Foreword John Lehmann (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair +. Fair+ range h/b is scuffed and looks as though D/J may have stuck at some point. An anthology of modern poetry beginning with the poems of Walter Allen. In alpha order. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 189pp. DW has some edge wear, slight loss & a faded spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Like new in NF dust jacket. First American Edition. Slightly oversize green hardcover is like new with no faults to note, unmarked. Minor wear to dust jacket, spine not sunned, not price-clipped. 176 pages : illustrations (some color). Contents: Roger Fry and the foundation of the Omega workshops / Vanessa Bell and the development of an idea / The war years / The ending of the Omega / New departures / The thirties / The forgotten years. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 112 pages. Edith Sitwell "A Young Girl's Song" (poem) / William Sansom "Question and Answer" / Thom Gunn - 2 poems / Eugene Walter "Love with a Drum" / Jean Ferry "Four Stories and a Foreword" / Eleanor Farjeon "Edward Thomas and Robert Frost" / Maurice Cranston "Simone de Beauvoir" / Geoffrey Hill "Letter from Oxford".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Orange paper boards with gilt spine titles. A cocked spine with bumped corners and rubbing, near fine, lacking the dust jacket. Authors include: Walter Allen, Robin Atthill, George Barker, Alex Comfort, Odysseus Elytis, Robert Graves, Anne Ridler, Peter Yates, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Ed., Hard cover red cloth bds, Good, a little age-marked and dusty, spine lettering faded, contents clean and tight, both spine hinges cracked but holding, light age-spotting to leading pge edge block, pp204, no inscriptions etc. With stories by such authors as:- Noel Devaulx, Pierre Gascar, Felicien Marceau, Jean Ferry, Marguerite Duras, Maurice Pons, Louis Guilloux, Julian Green, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Prevost, Jean Giono, Marcel Ayme, Marcel Jouhandeau, Jules Supervielle, Marc Blancpain.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo 189pp., Inc. 6 poems by Auden, 2 by Aragon, 4 by Capetanakis, 6 by Roy Fuller, 5 by Laurie Lee, 6 by Spender, & many others: C. Day Lewis, Edith Sitwell, Louis Macneice, Lorca, Robert Graves etc. Nice engraved book plate on front paste down.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Uncommon collection of essays on English writer Rex Warner (1905-1986). Several contributors. Edited by A.L. McLeod. Foreword by John Lehmann. Includes bibliography. This copy is SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Walter Stone in blue ink on title page: "This bibliographical curiosity - for Leigh Cook, from Walter Stone. Actually printed in U.S.A.". Walter Stone (1910-1981) was a noted Australian book publisher, book collector & passionate supporter of Australian literature. Staplebound printed wraps. Slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 98pp. Scarce. SB-29.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of the true first edition, published in March 1944 - an anthology of poems taken from New Writing. With a Foreword by the editor John Lehmann. ***Near fine in scarlet cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still quite bright. The boards are clean, with just a couple of small marks on the back board near the spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Page block edges nice and clean. Internally also near fine, with a neat ownership name to the top corner of the front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. No foxing. No creases or tears. No reading lean. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 8s. 6d. net, crossed through in pencil with 3/6 discounted price in pencil. The dustwrapper is largely complete, with just some loss at the top edge of the back panel. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed, with a couple of small closed tears. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Spine lettering slightly faded. The back panel is marked, being all white, but the dustwrapper is otherwise bright. ***189 pages. 205mm x 136mm. ***'The first volume of "New Writing", Mr. Lehmann reminds us in his introduction, was published in the Spring of 1936. Only two out of the twenty contributions in that volume were poetry, but during the ten years which have elapsed since then poetry has played a far greater and more important role, both in the six-monthly volumes published as books and in the more frequent volumes of "The Penguin New Writing" which began in 1941. Nearly all the significant poets of these years appeared in the pages of "New Writing", some of them for the first time and many with poems which are considered among their most memorable. "New Writing" has always been specially interested in those poems which are a mirror of the stormy epoch in which they are written; in translations from modern European poets; and in poems which are not too long for the average weekly or monthly; all these characteristics will be found in the present anthology, which stands also for judgement as a record of one man's taste and the encouragement he endeavoured to give to the making of poetry--to the building of dykes,--during ten years of flood weather.' (Quote taken from the flaps of the dustwrapper) ***First printing of the true first edition, published to post-war economy standards, with an almost complete very fragile original dustwrapper. Uncommon thus. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.