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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 224pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Condition: Very Good. 1983. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Published by Oxford University Press, New York, London, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, et al. 2003
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Reissued 2003. 770 pp. Book has tight binding, crisp pages. Cover page has some creases; it also has a tear by spine on front cover page. Back cover page has minor creasing, cut and tear. Publisher's remainder mark on top edge. Still a good study copy. Ready to go.

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Condition: Very Good. 1983. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear, remains very good. . . . .

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 672pp. DW has slight edge wear & sunned in places. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Language: English
Published by Guild Publishing, London 1988
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Boxed set of three volumes in near fine condition, probably unread - cardborad separators are still in place! Ref:06293.

Language: English
Published by Folio Society 1961
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. slipcase is present, pulled away section of spine, worn and lightly marked, , book covers spine lightly faded, clean condition, 315pp, page clean and VG condition condition.
Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1961
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Wraps. Condition: Fair. No d/w. Reprint. xv + 237pp; Covers creased and yellowed else a bright and tight copy; Size: 12mo. Book.
More imagesPublished by The Folio Society, London 1962
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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Impression. A Fine copy, beautifully bound, as are all Folio Society volumes Maroon cloth and gilt titles and ornate design on spine and front cover No marks or damage at all In original gray cardboard slipcase Slipcase has split along bottom edge but it otherwise in very… good condition 315 pp.

Published by Panton House, London 1964
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Periodical. Small quarto. 95pp. Printed wrappers. Stains on wraps, foredge and first page, toned spine, good only. Contributions by: Ted Hughes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Kronenberger, W.S. Mervin, Hugo Williams, Anthony Hartley, R. Praver Jhabvala, Philip Rieff, D.J. Enright, Gavin Ewart, Dennis Brutus…, Peter Redgrove, John Wain, Leonard Woolf, and more.

Published by Phaidon, (England) 1978
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Spine slightly cocked, owner's name penned on front pastedown, very good lacking the dust jacket.

Published by The Twentieth Century, London 1956
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Cover design by Edward Bawden. Octavo. 108pp. Perfectbound. Age-toning alone the spine and a small tear on the spine crown with modest rubbing, very good. Notable contributors include Richard Lowenthal, George Mikes, John Wain, A. Alvarez, Edwin Morgan, and others.

Published by Chatto & Windus), (London 1955
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Octavo. Top corner lightly bumped and some very light edgewear, else near fine in wrappers.

New Poetry Number 36
(HEANEY, Seamus, John Wain, David Holbrook, David Jaffin, and others). Norman Hidden, edited by
Published by Workshop Press, London 1976
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Number 36. Cover by Jan Machesney. Slim small octavo. 40pp. Bottom corners gently bumped and lower wrap modestly foxed, very good or better. Prints among much else the results of a poetry competition adjudicated by Seamus Heaney. Heaney provides two paragraphs of explanation, and the winning poem…s are printed: "The Priest of Pabay Explains Himself" by Nicholas Bielby, and "Morning Roses" by John Crisford.

Published by Carlton College, Northfield, Minnesota 1963
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Printed white wrappers. Modest age-toning, near fine. Essays and poetry contributions by Erling Larsen, Allen Tate, John Wain, Robert Sward, Jack Anderson, Charles Black, John Tagliabue, Mark Strand, Donald Finkel, Scott Bates, Louis O. Coxe, Lewis Turco, Kimon Lolos, William Staff…ord, Daniel Hoffman, Donald Petersen, Ernest Kroll, John Lucas, David Cornell DeJong, Michel Butor, and Donald Schier.

Published by Phaidon, (Oxford) 1978
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Owner's address label, else near fine with minimal edgewear in near fine lightly worn dustwrapper.
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Lindsay Anderson, Kenneth Tynan, Stuart Holroyd, John Osborne, Dorris Lessing, Colin Wilson, Bill Hopkins, John Wain ; edited by Tom Maschler
Language: English
Published by MacGibbon & Kee, London 1957
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Contents: Introduction -The small personal voice / Doris Lessing -- Beyond the outsider / Colin Wilson -- They call it cricket / John Osborne -- Along the tightrope / John Wain -- Theatre and living / Kenneth Tynan -- Ways without a precedent / Bill Hopkins -- Ge…t out and push! / Lindsay Anderson -- A sense of crisis / Stuart Holroyd. 202 pages : portraits ; 22 cm.Second impression October 1957. Black boards, price-clipped dust jacket designed by Eduardo Paolozzi (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, gift inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper, bookplate inside front cover: Monica & Norman Ewer, designed by English artist Frederick Carter, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Published by William Heinemann, (London) 1958
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 77pp. Printed wrappers. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, covers with light edgewear, very good in publisher's wraparound band. Index to volume four laid in. Includes an essays on T.S. Eliot by John Wain and Joyce Cary by Andrew Wright; additional contributions by John Hollow…ay, Samuel Selvon, Ruthven Todd, Robert Nye, Jack Carey and more.

Published by New York University Press, New York 1978
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 182pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

The Critical Quarterly Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1964
(HUGHES, Ted, John Wain). COX, C.B. and A.E. Dyson, edited by
Published by Oxford University Press, London 1964
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Volume 6, Number 4. P. 290-384. Pictorial wrappers. Slightly toned spine, else near fine. Contributions by: Richard Wilbur, William Empson, Ted Hughes, John Wain, Donald Davie, Raymond Williams, Christopher Levenson, Laurence Lerner, and more.

Published by Phaidon, (Oxford) 1978
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INTERNATIONAL LITERARY JOURNAL NO. 1
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Rebecca West, Frank Kermode, et al, edited by John Wain
Published by London: John Calder 1958
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First edition. 7 x 9 1/2 in. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; slight edge wear and rubbing along joints, covers very clean, binding tight, text impeccable. A fist issue of this Literary Journal. Writing. RGR.
Published by Folio Society, 1961
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio Society, 1961 hardback no slipcase decorative gilt titles with red boards, First edition, xii 315 pages with b/w illustrations, decorative eps, from the private library of Lance Marshall the first housemaster of Cubitt and a man who made a huge impression on Cranleigh in his two decades at…the school. Educated at Magdalen College School and Oxford, with his Signed ex libris label to fep, in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.
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Published by Guild Publishing 1986
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1986 Book Club Associates reprint, three volume set with slip case. Volume I Spenser to Dryden Voumel II Sackville to Keats Volume III Darley to Heaney. Slip case clean and bright with gentle signs of use. All volumes clean and unmarked looking little read.

International Literary Annual: No. 1
(ELIOT, T.S., Alain, Robbe-Grillet, Marshall McLuhan, Rebecca West.) WAIN, John, edited by
Published by John Calder, London 1958
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 222pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light offsetting on endpapers, light foxing on topedge, spine slightly cocked, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with internal foxing. Contains Frank Kermode's essay, "T.S. Eliot on Poetry", "Encounter…" by Rebecca West, "Reflections on Some Aspects of the Traditional Novel" by Alain Robbe-Grillet, along with a selection of articles about English and American poetry, "Poetry: Two Surveys and a Showcase.".

Published by Phaidon, (London) 1978
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First British edition. 182pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning.

Published by Criterion Books, New York 1959
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Published by BCA, London England 1990
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Book Club Associated Edition. Hardcover. The Oxford Library of English Poetry. Volume I. Spenser to Dryden. Blue cloth and boards with gilt lettering. The object of this collection is to provide a representative sample of the main course of English poetry during the last four centuries…- taking the word 'English' to refer to language more than to nationality, and remembering that many of the most famous poets bred in these islands have been Scottish, Welsh, or Irish. The aim has been, within these three ample volumes, to find room for the familiar masterpieces whose names are hoursehold words, and also for a liberal sprinkling of poems less famous but each able to contribute some unique pleasure and stimulus. 443 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 ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).
Published by BCA, London England 1990
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Cloth & Boards. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Book Club Associated Edition. Hardcover. The Oxford Library of English Poetry. Volume II. Sackville to Keats. Blue cloth and boards with gilt lettering. The object of this collection is to provide a representative sample of the main course of English poetry during the last four cen…turies - taking the word 'English' to refer to language more than to nationality, and remembering that many of the most famous poets bred in these islands have been Scottish, Welsh, or Irish. The aim has been, within these three ample volumes, to find room for the familiar masterpieces whose names are hoursehold words, and also for a liberal sprinkling of poems less famous but each able to contribute some unique pleasure and stimulus. 511 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 ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).
Published by BCA, London England 1990
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Cloth & Boards. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Book Club Associated Edition. Hardcover. The Oxford Library of English Poetry. Volume III. George Darley to Seamus Heaney. Blue cloth and boards with gilt lettering. The object of this collection is to provide a representative sample of the main course of English poetry during the…last four centuries - taking the word 'English' to refer to language more than to nationality, and remembering that many of the most famous poets bred in these islands have been Scottish, Welsh, or Irish. The aim has been, within these three ample volumes, to find room for the familiar masterpieces whose names are hoursehold words, and also for a liberal sprinkling of poems less famous but each able to contribute some unique pleasure and stimulus. 476 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 ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).