Destructive Element Study Modern Writers by Spender Stephen (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1935 First Edition with no subsequent printings listed. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. Hardcover bound in light brown cloth, green titles. From the library of noted American poet William H. Matchett with his name and the date February 1945 inked on the ffep. Mild foxing and fading to spine, parts of spine title worn off, binding solid and strong, some ink marks to text margins, bookplate to front pastedown. Good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition ( 'First Published 1935', NAP). Stephen Spender takes on Henry James, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Edward Upward, Franz Kafka, and Laurens van der Post. You can see the covers in the photos. They have held up quite nicely. There is partial rubbing of the color on a few of the letters on the front cover. On the spine the coloring of the letters is very faded but you can read the letters all the same. The covers are pretty clean, just a few small spots on the rear. The cover edges look very good, no rubbing. That's also the case with the cover corners. The spine ends look very good, the top one has a couple of tiny nicks. The top page edge is brown. It looks very good. The middle and bottom page edges have some very light tan spotting. The bottom page edge appears to be deckled or rough-cut, but the bottom edges are all smooth, a small number of them are a little shorter than most of the others. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is quite solid, no spaces between any of the facing pages, nicely tight covers, good junctures. An extremely thin bit of an outward crease on the front inside cover created what has the appearance of a scratch on the first few pages, nothing very significant. Scrolling through the pages I'm not finding any creasing. There is some very light tan spotting on the blank front end paper and half-title page. You will find an occasional small tan spot of foxing in the text, having migrated from the middle page edge. But the pages are very clean. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. Stephen Spender on Henry James, Yeats, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Laurens van der Post and Edward Upward, among others.…

Condition: Good. 1935. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing age and shelf wear, spine torn and partial missing. Lightly toned, some spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a good-very good copy. . . . .

First edition. 12mo. 284 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, minor edgewear, else very good copy. (75492).

Condition: Good. 1935. Hardback. Fine in cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing age and shelf wear, spine torn and partial missing. Lightly toned, some spotting, text is crisp and clear and remains a good-very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition in America. Former owner's inscription dated " March 1936"; spine faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's cloth. First US edition presumed. Cloth/edges toned, mild corner wear. The DJ in mylar is toned, chipped to spine ends with interior clear tape to edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages.

HARDCOVER. 1936, First US edition. A very good copy only marked by light tanning of the edges and endpapers and a previous owners details on the front free endpaper. The contents are fine and unmarked. The d/w is fair with age tanning and some edge wear with minor loss at the extremities. Scans available if required.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. A very good copy. Price clipped, lengthy tear to the lower spine, similar to the top of the spine, a couple of short tears. Some foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First American edition, from British sheets. Relatively large owner's stamped bookplate, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine slightly toned and a tiny nick. Spender's best-known critical work. A nicer than usual copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED) FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. First edition, second impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, clipped but with price 8s. 6d. present. An interesting copy, inscribed by Spender 'To Tony with love from Stephen December 9, 1939'. Presumably this would be to Tony Hyndman, Spender's lover whom he lived with between 1933 & 1936. This inscription was around the time that relationship had ended, with Spender marrying Inez Pearn that month, after an engagement of only three weeks. Hyndman is referred to as 'Jimmy Younger' in Spender's memoir WorldWithinWorld. Some foxing; a very good copy; jacket with a little very minor chipping and marking, overall very good. Signed. Book.…