Edwin Muir, Signed (19 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers. Upper cover slightly marked, lower cover slightly creased, pages beginning to embrown from the edge. New edition (first published by the Hogarth Press, 1927), inscribed on the title-page by Paul Binding, "Love from Paul". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Grey cloth binding, rather soiled, marked and worn to the edges, but the hinges are sound and the contents good. Inscribed by the author: "To David from Edwin June 28.24"; the writing matches other books signed by Muir. New York Times advert from 1924 for the book stuck inside. A sound copy, though well used. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by the Christopher Levenson in the top left hand corner of the front free endpaper and dedicated to Judy (Judith Edmundson Hall). The boards are a little rubbed at the corners but otherwise unmarked. Endpapers and page edges browned but pages otherwise clean and unmarked. The price-clipped jacket has chipping with some loss at the top of the spine and in the top right hand corner of the rear panel. Chipping to the corners and at the bottom of the spine. First printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: xxiv, 114. First edition thus. Grey dust jacket with colour illustration and black and white text to front. Dark green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signed by Allan Massie.ISBN: 0904919609 Very good plus with foxing to top edge. Small marks to front board. Creases to spine ends to boards and dust jacket, otherwise very good plus.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. Twelfth printing. Worn copy signed by the author on the half-title. Black cloth, no dustjacket. The bok has external wear and rubbing, bumps to spine ends and top edge of rear cover, spotting to outer edges of text block, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no other names or markings. Signed by the Author. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (1933), First Edition; Very Good/no dj, thick octavo, 899pp., black cloth hardcover, yellow lettering on cover & backstrip, light cover soil, binding tight, owner's inked name o/w text unmarked, first printing with no later printings listed, Presented & Signed on half-title page: "For my old friends Jacob and Ruth Billikoph, The children of the great Jew Marshall who follow in His foot-steps, Sholom Asch, PH. 15/II.35.". Signed by Author(s).

EDWIN MUIR (1887-1959) Professor Dr., schottischer Dichter u. ÜbersetzerVisitenkarte (blanko,16°) , eigenhändig signiert1957.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed by Edwin Muir, and dated 14 May 1940. Previous owner's name also inside. A very sound copy, edges a little browned. "Complimentary copy not for resale" stamped at the back; rear free endpaper creased. The price-clipped jacket is moderately edge-worn, with lightly faded spine. A good copy of this scarce autobiography, signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Red/gilt hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket with tape repairs to spine and fold. 250mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). 154pp. The Laurie Lee poem is signed on page 40.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. A-K8; pp. 154, [2]. SIGNED by Laurie Lee at the end of his poem 'First Love' [pages 39-40]. Other contributions by Edmund Blunden, Osbert Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Roy Fuller, Walter de la Mare, V.S. Pritchett and others. Small neat signature of previous owner 'Ellen Marson' on front free endpaper. A book in Very Good condition in a Good dust-jacket with small losses, creases and tears as shown in the illustration. A very rare example of Laurie Lee's signature against a poem within an anthology.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, hardback. pp. 309. Volume 4 of an eventual 4-volume series, each overseen by different authors. This volume sees Edwin Muir focus on modern literature (1914-), with a particular emphasis on the poetry of Yeats, Pound and Eliot. Signs of age on page edges and the back cover is slightly marked. Otherwise very good condition. Signature of ownership from Edwin Muir on front endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alan E. Cober (illustrator). Red faux leather, front cover lettered in blind, spine panel lettered in gilt. As issued, in original glassine dust wrapper showing loss to lower spine panel and closed tear extending partway up panel. xix,222 pp., illus. w/ color plates. Limited to an edition of 2,000 copies signed by illustrator Cober, this copy out of series. Publisher's slipcase shows a few slight marks, essentially as issued. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. 24 pages. Original light brown printed wraps booklet. . Sl creasing at front o/w clean VG. Signed presntation copy ''To Violet and Cedric from Edwin 26/9/47.' Possibly relations. Signedes.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Folded for mailing. ; Typed letter signed Edwin Muir. One page, approx. 8 1/4" wide by 7". On printed letterhead Newbattle Abbey College, Dalkeith, Midlothian, listing him as Warden. Dated 16th August, 1954. To William W. Seward, Esq. , President, The Poetry Society of Virginia, apologizing for taking so long ".in returning the volume of my poems which you sent me.".

soft cover. Condition: very good. no jacket. First edition. First published. Printed wrappers with string tied spine. Signed by John Piper to front cover. With publisher's envelope. (4)pp. Envelope opened at right, somewhat stained. Lower edge of covers and pages sl.torn. [f1299-171407]. signed.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Hafftka, Michael (illustrator). Paperback Quarto in Slipcase. hand-sewn and hand-bound by Carol Joyce, printed on mould-made magnani paper, cream parchment jacket with yapp edges, author's name in black at spine, 53 pp, housed in fine sand cloth clamshell box with velvet lining and paper label at spine, numbered 191 of 800, lithographs by Michael Hafftka printed on hand-made japanese paper, signed by illustrator, Michael Hafftka, at the colophon Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This jacketed first edition, first printing, is signed by American poet, literary critic, and educator Paul Engle at the head of his introductory essay. On page 23, just below his printed name, Engle signed "Paul Engle" in blue ink. A handsome, folding compliments card laid in features a gilt embossed crown device on the front cover, the inside of the card printed "With all best wishes" and "UNIVERSITY OF IOWA" with Engle's signature "Paul Engle" in between. Also laid in is a franked 1957 postcard posted from New York City featuring a printed announcement: "The Poetry Society of America has the honor of presenting PAUL ENGLE in comments and readings from his published work" on "Thursday February 28". Condition of this signed presentation copy is near fine in a very good dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners and only mild shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are clean with no spotting, no soiling, and only mild age toning. The blue-stained top edges retain even color, the fore and untrimmed bottom edges are clean. The sole previous owner markings in the book, in pencil on the upper front pastedown, indicate that the ostensibly original owner paid "$2.00" for this copy on "Nov. 25, 1936" and that it was "Signed Mar. 7, 1957" not long after the 28 February 1957 event advertised on the laid-in postcard.The white dust jacket printed in red and black is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap "5s. net" price, and substantially complete, with fractional loss confined to the upper joints and upper flap fold corners. The jacket is unfaded, with no color shift between the covers and spine, but lightly soiled overall, with a short closed tear at the upper front flap fold and a three-inch angled tear extending from the upper front joint down along the front face, to the left of the printed title. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.The contributing author who signed, Paul Engle (1908-1991), had intended "to become a Methodist minister" but "decided instead to enter the University of Iowa and obtained an M.A. in 1932. His thesis consisted of an original book of poems, Worn Earth, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize." A sojourn in England followed, via a Rhodes scholarship, and study under the poet Edmund Blunden. This may help explain why Engle is the only American among the four contributors to this work. Engle took a post at the University of Iowa in 1937, where he spent the remainder of his academic career. By the end of his life, he had published more than a dozen books of poetry and "left an enduring mark on the institutionalization of creative writing."Frost's Selected Poems had first been published in 1923, with 43 poems from Frost's first three published collections. This 1936 new and expanded edition, now with 62 poems, was the first book of Frost's to contain material by others, with introductory essays by W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Paul Engle, and Edwin Muir. It was published first and only in England where Frost's first book, A Boy's Will, had been published in 1913, 23 years before. It had been in England that this quintessential American poet had been first published and recognized. Now, preeminent in America, Frost was being reintroduced to England. As explained by the publisher's note on the dust jacket flap: "Mr. Robert Frost is by now recognized as the outstanding poet of his generation in America, and to the few but still too few in England his work has long been known as unique in its kind it is a striking tribute to the appeal of his poetry that Mr. W. H. Auden, Mr. Cecil Day Lewis, Mr. Paul Engle and Mr. Edwin Muir should have contributed for this volume four specially written essays of critical appreciation, uniting in their admiration of an artist older in years but unageing in his sensibility and performance."References: Crane A5 & A22; ANB; Parini, Robert Frost: A Life.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This compellingly well-preserved, jacketed first edition, first printing, was signed by Frost in Texas in 1937. Frost wrote in two lines on the front free endpaper recto: "Robert Frost | San Antonio 1937". This copy was signed thus within four months of publication (13 November 1936); Frost spent the winter of 1936-37 in San Antonio, from December 1936 until late March 1937, taking up residence at a home close to Trinity University.Condition is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square, clean, bright, and tight, with sharp corners and only mild shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are clean with no spotting, no soiling, and only mild age toning. The blue-stained top edges retain even color, the fore and untrimmed bottom edges are clean. Texas provenance for this British-only edition is both a bit ironic and entirely complete; the sole previous ownership mark other than the author's signature is a small bookseller's sticker affixed to the lower left rear pastedown: "FRANK ROSENGREN | BOOKSELLER | MILAM BLDG. | San Antonio, Texas" in operation from 1935 to 1987. Willie Morris, editor of Harper's, called Rosengren's Books "one of the finest and most admirable bookstores in America."The white dust jacket printed in red and black is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap "5s. net" price, and entirely complete, with no loss or tears. While the jacket shows light overall soiling, we note no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine and only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.Selected Poems had first been published in 1923, with poems from Frost's first three published collections A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval. The collection was "carefully calculated to present Frost as a major contemporary figure." Frost's arrival as "a major contemporary figure" had been imminent; that first Selected Poems was published in March 1923, preceding the November 1923 publication of New Hampshire, the collection that won Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. By 1936, when this expanded Selected Poems was published by Jonathan Cape in London, Frost unequivocally was a major contemporary figure. The arrangement of poems 62 rather than the 1923 edition's 43 poems was not only a new and expanded arrangement, but also the first book of Frost's to contain material by others, with introductory essays by W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Paul Engle, and Edwin Muir. This expanded edition of Selected Poems was published first and only in England where Frost's first book, A Boy's Will, had been published in 1913, 23 years before. It had been in England that this quintessential American poet had been first published and recognized. Now, preeminent in America, Frost was being reintroduced to England. As explained by the publisher's note on the dust jacket flap: "Mr. Robert Frost is by now recognized as the outstanding poet of his generation in America, and to the few but still too few in England his work has long been known as unique in its kind it is a striking tribute to the appeal of his poetry that Mr. W. H. Auden, Mr. Cecil Day Lewis, Mr. Paul Engle and Mr. Edwin Muir should have contributed for this volume four specially written essays of critical appreciation, uniting in their admiration of an artist older in years but unageing in his sensibility and performance."Frost required little introduction for the rest of his life. The next year, 1937, he won the third of his eventual and still-unequaled four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He spent his final years as "the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century" with an ever-growing hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration (Kennedy, January 1961). References: Crane A5 & A22; Parini, Robert Frost: A Life; San Antonio Current.

pp 316 Biography of Scottish clergyman and theologian John Knox (1514-1572), based largely on his own writings, which aims to "give a critical account of a representative Calvinist and Puritan". A very good first edition signed by the author Edwin Muir and G M Thompson to the front free end paper. Very good in fresh burgundy cloth, slight spine lean, the text is fine. Scottish author Edwin Muir is better known for his poetry and for translations, along with his wife Willa, of German authors such as Franz Kafka. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.