Michael Davie Editor (24 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Reprint. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; xii,820p. ; 21cm. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Includes index. Subjects; Correspondence. Biography. Novelists, English 20th century. 3 Kg.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good to Fine. No Jacket. First Printing. 827 pages. Size: 5 x 8 Inches.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A nice, bright copy. ; 8.4 X 5.3 X 2.1 inches; 877 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. signed on the title page by Michael B. Davie, this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stated first edition. DJ with some tears and chips, sunning on spine, pink splotch on front cover. Pages clean and binding sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good green hardcover in good jacket. The complete diaries cover the period from 1911 when Waugh was 7 to 1966, a few weeks before his death. Cracked front hinge. Small tears, wear to jacket edges. Biography. Nonfiction. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Reprint. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; xii,820p. ; 21cm. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Includes index. Subjects; Correspondence. Biography. Novelists, English 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket has light soiling and one small hole in spine. In mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unclipped. Stated first ed.; 818 p., clean and unmarked; binding firm; gray boards with still bright gilt lettering and ornamentation are very fine, perfectly protected by clean d.j. that has suffered some damage protecting the volume beneath: chipping at crown of spine panel, and open tear at foot of spine panel, and two closed tears at lower edge of front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. a fascinating read.

Condition: Fine condition. Mark Steinmetz photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Evanston, Illinois:: Northwestern University, 1985. 6" wide by 9" tall. A beautiful copy. Bright, shiny, clean, tight. No owner's name or bookplate. Spine is square/flat. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Contributors include: Alan Shapiro, Stephen Berg, Helen Norris, Peter Fellowes, Donald Davie, Morton Marcus, Ed Minus, Carole Bubash, Charles Simic, Tom Wayman, Mary Gray Hughes, Tom Friedmann, C. D. Wright, Michael Casey, Walter McDonald, Hunt Hawkins, Eileen Drew, Robert Boswell, Timothy Dekin, Roger Mitchell, Cyrus Colter, and Gordon Weaver. First Edition. Softcover. Fine condition./No Jacket, as issued. Illus. by Mark Steinmetz photographs. 268pp. + 16 pages of ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in NEAR FINE dust-jacket. One inch scratch on DJ's spine. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Hardback. 1987. First edition. A very good copy only marked by age tanning of the pages. The d/w is unclipped and near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 66 pages. Luis Cernuda "The Nihjtingale On The Rock" (poem) / Idris Parry "Belvedere Hercules" / Dick Davis "Lilac Time" / Donald Davie "Exacting Poetry" / Jeremy Hooker "Frances Bellerby In Place" / Jeffery Wainwright "Shelley's Political Poetry" / Douglas Oliver "John Riley" / Neil Powell "What Like Is - The Novels Of Martin Amais" / Michael Edwards "The Dialectic Of Translation". (U.P.).

1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (page edges and endpapers heavily spottied - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 814 (no inscriptions).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1976, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket lightly rubbed and faded to spine and edges with a couple of small nicks and chips (now protected); boards a touch faded to upper edge but remain overall clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; light toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Grey cloth cover has modest wear to spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's bookplate affixed to front paste down. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket is toned and soiled but in very good- condition. DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 814pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine; yellow endpapers. 8vo. . Lightly bumped bottom edges and spine heel. Top text block edge tanning, remaining edges starting to tan; text block dropped, volume a little loose. Internally neat and clean. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, has shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Printing of the First American Edition in an equally Fine dust-jacket; The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh is a collection of diary entries written by Evelyn Waugh. The entries cover Waugh's life from 1922 to 1961, when the book was published. Waugh is best known for his novels, including Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and A Handful of Dust, but he was also a prolific writer of diary entries. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh is an excellent introduction to Waugh's writing, and is also a valuable resource for historians and students of 20th century British literature.; 8vo; 818 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. A first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with aging to the board surfaces, light fraying to the trim and page edge soiling in a price-clipped Very Good+ dust-jacket that has some shelfwear; The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh is a compilation of the personal writings of Evelyn Waugh, one of the most celebrated and controversial English writers of the twentieth century. The book includes Waugh's thoughts on politics, writers, and life in general, as well as diary entries from the periods 1939-1942 and 1945-1951. Waugh was a scathing satirist and his writing is often scathing, acerbic, and brutal. However, his wit, intelligence, and sharp observations also make for fascinating reading.; 8vo ; 818 pages; TBC;

814 p. Gr.-8°; full cloth with gilt title on spine; orig. dust jacket - "Evelyn Waugh kept a diary almost continuously from the age of seven until a year before his death in 1966. . a unique literary document of 300,000 words which provides the backgroud to the novels which made Waugh famous, and gives a continuously sharp and baleful view of the social history of our times. . The publication is a major literary event; throwing new light not only on the work of the writer . but on the character of a puzzling, cantankerous and formidable man." (Publishers` note) - Dust jacket a little rubbed, spine a litttle faded. B/w-photo-portrait of author on back cover. The book very good but with slight musty smell inside. B/F2 - Please ask for detailed information in English / Demandez des détails en francais s.v.p. - Bestellungen können erst ab dem 27.05. 2026 wieder bearbeitet werden / Orders can only be processed after May 27, 2026. - Please note: Due to tax regulations books cannot be sold to the USA at present! Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1350.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Alan Davie (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this exhibition catalogue of Alan Davie"s symbol-rich drawings, featuring 155 pages of vibrant illustrations, from shows in Edinburgh and Brighton in 1997. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.This catalogue accompanied the 1997 exhibitions of Davie"s drawings at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, from the 8th February to 20th April, and subsequently at the University of Brighton Gallery during the Brighton Festival, which ran from the 3rd to the 31st of May.This is a profusely illustrated volume of Davie"s drawings, with 155 illustrations across double sided monochrome and colour plates. Collated, complete.Alan Davie (19202014) was a prolific Scottish painter and musician renowned for his intuitive, symbol-laden abstraction informed by myths, multiple cultural traditions, and jazz improvisation. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight lifting to coloured paper and glue residue to endpapers, slight damage sustained from tape of protective brodart. Bery slight rubbing and fading to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Very Good. book.