T S Eliot Preface (41 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps. First PB Edition, First Printing. First PB Edition, First Printing. Trade PB in photo wraps. Fine and unmarked. xxii, 266pp inc. textual footnotes, Index; illustrated in frontis portrait. 292 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in good plus condition, corners and hinges sound, lightly sunned spine and mild age toning to textblock. DJ in good condition with sunning to spine and small chips and tears to to extremities.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st UK Edition. Dust jacket is rubbed, heavily worn and taped together, with creases, tears, and scratches. A large damp stain at back of dust jacket and some material missing at dust jacket spine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Foxed to end pages. Boards are slightly worn, rubbed and scuffed. Very faded boards. Some curling to corners. 280 pages. 280 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original publisher's gray-green paper-covered boards backed with green cloth in a blue and green paper dust jacket. Gilt lettering on book spine. Light green lettering on blue and dark green dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4." 266 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Cover are virtually pristine and intact except for slight wear to edges and corners. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is very clean and intact except for light age toning and slight wear to extremities. Dust jacket not price-clipped. A Fine, unworn book in a Fine, unworn dust jacket. This is the famous biography about the early years of the renowned Irish author, James Joyce (1882-1941), that was written by Stanislaus Joyce (1884-1955), James's brother. Introduction and Notes by Richard Ellmann. Preface by T. S. Eliot. Index in back. Excerpt from front flap describing Stanislaus's biography: "[T]his is both a work of literary distinction and an amazing portrait of a young man in his times. . Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings ." James became a leading figure of modern and avant-garde literature. Stanislaus was also a man of letters, but his literary works tended to be more "academic" and nonfictional in nature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Xxii, 266 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt; Green Boards Stamped In Blind. First Trade Printing, 1958, Gallup 77B For The Eliot Contribution. Book Clean, No Marks, Touches Of Rubbing, All Gilt Brilliant, Tiny Bumps To Two Lower Tips. Dust Jacket With Light Wear And Tiny Tears At Corners, 1.8" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel. Foxing To Top Of Plate Before Text, With Offset Foxing Onto Facing Edges; And Now Some Light Fraying At Top Edges Of Book And Dust Jacket.…

American first edition (not stated). xxx, 149 pages. Hardcover: H 28.5cm x L 22.25cm. Cram colored dust jacket lightly soiled; some bumping and scuffs at edges; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Blue cloth; slight bumping to spine heel corners and to boards' fore-edge corners. Interior leaves are bright and clean. Binding is firm. ISBN 0151947600.…

Beige Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Reprint 1942. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES! AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY).Please e-mail for further details and don't hesitate to ask if you require pictures Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Illustrated (illustrator). Signed By an "M.E Hughes Jones.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edited by Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1958. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Green cloth over pale green paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Good in a good dust jacket with light edgewear. Severe foxing to endpapers. Tear to jacket cover. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($5.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A clean, tight copy. Octavo, xxii + 266 pages. Edited and annotated by Richard Ellmann, with a preface by T. S. Eliot. A firsthand biographical account by Stanislaus Joyce, offering detailed recollections of his brother James Joyce's early life, education, and literary development in Dublin and Trieste. Stanislaus Joyce (18841955) was James Joyce's younger brother and one of his closest intellectual companions. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. In red cloth with black title panel and gilt to spine. Corners and head of spine dinged with hard bump at heel of spine. Previously owned by the poet Cid Corman with his signature to ffep and marks, notes and highlighting in yellow throughout text and to date on copyright page. Very pale foxing to page ends and endpapers. Jacket is unclipped(25s net) with small chips to front corners and head of spine, a couple short tears to rear panel and heel of spine and nicks to head of spine. Small abrasion to front panel. 1st Printing.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1958, first printing. 8vo., xxii+266pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Edited by Richard Ellmann; Preface by T S Eliot. Very good in very good dust jacket.…

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.Photos available on request.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Edgewear to jacket, including a few tears. Toning. Text is clean and unmarked. First Edition is stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good fresh copy, front inner hinge straining, owners signature, small crease to top corner of frontispiece.

Super octavo, hard cover (VG+) in d/w (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Faber & Faber, 1941. 1st edition. Cloth, +. 160pp, 41 poets are included in this anthology, a few spots to boards and feps, also ex libris label but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket worn with chipping and loss to edges Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Inventory No: 049742.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. No signatures. 1" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/4" and smaller tears at head and tail of dust wrapper spine. Moderate spotting and browning to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper spine faded and browned. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. Brown cloth boards.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 80 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Wrapper rubbed and marked with a darkened spine, boards marked, ink inscription to front free endpaper. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good hardback copy in slightly shelfworn dustjacket. 258pp, illustré. Book.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Original yellow cloth. A number of brown spots on cover. 4 line inscription on ffep. Preface by T S Eliot.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Very slightly shelf-worn and soiled w slightly sunned bs. Very slightly cocked. Very small annotation on fep. Underlining in tp. Clean and tight. 8vo. 239 pp.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. DJ chipped, rubbed, sunned, foxed with tears. Top edge dusty and foxed, content clean and tight. Size: 8vo 0.0.

3rd imp. chipped dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 160pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in chipped but unclipped dust jacket.

Condition: Good. None. Octavo beige cloth, black lettered to spine (covers bit foxed tips worn some edge fading but sound) 160pp includes half title and titlepage. Endpapers with minor foxing but all other pages clear, paper bit tanned but not brittle, clean and supple. *Starting with Gerald Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats includes Ezra Pound, D.H.Lawrence, Edith Sitwell, Marianne Moore, Robert Graves, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden and lots more up to Dylan Thomas and Ruthven Todd. An interesting compilation with 5 page introduction by T.S. Eliot discussing what modernity is in poetry, why Hopkins and Yeats shuld be included though they are of an older generation etc. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

18x25cm, broché, non pagine Tirage justifié à 1500 ex. (249) Un des 1200 ex. sur papier Strathmore après 300 ex. sur paiper Italia.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first American edition. A near-fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($5.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very faint offsetting on front matter. Jacket has some fading, rubbing, and a couple tiny chips and closed tears (as pictured). Nonfiction-J.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st English edition (2nd impression) 1952. Light blue cloth-covered boards, with red and gilt lettering on spine. Book in very good condition, with minimal shelf-wear. Light foxing to top and front edges of text block. Mild spotting to front and back end papers. Binding firm. Text clean throughout with no markings or annotations. Patterned dust-jacket in good condition, with small tears at top of spine, in protective wrapper. Postage may vary.…

Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ. First English Edition. 288 Pp. First English Language Translation Of Her Book Which Was First Published In France In 1949. Gallup B66 For The Eliot Preface. Camus Reportedly Considered Her To Be The Most Important 20Th Century Writer. Book Is Clean, Unmarked, No Names, No Fraying, Light Rubbing At Corners. Dj Is Especially Clean And Bright, Unfaded, Price Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap, With A 1/4" Deep X 1/2" Long Chip At Bottom Of Front Bottom Spine Fold, A 1/8' V-Chip At Bottom Of Rear Spine Fold, And A 1/8" Deep X 1/4" Long Chip At Top Of Rear Spine Fold.…