Meyerstein Rowland Watson (5 results)
Published by Neville Spearman, 1959
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Prospectus loosely inserted. Light foxing and dust marking to top edge. A little wear to jacket edges, some light tanning.
Published by Heinemann 1954., 1954
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Add to basketFirst Edition, gilt cloth & illustrated dws. Sm.8vo, frontispiece + c.pp48, armorial bookplate on endpaper, also neat stamp of Arts Council of Great Britain, dws slightly dusty, else very good. With Heinemann slip requesting a review. The Verse Letters include a reference to Samuel Palmer. **** To confirm availability before ord…ering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.
More imagesPublished by London: Neville Spearman, 1959
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- Signed
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Selected, edited and introduced by Rowland Watson. Inscribed and signed by Rowland Watson on f.e.p. Publisher's leaflet (4 sides) with advance reviews by Stevie Smith, Brian Aldiss a.o. loosely inserted. 404pp. Frontis. Index. Slight of…fsetting to endpapers, V.g. in tanned dustwrapper rubbed extremities of spine and corners. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Spearman, London, 1958
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHard Cover. Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Neville Spearman 1958). First UK Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR. Publisher's red boards with gilt spine lettering. The usual offsetting to both sets of end-papers and slight pushing at the head and tail of the spine otherwise a bright and clean VG+ copy. Inscribed by Ro…wland Watson who provided the introduction: "For/ Gladys and Louis/ with fond love from/ Watty". The VG+ dustwrapper is priced 13s 6d net to the inside flap and has a couple of tiny chips at the head of the spine and age-related discolouration to the rear panel. Laid in is one of the Author's own book-plates. Short stories. 'A brilliant and provocative study of adolescence' written in 1920 but published here for the first time, six years after the author's death. Photographs/scans available upon request.
[John Gere, Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.] Autograph transcriptions of 16 communications from E. H. W. Meyerstein, with unpublished poem by Gere on his death and other matter. With a copy of Watson's selection of Meyerstein's letters
John Gere (1921-1995), Keeper, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum; E. H. W. Meyerstein [Edward Harry William Meyerstein] (1889-1952), scholar and poet; Rowland Watson
Published by Watson's book: London: Neville Spearman The other material dating from the 1940s and 1950s, 1959
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Add to basketOne: Holograph poem by Gere in red ink on slip of paper. Apparently unpublished, it reads: 'I.M. E.HWM | buried Hampstead 18. 9. '52 | Grave scholar of a Grays Inn cell, | Gay naturalist of Norfolk fen, | Divion [sic, corrected in pencil to 'Division'] now ordains farewell. | I shall not see your like again. | JG'. Items Two to…Seventeen: Sixteen transcriptions of letters and notes from Meyerstein to John Gere (as 'J G'). Each on a separate piece or slip of paper, and all written out in red ink. Possibly written out for Watson's use, and returned on the publication of his selection (which contains four Meyerstein letters to Gere). Item Eighteen: Transcription by Gere of letter from Meyerstein to him, dated 7 July 1950. 1p., 4to. Referring to Item Nineteen, Meyerstein writes: 'I never realized before how hard it is to speak critically of work, infused with personality, that goes so near the hart as this does to mine. I shall understand if you can't use it, but it is the best I can do, and I thank you for giving me the chance.' Item Nineteen: Transcription by Gere of letter from Meyerstein to 'T. I F A Esq [i.e. T. I. F. Armstrong]'. 2pp., 4to. Critical of his poetic efforts, and beginning: 'I have read through the black book and found nothing in it. One piece has a decadent Wratislavia flavour (p22) but I doubt if it is worth keeping. I am worried about you, so far as writing poetry is concerned, because I don't feel your heart is really in it. These refrains are awful. [.] If you merely want to write a poem that finds its way into 1000 anthologies devil take you. [.] If I knew nothing of you and merely read the contents of the black book I should imagine that you had read nothing but songs and jingles in the newspapers. [.] It all comes down to this: you must read before you write, and read not as a bibliographer, a measurer-up of books, but as a student who wishes to find out how certain effects are obtained, and not imitate them but think out others equally good.' Item Twenty (from which the recipient of Item Nineteen has been identified): Envelope, with stamps and postmark, with typed address to Meyerstein at Magdalen College, Oxford, deleted and readdressed by him to '1246619 Sgt. T. I. F. Armstrong | Section 17 H.Q. Base Air Forces | S. E. Asia'. Items Twenty-one to Twenty-three: Three newspaper cuttings, including Meyerstein's Times obituary (13 September 1952) and a review of his 'Of My Early Life' from the Listener, 9 January 1958. Item Twenty-four: Printed prospectus for Item Twenty-five. 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. 'Printed by The Garden City Press Ltd., Letchworth, Hertfordshire.' Item Twenty-five: Copy of 'Some Letters of E. H. W. Meyerstein', edited by Rowland Watson. A fair copy, in worn and aged dustwrapper. With pencil notes by Gere on the back endpapers and flap of dustwrapper, and a further 2pp., 12mo, of pencil notes by him on a loosely-inserted leaf.
