Edwards tom j editor (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 244 pages. Original publisher's rexine covered boards, with unclipped dust jacket. *Papers read before the Irish Conference of Historians, held at University College, Cork 23-26 May 1985. Topics include: Lliterary theory and the historian; The Irish hagiographer; Legend as critic; 'Winner and Waster' and the mid-fourteenth century economy; Bardic poetry as a historical source; Edmund Spenser on Justice and Mercy; Irish National Character 1790-1900; 'Sanditon': a Regency novel?; Fiction as 'the best history of nations': Lady Morgan's Irish novels; Jewish emancipation in nineteenth-century Germany and the stereotyping of the Jew in Gustav Freytag's 'Soll und Haben' (1855); Popular religion and irreligion in Victorian fiction; Mark Twain: historian of a lost world; Fictional images of Irish -America.* A fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Contains an editorial by Edwards, The Profession of Science Fiction XVI by Compton, Travails of the Fantasy Novel by Leiber, Metaphor in Wells and Huxley by Aldiss, Language in Barefoot in the Head by Greenland, The Profession of Science Fiction XVII by Dick, Science, Religion and the Science Fiction Idea by Bayley, C.M. Kornbluth by Platt, The Strugatskys and their Snail on the Slope by Suvin and the reviews include The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke, Web by John Wyndham and Anticipations edited by Christopher Priest. There is a trace of a price in pencil on the first page and a small mark on the back cover but otherwise near Fine. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.