swan lichfield being selection correspondence von pearson hesketh (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 8vo; cloth in price-clipped jacket with exterior browning tape reinforcement aroung spine ends and top edges. Includes short biography and preface also by Hesketh Pearson.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in black cloth with rubbing soil and fading, see photo; internally clean and unmarked, page edges untrimmed, pages lightly age-toned; personally inscribed and dated "1936" by author on front free endpaper, light foxing. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Fair. 1936. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Black cloth. Front endpaper has been signed by the Editior and dedicated. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily frayed and spine ends are crushed, with some small splits and chips. Heavy loss to head of spine.

Large thick octavo, 316pp, original cloth boards (no dustwrapper), a very good copy. First edition. A selection from a blue-stocking highbrow Victorian commentatrix, much given to laughably but revealingly purple prose. A sign of her times, not otherwise given much exposure.

Large thick octavo, 316pp, original cloth boards in good repaired dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition. Scarce in dustwrapper. A selection from a blue-stocking highbrow Victorian commentatrix, much given to laughably but revealingly purple prose. A sign of her times, not otherwise given much exposure.

1st. Edn. 316pp. plus 1pp. publisher's list. Portrait frontispiece. From the library of the critic, Alan Dent. Small, neat label and cancel stamp of The Alan Dent Collection, Shakespeare Centre Library to the front pastedown. In the original red lettered blck cloth. Ink annotations of Dent on rear endpapers. This aart a very good plus copy. No wrapper.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Previous owners name sticker to inside cover. Edited with a short biography and preface by Hekseth Pearson. The Victorians though her flowery sentences, wherein many words did the service of one, 'nauseating.' To us they are simply funny, as they were to her contemporaries. In that respect, as in certain others, the eighteenth and twentieth centuries clasp hands across the chasm in which the Victorians struck moral attitudes and breathed moral prejudices. Anna Seward was a blue-stocking, a highbrow, the centre of an intellectual coterie, and she has suffered the invaraible fate of such. She is partially restored in this volume, not primarily as an object of laughter, nor as a quaint 'period' figure for the delectation of her highbrow successors, but because she possessed two virtues seldom seen in the men and women who found coteries and form cliques: she was an honest and courageous human being. 316 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Likely advance reader's copy. (poets, correspondence, biography).