James Runcieman Sutherland (55 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Pencil markings. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front cover, with some glue getting on title page. A nice reading/study copy. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Some shelf and corner wear with curling, creasing, and scuffing to the cover. Text appears clean with the exception of a name written on the front cover. Binding is tight and solid in very good condition. Looks Nice. Size: 21 cm. 382 pp. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Authors, English Anecdotes; ISBN: 0671227440. ISBN/EAN: 9780671227449. Dewey Code: 828/.02 19. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561008039. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near fine in at least a very good wrapper. Tight and square edition. Light soiling to fore edge. Sharp corner. Complete and bright wrapper with a few short tears and light rubbing but no losees. Internally, the pages are clean and free of any marginalia.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good clean copy - 18 pages.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. English Satire. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. BK: As new DJ: As new.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned. Pages slightly tanned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: ix, 382 p.; 23 cm. Subjects: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885-1930. Authors, English; Anecdotes. English literature; Anecdotes. Authors, British; Biography. Authors, English Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. Genre: Anecdotes. Biography. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly dust-toned. Pages slightly tanned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: ix, 382 p.; 23 cm. Subjects: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885-1930. Authors, English; Anecdotes. English literature; Anecdotes. Authors, British; Biography. Authors, English Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. Genre: Anecdotes. Biography. 1 Kg. …

Reprint "from corrected sheets of the [1948] first edition" (as stated upon copyright page). viii, 176 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Blue cloth rubbed with light bumping to board corners, color fading to spine and along top and fore-edge areas of front board, mild mottling to rear board, spine's gilt stamping remains bright. Small dark stain at heel of fore-edge; past owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy. With Preface, Notes, and Index. Features nine chapters titled as: "The Background (1)," "The Background (2)," "Readers and Writers," "Poetry in a Polite Society: Restraint," "Poetry in a Polite Society: Refinement," "Some Limitations," "Nature," "Poetry as an Art," and "Truants and Rebels.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Good condition. Exterior lightly soiled, prev. owner's name on front endpaper; contents slightly age-browned, otherwise clean, binding tight. vi, 175 p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust jacket very good. Text is clean and unmarked. Slight wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. A personal selection of previously published anecdotes providing characteristic glimpses of literary men and women and their literary preoccupations and activities, drawn from over a thousand years of English literature.

Hardback. Condition: Good. A personal selection of previously published anecdotes providing characteristic glimpses of literary men and women and their literary preoccupations and activities, drawn from over a thousand years of English literature. 392 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 382 pages. dj chipped and worn. Price clipped, name ffep, If an anecdote is to live beyond its own day, it must not only be worth the t elling but be well told, and from over a thousand years of memoirs, reminiscence s, and letters, Professor Sutherland has gathered almost five hundred that meet these demanding criteria. Here are comic, poignant, and revealing stories by or about not only those famous for their eccentricity, forthrightness, and wit -- J ohnson, Scott, Henry James, Wilde and Shaw -- but also almost every major figure in English literature and a host of minor ones. We hear of Bede and David Hume and Sterne on their deathbeds, Milton's body being disinterred and his bones pil laged by curio-hunters, and Shelley's body being cremated on the beach near Viar eggio, John Stubbs (author of a pamphlet that had angered Queen Elizabeth) conde mned to have his right hand cut off and lifting his hat with his left hand cryin g 'God save the Queen!', Sir Walter Scott secreting in his coat-tails the glass out of which George IV had just drunk a toast, and then sitting down and breakin g it, Ronald Firbank entertained to a luxurious tea at Oxford by Siegfried Sasso on, and nibbling a single grape. Professor Sutherland's anthology offers an ofte n affecting, always entertaining corrective to the familiar outlines of literary history.…

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. English Satire. Book.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. Sandglass Sheet (I V : 34) Laid In. The Sides Are A Burlap Type Pattern Which Matches The Slip Case. Black Spine Strip With Red Titling. 1665 In Red On The Front Board. The Top Edges Are Dyed Black. The Spine Has Only A Hint Of Darkening. The Slip Case Has Some Age Toning At The Opening. Gnoli, Domenico (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Will despatch first class post.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling, staining and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 192 pages, 20 cm. Subjects; English poetry 18th century. English poetry 18th century ; Literary collections. English poetry 18th century Collections. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 300 pages; Description: xiii p. , 1 l. , 300 p. Incl. Facsims. Plates, 2 port. (incl. Front. ) map, facsims. 22 cm. "Notes and references": p. 283-292. Subjects: Defoe, Daniel (1661? -1731) . 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Discoloration on dust jacket. Some wear and tear on edges and spine.

Condition: Very Good.