Gerald Warre Cornish (9 results)

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback in good condition for year (1940) with chipped and torn dustjacket. Ex-libris plate to dustjacket verso. Text bright and clean with mild age tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd. Dust Jacket: No. External Condition: Some browning and grubbiness to the covers. The corners are bumped. Internal Condition: Very good. The fore-edge is browned. An ink stamp of the rear pastedown. Author/Editor: Cornish, Gerald Warre. Publisher: W Heffer & Sons Ltd. Year: 1938. Edition: 3rd. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: No. Language: English. Page Count: 90. Keywords: military, a rendering of the epistles to the Corinthians and Ephesians done in France during the Great War, military. The book for sale is the one in the photo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Circa 1920, ex library copy, boards faded and marked, library marks etc, good reading/restoration copy.

Spine darkened and a little marked. With the ownership inscription, 29 September 1919, of Margaret Warre Cornish (1867-1937), the author's eldest sister; the critic Desmond MacCarthy was their brother-in-law. A great-nephew of W. M. Thackeray, Gerald Warre Cornish (1874-1916) was ordained deacon in 1899, and priest in 1901; he was a vicar in the New Forest, and then lecturer in Greek at Manchester University, before joining the Army in the First World War. A Major in the Somerset Light Infantry, he died leading his company on the second day of the main advance on the Somme, 16 September 1916. Mark Valentine has described the lead story, finished by the author in France shortly before his death, as "a minor classic in the literature of mystical fiction".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1948 hardcover.

First Edition. Original pale grey boards on canvas. The boards are marked and stained and the pages have scattered foxing, particularly to the preliminaries. Neatly written name of previous owner to front fly leaf. Scarce. Book.

Hardcover. 1st edition. Translated by a Greek scholar into `breathless-eager-elliptic' English. 1st ed. prior to sidebar captions. xi, 90 p.; 18.5 cm. G tan canvas under pale gray boards. 'First Published 1937'.