Andrew Pearse Editors (11 results)

Octavo, hardcover, strip at bottom board sunned else VG in beige boards. Interior clean and unmarked. 138 pp. first ed. Discusses the realist in the 30's (Hemingway and others), poetry (Thomas Merton, Patchen and others), prose (Mankowitz), criticism and new contributors. Book.

Hardcover. London, Dennis Dobson, Ltd., 1946, 1946. F. Hardcover. first ed. Pages 138,8bo, hardcover, first ed. Cover slightly splayed, a bit of soil; bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, Without a dust jacket. 012502A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. London: Dennis Dobson Limited. Very Good/No Jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners very slightly bumped. Light wear to extremities. Pages slightly yellowed. Binding tight. Size: Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Hardcover First Edition. Dustwrapper has wear at spine dneds.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dennis Dobson, 1945 1st edition, hardback blue cloth no jacket, 8vo, 144pp with b/w illustrations, pages browned throughout, remnants of sticker to front board and some rubbing but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 44 pages. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth covered boards and wrapped in a printed paper dustjacket. Dustjacket is very brittle and has numerous losses, although now protectively encased in a Mylar sleeve. Edges of interior pages are browned and fragile, although the binding and pages are intact, with no evident markings to the interior. Critical texts in English by a variety of authors including Julian Symons, Harold Osborn, George Woodcock, and numerous others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 138 pages, fine condition in cloth binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First Impression. A hardbound literary review periodical published near the end of World War II, with wartime materials. Book is Fine in dull blue cloth dustwrapper is Near Fine with a couple of discrete mends to extremities (design from a lithograph by John Kashdan). 144pp. Contributors include D.H. Enright, Julian Symons, Kathleen Raine, George Woodcock, George Barker, W.S. Graham, John Heathstubbs, Vernon Watkins, among others. Features a symposium on Kafka and Rex Warner. Q21949.…

1946. Dennis Dobson. Hard Cover. Book - Good, library marking to front board, hinges cracked. 8.5.x5.5.138pp. Ex-Libris.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Editions. Two volumes. pp: 144, four b&w illustrations on coated stock; 138. Printed on War Economy paper. Bound in blue cloth and gray cloth; both in color-pictorial dust wrappers, lightly chipped. Provenance: Focus Two has the blind-stamp of R.P. Blackmur on the front endpaper. 8.75" x 5.5" The first volume includes a long discussion of Kafka and Rex Warner, essays on current trends in writing, and selected poetry. Focus Two contains a symposium on the realist novel in the 1930s (Hemingway, Koestler, Silone, Malraux), along with selected poetry , a short story by Wolf Mankowitz, and literary criticism.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A very smart first edition of this collection of critical analysis of contemporary literature. First edition. An excellent collection of literary criticism with contributions from D.S. Savage, George Woodcock, Peter Yates, and more. This series is particularly concerned with contemporary literature, including the work of Franz Kafka, most famous for 'The Metamorphosis', and Rex Warner, most famous for The Aerodrome. Compiled and edited by Balachandra Rajan, an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics, and Andrew Pearse, a British journalist and scholar. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. A small closed tear to the head of the spine and rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light age toning to the extremities. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book. …