Essays by Divers Hands: Innovations in Contemporary Literature, being the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, New Series: Volume XL

Published by Royal Society of Literature / Boydell Press, (Woodbridge, Suffolk), 1979

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First edition. Octavo. ix, 162pp. Crown a bit bumped else fine in a somewhat edgeworn, very good dust jacket with a lightly toned spine that has one small splashmark. Nicely Inscribed by contributor Jane Gardam on the front fly. (Gardam's contribution is titled "Writing for Children: Some Wasps in the Marmalade.") Seamus Heaney contributes the essay "Feeling Into Words.".

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Title
Essays by Divers Hands: Innovations in Contemporary Literature, being the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, New Series: Volume XL
Author
(GARDAM, Jane, Seamus Heaney, Ronald Blythe, N. C. Chaudhuri, John Stewar Collis, Robert Gittings, Thomas Hinde, Paul Jennings, William Sansom, and Charles Tomlinson). Vincent Cronin, edited by
Publisher
Royal Society of Literature / Boydell Press, (Woodbridge, Suffolk)
Publication year
1979
Condition
Fine
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Very Good
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Signed
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.

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