Ernest Pertwee Editor (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: n No Jacket. y First Edition. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1923. Book. Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Companion volume to the "New Spirit in Verse", intended as a collection for those interested in speaking verse, reflecting the spirit of the poetry of the early 20th Century. Embossed leaf design to front board, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Bottom edges uncut. Marks to endpapers left by bookmarks. Foxing to edges and some margins. Some bumping to spine and corners. Four blank pages to the rear of the volume have been filled with light outline sketches in red crayon, otherwise good copy. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG/GD/ND. y First Edition Thus Revised, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. thus, reprint. * Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: 1926* Publisher: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Purple textured cloth boards, gilt title to spine, faded & slightly worn. No bumps, minor rubs, slight shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Some slight damp marks to both boards. GOOD* Jacket condition: No Dust Wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Given as an elocution prize from Aldro School in July 1927 (inscribed to ffep.). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks & age to end-papers, top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of b/w line drawings and diagrams within text at front.* Pages: 685 pp. text. xxviii pp., indices of authors and first lines & blank pages at rear.* Description: "The Reciter's Treasury of Verse - Serious and Humorous". This is one of the best books written on elocution. The original 1904 Edition by Ernest Pertwee is complete in this 1926 Edition, and is edited and revised by the author's son: Ernest Guy Pertwee, Examiner in Elocution for the Associated Board of Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, and Examiner for Guildhall School of Music. Ernest Guy Pertwee has also added extra poems to this edition, including works by Francis Thompson, James Elroy Flecker, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Thomas Hardy, Vachel Lindsay & many more. Illustrated in the introduction with diagrams showing the organs of the body involved in articulation and pronunciation.* A NEAR VG+ text reprint copy of the 1st thus. with some minor age and wear but no dust jacket.* 1926-01-01. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 11th edition. 848 pages. spine faded, text very tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 200 pages. No dj. Cover worn. Text foxed.

6th edition very good hardcover. 200p. Routledge's XXth century humorous reciter. Previous owner's name on endpaper.

volumes 216 pages 21 cm. English literature. Litt?rature anglaise. English literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pertwee, Ernest, editor. Twentieth-century American verse for recitation / compiled and edited by Ernest Pertwee. Second impression. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., [s.d.] Hardback, Good. Tan cloth, bumped to corners, a little rubbed along edges with light damage to head and base of spine. Illustrated front, the colours slightly rubbed in places, black lettering to front and spine. Binding strong. Light tanning to endpapers. vi, 186pp. Some light pencil lines and occasional pencil annotations, otherwise contents clean and bright. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Small 8vo.pp.145. Contributors include:Martin Armstrong, W.R. Childe, Itys Christie, Rupert Croft-Cooke, Robin Flower, Julian Grenfell, Sylvia Lynd, J.D.C. Pellow, Queenie Scott-Hopper, Fredegond Shove, and Charles Hamilton Sorley. Original publisher's cloth binding in a fresh green with gilt lettering and embossed decoration. Clean, very good.…

, Twentieth-Century Humorous Prose Reciter, viii, 200 pages ; The Art of Preaching and Extempore Speaking (paperback), 24 pages; The Arts of Writing, Reading and Speaking. Letters to a Law Student, viii, 339 pages Tenth edition; Second edition; Third edition , light rubbing to corners and spine, slight bow to rear boards of Humorous Prose Reciter, mildew marks to boards of The Arts of Writing, Reading and Speaking, creases to corners of The Art of Preaching, pages clean, good to very good condition , spine of dustwrapper to Humorous Prose Reciter sunned, slight edge wear and small chips to top and tail of spine, dustwrapper in good condition , orange cloth with yellow, green and black illustration to front; printed paper wraps; brown cloth with gilt titles title page front and spine , 20 cm x 13 cm Hardback and paperback ISBN. …