Lynette Roberts (70 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In 1939, following her marriage, the poet Lynette Roberts went to live in a small village in Wales. This experience, both enriching and isolating, became the source of some of her extraordinary poetry. Her diary observes daily life in a Welsh village in wartime with a poetic intensity: communal harvest, the arrival of evacuees, a frozen water pump, the cadences of voices and the effects of light and rain. Seven haunting stories weave modernist myths of Wales, while her magazine articles explore Welsh life with an anthropologist's eye. Roberts's restless intelligence never limits itself to the local. She writes about Picasso and Le Corbusier, about a visit to Spain on the trail of Lorca, the solemn drama of afternoon tea with the Sitwells, the comic disaster of taking her young children to visit T.S. Eliot. Enquiring, unsentimental, wryly humorous, Roberts engages us with her speaking voice. The publication of Lynette Roberts's Collected Poems in 2005 restored her to her place in twentieth-century poetry. This collection of her prose writings, most published here for the first time, accompanied by evocative family photographs, discloses the world that she transformed into poetry. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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.

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.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: New. In.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 164pp. This issue including special features on Roberts and Torrance, with contributions by each of them (including the cover by Roberts), John Pikoulis and Anthony Conran on Roberts, the correspondence between her and Robert Graves, an interview with Torrance by Glyn Pursglove, and Greg Hill on 'The Magic Door'. Moderate wear, the upper wrapper a little marked, the spine just slightly creased and faded (not affecting legibility), but Very Good nonetheless.

Paperback. Condition: new. Oviedo, Jose Daniel (illustrator). Paperback. Jacob is a little boy. A handsome little boy is he. He often told many tales, That will make you say good grief! Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 340 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Sean Jennett (Cover design), J. Littna (Illustrations) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 5. No. 18 - May 1950 - the eighteenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, edited by Richard March and Nicholas Moore, who had taken over from Tambimuttu. With front cover mandala illustration by Sean Jennett. ***Very good in the original thin blue illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are quite clean - just slightly marked and creased, commensurate with age and handling, but please note that there is an abrasion to the front cover which carries through to the first few pages (please see scans). Corners of some pages very slightly creased. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean with hardly any of the usual foxing. No tears. With the stub of the subscription slip present bound inside the rear cover. ***32 pages (plus adverts on the inside covers, including an advert for the forthcoming publication of 'The Pallisades of Fear' by Ronald Bottrall - Editions Poetry London. 248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: George Barker 'From The True Confessions of George Barker', James Reeves 'Leaving Town', Gavin Ewart 'Chelsea in Winter', 'Song', 'For a Lady', Vernon Watkins 'Pegasus and the Child', Iain Fletcher 'An Ode Varient Upon Lord Herbert's Iesus Patibilis', Edwin Morgan 'The Sleights of Darkness', Basil Tomlinson 'Poem in Winter', Louis Johnson 'Some Held to Love by Hate', Brean Douglas Newton 'In St. Anthony's Harbour', and Drawings by J. Littna. ***Points of View: The Two Vocations by George Every; Can Criticism be Scientific? by Kenneth Muir; The Falcon in the Skies by David Wright, Spender by James Reeves and The King's Spear by Lynette Roberts. ***Vol. 5. No. 18 - the eighteenth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, published five years after the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.40. Publisher's grey card wraps printed in yellow and black to upper, with printed price of thirty five cents/two shillings to upper. Ownership to verso of front cover, toned to edges. Binding a little marked and worn. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cream cloth browned at spine and speckled around edge. Foxing to end papers. Internally clean and tight, though binding cracked between pages 8 and 9. A good reading cooy.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Condition fair clean no dust jacket.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 36pp. Covers slightly foxed & creased. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 12mo (tall). xvii, 229 p.p. incl. index. Numerous in-text photographs of Lynette Roberts, plus [2] full page photographs. Light wear to cover, edges. Otherwise near fine.

No Binding. Condition: Good. John Petts (illustrator). No publication date (1942), single sheet (18 x 37 cm), horizontal fold edges and corners of sheet creased, one of a printing of 400 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good - dj. Illustrated (illustrator). No date given. Inscription on 1st front page 1956. Dust jacket has genreral wear to edges , not price clipped. 280 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 40pp. Printed wrappers. Two label remnants inside front cover, wrappers with a few small stains, spine slightly tanned, top corner bumped, very good. Prints "Pure Poetry, Impure Politics, and Ezra Pound" by Peter Viereck; other contributions by Herbert Read, Lawrence Durrell, Clifford Dyment, Kathleen Raine, Lynette Roberts, Michael Hamburger and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 340 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Owner's signature on title page. Moderate fading and foxing to dust wrapper. 1/2" tears and chips to margins of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 280 pages + frontispiece + 8 plates. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. Contents: Outward Bound; Madeira; Atlantic Ocean; Brazil; Tierra Del Fuego; Pacific Ocean; Tahiti; Pacific Ocean; New Zealand; Australia; Indian Ocean; Batavia; Cape of Good Hope; St. Helena; Homeward Bound. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

280pp; illustrations, very good copy in torn dustwrapper. ; 220 x 140mm.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A near Fine copy of this seminal magazine. Considering its age and the War Economy restrictions, this is a great historical example of this important intellectual magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 54pp. Endpapers lightly foxed, else near fine in a very good lightly soiled dustwrapper with closed tear on bottom edge of front panel. Somewhat scarce.