Muir Edwin Edward Moore (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Small 8vo. pp 248. Original publisher's textured blue cloth lettered black at the spine on printed label. The authors first book published pseudonymously, literary and general essays with some poems in the last few pages. Spine label very slightly tanned; very good indeed. With clean text. Decent copy. …

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. The first edition of this philosophical work by Edwin Muir, from the library of Frank Harris. The first edition.From the library of Frank Harris, with his inscription to the front paste down, and the occasional underlining to the text. Harris was an Irish-American author who is best known for his scandalous banned memoir 'My Life and Loves'.'We Moderns' is a literary and philosophical work, exploring a wide range of idea. These include 'The Old Age', 'Original Sin', 'What is Modern?', 'Art and Literature', 'Creative Love', and 'The Tragic View'.By Edwin Muir, under the pseudonym 'Edward Moore'. Muir was a Scottish poet, novelist, and translator, well respected for his vivid poetry. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, a little rubbed. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is faded. A small amount of cockling to the tail of the boards. Front hinge is starting but firm. Frank Harris' inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and clean. The occasional ink underlining to the text. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edwin Muir used the pseudonym of Edward Moore to publish this, his first book. The First UK printing published by George Allen & Unwin, London in 1918. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a hint of toning to the text-block and page edges. Free from inscriptions and erasures. The paper label to the spine is very clean and complete. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. Mild edge wear with toning to the spine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. 1030 copies were printed but significantly less were bound. 190 unbound copies were destroyed in a 1940 bombing raid, and the remainder of the unbound stock was purchased in 1960 by Bertram Rota and issued in a slightly different binding. The book did not appear under Muir's own name until the USA edition was published in 1920. The author's first book and extremely scarce to find with the wrapper. In 1965 a volume of Muir's selected poetry was edited and introduced by T.S. Eliot. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.…