John Wain Editor (60 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The front cover is scuffed. Light water stain on the bottom edge of the text. The binding is tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. Free First Class upgrade from media mail and electronic delivery tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hard Cover. dj. An exceptionally nice copy, with crisp, bright, pristine text, bound in gray paper-covered boards with bumped corners, a minor indent to rear board, and what may or may not be a bump to top spine end, o/w clean, bright, unmarked, almost no wear; dust jacket is clean and bright, with only very light wear. 182 pp. With 12 noted contributors, this book is, as much as anything, a broad, lively diverse tribute to an extraordinary man of letters who "took all literature as his province."; 5.75 x 8.75 Inches; 182 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Red cloth, Octavo, 240pp., Slight wear, endpaper foxing, spine lightly color faded. V.Good Life, Literature and Thought Library.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. A nice copy with minor wear. 157 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 159 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Heavy Water by Martin Amis; Healing by Murray Bail; Appearances by Clare Boylan; He Found Her in Late Summer by Peter Carey; Going Home by Janice Elliott; The Wild Colonial Boy by David Ireland; Victory by Gillian Tindall; On Hearing the First Gigli in Spring by Elizabeth Troop; The Snowman Maker by John Wain; and The Philadelphia Connection by Terence Wheeler. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Second edition with a new introduction. A collection of essays on twelve English poems, by various contributors - ranging from A. Alvarez on Shakespeare's 'The Phoenix and the Turtle" to Wain on Yeats' s 'Among School Children.' Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 120 pages. John Wain "Poem by an Electronic Brain" / Marcel Ayme "The Man Who Walked Through Walls" / Violet Hammersley "At the Turn of the Century" / George Barker "Coming to London - IV" / J Maclaren-Ross "Mr Hamilton and Mr Gorse" / Peter Quennell "The Goncourts" / Idris Parry on Robert Musil / Margaret Lane on Trollope. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. F T Prince "Campanella" / Margaret Lane "The Roots of the Tree" / David Ray "Mrs Handy's Writing Mill" / John Wain "Byron: the Search for Identity" / Helen Gardner "Don Juan".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Henrik Ibsen "Three Poems" / Michel Butor "Luxor" / Paul Potts "Dante Called You Beatrice" / Dennis Keene Two Poems / John Wain "Mood of the Month - VI" / Dominique Arban "Dostoevsky and the Old Man's s Murder".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 92 pages. Leonard Woolf "Coming to London - II" / Pierre Gascar "The Forest Fire" / Richard Eberhart "Centennial for Whitman" (poem) / Michael swan "A Letter from the Bush" / John Wain "The Reputation of Ezra Pound".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 70 pages. Samuel Selvon "Cane is Bitter" / Ruthven Todd - Two Poems / Maurice Cranston "Mood of the Month - I" / Andrew Wright "Joyce Cary's Unpublished Work" / Robert Nye - Two Poems / John Wain "A Walk in the Sacred Wood".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 108 pages. Marguerite Duras "The Boa" / Roy Fuller - 2 poems / John Rosselli "Unscheduled Train" / Peter Mayne And Philippe Jullian "Gone, Gone with his Head" / Robert Conquest - 3 poems / Eleanor Farjeon "Springtime with D.H.Lawrence" / John Wain "The Painful Filter" / B.H.Liddell Hart "T.E.Lawrence, Aldington and the Truth".…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Fading to spine and part of front cover. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 72 pages. Octavio Paz / Louis Zukofsky / Josephine Miles / Vernon Watkins / William Burford / Richmond Lattimore / John Wain / E L Mayo / Donald Hall / Charles Edward Eaton / David Ridgley Clark / Leonard Wolf / Ronald perry / Roger Hecht / Francis Sparshott / Hy Sobiloff. (SL#44).…

1st edition. 8vo. x + 182pp. Original boards. White d/w. lettered in light green and black. ISBN 0714818453 US$7.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is rubbed along top edges and at bottom of spine. 247 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Comprehensive survery of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day, from Spenser to Seamus Heaney. Nice quarter faux-leather binding. Some mild shelf-wear. Else clean and prim. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First U.S. Edition. Good, clean, tight copy with minor off setting from Dust Jacket on endpapers. Dust Jacket has some minor wear and chipping at extremities.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 563 firm, clean pages. This book is an ex-library book but is in very good condition. It seems as thought the ffep has been carefully stuck down to th inner board, giving the impression of a 'non-library book'. One neat set of numbers stamped to the publishers page ans inked letters BA. The jacket is clean and bright and has been placed in a removable clear book covering. This is a very heavy book and has been priced to include any extra postage needed UK. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. From this book the reader can form an estimate of Johnson's remarkable powers as a literary critic, his scholarship, humanity and alertness. 472pp. some light foxing to the last few pages and the end papers. Closed tear to dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The jacket has some shallow scuffing, minor discolouration, creasing near the edges and a little general edge wear. The boards are bright and handsome, with slight edge wear to the spine. There are no inscriptions, and the pages within are crisp, clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. With one volume on grammer, another on issues with spellings of certain words, and a guide to usage. Nice quarter faux-leather binding. Some mild shelf-wear. Small nick to spine on one volume Else clean and prim. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 186 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a short tear at the head of the spine and a small mark on the front panel; price intact; previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; some rubbing along the spine of the book itself. The Contents are: Introduction by C. B. Cox; Dylan Thomas: A Review of His Collected Poems by John Wain; The Poetry of Dylan Thomas by David Daiches; The Welsh Background by John Ackerman; The Universe of the Early Poems by Elder Olson; There Was a Saviour by Winifred Nowottny; Last Poems by Ralph Maud; Collected Poems and Under Milk Wood by William Empson; Dylan Thomas's Play for Voices by Raymond Williams; A Place of Love - Under Milk Wood by David Holbrook; Dylan Thomas's Prose by Annis Pratt; Crashaw and Dylan Thomas: Devotional Athletes by Robert M. Adams; Dylan Thomas by John Bayley; and Dylan Thomas by Karl Shapiro; followed by Chronology of Important Dates; Notes on the Editor and Authors; and Selected Bibliography. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 182 pages. First English edition, first printing. Edited by John Wain. An analysis of his work by current writers. Contributors include Alfred Kazin, David Flusser, Edith Oliver, Peter Sharratt, Angus Wilson & John Updike. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1986. Guild Publishing, London, 1986. Hard cover, green boards, gilt titles, leather spine. Book condition : Near fine, like new, appear unread. Volume I Spenser to Dryden. Volume II Sackville to Keats. Volume III Darley to Heaney . Heavy books may incur extra postage. Books will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory#BB014195. N/A (illustrator). N/A.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 136 pages. cover creased, spine and text tanned, name on inside cover.