Henley W E William Ernest (5 results)

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 2 page poem by Henley, as memorium to Alfred Harmsworth (3 July 1837 16 July 1889) was a British barrister, and the father of several of the United Kingdom's leading newspaper proprietors, [image sows only 1st page] Size: 9" x 13". b/w Illus (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Green cloth, spine ends softened, paper label of spine worn and chipped (and partially unreadable), and brown glue stain (about 1" long) in gutter of front endpaper where owner name slip had been previously attached. 235 pages plus 4 pages of reviews for Henley's "A Book of Verses".…

2pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. She hopes that she may, 'without being needlessly intrusive', suggest that 'someone, well up on the Elizabethan dramatists, should write a brilliant critical notice of Massinger's works'. She thinks that it would be 'a means of advertisement of great value' if the recipient could 'find the writer & the vehicle'. She suggests 'W. G. Henley of the New Review', who 'has all the literature of that time, & before, at his fingers ends. If he took to the idea & wrote, under his own name, an article in his magazine, that would be "fine" as the Scotch say.' In a postscript she takes issue with the critic William Gifford on Marlowe and Shakespeare. …

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket, As Issued. Limited and Numbered First Edition. RARE. Large paper edition on Japanese vellum fifteen copies printed, this is copy No. 1. four unnumbered pages, viii pages, two unnumbered pages, 24 pages, two unnumbered pages. Very Good Plus, small tear to wrappers at head of spine, wrappers toned, interior clean and bright with pages remaining uncut. OCLC locates only one institutional holding, at the University of Delaware. The British poet, editor and critic William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) is best remembered for his poem "Invictus", which concludes with the oft-referenced lines "I am the master of my fate; / I am the captain of my soul". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. On brown cloth with bold gelt leering 1892 first catalogue edition.