Cornfield Frances (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Poems From The Russian, Frances Cornfield & E. Spolionowsky Salaman, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1943, First Edition, First Impression Translations of short poems by the best-known Russian poets. A First Edition, First Impression in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards clean and the silver lettering on the spine bright. The end papers and pages are free from marks, tears or inscriptions. The unclipped dust jacket is in good condition with creasing to the top edge of the front cover, shelf wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine, a small tear to the top edge of the back cover and a small mark to the front cover. Will be despatched wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.

With the English Translation by Stephen Spender and Frances Cornford. 93 [2] pp. Illustrated by Marc Chagall; frontispiece in color. Folio, publisher's illustrated wrappers. First edition; No. 861 of 1500 copies. A few minor spots and tanning tot he wrappers; contents fine.

GILL,ERIC (illustrator). (SAINT DOMINIC'S PRESS) CORNFORD,FRANCIS. AUTUMN MIDNIGHT. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1923, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, plain brown paper wrappers embossed and decorated elegantly in black, custom clamshell slipcase is half natural linen with marbled paper covered boards and black leather spine label stamped in gold, 24 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Eric Gill--the wood engraving Autumn Midnight is the frontispiece, a leaf ornament on the front cover, four small decorations, and 17 decorated initials. Printed at S. Dominic's Press, Ditchling. Very good plus condition, front and back cover pages are wrinkled, slight cracking to paper spine, slight aging to lower edges of some pages, slipcase in fine condition. Overall, an attractive copy. Evan Gill number 273, like the second copy described by Gill, but SIXPENCE is spelled correctly.