Spender Stephen Harold (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 90 pages. Vladimir Nabokov "The Vane Sisters" (a story) / R H S Crossman "Chinese Notebook" / Harold Nicolson and others "The Pleasures Of Knowing Rose Macaulay" / Edward Shils "Old Societies, New States" / Vincent Brome "Sigmund Freud And Havelock Ellis".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Harold Pinter "The Examination" / Melvin J Lasky "Africa for Beginners (II) / Roy Jenkins "From London to Rome" / Lawrence Durrell - Two Poems / Jacques Barzun "Romanticicsm" / Raymond Williams "The Law and Literary Merit" / Adrian Stokes "Strong Smells and Polite Society" / Alan Ross -Three Poems / Karl Jaspers "Our German Trouble".

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 56pp. Printed wrappers. Pages faintly tanned, wrappers lightly soiled, slight tanning to spine and edges, very good. Post War Issue with contributions by William Goyen, Stephen Spender, Peter Viereck, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, William Jay Smith, Clellon Holmes, Harold Norse and more.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. A symposium including essays by the aforementioned authors on one of American's premier essayists and novelists, including a bibliography of Vidal's work. A pristine copy.

1st edition. Very good paperback copies; wrappers slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved set overall. Physical description: 4 vol; 26cm; illustrated. Contents: December 1961 -- January 1963 -- April 1963 -- June 1963. Subjects: Stravinsky. Cold War. Culture. Literature. 19th century. USA. Genre: Illustrated. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Very good paperback copies; wrappers slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved set overall. Physical description: 4 vol; 26cm; illustrated. Contents: December 1961 -- January 1963 -- April 1963 -- June 1963. Subjects: Stravinsky. Cold War. Culture. Literature. 19th century. USA. Genre: Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** Author Signed Copy - Appears to be copy number 1 of 18 - Some fading along spine - No marks on text - My shelf location - 58-a-14*.

Condition: VG. 1949. first edition. One complete issue of this journal. Octavo. 564p., original printed wraps. Has poetry by E. E Cummings, W H Auden and many others. VG almost no wear at all; lightly evenly toned overall. no owner marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Includes Fiction, Poetry and Drama by: John Ashbery, Harold Brodkey, James Dickey, John Hollander, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stephen Spender & Robert Penn Warren. Also Essays by: Jacques Barzun, Nathan Glazer, Sidney Hook, Aflred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Robert Motherwell, Cynthia Ozick & Muriel Spark. Also Interviews with: Philip Johnson & Dwight Macdonald. Ships same or next business day, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 389 pages \.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Keith Vaughan (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 168. Illustrated with two leaves of black & white photo reproductions. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine: spine titles soiled, edges age-toned; ink marks on front endpaper. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, flap price of 10s. 6d. intact. Dust jacket with edge-wear and chips at head and tail of spine. Fifth installment of Lehmann's hard-back periodical, a well-curated miscellany of British, Dominion and foreign writing. Includes work by Andre Gide, Stephen Spender, Jiri Mucha, Antoine de Saint Exupery, V. S. Pritchett, et al. A piece by Harold Acton, is illustrated with the photo feature, addresses current popular theater in China. Produced under wartime economic restrictions, the inferior paper has darkened but the text remains bright. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Original wrappers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, limited issue. Quarto (176 x 134mm), pp. [8]. Original maroon wrappers, printed grey dustwrapper. (Dustwrapper lightly faded on spine, minimally rubbed at edges.) A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper. First edition, no. 374 of 400 copies, signed and numbered by the author. A collection of four poems -- 'From my Diary', 'Late Stravinsky Listening to Late Beethoven', 'Winter in May', and 'A Girl who has Drowned Herself Speaks' -- published in the sixty-ninth year of Spender's life, and its last phase, a period marked by the deaths of (i.a.) Auden in 1973 and Connolly in 1974; Spender's retirement from his chair in English at University College, London in 1975; and the publication of the partially-autobiographical volume The Thirties and After; Poetry, Politics, People (1933-1975) in 1978. David Leeming comments that, '[t]he highlights of 1978 were the publication of The Thirties and After and a small book entitled Recent Poems. [. . .] The most important of the four poems [in Recent Poems] is "Late Stravinsky Listening to Late Beethoven", dedicated to Sacheverell Sitwell, who had died recently and who in the poem is implicitly identified with the dying Stravinsky' (Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism (New York, 1999), p. 235). FURTHER INFORMATION: please contact us for further information about this item and prices for shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. One of only 500 numbered copies of this photolithographic facsimile; this being #44, and from the library of noted poet William Matchett, with his bookplate and date on the ffep. Bound in the original green cloth, with black stamped title on front cover. Light fading along the spine, else a Near Fine copy.

[Literary Magazine] FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Magazine (26 x 19cm), pp.88. With a black and white photographic plate of Rose Macaulay by Cecil Beaton. Publisher's paper covers. Covers lightly toned and handled. Near fine. Including the first UK appearance of a short story by Nabokov, and a tribute to the life and career of Rose Macaulay.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 246 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. From the private library of Stephen and Natasha Spender (née Litvin) with a copy of their John Croxton bookplate (plate 36) which was designed as a belated tribute following their wedding in the spring of 1941, Natasha who became the second Mrs Spencer, was a concert pianist. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0571146708 MUSIC [Classical].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIVE ISSUES. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 14cm). Publisher's card wraps lettered to uppers. Undated but circa 1951-52. Some toning to covers. Very good.

Hardcover. Facsimile edition, number 232 of 500 copies. Inscribed and signed by the author "These poor failed experiments inscribed now by Stephen Spender - Dec. 1975" Spine and front cover sunned, else very good condition.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back and silver emblem to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. The NFS was created in August 1941 by the amalgamation of the wartime national Auxiliary Fire Service and the local authority fire brigades (about 1,600 of them). It existed until 1948, when it was again split by the Fire Services Act 1947, with fire services reverting to local authority control, although this time there were far fewer brigades, with only one per county and county borough. Contains 219 pp with splendid monochrome illustrations throughout by Paul Dessau, Stanley Froude, and Leonard Rosoman. Very Good condition book in extremely scarce Good condition dust wrapper with chips and tears to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped, 10/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIREMEN & FIRE SERVICE.

Crown 8vo. 6 volumes. First editions. Original navy wrappers (1925) and parchment backed navy boards (1926-30) with printed paper labels to the spine and front cover. 1925: Wrapper edges curled with a little rubbing to the spine head and a short tear to the front joint. 1926-30: Parchment tanned as usual. Contents clean and fresh. Near fine. 1925 includes three poems by Harold Acton and two by Graham Greene (the same year as his 'Babbling April') but this group was clearly collected by the former owner to contain all the contributions by 'MACSPAUNDAY' and begins with two poems by Cecil Day-Lewis in this issue. W. H. Auden appears as co-editor the following year and allowed himself three poems (C.D.L. scores four). They share the editing in 1927 and wrote a Preface together but this year marks the first appearance of Louis MacNeice with three poems. Day-Lewis has gone by 1928 but Auden and MacNeice are joined by Stephen Spender and the latter two are co-editors in 1929 after Auden has moved on. Spender co-edits again in 1930 and that year brings the contributions of these four poets to an end. Uncommon individually and scarce as a set and in this condition.

211 pp. 8vo. Orig. cloth with dust-jacket. From the library of the pianist Andor Foldes (19131992) with his bookplate. Author's (19091995) presentation copy: "To Andor Foldes with gratitude for his art from Stephen Spender, Feb 5th 1961".

XIII, 266 pp. 8vo. Orig. boards with dust-jacket. First American issue of the year of the first English edition. From the library of the pianist Andor Foldes (19131992) with his bookplate. Author's (19091995) presentation copy: "To Andor Foldes with very good wishes from Stephen Spender 28. Sept. 1963".