Brissenden Alan Editor (13 results)

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition paperback pictorial laminated cover, no DJ. 245 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. No foxing, no previous names. 'As you like it is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Name on cover. Some underlining to text. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 144 pages. 7.50x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 205 pages. A series of essays presented to John Colmer on his retirement as Professor of English at Adelaide University. Includes: Aussie Bards and Pom Reviewers: English Reviewers and Australian Writers in the Nineteenth Century by Barry Argyle; Grim Humour in the Short Stories of the 1890s by Robert White; Joseph Furphy and Narrative Art by George Turner; The Extended Edwardianism of Australian Literature by Adrian Mitchell; Buffoon Odysseys Australian Expatriate Fiction by Women by Diana Brydon; Some Godlike Grammar: The Narrator in the Transit of Venus by Robert Sellick; A Refined Look at Australia Angela Thirkell as Trooper to the Southern Cross by Virginia Kenny; Desire and Repetitions in the Novels of Helen Garner by Andrew Taylor; Language, Silence and the Laws of the Land Randolph Stowe's Tourmaline by Russell McDougall; The Self-contradictory Fiction of David Foster by Kenneth Gelder; Wongar's Metamorphoses: The Track to Bralgu by Livio Dobrez; A Poetic Novel for the Vernacular Republic: Les Murray's 'The Boys Who Stole the Funeral' by Bruce Clunies Ross.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean and intact throughout. Dust Jacket intact with light edge wear. 519 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

xxx+580pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. A very good copy.

8vo. xii+205pp. Portrait Frontispiece. Checklist of Colmer's works. Original wrappers, a near fine copy. . First edition.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. The Folio Society Letterpress edition, published in 2008, limited to 3750 copies, this is copy number 972. Half bound in Nigerian goatskin leather, with stunning hand marbled paper covered sides, gilt title to the spine, a ribbon page marker, 94 pages, printed on thick high quality mould made paper with top edge gilt, other page edges deckled. Printed in 16pt. "monotype" Baskerville font, the type having been hand set. Plus the commentary edition, edited by Alan Brissenden, buckram bound, x + 245 pages. The buckram solander box measures 39x28x7.5cm, it has a gilt stamped leather label to the spine, a neat recess for the smaller commentary volume and a paper covered divider. The books are essentially as new, the outer case has a scuff, plus a bump to one corner. Fine books, very good case.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio Society. Fine in Near Fine clamshell box. Elaborate & beautifully printed copy with companion commentary volume by Alan Brissenden. Emerald buckram box with gilt-stamped leather spine label; has very minor shelf-wear. Three-quarter green Nigerian goatskin leather-bound book with hand-marbled green paper over boards, and specially-made paper within. Limited edition; copy 509 of 3750. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.…