Gordon Bottomley Denys Harding (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, viii,240, No Signatures or Annotations, Orange Cloth (Very Good), Dust Jacket (Good).

First edition, first printing. Very good with an ownership inscription and a dusty top edge in very good price clipped dustjacket.

Second edition, fourth impression, 1977. Cloth. Very good in dustjacket.

Gilt Lettered Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. viii, 240 pp. Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine in an illustrated dustjacket, which is not price clipped. Minor rubbing to jacket, but boards are fresh and bright. A clean edition, with a foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. 0701110872 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Good copy. Former owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Some minor spotting and a few small minor bumps to top paper edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Publisher's original beige cloth boards, gilt titles on a red medallion with a gilt garland surrounding it. Top edge coloured red. viii + 240pp. Some spotting to the edges. Text clean and fresh. No ownership markings. No DJ.

viii+240pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, publisher's creasing to ffe., otherwise a near fine copy.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Hardcover, clothbound with dust jacket in protective plastic sheet. 240 pp. No Plates. Small portion of back dust jacket torn off, else Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. with a foreword by siegfried sassoon.small tear on the front of the jacket.240p.poids 500gr.format 22,5x14,5cm.

Hardback. Condition: nrVG. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dw. Revised Edition. Buff hessian look cloth, gold lettering on maroon background to spine. Top edge red (faded). In very good, clean, tight condition BUT Light spotting to text edges and endpapers. Book is cocked with slightly bumped/rubbed corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. "Isaac Rosenberg is widely recognised as one of the finest English poets of the First World War. Born into a working class Jewish family, at the age of seven Rosenberg moved from Bristol to a strongly Jewish area of East London. At fourteen he left school to become an apprentice engraver, but at the outbreak of the Great War he was living in South Africa with his sister in the hope that a warm climate would do his chronic bronchitis some good. Critical of the war from the outset, he nevertheless joined up in 1915. He was killed near the Somme on the Western Front in 1918. He is currently commemorated as one of 16 Great War Poets in Westminster Abbey. " (Goodreads). Foreword by Siegfried Sassoon.Index. Buff hessian look boards (stained) with red spine label and gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Top edge red (faded). Ex libris with the usual stamps and labels. Firm binding.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Revised. Hardcover. The Collected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg. Ex-library with ex-library markings. Previous owners name to inside cover. (Martin Bell, Poet, 1918-1978. Key member of the group of poets who met in London mid 50s-mid 60s). Foxing to end inside covers. Browning to spine of cloth through age. Slight marks to cloth. Light brown cloth with gilt lettering. With a Foreword by Siegfried Sasson. 240 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 Educational Reference Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. xvi, 404pp. + 8 plates, the frontispiece with a tissue guard, the head edge stained red. 'In including all the existing material the editors recognise that they are publishing much, both in verse and in prose, which Rosenberg would have destroyed or recast had he lived. They do so in the belief that many readers who already appreciate Rosenberg's achievement will prefer to form their own conception of his developing personality rather than to accept an impression conveyed by selective editing.' Somewhat marked outwardly and moderately bumped to extremities, the spine and (less so) part of the lower panel faded, the half-title spotted towards its head edge, otherwise just the very occasional instance of mild soiling internally. Towards Very Good overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published in 1937 - edited by Gordon Bottomley and Denys Harding, with a foreword by Siegfried Sassoon. The original publication of Isaac Rosenberg's "Poems" was in 1922 by William Heinemann, with this "Collected Works" not being published until 1937. With eight monochrome illustrations, including a frontispiece showing: 'Self Portrait, 1911 or earlier'. An historically important collection of artistic and literary works by Isaac Rosenberg. ***Near fine in red cloth-covered boards with a gilt titles on the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright, although the spine colour has faded a bit. The boards are quite clean, just showing some marks and rubbing from age and handling over the years. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with some small nicks to the top edge cloth. Corners sharp. Top edge of page block stained red by the publisher to match the boards. Edges of page block clean, with just a small mark to the fore-edge but no foxing. With the bottom edge untrimmed by the printer. No reading lean to the binding, and no reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. Internally also near fine, with just a neat contemporary ownership name at the top of the front free endpaper. No offsetting or foxing to the interior pages. Pages clean. No creases or tears. Without the scarce dustwrapper. ***226mm x148mm. 401 pages. ***Contents: Foreword; Biographical Note; Editorial Note; POEMS: Night and Day, 1912; Youth, 1915; Moses: A Play, 1916; Trench Poems, 1916-1918; The Unicorn; Earlier Poems Unpublished by Rosenberg, 1914-1915; Earlier Poems, 1913; Earlier Poems, 1912; Earlier Poems, before 1912; Fragments. PROSE: Art, Emerson, The Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition, Shorter Fragments of Prose, Romance at the Baillie Galleries, Rudolph, On a Door Knocker. LETTERS, NOTES, INDEX OF FIRST LINES, INDEX OF TITLES. ***'Youth is still childhood: when we cast off every cloudy venture, and our thoughts are clear and mature; when every act is a conscious thought, every thought an attempt to arrest feeling; our feelings strong and overwhelming, our sensitiveness awakened by insignificant things in life; when the skies race tumultuously with our blood, and the earth shines and laughs; when our blood hangs suspended at the rustling of a gown. Our vanity loves to subdue--battle, aggressive. How we despise those older and duller--we want life, newness, excitement. (Isaac Rosenberg, circa 1916) ***'Isaac Rosenberg (25 Nov 1890 - 1 Apr 1918) was an English poet and artist. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War. On 21 Mar 1918, the German Army started its Spring Offensive on the Western Front. A week later, Rosenberg sent his last letter with a poem "Through These Pale Cold Days" to England before going to the front lines with reinforcements. Having just finished a night patrol, he was killed on the night of 1 Apr 1918 with another ten KORL soldiers; there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat. (Wiki) ***An original first edition of the "Collected Works" of Isaac Rosenberg. The Collected Works was issued in an edition of 500 copies, with 900 sets of sheets being stored for a potential reprinting at the publisher's bindery - however, only 403 copies had been sold by March 1938, and the remaining unbound sheets were destroyed in April 1941 when the warehouse used by Chatto & Windus was bombed in the London Blitz. As a consequence, copies of this book in any condition are very hard to find now. Of interest to literary academics and collectors of Isaac Rosenberg's work, and the poetry of the First World War. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Collected Edition. London: Chatto and Windus, 1949. First issue of the collected poems of Isaac Rosenberg, 240 pages in bright clean condition, light diagonal crease to rear endpaper and last page of index, light foxing spots to endpapers, signature of author J K Mepham on front endpaper. Dust wrapper is a little foxed with wear to edges and small losses now in clear non adhesive protective sleeve, overall a pleasing copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Collected Edition. Boards. Good Plus/Good. 9 x 5 ½ Inches. Hardcover.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. [War poetry] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 240. Publisher's beige cloth, red label with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Top edge red. Loose newspaper clipping inserted. Internally bright and clean, some offsetting to endpapers. Small ownership inscription in black ink to front flyleaf. Front flap price-clipped. Minor splashing to fore edge. Light toning across jacket. A few small open tears to extremities and front joint. Gentle shelfwear. Very good. Though considered a war poet because of his powerful Trench Poems, Rosenberg more broadly achieved a 'fruitful fusion between English and Hebrew culture' in his work, as Siegfried Sassoon states in the forward to this collection.

FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. viii + 240 pp. Bound in original cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper, which has a few chips at top edge and head and tail of spine. Top edge red. Some foxing largely confined to edges, but otherwise a very good copy. Revised edition of the works of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), originally published as part of the Collected Works. WW1 POETRY POETRY WWI WW1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by Chatto And Windus in 1937. One of only 500 copies printed. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. A little pushing at the spine ends with a small lightly faded area at the lower spine end corresponding to the the area of loss in the wrapper. Crimson top-stain still present. Gilt titling remains bright. Mild splaying of the front board. Toning to the text block and page edges. Mild offsetting and spotting to the end-papers. The tissue guard to the frontispiece portrait is still present. Free from inscriptions. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. It bears the correct price of 12s. 6d. net. Mild edge-wear with some loss at the spine ends and the upper front panel edge. A few closed tears to the folds with some professional japanese tissue repairs on the verso to two closed tears to the spine folds. Light toning to the spine. The wrapper looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Accompanied with the loosely inserted Publisher's compliments slip with the H/W compliments of Mr I. M. Parsons. The latter, an editor at Chatto went on to write the introduction and notes for the revised edition of this title published in 1979 by Chatto. From the library of American poet Richard Eberhart. A very scarce title with such attributes. Only the second copy we have handled to date. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.