Robertson Scott E K (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Pp. 221-415, [viii], 8vo, tan wrapper with yapp edges. A literary quarterly edited by T. S. Eliot during its entire run from October 1922 until it ceased publication in January 1939 ("Perhaps one of the most influential critical reviews of its day," Miller-Price 45). Contents include: an essay by Yeats (his footnote informs the reader that "The Irish periodical, which has hitherto published my occasional comments on Irish events, explained that this essay would endanger its existence. I have therefore sought publication elsewhere.-W.B.Y."); an essay by Forster, a poem by MacLeish, and a short story by Moncrieff. Also with book reviews by Richard Aldington, John Shand, Herbert Read, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, and others. A near-fine well-preserved copy overall; contents clean; wrapper yapp edges folded over over the edges as usual, a few small droplet stains to a corner of upper wrapper and textblock edge, some faint dust-soiling.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Pp. 72. Owner bookplate to verso of front board. Original board, title to front board and spine. A touch of spotting to early pages. Edge wear to jacket, rubbing and light chipping, not price clipped. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Notes by Bishop Cecil (37 years in Korea), the late Dr James Gale (author of many works on Korea, where he lived for 40 years), M. Yanagi (author of a life of William Blake), Dr Frank Schofield (formerly of the Severance Hospital, Seoul), and Dr. Alice B. Appenzeller, of Honolulu (who was born in Korea and was for 20 years president of Ewha college for women in that country). 16 full page colour plates, 24 monochromes after Elizabeth Keith's watercolours, 72pp, endpapers lightly foxed, signature and date upper margin front free endpaper, surface of paper on one plate abraded not affecting image. Cloth very lightly soiled and browned. A good copy. 27.8 x 22cm. The Keith sisters visited Korea in 1919 and this delightful book with Elizabeth Keith's images and her sister's text is the result. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Paintings by Elizabeth KEITH, an American artist, are included in illustrations. 23 x 29 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Yellow cloth, very good, 157p.,frontispiece, 13 x 19 cm., tiny tear to head of spine sides, else clean, solid copy. FIRST & ONLY EDITION S C A R C E, The author writes of people she knew, and of things she, saw while stationed in Kwanju, as a member of the Southern Presbyterian Mission in Korea.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. signed by Author. Keith sisters visited Korea in 1919 and this delightful book with Elizabeth Keith's images and her sister's text is the result. 22 x 28.5 cm. Signed by Author(s).