Empson William Ed John Haffenden (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chatto & Windus, 1986. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 201pp. Pages yellowed. A fair copy. 0701130849/0.5uk.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. Great condition. Cover has light wear, but is bright. Binding is tight, and inside is clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Thick, heavy 8vo. lxi, 729 pp. Original black photographic wrappers. Bottom corner of rear wrappers creased else this is a tight, fine book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First paperback printing. 8vo. ix, 292 pp. Original glossy pictorial brown wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. (PLEASE NOTE: this is not strictly the case; there are a few pencil markings in the text, but these are vanishingly rare (approx. 6 pages, as counted), and the majority (underlinings in 'Death and Its Desires') are almost imperceptible.) Well tanned page block, with some sporadic foxing and markings to the edges. The cover remains tight and robust, but with some rubbing to the corners and the spine ends, and with a not very conspicuous crease running lengthwise down the front centre. There is no creasing to the spine. Thus: visibly shelf aged, lightly used, but constituting a good reading or study copy, with a clean text throughout. Edited with an Introduction by John Haffenden. ix, 557pp. (A compendious collection of William Empson's essays in literary criticism and theory, with a substantial Introduction by John Haffenden, author of an acclaimed two-volume biography of Empson.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 296 pp, dj lightly worn on the edges.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy octavo xvi + 296pp., notes, appendix. index, Gathers Empson's passionate & controversial essays on John Donne in the context of contemporary science.