William Scammell Editor (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Picador, New York, 1995. Hard cover. Book condition : Near fine, like new, appears unread. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #JES019765.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Front paste-down and endpaper upside-down. Odd. Else near fine indeed. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Front paste-down and endpaper upside-down. Odd. Else near fine indeed. Book.

First edition (not stated but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). xviii, 218 pages. Hardcover: H 24.75cm x L 16.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Purple cloth; spine mildly sunned with gilt stamping still reasonably bright; front board's gilt stamping remains vibrant. Deckle text block edges. Endpapers toned; personal sextant-themed bookplate of St. Louis physician, naval historian, and author E. Lee Dorsett (Edward Lee Dorsett, 1883-1967) on front pastedown; Dorsett's acquisition date in pencil on front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 92 pages. Bethany Ladimer "The narrator as voyeur in Proust", Cedric Watts "Conrad's 'The secret sharer'", Patrick Swinden "Thom Gunn's Castle", Laurence Lerner "Victoriana", Jill Ward "Patrick White's 'A Fringe of Leaves". Erik Svarnet, David Holbrook, Simon Curtis, John Gurney, Donald Monk, William Scammell, Graham Coe, Edwin Webb, Mena Alexander.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. ex library paperback with protective cover, usual stamps/markings. 1984 1st printing limited to 700 copies published by Taxvs Press, Durham. Covers little creased & page edges grubby otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-6D*.…

Soft. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Soft covers lightly edgeworn at corners, corner at head of rear cover bumped otherwise clean and tidy, previous owner's inscription to title page, pp clean and clear to read, binding sound. Size: 8vo.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by William Scammell. Pages clean and bright, boards tidy, dust jacket tidy. Size: 8vo. Signed.

Soft. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Soft covers clean and colourful, lightly sunned along head of front cover and spine, pp very clean and bright, binding tight and secure. Size: 8vo.

Soft. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Soft covers clean and tidy, worn along spine edges, lightly bumped at corners, small diagonal crease at corner of rear cover, pp very clean and bright, binding sound. Size: 8vo.

Soft. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Front and rear covers clean and in good condition, spine lightly sunned, some light foxing to fep/rep, signed by Norman Nicholson to fep, pp very clean and bright, binding tight and secure. Size: 8vo. Signed by Poet.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, light spotting on head of closed edge, boards and binding tidy, light shelf wear to dust jacket. Size: 8vo.

London:Faber and Faber. 1994. 8vo. Original black boards with silver title lettering to spine; Pictorial wraparound dust jacket courtesy of the Topkapi Palace Museum; pp. xiv, 465; minimal brusing to head of spine with minor creasing to top edge of jacket; otherwise near fine.First edition, with an inscription to Hughes' friend Nick Grant: "For Nick/More Bedtime Stories/with love/ from Ted/ 17th February 1994".Winter Pollen (1994) is a compilation of the prose essays, criticism and reviews by Ted Hughes spanning a period exceeding thirty years. It includes commisioned and unpublished articles on a diverse variety of writers such as Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and his wife Sylvia Plath, to name but a few. As Scammell writes in the Introduction to this essential contribution to the library of any literary enthusiast, "The fugitive reviews and considered essays that make up this book confirm his (Hughes) importance as one of the indisspensible writers and critics of our time".…