Alan Barnsley (24 results)

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 249-284pp. Printed light card covers, stapled. Covers have some shelf wear. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 12mo. The Poems in Pamphlet series was intended to publish the work of a poet whose poetry had not appeared in book form before in Britain.

First Edition. Softcover. Stapled wraps. Few small stains along spine, otherwise V.g. The author's first book.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Published by Hutchinson. Slightly dampstained. (marriage, adultery, families).

stiff paper wrappers. Hand and Flower Press (illustrator). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 251-284 pages. Author's first book. In later books used the form of name Gabriel Fielding. Poems in pamphlet IX. Printed at the Ditchling Press in Sussex. Near fine in lightly darkened printed wrappers. Lightly foxed.

Ex-library, square octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

First Edition. First edition. Wraps. Near Fine condition.

Stapled A4 Sheets. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8 sheets printed rectos only. Largely discussing The Birthday King. "Not for reproduction without the author's permission" stamped at the head of each page. One or two spots of foxing with small nicks at fore edge of some pages.

Square octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (softcover). 12mo (18cm by 12cm), pp249-284. Original printed card wrappers. This copy is in very good condition. Signed by the author on the title page.

1st ed. 36pp in thin card cover, printed at the Ditchling Press. Staples slightly rusted; Used - Very Good. VG stapled paperback.

8vo. 224pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. . First U.K. edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Stapled booklet. 34 pages. SIGNED by the author. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 414.3. Poems in Pamphlet 1952, IX, The Frog Prince and Other Poems by Alan Barnsley. Signed By Author.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Two unbound signatures. 12mos. xvi; P.387-390. A touch of toning and one small spot on front wrap, near fine. Containing only the Editor's notes and the contents pages listing the contributors to this issue which are Jocelyn Brooke, Jon Manchip White, Hal Summers, Frederick Vanson, Ursula Wood, R.L. Cook, Thomas Fassam, Michael Hamburger, R.H. Ward, Juanita Peirse, F. Pratt Green, A.J. Bull, and Alan Barnsley, along with the author's biographical notes. No poems.

First Edition. Pp. 264(last blank); head of spine and fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed; top fore-corner of last couple of leaves a trifle creased, edges of leaves slightly soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1979. First edition. *Gabriel Fielding was the pseudonym of Alan Gabriel Barnsley (1916-1986).

8vo. pp . Original publisher's grey covers, lettered green and black. Signed presentation from the author on the title page, 'Frederic Hunter, with affectionate good wishes of Alan Barnsley 23.vii.63'. The poet was later known as Gabriel Fielding the novelist. Poems in Pamphlet series. Slight spotting to covers, otherwise sound, very good.

Stapled A4 Sheets. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 6 sheets printed rectos only. Penciled holograph additions to the script throughout. "Not for reproduction without the author's permission" stamped at the head of each page. One or two spots of foxing.

First Edition. Pp. 288(last blank); printed paper wrappers, short closed tear to head of spine; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, closed tear to head of backstrip; half-title page lightly soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1966. Uncorrected Proof Copy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Tan printed wrappers. Binding cocked, tiny abrasion on rear wrap, very good in a very good, slightly oversized dust jacket with chips and tears, and a crease on the rear flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Jacket designed by Milein Cosman. Red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Spine slightly cocked, endpapers and textblock edges lightly foxed, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, very good in a lightly soiled about very good dust jacket with ½" loss at foot, a few small chips, and moderate wear to the extremities. Author's uncommon first novel, about the challenging relationships a young man has with his older brother and mother.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket design by Richard Grasby. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression, signed presentation copy from the author. Some loose related ephemera. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 21s. Signed by the author title-page, with autograph gift inscription on behalf of himself and his wife to front free endpaper. "In 1963 he was awarded the W.H. Smith Award for The Birthday King, and for "the most outstanding contribution to English Literature over a two-year period" (19621963). In 1964 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the St. Thomas More Association for The Birthday King. this recognition encouraged him to keep writing while still practicing medicine." (wikipedia) A very good copy; jacket a bit worn at edges. Signed. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Some light spotting of free endpapers; small (closed) tear in dustwrapper at top of front panel. Inscribed by the author, "Ben Evan Owen gratefully for his encouragement and patience from the beginning . . ."; signed additionally by him on the title-page; and with, loosely inserted, Owen's archive of correspondence from the author: 17 autograph letters signed (some stapled at the corner), six typed letters signed (some stapled at the corner, several aerogrammes, stamped and franked), and one autograph postcard signed (stamped and franked) (addressed variously "Dear Mr Owen", "My dear Evan", "My dear Ben", "Dearest Ben", signed "Gabriel Fielding", "Gabriel F", "Gabriel", "Alan Gabriel", "Alan"), together with one typed letter signed from the author's wife, Edwina Barnsley, with his autograph postscript signed: 85pp. 8vo &c, Maidstone, Buffalo and Pullman, November 1958-February [1972]. Alan Gabriel Barnsley (1916-1986) published his first novel, The Frog Prince and Other Poems, with the same press, the Hand and Flower Press, and in the same year, 1952, as his friend Muriel Spark published her first book of poems, The Fanfarlo and Other Verse. Hutchinson published his second book and first novel, Brotherly Love, under the pseudonym Gabriel Fielding, in 1954 - the year in which he and his wife, Edwina ("Dina"), were received into the Roman Catholic Church, as too was Spark, of whose first novel, The Comforters (1957), they were the co-dedicatees. Like Spark, he was encouraged in his early days by another Catholic convert, Graham Greene. A GP, Barnsley gave up medicine for literature in 1966 - by which time he had fallen out with Spark irrevocably. This is a revealing archive of one of the then "coming" Catholic writers. The Birthday King was the author's breakthrough novel, winner of the W.H. Smith Prize and the Thomas More Medal. "Following the publication of his novels in America," declares its dustwrapper blurb, "Gabriel Fielding has been increasingly noted as one of the most important of the contemporary English novelists. Time magazine has described him as 'one of the most skilful novelists at present writing in English.'" Three years later, Fielding would forsake his medical career on becoming author-in-residence for a year at Washington State University in Pullman; he carried on teaching there until his retirement in 1981. He first wrote to Owen after he reviewed Eight Days (1958) for The Oxford Mail - "You caught my purpose more accurately than anyone who has so far been interested in the book. I would love to know how you did it." He deplores the state of London reviewing: "I saw Muriel Spark on Monday," he writes (16 November 1960), "and she confirmed all you said about metropolitan criticism." As a sympathetic critic, Owen became a sort of perfect correspondent. On 15 February 1962, he again drops the name of Muriel Spark, who had reached a new height of fame with the publication of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. They had first met in 1954, when Spark had taken refuge in Kent, at Aylesford Priory and then in a cottage by Allington Castle, both close to Maidstone, to work on The Comforters. "I[']ve been seeing a lot of our Muriel (Spark) who is Felicity's Godmother," he writes. "Do you read her books? I quaff them like a mackerel after whitebait - and have an unique signed collection." Hubris! A week later, on 22 February, he and Spark fell out irreparably. Fielding, as Spark's biographer Martin Stannard recounts, turned up unannounced in London to seek her advice on whether he should give up medicine for full-time writing. She was at the hairdresser's and told him to go away. Owen reviewed The Birthday King for The Oxford Mail: "For the first time in a decade of reviewing," he wrote, "I feel justified in prophesying that a new novel will be judged by posterity as one of the great books of our time." His quote went on the jacket of the US edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

[2], pp. 251-284. 1 vols. 12mo. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first book. Number IX in the publisher's series, "Poems in Pamphlet 1952" [2], pp. 251-284. 1 vols. 12mo. First book by the poet, who later adopted the pseudonym, "Gabriel Fielding" Printed gray wrappers. Fine copy First edition of the author's first book. Number IX in the publisher's series, "Poems in Pamphlet 1952".