the bowering press (20 results)

Condition: Fair. 1954. First Edition. 88 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Moderate tanning overall.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This is a pamphlet. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,150grams, ISBN:0719909260.

Condition: Good. 1954. first published. 88 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Illustrations are clear, with slight tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1954. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with nicks and tears but remains intact, foxing throughout, otherwise good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. First Edition, 1954. A few small tears to the dust jacket. Otherwise a clear, bright copy.

Condition: Good. 1954. Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with nicks and tears but remains intact, foxing throughout, otherwise good copy. . . . .

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition with PICTORIAL LAMINATED cloth + owners signature - 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Statues' by George Molnar. The Bowering Press 1954 first edition. A little light foxing, mainly to the endpapers. Slight age darkening to the spine. Near VG. No dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book measures 22x14cm, 60pp, Bound in original publishers cloth, with gilt title lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, abrasion wear on edges. jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy.

[1954], 1st printing. (Small 4to) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 88pp. Illustrated endpapers, illustrations. Edgewear and chipping to dust jacket. (Humor, Cartoons).

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. 1936. No Edition Stated. 376 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Original wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (201 x 132mm), pp. 38, [2 (final blank l.)]. (A few light marks.) Original light-green printed wrappers with French flaps, stapled as issued. (Slightly faded on spine and at edges of wrappers, corners slightly creased, small marks on lower wrapper.) A very good, clean copy in the original wrappers. First edition. The Burning Fiery Furnace was the second of the series of three parables for church performance created by Plomer and Britten, which began with Curlew River (1964) and concluded with The Prodigal Son (1968). The three parables drew on Japanese drama and music, which both author and composer had experienced during residences in Japan: Plomer (1903-1973) had lived in the country from 1926 to 1929, teaching English and living with his Japanese partner, Morito Fukuzawa, while Britten (1913-1976) visited Japan during a journey around the world in 1955-1956. In February 1956, Britten attended a performance in Tokyo of the celebrated Noh play Sumidagawa and he 'was overwhelmed by the drama, the ritualistic, idealized action, and the music, a form of recitation accompanied by a very small instrumental on-stage ensemble' (ODNB). Britten's experience of Gagaku, the ancient traditional court music of Japan, had a similarly profound effect: '[w]hat [. . .] is of central importance to comprehend with regard to Curlew River and its successors, The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966) and The Prodigal Son (1968), is the acquisition and deployment of new techniques -- heterophony, above all -- culled from Britten's encounters with musics from non-Western cultures, an example of the process of absorption and accumulation by which he constantly renewed his musical language. This radical new path makes it possible to present Britten as the most important twentieth-century Western composer substantially to incorporate non-Western techniques into his own compositional practice' (op. cit.). The Burning Fiery Furnace is based on the story of the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar II and the three Israelites who were thrown into a furnace for their refusal to worship his golden image, which is narrated in the biblical Book of Daniel. The work was first performed by the English Opera Group on 9 June 1966 in Orford Church, Suffolk, as part of the Aldeburgh Festival, with Peter Pears in the role of Nebuchadnezzar. FURTHER INFORMATION: please contact us for further information about this item and prices for shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A very scarce work offering the history, rules and list of members belonging to the Plymouth Medical Society. A very scarce work printed for the Plymouth Medical Society.This book contains a overview of the history of the society, as well as an updated series of rules and list of the office bearers and members.The society was formed in 1794 with the intention of encouraging friendly discourse amongst its members and the circulation of books on medicine and science.The rules laid out include that of the objects of the society, terms of membership, grounds of expulsion and more. In the publisher's original paperback binding. Externally, very smart. With light fading and marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean save for the odd spot to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.

Original cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo (216 x 137mm), pp. 63, [1 (blank)]. (A few very light, mainly marginal spots, heavier on edges of bookblock.) Original violet cloth, spine lettered in gilt, typographic dustwrapper designed by Berthold Wolpe and printed on green laid paper, not price-clipped. (Some offsetting on free endpapers, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, dustwrapper slightly spotted, darkened on spine, and with small chips and tears at edges.) A very good, clean copy. Provenance: Antony Rex Divey (1930-2013, and by descent). First edition. The second volume of poetry to be published by Ted Hughes (1930-1998), Lupercal was very enthusiastically reviewed by Al Alvarez in The Observer on 27 March 1960, as Sylvia Plath, the dedicatee of the collection, excitedly wrote to her mother: '[a] column and a half -- excerpts: "There are no influences to side-track the critic, no hesitations to reassure him. Hughes has found his own voice, created his own artistic world and has emerged as a poet of the first importance . . . What Ted Hughes has done is to take a limited, personal theme and, by an act of immensely assured poetic skill, has broadened it until it seems to touch upon nearly everything that concerns us. This is not easy poetry to read, but it is new, profound, and important". We cooed and beamed all day' (A.S. Plath (ed.), Letters Home by Sylvia Plath (London, 1983), p. 372). Three months later, on 21 June 1960, Hughes wrote to Olive Higgins Prouty that '[Lupercal] is being well-received here and I believe they're reprinting it, which means it's had an unusual sale for poetry' (C. Reid (ed.), The Letters of Ted Hughes (London, 2009), p. 163), and the book would go on to win the Hawthornden Prize for 1961. Lupercal was first published in an edition of 2,250 copies priced at 12s. 6d. on 18 March 1960, although Hughes received his six author's copies a few weeks earlier on 23 February 1960. The dustwrapper was designed by the noted Anglo-German graphic artist and typographer Berthold Wolpe (1905-1989), who had settled in 1935 in England, where he initially worked for the Fanfare Press and designed dustwrappers for Gollancz. In 1941 he moved to Faber & Faber, where, in the years before his retirement in 1975, he designed thousands of dustwrappers (as well as bindings), including Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, and Lupercal. Plath wrote that when she and Hughes had received the author's copies, they discovered that Faber had 'changed the blue of the cover to green, which put us off, and the red on the jacket and the purple on the cover are a bit of a clash to my morbidly sensitive eye, but looking at the book without the jacket, it is a handsome affair' (Letters Home, p. 368). This copy is from the library of the noted British engineer and designer Tony Divey, who worked for Lotus, DeLorean, Porsche, and other companies, before establishing his own business, Triking Sports Cars to manufacture and sell the Triking three-wheeled sports car which he designed. K. Sagar and S. Tabor, Ted Hughes (1998), A3.a.1. FURTHER INFORMATION: please contact us for further information about this item and prices for shipping.

Hard. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Minus. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards have dampstaining and some rubbing to edges. End papers have light spotting. Dust jacket has shelf wear with some rubbing and chipping of corners. Fading on spine. Size: 12mo.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Statues, Art, Cartoons, Humor) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). A charming and very scarce illustrated 1926 guide to Plymouth, illustrated with a folding map of the transport system of the region. A very scarce 1926 guide to Plymouth, aiming to entice visitors from other parts of England to spend their holidays in the Devonshire port city.Highlighting the naval history of the city, the front wrap entices tourists with 'the spirit of Drake calls you to visit the glories of past & present'.With vignette monochrome photographic images throughout, and with a large folding map to the rear.The bathing pools, surrounding countryside, lighthouses and piers are advertised as key destinations to visit. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. A touch of rubbing to head of front wrap, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright, with the odd light handling mark. Very Good Indeed. book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Paperback, stitched with cord, card covers. 29 x 22.5cm. [24] pp. 12 tipped in plates each with a description on the facing leaf. Number 3 of an edition of 250 copies. Signed on the title page by the author. Cover chipped to edges. Contents and plates all in very good condition.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. pp. vi, 166. 12mo., measuring 11 cm x 17 cm. Red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Light spotting to the front board, light occasional foxing - confined chiefly to the endpapers and foredge. Otherwise, the contents remain overwhelmingly bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, very good. Scarce. A complete guide on how to play Poker with sections including: Laws of Poker, Opening Hands, The Raise, Play of One Pair, Play of Two Pairs, Play of Three, Play of Fours, Play of Bobtails, Bluff, Jack-Pots, Stakes and Limits, Freak Games, Freak Hands. Also comprises of a series of illustrative games, a glossary of technical terms, and a treatise on "Poker Patience". A must for the library of any poker aficianado.