James Wright Trans (9 results)

DUAL ENGLISH & GERMAN TEXT, octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

DUAL SPANISH - ENGLISH TEXT octavo softcover (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

DUAL GERMAN-ENGLISH TEXT; Octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Poems chosen from Hesse's collected works around the theme of homesickness and longing for a lost state of peace. Selected and translated from the German by James Wright. First Edition Thus. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London 1971. 94pp adverts hb dw clear protective cover, Ex-library, usual stamps & labels, olive green dw, gilt black cloth, good. …

Hardcover. Cloth, dw. Inscr by ML to Richard [Sharpe].

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.8 cm), [xiv], 79pp. Publisher's dust jacket intact with price ($4.95). Boards full bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on front and spine. Red topstain; fore-edge deckled; red-orange endsheets. Dust jacket lightly soiled with toning at the margins. All margins and spine ends bumped and creased with a few minor tears. Verso shows discoloration at top margin, from what looks like water staining. Boards slightly soiled with discoloration at top margin. Board corners and spine ends bumped. Some loss to head of spine exposing spine material. Front endsheets have pencil markings: some present, some erased. Pages considerably toned but relatively clean. A Very Good copy in a Very Good jacket. [Mileck IX, A-102c].…

Condition: Acceptable. 1st UK Edition. 1st UK Edition. 1972. In Fair, mylar wrapped dust jacket (not price clipped). Black jacket with white text; Blue and silver illustration of a scene with a man sitting in the grass. Grey paper covered boards with gilt on spine. Black endpapers with top edge tinted blue.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJ. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Early work by two of the country's luminaries. Does not show the bowing of the boards so typical of this issue. An uncommon issue generally, quite scarce in this condition. Ownership signature at ffep, hint of glue toning at endpages, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, several small chips near head (typical of this overlapped DJ), else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering.4/25/2009.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Six beautifully illustrated literary works from Routledge's Photogravure Series. Six works in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front boards.Ink inscription to the front free end paper of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam', 'The Christmas Book of Carols and Songs' and 'Rosalynde'.A lovely collection of illustrated literary works from the Photogravure Series of George Routledge & Sons Ltd. Including favourites such as Edward Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Washington Irving'sRural England, this selection offers a delightful mixture of poetry and prose.This collection comprises: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald, with twelve photogravures by Gilbert James (1904, first edition)The Christmas Book of Carols and Songs edited by W. S. W. Anson, with twelve colour plates by Alan Wright and Vernon Stokes (1905; undated, dated from copies held at the British Library)Rural England by Washington Irving, with five colour plates by Alan Wright and Vernon Stokes (1906; undated, dated from copies held at the British Library)Faust: a Drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; translated by Anna Swanwick; with eight photogravures by Gilbert James (1906; undated, dated from copies held at the University of Cambridge Libraries)The Story of Patient Griselda: from the Clerk's tale of Geoffrey Chaucer, done into modern English with a few notes by Walter William Skeat; with eight photogravures by Gilbert James (1906; undated, dated from copies held at the University of Manchester Libraries)Rosalynde: A Novel by Thomas Lodge, with eight photogravures by Thomas Maybank (1907; undated, dated from copies held at the British Library) Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light shelf wear, more so to 'Patient Griselda' and the 'Christmas Book'. Gilt remains bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last couple of pages, and offsetting to the end papers. Four of the plates to the 'Christmas Book' are coming loose but remain intact. Very Good. Gilbert James; Alan Wright; Vernon Stokes; Thomas Maybank (illustrator). book.…