Freda Downie (45 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Condition: New. This posthumously published retrospection covers Downie's collections A Strange Here (1977) and Plainsong (1981) along with a larger number of previously uncollected poems.'Geoffrey Grigson, who gave his approval to very few new poets, greeted A Stranger Here, Freda Downie's first collection, as "a better book of new poems than any I have read for years. She writes as if she had been - intermittently - working away for ages, getting it better and better".'Although Freda Downie was to publish only one more full book before her death in 1993, the equally well received Plainsong, she continued, as Grigson said, to get it better and better. Because she was shy of publishing she received less of the limelight than she might have had, but nevertheless, her work in anthologies has always drawn admiring critical attention. Her readers would certainly agree that she wrote no bad poems. Furthermore, they would propose, few contemporary poets have written with such sad luminosity.'Indeed, her poetry is one of sharp distillations: single figures in social landscapes moving between yearning and disappointment, between fear and the desire of oblivion, listening and watching everything intently with a witty, even humorous attention. These figures know their manners but are conscious of their eccentricity and of the mire and fury of human veins implicit in manners; they also know that the clearer, sharper and suddener the danger of oblivion, the sharper, clearer and intenser the poem that sense of danger animates.'With something of Stevie Smith's melancholy, an element of Jane Austen's precision and the clarity of Grigson himself at his best, Freda Downie remains all the time inimitably herself. More than that, this volume of her collected poems will show her to have been one of the most poignant and memorable poets of our time.' - George Szirtes.

Condition: FINE. First printing. The first full-scale collection of this poet's work - her poems are described as ones which 'see familiar things quizzically. her language is fastidious, witty and original, and underneath the poems' delicacy of perception and movement one finds a tough commonsense.'35 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy with some rubbing and light edgewear to the dj.).

small 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 55 pages. First edition. lightly rubbed black dust jacket. paper covered boards, dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. paperback, 12 pages, limited edition, a fine clean copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. N2.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition 1977. Hardback. V Good condition. No jacket Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Sidney Hook "The Case Of Alger Hiss" / Vilas Sarang "Musk Deer (story)" / Golo Mann / Robert Conquest / Max Black / Roger Sandall "On The Way To The Pig Festival" / Freda Downie / Olivier Todd "Proudhon Is Dead" / Hermann Lubbe / Peter Porter / John Hargreaves / Fleur Adcock / Jean-Francois Revel "On Political Decomposition".

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Not price-slipped. Physical description; 55p. ; 23cm. Subjects; Downie, Freda 1929-. English poetry 20th century. Women poets Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Edge-rubbed jacket. Minimal wear to book.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Not price-slipped. Physical description; 55p. ; 23cm. Subjects; Downie, Freda 1929-. English poetry 20th century. Women poets Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. Sewn illustrated yellow wrappers laid into blue printed folder. Fine. One of 180 copies.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited edition. Frontispiece by Mary Norman. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 35 copies numbered and Signed by the author. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. [21]pp. Tied wrappers. Fine. Contributors include John Fuller, Lawrence Sail, Andrew Waterman, Michael Schmidt, C.H. Sisson, George Szirtes, Christopher Pilling, Peter Scupham, Joan Downar, John Mole, Anthony Thwaite, Katherine Middleton, Freda Downie, David Day, and Jenny Joseph.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 185 copies printed. Blue pamphlet. Small crease to front and rear bottom edges. Clean inside.

first edition 55pp VG+ (v sl bumped spine head and foot,sl bruised corners) in very good d/w (rubbed, rounded corners, creasing and wear to spine head and foot).

first edition 60pp NF (v.sl.scuffed spine head) in NF d/w (faint rubbing, sl.crease to spine head).

First edition. 8vo, 55pp. Previous bookseller's label to front paste-down endpaper. A very good hardback copy in a surface scuffed & edgeworn dust jacket, which is price clipped.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Times Italic, display in Bodoni. One of 150 (185) copies printed in sepia. Sewn into overlapping blue card covers printed in black, on the front with titling etc. and a drawing, and inside the back with another drawing. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rigby Graham (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unpaginated 16pp booklet with blue card covers. A collection of ten poems. Printed in a Limited Edition of 185 copies. Hand set and thread bound by The Priapus Press in the publisher's Priapus Poets series. Cover drawing and three others (including frontis) by Rigby Graham. Slight toning to spine area. Shelf wear to tail of spine and lower edges of front and rear covers. Crease to tip of lower front corner. Tiny tear to fore edge of rear cover. Clean inside pages. No inscriptions.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. [16] pp., small 4to, sewn card wrapper. Poems from nineteen contributors. One of 250 copies of the ordinary version of a total edition of 300. Publisher's announcement laid in. A near fine, unread copy, with a touch of fading at the spine fold.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. [12] pp., small 8vo, sewn card wrapper. Number 21 of 40 copies SIGNED and numbered by Downie on the title page (of a total edition of 180). Fine copy.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket ( as Issued ). First Edition / Limited Edition. A UK limited edition - number 17 of 35 SIGNED copies ( from an edition of 250 ) Sewn wraps as issued. A Near Fine copy - bright, clean and unfaded. No inscriptions, tight binding. Hint of bruising to leading edge corners. SIGNED to the limitation page by Freda Downie. A very nice copy. PayPal accepted. Signed by Author(s).

8vo. Illustrated yellow wraps. pp 12 (unpaginated). 180 copies only. Poetry. Slight edgewear and slight creasing else nea vg. Faint creasing o/w about fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book measures 22x14cm, Bound in original publishers wrapper. Binding in near fine condition, internally pages clean, A very good clean copy.

First edition. Octavo. pp [16]. Sewn wrappers. Frontispiece by Mary Norman. Ten poems. Out of a total edition of 250 this one of 35 copies signed by the author.Fine.

Condition: New. This posthumously published retrospection covers Downie s collections A Strange Here (1977) and Plainsong (1981) along with a larger number of previously uncollected poems.KlappentextrnrnThis posthumously published retrospection covers Downi.

Condition: Fine. A fine copy in string tide stiff paper wrapper. Limited to 300 copies. A very nice copy. No bent corners or creases to wrapper.