Preface Mark Van Doren (32 results)

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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, U.S.A.Half Price Books Inc.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

- Softcover
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer; Mark Van Doren [Preface]; R. M. Lumiansky [Translator]; R. M. Lumiansky [Introduction]; H. Lawrence Hoffman [Illustrator];
- Softcover
Seller: Richard's Books, Boise, U.S.A.Richard's Books
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 19TH PRINTING APRIL 1973. COVER HAS CREASING AND SURFACE WEAR WITH TWO SMALL TAPED TEARS ON THE FRONT. 383 PAGE TEXT HAS LIGHT WEAR WITH A SMALL TEAR ON THE FIRST 7 PAGES AND SMALL NAME ON PAGE ENDS. CLASSICS. 4.25" X 7". WE USE BUBBLE MAILERS.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Doubleday Anchor, New York, New York, U.S.A. 1958
- Softcover
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, U.S.A.Gargoyle Books, IOBA
Contact seller5-star sellerMass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Paperback Edition. Considered "China's greatest novel,'' this is a greatly expanded & completely rewritten version translated by Chi-Chen Wang. Of special interest to Edward Gorey completist collectors, this is another Anchor paperback for which he did the typography (NOT the cover i…llustration; this is by Seong Moy). Preface by Mark van Doren. 329 pages + lists of other Anchor titles in rearFirst Anchor Edition. Mass market paperback is downgraded to only Fair (& priced accordingly): heavy edgewear, soiling tanning, spine slant & creasing. But if you need it to complete your collection of these Gorey tertiary titles.it looks nice protected in its Free mylar collector bag! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
More imagesThe Masque of Comus: The Poem by John Milton with a Preface by Mark Van Doren & The Airs by Henry Lawes with a Preface by Hubert Foss
John Milton; Mark Van Doren (Preface); Henry Lawes (Music); Hubert J. Foss (Preface to the Music)
Language: English
Published by Heritage Press
- Hardcover
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Altadena, U.S.A.Argyl Houser, Bookseller
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. No publication date given. Beautiful edition with marbled boards, watercolors by Edmund Dulac. Clean inside and out. Hinges are secure. Pages are clean, unmarked and undamaged. The only sign of wear is light rubbing to corner tips, one of which is slightly turned in. No Sandglass or sl…ipcase. The book will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box. Edmund Dulac (illustrator).
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (Author); R.M. Lumiansky (Translator); Mark Van Doren (Preface)
Language: English
Published by Washington Square Press, New York 1965
- Softcover
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, U.S.A.gearbooks
Contact seller5-star sellerMass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. 8th Printing, May 1965. 383 pp. A great study/work/reading copy. This is a used book. Please be advised that it is rated "Used-Acceptable" and/or "Poor" due to likely defects such as highlighting, underlining, folds, creases, etc. Light foxing on page edges. Creased spine. H. La…wrence Hoffman (Illustrations) (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
- Softcover
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, U.S.A.Lowry's Books
Contact seller4-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Good for Age. No Jacket. This paperback has good hinges and gutters. There is discoloration to the cover and the pages. There are some marks from liquids and a date stamp on the top of the edges. There is a green dot sticker on the front cover on the upper right hand corner. There is an ownership mark on t…he inside cover.

Language: English
Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, NY 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, U.S.A.Dorley House Books, Inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st printing; brown c w/oderte sunning of spine, gilt titles; intro by Mark Van Doren 358 clean, unmarked pages/index.

The Canterbury Tales (Washington Square Press Edition)
Geoffrey Chaucer (Author); R.M. Lumiansky (New Modern English Prose Translation by); Mark Van Doren (Preface by)
Language: English
Published by Washington Square Press/Published by Pocket Books/A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York 1973
- Softcover
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, U.S.A.gearbooks
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. WSP Edition/18th Printing April 1973. 383 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. First front-end page through copyright page slightly detached from spine. Light foxing on page edges. H. Lawrence Hoffman (Illustrations) (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Doubleday Anchor, New York, New York, U.S.A. 1958
- Softcover
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, U.S.A.Gargoyle Books, IOBA
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Add to basketMass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition. Considered "China's greatest novel,'' this is a greatly expanded & completely rewritten version translated by Chi-Chen Wang. Of special interest to Edward Gorey completist collectors, this is another Anchor paperback for which he did the typography (NOT the co…ver illustration; this is by Seong Moy). Preface by Mark van Doren. 329 pages + lists of other Anchor titles in rear. First Anchor Edition (A159)from 1958. Mass market paperback in colorfully decorated yellow wrappers is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white & unmarked save for former owner's name in neat pen to half-title page. Very shallow diagonal crease to outer-upper edge of front cover beneath price sticker; no spine creasing. Nicely protected in its Free mylar collector bag! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Gorey, Edward (illustrator).
THE MASQUEOF COMUS & THE AIRS
MILTON, John with Preface By VAN DOREN, Mark & LAWES, Henry with Preface By FOSS, Hubert
Published by The Heritage Press
- Hardcover
Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, U.S.A.Falls Bookstore
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Add to basketHard Cover in Slip Case. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. No Edition Stated. Marbled paper-wrapped boards with black cloth spine. Gold spine print.Afewsmallfoxspotson frontendpapers. Otherwise sound and unmarked. Unpaginated. Poetry and music written to go with it. No identification of Heritage (Location) nor any dating. Slipcas…e has a few small tears in the paper on edges. Dulac, Edmund (illustrator).

Published by Doubleday Anchor January 1958, Garden City, NY 1958
- Softcover
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, U.S.A.A Cappella Books, Inc.
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Add to basketMass Market PaperBack. Condition: Very Good. Mass market paperback with darkened spine (329 pages].

Published by Littlefield, Adams & Co., Totowa NJ 1968
- Softcover
Seller: JBK Books, North Manchester, U.S.A.JBK Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 753pp; contents clean and textually unmarked. No library stamps. Owner's name written on half-title page. Contains alphabetical discussion of words from early English authors, including most interesting, informative English words that have lapsed from general use.
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Published by University Press Cambridge for The Heritage Press, Cambridge, England 1957
- Hardcover
Seller: Tefka, Albuquerque, U.S.A.Tefka
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Add to basketNo date in book, circa 1957 per Worldcat. Very good hardcover with black cloth & marbled paste downs & gilt on spine, all bright & clean with light wear. Interior pages excellent, vibrant images, no marks, slight age toning. Slipcase is sturdy with edge tears & strong fading/toning. Lovely book. See photos. Edmund Dulac (illustr…ator).
More imagesThe Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941
Pound, Ezra; Paige, D.D. (Editor); Van Doren, Mark (Preface)
- Hardcover
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, United KingdomRaymond Tait
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Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Second UK edition published by Faber in 1971. First published in the UK by Faber in 1951 under the title 'The letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941.' Originally published in the US by Harcourt Brace in 1950. The boards have rubbing to the corners and a littl…e bumping to the top right corner of the front panel. Browning to the page edges with dense brown spotting to the top edges and scattered large brown spots on the fore edges. There is a little browning to the endpapers and the pages are browned around the edges but the pages are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has chipping at the top and bottom of the spine which has some edge rubbing. The rear panel has a one inch closed tear to the bottom edge and a quarter inch closed tear to the top edge. The jacket also has some browning and a little staining to the rear panel. First printing of this edition.
Published by Harcourt Brace & Company 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Et Al's Read & Unread Books, Wausau, U.S.A.Et Al's Read & Unread Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good + brown cloth with gilt lettering at spine & yellow topstain. Light toning at pagination edges with a bit of dust soil top. In a Very Good $5.00 dust jacket with light wear at edges & moderate rubbing. Bright, snug & unmarked text. First pr…inting.
Published by Covici-Friede, New York 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
Contact seller1-star sellerCloth. Condition: Good. Limited edition. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies; this is no. 342. Vellum-backed, rough cloth over boards, 8vo, 208 pp., frontis. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, a couple of small paint spots to spine, some dustsoiling to vellum and fraying to cloth, bit of foxing to spine and…page edges, page edges tanned and dusty, browning to endpapers.
The Masque of Comus, The Poem by John Milton. & The Airs by Henry Lawes
Milton, John; Van Doren, Mark (preface); Lawes, Henry; Foss, Hubert (preface); Dulac, Edmund (water-colors)
Published by The Heritage Press at the University Press n.d. (c. 1950), Cambridge 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, U.S.A.Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Marbled paper over boards, backed in gilt-lettered black cloth; 4to; pp. [58], [14] (music), plus 6 plates (full-color reproductions of water-colors by Edmund Dulac). Boards and spine tips lightly rubbed; corners lightly bumped and chipped; endpapers lightly foxed; very light soiling on verso of… half-title p.; otherwise internally bright and clean. Dulac, Edmund (illustrator).
The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
Pound, Ezra / edited by D. D. Paige and Preface by Mark Van Doren
Published by Harcourt Brace, 1950 1950
- First Edition
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, U.S.A.Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition, first printing Very close to fine and bright in like price-clipped dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Former owner's attractive bookplate to the opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text (a scholar).

- Softcover
Seller: SHIMEDIA, Brooklyn, U.S.A.SHIMEDIA
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The Masque of Comus (John Milton) and The Airs (Henry Lawes} [Heritage, Sandglass, Slipcase]
John Milton (author); Henry Lawes (author); Mark Van Doren (Preface); Hubert Foss (Preface); Edmund Dulac (artist)
Published by The Heritage Press 1957
- Hardcover
Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, U.S.A.Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc.
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Add to basketHardcover, Leather Spine, Sli. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. No marks in book. Appears unread. Hardcover quarter leather. Slipcase sunning. Preface for Comus by Mark Van Doren. Preface for Airs by Hubert Foss. Six watercolors by Edmund Dulac. Sunglass Letter Number III:20, concerning this volume, laid in.

- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, U.S.A.J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, minor edge wear, tiny chips.

Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, U.S.A.Evolving Lens Bookseller
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket, including a few short tears. Toning. All corners of flaps are clipped. Text is clean and unmarked. First Edition is stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
THE MASQUE OF COMUS AND THE AIRS
Milton, John; Preface by Mark Van Doren and Henry Lawes; Preface by Hubert Foss
Published by The Heritage Press N.D., Cambridge
- Hardcover
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, U.S.A.Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with water-colors by Edmund Dulac. "The Heritage Club Sandglass" Number III: 20, laid-in. Gilt printed navy cloth spine with marbled paper covered boards. Previous owner signed the front paste down- otherwise this is a clean, nice copy. Very Good in a slightly toned, sunned slipcase.
More imagesTHE MASQUE OF COMUS
Milton, John [Author]; Lawes, Henry [Author]; Dulac, Edmund [Illustrator]; Foss, Hubert [Preface]; Van Doren, Mark [Preface]
Published by The Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, UK 1954
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Limited Edition #301/1500. Octavo, 57 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus condition slip case. Spine is off-white vellum with gilt lettering. Slipcase has mild general scuffing and rubbing wear with a small chip along the closed end. Boards have mild general soiling and bending wear along joints. Shelve…d in hallway overflow. 1394986. Special Collections.
Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., New York 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, U.S.A.The BiblioFile
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Brown cloth boards, moderate wear, rub, bow. Pages good; some page roll. Dj generally good, some rub, edge wear; unclipped 5.00, protected in new clear sleeve. Names inside cover. 358 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
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Published by Limited Editions Club, New York 1960
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, U.S.A.Graver & Pen Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First edition. No. 445 of 1500 copies, signed by illustrator (decorator) Valenti Angelo on the limitation page at back of book. Fine in orange stamped leather binding, house in original chemise and slipcase.
Published by Heritage Club, New York 1960
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, U.S.A.Bauer Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition thus. 12mo. Unpaginated. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering spine, very good condition in slipcase. (100626).

Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York 1943
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked spine, toning on the board edges, and some spotting on the page edges thus very good in a good only dust jacket with chips, tears, and creasing.
The Letters of Ezra Pound: 1907-1941 (Harvest Book HB 54)
Pound, Ezra; Paige, D. D. (Editor); Van Doren, Mark (Preface)
Published by Harvest Books - Harcourt Brace & Company, New York 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, U.S.A.The BiblioFile
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1950 at copyright; no other dates. Pictorial soft cover, moderate wear, rub. Pages very good; vintage bookplate Robert Friend III inside cover. Classic cover design close-up of letter and letter opener. Pages very good. Letters from Pound to Eliot, T. E. Lawrence, H. L. Mencken, J. Joy…ce et al. Also, a letter from T. S. Eliot to Ezra Pound, written in 1922, concerning The Waste Land. Includes an Index of Names. 358 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.