Empson J M (7 results)

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780333949351. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First. A very good unread copy without any marking or highlighting. Pages are clean and bright. The perfect binding is square. Some gentle scuffing to covers and a 3-inch gentle crease. Bumped corners. Bottom edge has a few marks of unknown origin. 358 pages. Essays include Milton's Minor Poems; Heaven; Milton; The Transcendental Masque; Echo Schematic; Milton: "Lycidas"; The Majesty of Darkness; THe Genesis of Gendered Subjectivity in the Divorce Tracts and in Paradise Lost; The Father's House: Samson Agonistes in its Historical Moment; Milton's Prose; The Adjustment of Idealism; Aristotle on the Pinnacle: Paradise Regained; The Birth of the Author: Milton's Poetic Self-Construction; Gently Raised; and "Something . Written to Aftertimes.".…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780230008885.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Impression. 1957 First Edition, first impression. Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin's Review Copy. Size octavo, 201 pages. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition near fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition very good, edges slightly rubbed, spine and outer panel edges sunned, not price clipped. The report of the 28th International P.E.N Congress held in 1956 in London. Containing essays by J. B. Priestly, Angus Wilson, William Empson, V. S. Pritchett, Andre Maurois, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender, et al. This was the Review Copy of Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973). Loosely inserted is a typed carbon copy of Malcolm Elwin's Review of the book, 7 pages. Tipped onto the front end-paper is the original compliments slip from Angela Pain of Hansom Books Ltd on which she has asked Malcolm to produce a review of around 1200 words by April 8th, and also the compliments slip from Messrs. Hutchinson and Co Publisher's Ltd enclosing the book and asking Malcolm Elwin for a review of the book and requesting that no notice of the review should appear prior to the publication date of 25 Mar 1957.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition Introduction by J.C. Levenson. Former College copy with occasional pencil marks underlines. Essays on Shakespeare's Hamlet by John Dryden; Samuel Johnson; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; A.C. Bradley; E.E. Stoll; T.S. Eliot; G. Wilson Knight; J. Dover Wilson; L.C. Knights; Maynard Mack; William Empson; M.M. Mahood. 113pp. pp. Cloth covered boards with title pastedown.…

Edition limited to 975 copies. Cloth-backed boards, gilt cover device, 8vo, xiv, 170 pp, ills. 394 entries. This is the less commonly seen but more attractive binding, in a black cloth spine and grey boards, rather than green cloth. One of the leaders of the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s, Gibbings was for nine years director of the Golden Cockerel Press. The first part of the volume is a descriptive bibliography of the 67 books illustrated by Gibbings; and the second lists chronologically his work as artist, writer, printer and publisher, and also records some publications containing references to his work. There is a note on the printing methods of the Golden Cockerel Press, contributed by A C Cooper who was pressman throughout the period of Gibbings' direction. Shadow of removed sticker on spine, otherwise Near Very Good in a used and price-clipped dustwrapper. …

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xiii + 170pp., illusts., index, One of the leaders of the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s, Gibbings was for nine years director of the Golden Cockerel Press. The first part of the volume is a descriptive bibliography of the 67 books illustrated by Gibbings; and the second lists chronologically his work as artist, writer, printer and publisher, and also records some publications containing references to his work. There is a note on the printing methods of the Golden Cockerel Press, contributed by A. C. Cooper who was pressman throughout the period of Gibbings' direction. Edition limited to 975 copies.…