E a sharp and j matthay (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 450 p. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.…

Hardcover. 450pp. This is the 1932 reprint of the 2nd revised and enlarged edition of 1924. Some black stains on the front cover else a very good, clean and unmarked sound copy without a dust jacket.

Hardback. Zustand: Vg. 2nd Edition, Reprinted. li,450p., notes, blind stamped decorations on the boards gilt titles and decorations on the spine, blue cloth, celtic knot-work patterned endpapers. A nice copy with foxing to the edges not affecting the text or margins.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. li, [1]450pp Introduction by William Sharp. Originally pub. 1896 This is the enlarged second edition reprinted in 1932. Pub. blue dec. boards with attractive celtic illus. end-papers. Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia (1856-1932) Celtic poetry including ancient Irish, Alban, Gaelic, Breton, Cymric, and modern Scottish poetry. William Sharp (Fiona Mcleod) has provided the introduction. No fading to the attractive spine and a clean text block Blue top edge and uncut edges to the side and bottom edges. 20CMS. A LOVELY COPY. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry edited by E. A. Sharp and J. Matthay, with introduction and notes by William Sharp, published by John Grant in Edinburgh on the George IV Bridge in 1932. Gorgeous celtic endpapers in this volume. Paste-in from Oban High School (see photos). Includes original dust jacket which is in poor condition, with sun damage on spine and torn edges. The volume underneath, however, is in a blue cloth binding in good condition save some shelf wear. Art nouveau-stylised Celtic embossed illustration on front and back of cloth binding, with gilt spine. Cloth spine has some spotty sun damage. Minimal foxing throughout with clear interior pages. Copyr.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo, second edition [revised and enlarged] pp,li,450, blue cloth with blind embossed decorative boards, gilt titled and decorated spine, t.e.g.,uncut, foxing, decorated endpapers, name on front paste-down endpaper, lower outer corners of boards a little rubbed Ancient Irish, Alban, Gaelic, Breton, Cymric, and Modern Scottish and Irish Celtic Poetry.…

Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Slight foxing throughout and edges of leaves a little darkened, otherwise a nice copy. From the Library of Hester Sassoon [née Gatty], bearing her autograph Hester Gatty signature, dated 1925, on a preliminary blank Hester Gatty was born in 1906, the daughter of Sir Stephen and Lady Katherine Gatty. She met and married Siegfried Sassoon in 1933. Although they separated after the birth of their son, George, they never divorced. She died in 1973. Original blue blind stamped cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, patterned end-papers.…

Octavo. li, 450 pages. A reprint of the second and best edition. One of the great classics of Celtic poetry which also includes ancient Irish, Alban, Gaelic, Breton, Cymric, and modern Scottish poetry. William Sharp (Fiona Mcleod) has provided an important introduction. Several other authors' works are presented: Emily Bronte, W.B. Yeats, Lord Byron, George MacDonald and others. A fine bright copy bound in light blue beautifully stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge dark blue, decorative endpapers.…