Burkhart Charles Postscript (2 results)

The Last and the First
Compton-Burnett, Ivy (Author); Sprigge, Elizabeth (Foreword); Burkhart, Charles (Postscript)
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, United KingdomPsychoBabel & Skoob Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 10.91
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket spine is sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Page block head is tanned and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

The Last and the First. A Final Novel
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. With a personal Foreword by Elizabeth Sprigge & a critical Postscript by Charles Burkhart
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United KingdomThe Print Room
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (28s £1.40), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 159pp. 'The Last and the First' is Ivy Compton-Burnett's (1884-1969), posthumous novel, published in 1971, two years after her death. The work, complete if possibly awaiting revision, was untitled when it was discovered, and was so named as appropriate for her last novel, and also because of the Biblical quotation (Matthew 20:16) uttered (not for the first time in her canon), by one of the characters.…