English Lit Relit; A Short History of English Literature from the Precursors to the Pre-Raphaelites

Armour, Richard

Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1969

About this Item

Red buckram with black and gilt lettering and gilt flame decorations to boards. Minor bump to head of spine. Lengthy personal inscription signed by Armour on the front endpaper to MGM exec. Barrett Kiesling and his wife, Lill, dated 1969. Also the 1969 NY Times book review clipped and folded neatly in an envelope. Small darkened strip on front endpaper from inserted enveliope. Barrett Kiesling's mailing label neatly adhered to endpaper. Text is otherwise clean and white, no marks. Illustrations throughout by Campbell Grant. Unclipped DJ with $4.50 price shows sunning to spine, minor edgewear with tiny chips at head and heel of spine. "Takes us on a wild romp through English literature from Caedmon, Beowulf, and Chaucer to Shaw, Galsworthy, and T.S. Eliot. What he does with and to such authors as Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Carlyle, Browning, Thackeray, and Rossetti, to mention a few, will have to be read to be believed, and will probably not be believed even then." (from the cover).

Seller Inventory # A121918

Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Lit Relit; A Short History of English Literature from the Precursors to the Pre-Raphaelites
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Campbell Grant
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
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