Collected Poems by Empson William (56 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Mass market with light wear along the edges, small scuff to front cover. Contents remain clean and sound.

Condition: Good. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Binding Tight Annotations Light Edge Wear. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This softback book has a quite darkened spine, else, Very Good. Clean, tight, bright. Unmarked. last date on copyright page is 1949, but this book was printed a bit after that.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus. Sticker over price. Published by The Hogarth Press Ltd, 1984. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with sticker residue back cover, toning, and shelf/edge wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

paperback. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Family owned bookstore in Steubenville, Ohio. Book in Good condition. Older paperback (1949); binding still sound but weakening at hinge. Pages unmarked. All in all a good copy of a poetry collection which is uncommon.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [viii], 119 p. : port. ; 20 cm. 0701205555 Small 8vo.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. first edition,3p; Third Printing. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(12s.6d) DUST JACKET,CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT.; GOLD SPINE titles on RED CLOTH HARD COVERS. no artwork. ; 119pg pages; Fifty-six poems, including "Chinese Ballad" and "A Masque (The Birth of Steel)." "The wrung-out, colloquial dryness of this diction has its own firm music, capable of being heightened, in more elaborate poems, to a grand polyphony."-Robert Fitzgerald, New Republic.INCLUDES NOTES.

Condition: Good. 1962. 3rd impression. 119 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Fourth Impression. Dust jacket is age-toned and marked from shelving and handling, spine sunned with large tear to lower edge, upper spine chipped, unclipped; boards are clean, gilt titling, corners bumped; binding is tight; pages are clean aside from small annotation on rear pastedown. ; 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches; 119 pages.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original cloth. Some damage to the spine; wear and tear as with age. Spine bands worn.Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description: 119p. ; 23cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 3 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 12mo. Perfectbound wrappers. A few small holes and shallow abrasions to the title page not affecting any text, light foxing to the top edge, toning to the spine and wrappers, light edgewear, very good. Corrected edition with additional notes, a translation of "Chinese Ballad" and a Masque, "The Birth of Steel." Harvest Books 38.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Corrected edition with additional notes. Light sunning, rubbing on covers. Pages clean and binding sound.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original cloth. Some damage to the spine; wear and tear as with age. Spine bands worn.Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description: 119p. ; 23cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Sticker and markings on first two blank pages, foxing throughout. Otherwise an overall unmarked and undamaged copy with an intact dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 119pp. Red cloth boards with black titles to spine in protected unclipped dustwrapper. Neat ownership inscription to verso of ffep Feps tanned. Wrapper sunned at spine and top edge. Textblock clean tight and bright. A loverly copy.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book is in good condition with some wear to the dust jacket including some chipping to the edges.

Condition: Very Good. Cover has light scratches. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Book content is in very good readable condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. "İ 1935, 1940, 1949" stated. No additional dates,e editions or printings indicated. Very good, if not very good plus or near fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use, primarily two dog-eared leaves (1.5 inch by 1 inch); a slight, if not very slight sun-darkening to spine and a one inch bands on front and rear covers near spine; and wear to fore-edge of front cover and edges of rear cover.

1st edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Front cover detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 119 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; The ants -- Value is in activity -- Invitation to Juno -- The world's end -- Plenum and vacuum -- Rolling the lawn -- Dissatisfaction with metaphysics -- Poem about a ball in the nineteenth century -- Sea voyage -- High dive -- To an old lady -- Part of Madevil's travels -- Camping out -- Letter I -- Letter II -- Villanelle -- Arachne -- The scales -- Legal fiction -- Sleeping out in a college cloister -- Earth has shrunk in the wash -- Fighting for duck -- Letter III -- This last pain -- Description of a view -- Homage to the British Museum -- Note on local flora -- Letter IV -- Doctrinal point -- Letter V -- Bacchus -- Your teeth are ivory towers -- Aubade -- The fool -- The shadow -- The small bird to the big -- Four legs, three legs, two legs -- Reflection from Rochester -- Courage means running -- Ignorance of death -- Missing dates -- Success -- Just a smack at Auden -- The beautiful train -- Manchouli -- Reflection from Anita Loos -- The teasers -- Advice -- Anecdote from talk -- China -- Autumn at Nan-Yueh -- Let it go -- Thanks for a wedding present -- Sonnet -- Chinese ballad -- The birth of steel. Subjects; Literature Philosophy. Poetics. American poetry. Ants. Camping. Death. Old age. Steel industry and trade. Yorkshire. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Light shading to end papers, dust wrapper included in mylar protective plastic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Light tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Pages toning with age, otherwise Text is unmarked. DJ shelf worn around edges, lightly soiled, toned with small closed tear on spine. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Second Impression 1956, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket price clipped, a little toning to endpapers, Page 13-16 loose. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A VG+ copy of the First Edition in VG mylar protected jacket published in 1955.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Slightly cocked spine else near fine in a near fine spine-darkened dust jacket with shallow chips and toning.

1st edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Front cover detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 119 pp.; 23 cm. Contents; The ants -- Value is in activity -- Invitation to Juno -- The world's end -- Plenum and vacuum -- Rolling the lawn -- Dissatisfaction with metaphysics -- Poem about a ball in the nineteenth century -- Sea voyage -- High dive -- To an old lady -- Part of Madevil's travels -- Camping out -- Letter I -- Letter II -- Villanelle -- Arachne -- The scales -- Legal fiction -- Sleeping out in a college cloister -- Earth has shrunk in the wash -- Fighting for duck -- Letter III -- This last pain -- Description of a view -- Homage to the British Museum -- Note on local flora -- Letter IV -- Doctrinal point -- Letter V -- Bacchus -- Your teeth are ivory towers -- Aubade -- The fool -- The shadow -- The small bird to the big -- Four legs, three legs, two legs -- Reflection from Rochester -- Courage means running -- Ignorance of death -- Missing dates -- Success -- Just a smack at Auden -- The beautiful train -- Manchouli -- Reflection from Anita Loos -- The teasers -- Advice -- Anecdote from talk -- China -- Autumn at Nan-Yueh -- Let it go -- Thanks for a wedding present -- Sonnet -- Chinese ballad -- The birth of steel. Subjects; Literature Philosophy. Poetics. American poetry. Ants. Camping. Death. Old age. Steel industry and trade. Yorkshire. 1 Kg.