Edited by C G Smith (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pbk, 90 p. ; 21 cm. Condition as new. Select conversations with an uncle (now extinct) -- Appendix: Two unreprinted conversations: The golden gospel of ugliness -- The ugliest thing in London. [Essays English fiction Short stories] r943 / m15421.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. hardback, octavo, a fine tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a fine pictorial dust jacket which is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, 277pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Cream faux-leather covers, sound binding, clean pages and plates, light foxing to end-papers, Light shelf-wear on upper edge of dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 78124121028. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Stapled wrappers. [15]pp. Wrappers lightly age-toned, near fine. Contributions by Herbert C. Barrows, Jr., William R. Steinhoff, Edwin M. Mosley, Richard B. Vowles, Eleanor M. Sickels, Daniel N. Dwyer, Vincent Freimarck, Lyman A. Cotten, and Ray Smith. Cummings' poetry featured are *Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town*, *These Children Singing in a Stone A*, *Space Being . Curved*. Essays on Eliot's *The Waste Land* and *Ash Wednesday*. …

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Hardback. Browing to end inside covers. Shelf wear to edges and corners of cloth. Slight browning to spine of cloth. Green cloth with black lettering. Contents: General Preface. Editor's Preface. Introduction. Dramatis Personae. Henry the Fifth. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Index of Words. General Index. Addendum: Shakespeare's Stage in Its Bearing Upon His Drama by Prof. C. H. Herford. 286 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

Card Covers. Condition: Good. Stapled booklet 1975. 87 pages. Neat name & date on the front end paper. Clean & tight. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H11. Oxford and Its Region. Geographical Essays. Editors: C G Smith and D I Scargill.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. ex library book, light amount of wear along the edges of the cover.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 481 pages. 8.98x5.98x1.14 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. First edition, 1999. Scholarly work on authenticating Chinese paintings, illustrated in black and white. Large softcover, 10.5 inches tall, 317 pages including a glossary. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. D.S. Brewer. 146 pp. Essays from the Conference at the University of York, 10-12 July 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4x hardback set, all hardbacks, with out dustjackets (as issued). No damage, internally clean. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 2 volumes (xvi, 935 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 33 cm Contents: Vol. 1. Introduction / Jerome Silbergeld, Dora C.Y. Ching, Alfreda Murck -- Reflections on Chinese art history: an interview with Wen C. Fong / Jerome Silbergeld -- Bibliography of Wen C. Fong -- Visual evidence is evidence: rehabilitating the object / Maggie Bickford -- Pictorial maps, panoramic landscapes, and topographic paintings: three modes of depicting space during the early Qing Dynasty / Maxwell K. Hearn -- The song experiment with mimesis / Richard M. Barnhart -- Public and private truths in Chinese painting: Zhu Da and Fu Baoshi / Alfreda Murck -- Chen Hongshou and his workshop / Shane McCausland -- Between the titans: constructions of modernity and tradition at the dawn of Chinese architectural history / Cary Y. Liu -- The painting-poetry analogy: what did it mean for song painting? / Elizabeth Brotherton -- Lithic artifacts from Yueliangwan: research notes on an early discovery at the Sanxingdui site / Jay Xu -- Reassessing the dating of Chinese jade forked blades / Zhixin Jason Sun -- Regionalism in Han Dynasty stone carving and lacquer painting / Anthony Barbieri-Low -- Pedagogue on the go: portraits of Confucius as an itinerant teacher / Julia K. Murray -- The Ming image: the transformation from Hongwu to Hongzhi / Dora C.Y. Ching -- An analytical reading of Portraits of Emperor Qianlong and his consorts / Chen Pao-Chen -- The making of royal portraits during the Choson Dynasty: what the Uigwe books reveal / Yi Song-Mi -- A group of anonymous northern figure paintings from the Qianlong period / James Cahill -- Josetsu's Catching a catfish with a gourd: cultural agendas and the early fifteenth-century Shogunal Academy / Richard Stanley-Baker. Vol. 2. A tale of two scrolls: the Luo nymph rhapsody in Peking and London / Roderick Whitfield -- Visualizing paradise and configuring conventions: cave 334, Dunhuang / Jennifer Noering McIntire -- The three purities grotto at N. …

First edition. 133 pages. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket.

Large 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. li + [i] + 330 + [2] pp. Bound in navy cloth, gilt, with blind stamped borders enclosing device on front board, in price clipped dust wrapper. Some foxing of page edges and front flyleaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. Loosely inserted: two photographic prints, including portrait of Temple. Illustrated by 5 black and white plates (one folding facsimile), including portrait frontispiece, by genealogical tables, and by diagram in text. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. One of several editions of this famous courtship correspondence, in this case preserving the original spelling and punctuation. The main sequence contains 77 letters written 1652-54, preserved in the British Library (Add MS 33975), written by Dorothy Osborne (1627-95) who was prevented form marrying Sir William Temple (1628-99) for seven years. Temple, 1st baronet, with an Anglo-Irish background, was a diplomat serving Charles II, who took part in diplomatic missions involving the Dutch, including the marriage of Princess Mary to the Prince of Orange in 1677. In later years he employed the young Jonathan Swift as his secretary. The letters have been edited by George Charles Moore Smith (1858-1940,) literary scholar who was professor of English at the University of Sheffield and its predecessors, 1896-1924. The first edition was published 1628. SOCIAL HISTORY LETTERS CORRESPONDENCE 17TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED SOCIAL HISTORY. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Publisher's pale blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Volume title page and index, xii, 676 Pages.8.5 X 12 inches. Some fading/loss of colour from damp marking to the cloth along the lower edge of the boards, lower corners bumped. Name and date to front pastedown.Inside all complete and in good order. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Publisher's pale blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Volume index, xii, 656 Pages.8.5 X 12 inches. Very good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Publisher's pale blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Volume title page and index, x, 738 Pages.8.5 X 12 inches.Corners a little bumped. Name and date to front pastedown.Inside all complete and in good order.Some of the spine lettering is a bit dulled. Very good copy.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Stapled and tape bound in stiff card wrappers. Covers lightly rubbed, a few splits along the spine tape, else near fine. A hard-to-find literary journal that features an interview with Robert Lowell and poems, essays, and short stories from Diane di Prima, Diane Wakoski, Gerard Malanga, Fred Brewer, Harold Whitehall, Robert Karmon, D. Murray, Chaim Mendelson, John Perreault, Norman Rosten, S. Dorman, Douglas Flaherty, Louis Freund, G.F. Goekjian, David Wade, Brother Dimitrious, Carolyn Stoloff, David Luhn, Cynthia Grant, William E. Taylor, Gail Neidorf, Ronald Tavel, Duane Locke, Worth Kitson, Murray Suid, Allan Newman, Edward Oster, William E. Taylor, Jess Perlman, Henry Malone, Sandra Hochman, Raymond O'Hara, Edward C. Smith, Louis Phillips, Harold Whitehall, and Terry Lung.…

Vancouver 2000. 8vo. Original illust. stiff wrapper. xviii 230pp. Num. b/w illustrations. Author's signed presentation copy. Fine. NOTE: A comprehensive discussion of the challenges that globalisation presents for indigenous peoples outlining successful strategies that have been used to promote their identities and cultural values.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Limited to 780 numbered copies, this being number 14. xvi, 327 pages, with a collotype facsimile, protected by a tissue guard, tucked into a pocket between the rear paste down and the back board. Harold Child's copy, with Bullen's presentation signature -"Harold Child d.d. A. H. Bullen" in ink fron end page under a tipped in one page ALS from A.H. Bullen, dated 13/X/13 (Oct. 13, 1913) and on Shakespeare Head Press letterhead - "My dear Child, I am sending you an advanced copy of Gabriel Harvey's 'Marginalia' , which has been in the stocks so long. Don't miss the collotype facsimile in the pocket at the end of the volume. In three weeks - not before, I fear - the book will be published, and a ? review ? will be distributed. ( One of course will be sent to The Times.)" Bullen then goes on to talk of 2 other future publications of interest to Child and The Times. A. H. Bullen, (Arthur Henry, 1857-1920) was a British editor, publisher, and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press. Harold Child, (1869-1945) was a literary critic and writer who was prominent in the development of dramatic criticism, notably in his work on the history of Shakespearean production. A great British literary Association Copy. In quarter cloth over paper covered boards, Very Good, corners rubbed, label darkened yet legible, front hinge cracked and holding nicely, many pages with scholarly marginal notations in pencil and 3 sheets of motes in pencil laid in, most likely in Harold Child's hand. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Condition: very good. 22cm, xxiv,382 & vii,434pp., appendix, index, with two frontispieces, 10 plates, expertly rebacked, new endpapers, wine cloth with gilt titles and coat of arms on the upper cover.