!  BookId: A3-005

Title: les Fleurs du mal Pieces condamnees illustrees
Author: Charles Beaudelaire...illustre by Charles Mayrs
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Price: 45.00
Description:Les Fleurs du Mal Pieces Condamnees par Charles Baudelaire avec illustrations par Charles Mayrs . Blackston Press editions , signed by Charles Mayrs , artist . This book was designed and printed by Dacid Clifford at Blackstone Press in Vancouver , B.C. With advice and encouragement from Christina Symons, Isabelle Swiderski and Rollin Milroy. The text was set in Arepo and printed letterpress with polymer plates 0n BFK Rives paper. Each copy was handbound at the press by Yasmine Franchi. From an edition of forty copies signed by the artist , this is number 11. signature by Charles Mayrs ..... of course first edition, numbered and signed give the book a rarity quality and collectible attractiveness



Order Now!  BookId: A3-005320

ISBN: 0571167446
Title: The private lives of Albert Einstein
Author: Roger Highfield, Paul Carter
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Price: 28.00
Description:Faber & Faber, London, 1993. hardcover w/dust jacket. Book Condition: NF/VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. photos (illustrator). 1st printing. Size: octavo. 355 pp. Binding is tight, spine fully intact. Chips and tears along dust jacket edges. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: photos.This biography uncovers Einstein's relationships with his family and the three most important women in his life - his first and second wives and his mother. Drawing from archival evidence from Berlin, Zurich, Boston, Edinburgh and Oxford, and on unpublished papers and interviews with scholars, family and friends, it convincingly challenges the carefully cultivated image of Einstein as a modern saint.".



Order Now!  BookId: A3-005336

Title: Fool for Love a Biography of F Scott-Fitzgerald
Author: Scott Donaldson
Publisher: Delta
Price: 15.00
Description:



Order Now!  BookId: A3-005346

ISBN: 9781451648539
Title: Steve Jobs
Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Price: 30.00
Description:From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years-as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members. friends. adversaries. competitors. and colleagues-Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality .628 pages book is as new , very clean in and out , dust jacket is also as new , a few pictures



Order Now!  BookId: A3-005434

ISBN: 0671743716
Title: Free to love
Author: Ivana Trump
Publisher: Pocket books
Price: 23.00
Description:New York, Pocket Books 1993, 1993. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Ed. Fine in like dust jacket. Another glitzy novel of the jet set by the former Mrs. Trump. Fiction, Novel, as new condition, 504 pages.



Order Now!  BookId: A3-006

Title: The Essays Of Elia illustres by Charles E Brock
Author: Charles Lamb/ Charles E Brock
Publisher: J M Dent C. Scribner
Price: 200.00
Description:Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. Lamb's essays were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers; the essays "established Lamb in the title he now holds, that of the most delightful of English essayists." Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck. American editions of both the Essays and the Last Essays were published in Philadelphia in 1828. At the time, American publishers were unconstrained by copyright law, and often reprinted materials from English books and periodicals; so the American collection of the Last Essays preceded its British counterpart by five years. Critics have traced the influence of earlier writers in Lamb's style, notably Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Burton- writers who also influenced Lamb's contemporary and acquaintance, Thomas De Quincey. Some of Lamb's later pieces in the same style and spirit were collected into a body called Eliana. The book is an older book and the date is uncertain , no dust jacket the hard cover is in and orange cloth and brown spine, with name of author and title in gold letter , small tear on the spine. The inside of the book is clean , no name of past owner, amusing illustrations by Charles Brock, 294 pages . A nice collectible book ..



Order Now!  BookId: A3-007

Title: Little Gidding
Author: T S Eliot
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Price: 150.00
Description:Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, a series of poems that discuss time, perspective, humanity, and salvation. It was first published in September 1942 after being delayed for over a year because of the air-raids on Great Britain during World War II and Eliot's declining health. The title refers to a small Anglican community in Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, established by Nicholas Ferrar in the 17th century and scattered during the English Civil War. The poem uses the combined image of fire and Pentecostal fire to emphasise the need for purification and purgation. According to the poet, humanity's flawed understanding of life and turning away from God leads to a cycle of warfare, but this can be overcome by recognising the lessons of the past. Within the poem, the narrator meets a ghost that is a combination of various poets and literary figures. Little Gidding focuses on the unity of past, present, and future, and claims that understanding this unity is necessary for salvation. Within the poem, the narrator meets a ghost that is a combination of various poets and literary figures. Little Gidding focuses on the unity of past, present, and future, and claims that understanding this unity is necessary for salvation. Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Through his trials in language, writing style, and verse structure, he reinvigorated English poetry. He also dismantled outdated beliefs and established new ones through a collection of critical essays. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship. Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from 1914 to 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry". This is a light folio under a Lilac cover page , in faded but good condition , part of the original Four quartet, original edition of 1942, about 16 pages .



Order Now!  BookId: A3-008

Title: East Coker
Author: T S Eliot
Publisher: Faber& Faber
Price: 150.00
Description:East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot's 1943 book Four Quartets. It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modelled after Burnt Norton. It was finished during early 1940 and printed in the UK in the Easter edition of the 1940 New English Weekly, and in the US in the May 1940 issue of Partisan Review. The title refers to a small community that was directly connected to Eliot's ancestry and was home to a church that was later to house Eliot's ashes. The poem discusses time and disorder within nature that is the result of humanity following only science and not the divine. Leaders are described as materialistic and unable to understand reality. The only way for mankind to find salvation is through pursuing the divine by looking inwards and realizing that humanity is interconnected. Only then can people understand the universe. The poem discusses time and disorder within nature that is the result of humanity following only science and not the divine. Leaders are described as materialistic and unable to understand reality. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship. Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" from 1914 to 1915, which, at the time of its publication, was considered outlandish. It was followed by The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry". This is a light folio under a Yellow cover page , in faded but good condition , part of the original Four quartet, original edition of 1940, about 16 pages .



Order Now!  BookId: A3-009

Title: The Second Voyage of Jacques Cartier
Author: Jacques Cartier reproduction
Publisher: Hoffman La Roche
Price: 50.00
Description:Second voyage (1535–1536) Jacques Cartier set sail for a second voyage on May 19 of the following year with three ships, 110 men, and his two Iroquoian captives. Reaching the St. Lawrence, he sailed upriver for the first time, and reached the Iroquoian capital of Stadacona, where Chief Donnacona ruled. This booklet has been recreated by Hoffmann La Roche in Montreal. Unpaginated. 22 cm. Facsimiles inside both covers are marking first and last pages. French language booklet and English translation. About scurvy among other things .... small glossary with algonquin language.. Jacques Cartier 31 December 1491 – 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island).[



Order Now!  BookId: A3-19131

Title: The invisible Writing
Author: Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Price: 30.00
Description:The Invisible Writing: The Second Volume Of An Autobiography, 1932-40 (1954) is a book by Arthur Koestler. It follows on from Arrow in the Blue, published two years earlier, and which described his life from his birth in 1905, to 1931, and deals with a much shorter period, a mere eight years (as opposed to the twenty six of the previous volume). This was nonetheless, a highly significant period in Koestler's life, as it involved his membership and subsequent alienation from the Communist movement. As well as his relationship with Communism, The Invisible Writing is also interesting for its documentation of Europe in the years leading up to World War II, both his native Hungary and Austria, Germany, and also the west, such as Spain, France and England. In The Invisible Writing, Koestler recalls that during the summer of 1935 he "wrote about half of a satirical novel called The Good Soldier Schweik Goes to War Again..... It had been commissioned by Willy Münzenberg [the Comintern's chief propagandist in the West ... but was vetoed by the Party on the grounds of the book's 'pacifist errors'..." Arthur Koestler, CBE 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism. Having moved to Britain in 1940, he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies, and numerous essays. In 1949, Koestler began secretly working with a British Cold War anti-communist propaganda department known as the Information Research Department (IRD), which would republish and distribute many of his works, and also fund his activities.[In 1968, he was awarded the Sonning Prize "for his outstanding contribution to European culture". In 1972 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). The book is a thisck soft cover by Vintage Classics, paperback with no dust jacket , portrait of Koestler on half the cover. the inside of the book is as new , unbroken on the spine, very good condition, 526 pages. no writing, marking or spoiling of any kind, interesting biography with good travel experience as well.



Order Now!  BookId: A3-193262

Title: The Journals of Arnold Bennett vol 2 (1911-1921)
Author: Arnold Bennett Newman Flower
Publisher: Cassell
Price: 62.00
Description:



Order Now!  BookId: A3-195800

Title: The Once & Future King
Author: T H White
Publisher: Collins
Price: 1500.00
Description:First edition , dust jacket is very tired but book is as new, blue tissue , very clean inside. 677 pages . the Once and Future King is the complete edition of T H White 's Arthurian Epic. It contains Four novels . The Sword in the stone has two new chapters. The Witch in the wood has been rewritten and has a new title. The Ill-made Knight is largely unaltered and The Candle in the Wind has not been published before . This a rare edition .



Order Now!  BookId: A3-60174

Title: Ernest Hemingway a Life story
Author: Carlos Baker
Publisher: Scribner's sons
Price: 55.00
Description:Hard cover , used book , in good condition .... the dust jacket is a bit shelf used but the book is holding well . includes photographs, interviews and more about the great American writer .... 700 pages



Order Now!  BookId: A4-188239

Title: The life of Sir Walter Scott in 10 volumes (Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott)
Author: J G Lockhart
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
Price: 650.00
Description:Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott In Ten Volumes John Gibson LOCKHART Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1882, Later Edition. Ten volumes, complete. John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He was Sir Walter Scott s son-in-law. This memoir of Scott has been called the second most admirable in the English language, after Boswell's Life of Johnson. Beautiful publication of the memoirs of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), the Scottish historical novelist and poet, who wrote famous works like Ivanhoe, Rob Roy & Waverley. As his fame grew he was granted the title of (1st) baronet, becoming Sir Walter Scott. Each volume with frontispiece-engraving, protected by tissue-guard. Title-pages with decorative red and black initials. Vol. I with 84 page "Memoir of the early life of Sir Walter Scott, written by Himself." all books are about 300 to 400 pages. Perfect condition, , scuffing and minor staining on binding. minor foxing to few pages. Complete ten volume set, tight copies in overall very good condition.



Order Now!  BookId: A4-192098

Title: The Age of Johnson
Author: Thomas Seccombe
Publisher: G Bell & sons
Price: 45.00
Description:Part of the Handbooks of English Literature series, this comprehensive overview, first published in 1899, provides stimulating discussions of essayists and critics (Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith), authors of memoirs and letters (Lord Chesterfield, Horace Walpole), political writers (Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine), economists (David Hume), novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Sterne), dramatists, poets, and more. Thomas Seccombe (1866–1923) was a miscellaneous English writer and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, in which he wrote over 700 entries. A son of physician and episcopus vagans John Thomas Seccombe, he was educated at Felsted and Balliol College, Oxford, taking a first in Modern History in 1889. This book is an early copy of the 1899 book and was reprinted many times. It is a clean book , no dust jacket, gree cover with black lettering ...Published by Bell & sons, 366 pages including index and chronological table of the men of the century....A nice and clean reference book as well.



Order Now!  BookId: A4-192750

Title: The lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson
Author: Izaak Walton George Saintsbury
Publisher: Humphrey Milford
Price: 50.00
Description:Walton 's portraits are masterpieces of delicate insight... They are obituary poems,each of them has the unity and the melody of a song or a sonnet; perfect in their way as the Idylls of Theocritus..... the book is in perfect condition , with dust jacket , 1927 edition, Blue cover .... the dust-jacket is fair for its age with a map of the world from the World's Classics Oxford University Press .426 pages.



Order Now!  BookId: A4-192785

Title: The Age of Dryden
Author: Richard Garnett
Publisher: G Bell & sons
Price: 60.00
Description:Richard Garnett C.B. was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum, i.e. what is now the British Library. his book is a biography about John Dryden. Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Romanticist writer Sir Walter Scott called him "Glorious John".



Order Now!  BookId: A4-1929001

Title: Hogarth Living Poets #8 Cambridge Poetry 1929
Author: C.Saltmarshe, J. Davenport, B. Wright
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Price: 200.00
Description:First edition, first impression, of the first volume in Hogarth's Cambridge Poetry series, including two contributions from Julian Bell.... Original pale greenish paper-covered boards, titles to spine and front cover in black.The contents are clean and free from marks. A very good copy 76 pages. Julian bell was inspired by his girlfriend under Chloe name...but passed away shortly later, after fighting in WW1, from his wounds at the war. This was i n fact the first issue of the Cambridge Poets , in spite of being called #8 for merchandising purpose ....



Order Now!  BookId: A4-1930002

Title: Hogarth Living Poets #13 Cambridge Poetry, 1930
Author: John Davenport, H.Sykes7 M. Redgrave
Publisher: The Hogarth Press
Price: 500.00
Description:First edition, first impression, of the second volume in Hogarth's Cambridge Poetry series, including three contributions from Julian Bell, who in the same year published his first book of poems Winter Movement. It is one of 800 copies printed, 300 of which were later withdrawn from publication. Original pale brown paper-covered boards, titles to spine and front cover in black. Boards gently bowed, very faint offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and free from marks. A very good copy .72 pages.Poem #3 by Julian bell was inspired by his girlfriend under Chloe name...







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