Read Charles Herbert (37 results)

Condition: Like New. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Clean copy with no writing, notes, creases or highlighting. Item may have been opened and read, but signs of use are minimal.

Paperback. 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. dited by William Cookson. Contributors: Peter Dale, Michael Hamburger, Wallace Kaufman, Peter Dent, William Stafford, Herbert Read, Basil Bunting, Andrew Wylie, Tom Scott, Michael Alexander, Charles Tomlinson, Hilary Hunt, Adam Murza-Murzicz, Penelope Palmer, G.H.A. Beckmann, Robin Sharp, Christopher Levenson, William Cookson, Ewart Milne (U.P.).

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Slightly cocked, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Edge wear and corner wear to pages, wraps. Wraps have general shelf wear, soiling. Bottom of spine area is worn. ; Contents: Fiedler, "Toward an Amateur Criticism." Read, "The Critic as Man of Feeling." Chase, "Art, Nature, Politics." Empson, "The Verbal Analysis." Mitchner, "Invitation to Lunch (a story)." Ellmann, "Joyce and Yeats." Poetry by Anthony Hecht, Hayden Carruth, Richard Lyons. Murphy, "American Philosophy at Mid-Century." Blackmur, "The Politics of Human Power." Coffin, "A Tribute." Pasinetti, "The Italian Vogue." Tyler, "Movie Letter." Book reviews, communication, index to Volume XII (1950). ; 9.0" tall; 168 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Card wraps. Light soiling on front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 94, [2] pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. British poetry journal: poems, essays, and reviews.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. Uncertain. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., darkened dj spine has a chip at each end with the rest held in place by the mylar cover. pages are slightly and uniformly darker. clean. no markings, flap price intact. strong binding.; 75pp. line drawing portrait of joyce on the dj by dsmond harmsworth. letter as preface by herbert read. book seems to say first published, though dj flap says second edition.; the author seeks to open a door to joyce for readers who may be skeptical as awareness of joyce was growing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 80pp. Printed wrappers. One line of text affixed on page 3 (presumably by publisher), front cover with a tiny abrasion, spine ends slightly bumped, near fine. Contains "Two New Odes" by Basil Bunting with essays on Bunting by Robert Creeley, Herbert Read, Charles Tomlinson and Kenneth Cox; additional contributions by Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Hugh MacDiarmid and more.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Charles Stewart (illustrator). Repr. No dj, vg red cloth with yellow spine lettering, illustrated by CHARLES STEWART a little foxing on endpapers and foredges, else vg. 8vo, 192pp. A collection of classic poems divided into Charms - Songs - Enchantments - Escapes - Stories.

First edition. Hardcover. Some slight foxing on page edges, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket (sterling price intact). Fine poetry chosen by Read, with b/w interior decorations (and a colour jacket) by the gifted illustrator Charles Stewart. The US edition preceded (and perhaps had a slightly different selection of poems), and was illustrated by Juliet Kepes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 228pp, printed wrappers. Contains a 96-page section of "Diverse Readings of Flannery O'Connor" by Caroline Gordon and others, plus writing by Kathleen Raine, Allen Tate, Herbert Read, et al. Clean copy with typical wear and closed tears to lap cover edges, minor wear otherwise. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st printing. Blue and white card cover, with lettering in black. 108pp, plus publisher's lists. Thirty-two b/w plates. Cover discoloured on spine, and lightly rubbed at edges; pages a little age-browned, but otherwise clean and unmarked; sound stitched binding. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st printing. Blue and white card cover, with lettering in black. 108pp, plus publisher's lists. 32 photogravure plates. Jacket discoloured on spine, with light wear at spine-ends; cover as new; pages browned towards edges but otherwise unmarked; sound stitched binding. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 68 pages. Illustrated. Ralph Fox: A Tribute / Dona Torr "Ralph Fox & Our Cultural Heritage" / John Lehmann "Letter from Tiflis" / C Day Lewis "An Expensive Education" / Stephen Spencer "Tangier's & Gibraltar NOW" / Randall Swingler "William Blake - The Imputation of Madness" / Maurice Carpenter"We ask for LIFE" (poem) / "Charles Madge "Magic & Materialism" / George Geraint "Red Coal" / Herbert Read & Hugh Sykes Davies "Surrealism - reply to A.L.Lloyd" (SL#84).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in orange. Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Pushing, gentle wear to spine ends, fading to heel. Edges foxed. Vertical bands of offsetting to endpapers, else, clean and tight. Errata slip laid in (foxed and browned). In the original grey dust jacket, lettered and decorated in black and featuring Desmond Harmsworth's line drawing of a bespectacled Joyce: spine darkened, losses to spine ends, chipped at corners, gentle soiling to rear panel. Very good/ good+ A pleasing copy of Charles Duff's "brief exposition of Joyce's writings" addressed to "that obscure entity," the plain reader, with a Prefatory Letter by Herbert Read, then Professor of Fine Art at Edinburgh University.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers hardly rubbed or creased at all. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. Virtually no creasing and no tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue and exceptionally rare in this near fine condition. ***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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8° - 380pp - 180 Color & B/w reproductions. First edition, texto in italian language. Original boards and dust-jacket. In Very good condition.

48.0 x 34.0cms c72pp 32 colour illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper. Read argues that the traditional Australian Aboriginal art is ''haptic'' and ''geometric'' (but not ''vitalistic''). and that the Djunkgao sisters (lik Prometheus pandora & Ulysses) find echoes in our ''collective unconscious'' because ''we may still feel some tremour along our neves of a primal terror''.

1st edition softback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 108pp., b/w plates, maps, index, Pelican Special. An account of 'degenerate' German Art of the Nazi period. Light toning to paper o/w a nice copy in a very good slightly chipped, unclipped, dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 16pp.+32plates; HB white w/blk.&brwn.; spine is gray w/gilt; slight rub w/some sun on edges. DJ white w/blk.&brwn.-photo cover; slight rub w/sml.tear&chip bttm.spine. Aboriginal rock & bark paintings. Third in a series of rare art masterpieces of the world. 32 color plates & 5 b/w photos.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Graham Sutherland (Three centrefold lithographs and colour cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 9 - May 1943 - the ninth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu -illustrated with three lithographs (one centre-fold double-page and two other lithographs to the central pages), plus a colour cover, all by Graham Sutherland. ***Near fine in the original thin illustrated stapled paper covers. The covers are exceptionally clean and unmarked. Staples rusted as usual. No tears. Orange colour to front cover bright. Edges of covers slightly creased and rubbed, with a surface crease across the top corner and a smaller surface crease across the bottom corner of the front cover, and a slight bump to the tail of the spine. The white back cover is surprisingly clean, with just some light marks caused by handling over the years (please see scans). Internally the pages are beautifully clean and unmarked, without any of the usual foxing. The top corner of the first few pages is lightly creased. No tears. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. ***64 pages plus adverts and Notes on Contributors on the inside covers. ***248mm x 185mm. ***Contents: Anonymous: First Ode; Second ode (For the Sun); Fourth Ode; Sixth Ode (To Woman); Seventh Ode; Eight Ode; Tenth Ode; Eleventh Ode; Celia Buckmaster: Poem, Three Queens for Arthur When He Died; Maurice Carpenter: The Roots of Songs, Three Lyrics: 1. The Spring Remains; 2. The Quick of the Corn; 3. Moonstruck; Robert Cecil; Richard Church: From Twentieth Century Psalter; Alex Comfort: Elegy One; Dorian Cooke: Sonnet; Herbert Corby: Missing, Two Sonnets, Wreck, Poem, Reprisal; Keith Douglas: The Offensive; Adam Drinan: Excerpt from The Ghosts of the Strath; Wrey Gardiner: Poem for Tambi; Alun Lewis: In Hospital: Poona; Philip O'Connor: Explanation of the Sun to a Child; Keidrych Rhys: Alarm,Alarm; Louis Macneice: Bottleneck; Convoy; Nicholas Moore: Nobility and the Pear; Herbert Palmer: An Awful Warning; Boris Pasternak: In the Wood, Vorobyev Hills; F. T. Prince: Soldiers Bathing; Francis Scarfe: Autumn Evening; Dylan Thomas: Poem; Henry Treece: Poem 1, Poem 2, Martyr, Plaint; John Waller: Spring Legend; Charles Williams: The Queen's Servant. ***PROSE: Flowers by Kathleen Raine; The Ghetto: Excerpt from The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Walter de la Mare by Herbert Read. ***POINTS OF VIEW: The Geeta: by Stephen Spender; Eliot by James Kirkup; Religious Verse by Henry Treece; The Poem as Thing by Francis Scarfe; Life and the Poet by Constance Lane; Two Poets by Alex Comfort; Correspondence; Three Lithographs by Graham Sutherland, drawn specially for PL No. 9 and printed at the Baynard Press. ***Vol. 2. No. 9 - the ninth issue of the original first series of this renowned poetry magazine, edited by Tambimuttu, published during the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***The wartime issues of Poetry (London) magazine are now quite scarce, and copies in such nice collectable condition are seldom seen. Issue 9 was the first of the series to include specially commissioned lithographs, and continued the expanded format of 64 pages, which was quite a challenge considering it was published under wartime restrictions. ***A scarce Poetry London first edition title, very hard to find intact with the original colour lithographs, which are often removed for framing. A very desirable issue. ***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.