Ts Eliot Intro (34 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. New York: New Directions, c1961 reprint. 170pp. paperback: Good+ [reminder. line bottom edge; small section of bottom blank margin of last page is torn away; text is unaffected; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A classic of its ilk originally published in 1936. Cover praise from Dylan Thomas.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0571059473. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. The innovative work of American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) first came to the attention of a wider public through this selection, which was published in 1935. In his introductory essay TS Eliot analyses the qualities of Moore's verse, including her use of elegant formal patterns and the 'gift for detailed observation' evident in her descriptions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair for year, hardcover. Reasonably clean, bright and tight. Some marks and tanning to boards. Corners bumped. Endpapers foxed. No dustjacket, grey cloth boards with red lettering to spine. Note to flyleaf.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Third Printing, Extremely minor wear around edges of cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 460pp. DJ: Very Good- w/ small part missing on top spine, some rubbing, minute corenr wears, price clipped. The Book: Very Good w/ minute tanning.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:9780746307465.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hutchinson of London, c.1961, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 220pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, G $.

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.…

Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Hbk, 266pp, dj has a light stain and some small losses head of spine, otherwise very good, unclipped ($5.00) and now in protective sleeve, internally an excellent clean tight unmarked text.

Super 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Cloth in DJ. Light foxing to top of text block, else a nice copy. Previous owner's signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good copy, especially considering age. Clean and unmarked throughout with only the faintest signs of handling. Slight browning to the pages and fading to the jacket, which is protected by a mylar sleeve. NOTE: discoloration visible in photo is on the mylar, not the paper jacket itself.…

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First British Edition. Ex-owner name/date jotted on flyleaf else very good+ in unclipped, very good+ dustjacket (mylar-protected). Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. A decent copy.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pen markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. DJ tanned and chipped with several tears including a large tear to fore-edge. Some foxing, small owner name to ffep, content clean and tight. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Black Cloth, Dust Jacket. Protective Plastic Sleeve. Very Good. 220 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, in unclipped dust jacket. Moderate handling; some toning and edge-wear to jacket. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. 199pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 464pp. DJ: Very Good-w/ top & bottom spine repaired by tapes, about 1/2inch size scratched closed tear on side of spine, some edge/corne wears, minute fading on spine. The Book: Very Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth. First American Printing in First Issue Dust Jacket. A fantasy thriller with strong Christian elements. Williams and C. S. Lewis were good friends, and Lewis ardently admired Williams. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. The sole UK printing of this special limited edition published by Faber & Faber Ltd, London in 1961. Number '5' of only 70 copies issued, signed by both the author and T. S. Eliot to the limitation page. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Octavo. Two illustrated plates and a map plate by David Jones. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in blind and gilt, top edge gilt. No loss or rubbing of the gilt to the spine. With the original acetate WRAPPER which is complete and is in near fine condition. A hint of toning to the fore-edge. A sharp copy. David Jones's epic poetic memoir, tackling the trauma of his trench experiences in the First World War after his breakdown from shell-shock in 1932, was first published in 1937. In Parenthesis won David Jones the Hawthornden Prize and the praise of such writers as W. H. Auden, who considered it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British and Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans". In his introduction, first published in the present volume, Eliot stated that he was "proud to share the responsibility" of originally publishing the "work of literary art which uses the language in a new way or for a new purpose". Eliot notes "I still regard it. as a work of genius". Gallup AB85(a). More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Jones, David (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. First American Edition. First printing per Ahearn with Eliot's introduction unmentioned on the contents page. xv, [7], 1-224, [3] pp. 12mo, sewn binding in khaki cloth, spine lettering in negative blocked in gray, bordered in gilt. FINE copy, exceedingly clean and sharp; DJ is a bit rubbed with some of the usual discoloration of the slate gray, but clean and whole otherwise with price of $5.75 intact. First American Edition, published 24 years after the British edition released in 1937. Jones began the work in 1928 in the wake of his flight from Ditchling, where he had worked at a furiously productive pace alongside Eric Gill as a painter and engraver. He had been engaged to Gill's daughter, Petra, who broke off the engagement to marry a mutual friend. In this period of personal pain and disillusionment, Jones returned to his own memories in The Great War, and began work on a strange and form-defying work that interwove these experiences with Arthurian Legend, long prose sentences with dense and allusive verse, and high-brow vocabulary and Welsh epigrams with military slang and Cockneyisms. 'On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and I still regard it, as a work of genius,' writes the first publisher, T.S. Eliot in a new introduction. ' A work of literary art which uses the language in a new way or for a new purpose, does not call for many words from the introducer. All that one can say amounts only to pointing towards the book, and affirming its importance and permanence as a work of art. . Here is a book about the experiences of one soldier in the War of 1914-18. It is also a book about War, and about many other things also, such as Roman Britain, the Arthurian Legend, and divers matters which are given association by the mind of the writer. And as for the writer himself, he is a Londoner of Welsh and English descent. He is decidedly a Briton. He is also a Roman Catholic, and he is a painter who has painted some beautiful pictures and designed some beautiful lettering. All these facts about him are important. Some of them appear in his own preface to this book; some the reader may discover in the course of reading.'. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Olive-gray cloth, spine panel lettered in gold foil, royal blue endpapers. 1961 hardcover edition, issued concurrently with the first ND paperback edition, with an identical copyright page to save on production costs. So technically, a "first thus" of sorts, or a third American edition, though usually not described as such. Cover cloth slightly tanned toward edges and along spine panel. Blue dust jacket VG, sunned to a greenish hue on front and spine panels, rubbed folds and joints, minor loss at several corners, $5.00 price intact on front flap, now in mylar. xvi,170 pp. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hard cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus; Limited edition. Text in English, [8] leaves of Portraits, Plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 1st english language edition. #494 of 650 hand numbered copies of the 1st printing. (copies numbered 401-650 were distributed in the US by Random House) Sound neat copy. Bright blue cloth with very bright gilt titling to spine and gilt blocked fascimile authograph of Baudelaire on cover board. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Retains most of the rare original glassine dust wrapper; only a 2" wide swath missing across the lower edge of the upper board and spine. 2 short strips of old cellophane applied by original owner to prevent further loss. Illustrated by reproductions of 8 original Baudelaire drawings. Printed on Arches paper. Translated by Christopher Isherwood and with a 19 pp introduction by TS Eliot. Scarce in this edition, rare in the original glassine dust jacket. VG+/G.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st edition. 1st edition, dated April 1935. A Very Good copy in a Good+ dust jacket. 8vo., 142 pp., bound in publishers plum cloth with yellow dust jacket, 7s. 6d. net. Some question if this is true first or second state of binding. Jacket spine is darkened, tips and edges rubbed with minor overall soiling. End pages toned, text unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. First edition, second binding -- full plum-colored cloth. Book is fine, pages uncut (so you will have to open them), free of all markings, no spotting or foxing. Jacket is very good -- spine darkened as always with these yellow jacket. A nice period copy -- good in the hands, as we used to say.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The second UK edition of Djuna Barnes' important modernist work of lesbian fiction, the first UK edition to contain an introduction by T. S. Eliot, presented here in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The second UK edition. First published in 1936. Bound in the publisher's lilac cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Written by American author and artist Djuna Barnes, 'Nightwood' is noted for being one of the early prominent novels to present explicit homosexuality between women. Set largely in Paris in the 1930s, it tells the story of Robin Vote as she strives to accept her desires and achieve personal freedom. An important work of lesbian fiction, 'Nightwood' is the work for which Barnes is most known.Praised by other modernist authors of the time, notably T. S. Eliot, who aided Barnes with editing, publishing and wrote an introduction for the second edition.With the bookplate of W. B. Sharland. Bound in the publisher's lilac cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with light shelf wear and a touch of fading to the spine tail. Bookplate to front endpaper. A few light spots to fore edge. Dust wrapper is also excellent, with light edge wear and the odd small chip. Sunning to the spine of the wrap and the occasional mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. green cloth, gilt lettering, 184 pp, sunning on spine and top cover,bookstore label glued to front pastedown, signed by owner on front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.…