Derek Verschoyle (16 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover, in jacket. Text is free of marks, binding is still strong. Some light foxing to pages and page edges. Moderate exterior wear. Jacket edgeworn, chipped. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. limited writing inside No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Hardcover, rubbed at spine ends and corners, pages browned, writing on front endpaper, cover lightly soiled.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. (1936), 324pp, slight dbrowning to eps, slight shelfwear, slight edgewear & soiling to dj.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 293 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); Einbandkanten sind leicht bestoßen; der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. ENGLISCH. Das Buch ist eine KOPIE. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 650.

Hardcover. pp. 412. 8vo. Age-toned, edges rubbed, light foxing, contents unmarked, binding sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Lean to the spine. The green cloth boards are marked. The end papers are tanned. The text is clean and the binding is tight.

First edition hard back publisher's original dark green cloth covers, oxidised gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 8¼" x 5¾" 324 pp. Contents include : Graham Greene on Henry James; L. A. G. Strong on James Joyce; E. B. C. Jones on E. M. Foster and Virginia Woolf. In Very Good clean and square condition, top edge dusty, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

First edition hard back publisher's original sea green cloth covers, navy stamping to spine. 8vo 8½" x 5½" 293 pp. V. S. Pritchett on Daniel Defoe; Graham Greene on Henry James; L. A. G. Strong on James Joyce, H. E. Bates on Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad. Touch of offsetting to end papers. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

Condition: Good. Has shelfwear to the dust jacket. Content is fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Professor J E Neale reviews C V Wedgwood's "Strafford" / H M Tomlinson reviews Monk Gibbon's "The Seals" / Geraint Goodwin "The Happy Valey" / Winifred Holtby reviews Elizabeth Cambridge's "Susan And Joanna" / Havelock Ellis reviews John Middleton's "Between Two Worlds" / Derek Verschoyle "A Note on Denis Johnston" / Bosworth Goldman "Travel as it Is" / Edward J O'Brien "Paul Engle" / Janet Adam Smith "Rocks of Hell" / H E Bates reviews Dora Birtles' "North-west by North" / George Blake reviews Eric linklater's "Ripeness is All" / Bernadette Murphy "The Glass Cage" / Paul Engle reviews Felix Salten's "Florian" / John brophy reviews Rebecca West's "The Harsh Voice" / E L Grant Watson reviews H E Bates' "The Poacher" / Ralph Bates reviews Reynold Bray's "Five Watersheds" / Rayner Heppenstall reviews Leo Walmsley's "Foreigners" / George Ellidge reviews J B Morton's "Stuff and Nonsense" / Eldon Rutter reviews Patrick mee's "Marine Gunner"/ Hamish Miles reviews Bernadette Murphy's "The Unwilling Player" - there photographs of authors; John Middleton Murry, Leo Walmsley, Erich Kastner, Canon Ernest Dimnet, Rebecca West and Bernadette Murphy. (BT#21).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. With a preface by V.S. Pritchett. ***Near fine in sea-green cloth-covered boards with black titles on the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper since 1936. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Extremities just slightly rubbed. No bumps. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions, but with an attractive bookplate "Anthony John Poucher" on the front free endpaper, and a very small bookseller's label "B. H. Blackwell Ltd., Oxford" on the front pastedown. Some offsetting to the endpapers, but no internal foxing. Pages clean. Paper stock slightly tanned with age. No creases or tears. ***In a very good original printed dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price clipped. The dustwrapper is complete with no loss, and no creases or tears. There is some browning to the spine and a little browning to the edges. ***293 pages. 214mm x 144 mm. ***Contents: Introduction by Derek Verschoyle, Geoffrey Chaucer by Frederic Prokosch, Sir Thomas Mallory by Louis MacNeice, John Lyly and Sir Philip Sidney by Rose Macaulay, Daniel Defoe by V. S. Pritchett, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett by David Garnett, Laurence Sterne by A. Calder-Marshall, Jane Austen by Elizabeth Bowen, Sir Walter Scott by Edwin Muir, Thomas Love Peacock by Henry Romily Fedden, Charles Dickens and W. M. Thackeray by Sean O'Faoliin, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte by E. F. Benson, Anthony Trollope by L. A. Pavey, George Meredith by Bonamy Dobree, Samuel Butler by Catherine Carswell, Henry James by Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad by H. E. Bates, D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley by Peter Quennell, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf by E. B. C. Jones, James Joyce by L. A. G. Strong. ***'There are so many books about the English Novel already in existence that an addition to their number may seem to call for an explanation. We are confident that this book is justified by its unusual aim and method, which distinguish it from any previous volume. It differs in aim, because Mr. Verschoyle has not compiled just another catalogue of the achievements of English novelists, major and minor, through the five centuries during which English novels have been written, but has attempted to trace the development of the English novel, from its primitive origins to its contemporary complexity, in terms of the contributions of its twenty-five most important exponents - the book, in fact, provides a bird's-eye view of the novel's progress. It differs in method, because it is not the work of a single writer but of twenty of the most distinguished of contemporary novelists, each of whom provides a chapter in judgment on a great predecessor.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A really nice example of this anthology, with contributions from many of the significant literary writers of the inter-war period, including Graham Greene. Very hard to find now in the original complete dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Issue No. 5740 dated July 1, 1938. Includes reviews of two films, "L'Homme du Jour" & "You and Me" by Graham Greene. Also a feature article by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, "What War is Teaching China". "George Peabody College" stamp on head edge of first page. Perfinned stamp for the college in middle of first page. No binding. Pages barely held together by glue near the spine tail. Pages have edge and shelf wear, chips and tears along edges, holes on spine showing where binding used to be, tanned. Pages are clean. Protected in archival plastic bag. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 44 pages.

Book Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Chatto & Windus, 1936. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, and some marking. Spotted foxing to edges of textblock. Internally clean, previous owner's name to ffe, binding is firm. 293 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. With a two-page preface by Graham Greene, and contributions by Anthony Powell, W.H.Auden, H.E.Bates, Stephen Spender, Elizabeth Bowen, Walter Greenwood, L.P.Hartley, William Plomer, Derek Verschoyle, Antonia White, and Greene himself (a ten-page essay, 'The Last Word', about his Berkhamsted schooling). ***A very good copy in black cloth-covered boards with blue titles to the spine. The boards are quite clean with just some light marks commensurate with age and handling. Some fraying to the cloth at the top of the spine. No other tears or creasing. No bumps. Corners slightly rubbed and softened. There is a slight forward reading lean to the binding. No reading creases to the spine. Page block edges clean without any foxing. Internally the book is also very good, with no ownership inscriptions, but with an attractive decorative period - 'Great School Library' - bookplate to the front pastedown. There is slight browning to the front pastedown, but the interior pages are nice and clean, without any foxing. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***205mm x 145mm. 256 pages. ***'I regard this book rather as a premature memorial, like a family photograph album, a gathering of the staid and unloved hovering, in the most absurd headgear, unconsciously "upon the brink" and occasionally among them, in a deerstalker cap or hobble skirt, somebody who has betrayed one's natural distrust of human nature, somebody one has loved and will miss. Like the family album, this book will, I hope, be superficially more funny than tragic, for so odd a system of education does not demand a pompous memorial.' (Quote taken from the Editor's Preface) ***First impression of the true first edition of this pre-war Graham Greene. The first book edited by Greene, of which 1,517 copies were printed (Wobbe A7) and uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

First Edition. Literary essays concerning Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe and others by the likes of Graham Greene, Edwin Muir, etc. Near Fine, some very light foxing to preliminaries, in Very Good dustjacket, some wear and soiling.