Edited by Derek Parker (19 results)

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hard cover book/ closed tears otherwise very good dust jacket.

HC. 264pp ISBN 0814906788 These letters provide a brilliant patchwork autobiography, beginning with the shy young poet preparing Wilfred Owen's poems for publication in 1919 and ending, a few months before she died, with the formidable but infirm invalid whose very real afflictions became part of the drama she never ceased to create around her. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W frontis (illustrator).…

Hard Bound Volume. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Wraps. Condition: Good. No d/w. Reprint. 360pp; Edges yellowed else a bright copy; Size: 12mo. Book.

Wraps. Condition: Good. No d/w. 256pp; Edges yellowed else a bright copy; Abacus; Size: 12mo. Book.

hardback in dustjacket, both in very good condition, 256 pp. DJ is price clipped. Light general wear. No markings or tears. . ISBN: 009464303. Spans the centuries from (Burton's translation of) The Arabian Nights thru to Erica Jong - with such luminaries as Mark Twain, Edith Wharton & Sir Thomas Malory in between. Inclusive of passages from such books as Fanny Hill, Les Liaisons dangereuses and Frank Harris's My Life and loves as well as many other unexpected sources. Gay interest from Oscar Wilde [ Teleny], Andre Gide [ Si le Grain ne Meurt] Jean Genet [ The Thief's Journal] Denton Welch [ The Journals of Denton Welch] William Burroughs [ The Naked Lunch].…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 93pp. Printed wrappers. Rubbing with a crease along the rear spine fold, near fine. This issue features Robert Graves, James Kirkup, John Smith, Hardiman Scott, Brian Patten, Stewart Conn, Thomas Blackburn, Clive Sansom, and Ilsley Ingram. Additional contributors include Eddie Eainwright, Robin Lee, Robin Fulton, Bernard Saint, William Hayward, Lucien Stryk, Patience Tuckwell, Martin Booth, David H. W. Grubb, Gerda Mayer, Maureen Duffy, A.E. Dudley, Miriam Waddington, Jeremy Robinson, William Golightly, Steve Marsling, Gordon Symes, Paul Coltman, Eric W. White, John Hatfield, Maurice Carpenter, William Kean Seymour, Jean Overton Fuller, Alan Pearson, Ilsley Ingram, Edward Lucie-Smith, Raymond Durgnat, and John Headlam. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. An Anthology of Erotic Prose. Slight wear to cover. This distinguished collection gathers together some of the finest eerotic prose, looking at centuries of writing with an international perspective. Here you will find extracts from memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (the first book to be banned in America, in 1821), Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses and the celebrated Lady Chatterley's Lover. But you will also find some writers not traditionally associated with erotic writing, such as Sir Thomas Malory, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain. Here humour rubs shoulders with the sensual and sexually charged, making for an eclectic and unpredictable anthology which will both delight and entertain its reader. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Softback Preview Edition. . Poems are predominantly English. The anthology is intended to delight, tittilate, and entertain. Indexes. 360 p.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 92pp. Printed wrappers. Rubbing with small marks on the front wrapper, near fine. This issue features Thom Gunn, D.M. Thomas, Peter Scupham, Gavin Bantock, Patience Tuckwell, John Cotton, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, David H.W. Grubb, and Adam Fox. Additional contributors include David Lambourne, George Herbert, Stefane Mallarme, Stefan Themerson, Paula Claire,Christopher Hampton, May Ivimy, Brenda La Rosa, Brian Peters, G.W. Ashby, Martin Booth, Donald Ward, Odette Tchernine, John Smith, Ronald Bottrall, Paul Lester, James Bernardin, Walter Bennett, Vashti Tyrrell, and Robert Garioch. …

hardback, large 8vo, xx,371pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, patterned boards with gilt-decorated leathette spine, Very Good condition / no slipcase.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A near Fine uninscribed copy with just a touch of dustmarking to top edge with a dustjacket which is price clipped. A companion volume to the editor's Anthology of Erotic Verse and spans the centuries from the Arabian Nights to modern authors with 60 extracts of works presented. A1D Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 264 pp. Dust-jacket spine a little faded. A collection of more than 200 letters written between 1919 and 1963 by Edith Sitwell to over sixty recipients. Beginning with letters to Wilfred Owen's mother and finishing with letters to Graham Greene and Benjamin Britten, the collection includes correspondence to Dylan Thomas, T S Eliot, Stephen Spender, Virginia Woolf, Anthony Powell, Hugh Walpole, John Gielgud, Noel Coward, Alec Guinness and other notable writers, artists and personalities, while incidentally revealing autobiographical details of the writer's persona and life.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Type: Book N.B. Slight fading to covers with slight crease to front corner.

Hardback. Edith Sitwell (Edited By John Lehmann And Derek Parker), Macmillan. Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears - dust jacket present with some edge wear and minor fading. Page Condition: good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact, hardcover binding in good condition. Stickers/Labels: None visible. This curated anthology of correspondence presents the brilliant and often acerbic voice of Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the twentieth century's most distinctive and flamboyant literary figures. Edited by John Lehmann and Derek Parker, the collection chronicles Sitwell's rich intellectual and personal life through letters written to friends, fellow writers, and contemporaries, including T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Evelyn Waugh. The tone is sharp, witty, and deeply personal, offering an unfiltered window into the mind of a poet who argued passionately for the avant-garde and refused to be constrained by convention. Each letter illustrates her formidable personality - her generosity, her feuds, her fierce aesthetic convictions - painting a vivid portrait of British literary culture across several decades. A treasure for admirers of modernist literature and those fascinated by the private lives of great writers. Hardback.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback in jacket 1970. Signed inscription by Derek Parker. No other inscriptions. Clean & tight book. Jacket has edge wear & tear. JACKET SPINE IS FADED. Jacket lettering is very legible. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. rref c15. Edith Sitwell Selected letters. Signed inscription by editor D. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First. Used hardback with dustwrapper. No torn or missing pages. Previous owner's name ffep. Small shop stamp inside front board. Some age spotting to closed edges. Dustwrapper is faded along the spine & has a closeable tear to top rear. A fascinating portrait of not only Edith Sitwell herself, but also of the world in which she and her brothers lived. 264 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001010.…

1995. (Hardcover in slipcase) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 371pp. Quarter leather in a very good plus slipcase. Top edge stained brown, llustrations, glossary. Edited by Derek Parker. Locale. (History--England, Royalty).