Hugh Staples (39 results)

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. (American Poets, Biography).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Faber& Faber, New York. 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. Retired academic library copy. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for inked out names on the textblock edges and dedication page. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottoms. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped (28 Shillings); front flap corner clipped; light wear at head and tail; small stain on spine. Red cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine; title in black shadowbox. 137 pp 8vo. The first full-scale study of one of America's foremost poets traces the development of Lowell's mind and art through the first two decades of his career and his New England background. A full text of The Mills of the Kavanaughs is the appendix. A clean very presentable copy in a mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Advance review copy with notice laid in. Very Good or better in like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 50 X 50 X 8.66 inches. 328 pages. Very nice, tight volume with previous owner name of front free endpaper and light sunned spine . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tight and clean binding. Previous owner's embossed stamp on title page. No other marks.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardback, a nice, solid ex-library copy excellent for reading in a Fine Minus DJ, 1st edition; mylar protected DJ has a white library sticker towards the bottom spine end and slight trace of fading to spine, 8vo., 328 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. DJ is price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dj w/moderate wear, unclipped price; 121 clean, unmarked pages. Third edition, revised and expanded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 328 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Hardcover. ; Hardcover: Tan cloth binding with title on spine Solid color endpapers. Crisp clean pages. Faint foxing to first free endpaper, title page and foredge. Frontispiece. Unforgettable material on the three classes of Irish gentlemen and Irish peasantry. Humor, indifference and sometimes cruelty defines the 'Times. ' Nice tight binding. Jacket: Edgewear and chipping. Lightly oxidized front and back . Small section missing along lower edge near hinge. Attractive copy in protective mylar.; 8VO; 328 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1925.0Green cloth hardcover with leather spine, gilt top page edges, no dust jacket, 190 pages. Good condition. Having had no serious protests and no libel suits, the publishers offer this collection of articles about New England Life and Character.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 137 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Price sticker to front free endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled. Clipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have heavy edge wear with chips, tears and areas of loss.

1967 Staples, Hugh, ed THE IRELAND OF SIR JONAH BARRINGTON; SELECTIONS FROM HIS PERSONAL SKETCHES Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1967 328pp, index, bibliography, frontis portrait 8vo Fine hardcover in fine d/j.

Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very Good condition book with dust soiling to top edge, in a Very Good condition, price-clipped dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hbk 328pp dj price clipped and very slightly shelfworn now in protective sleeve otherwise an excellent clean tight unmarked text.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have light overall shelf wear. Contents: Staples, "Composition of place": the setting of "Cyclops." Begnal, The unveiling of Martha Clifford. Füger, Joyce's use of the Maynooth Catechism. Seidel, Ulysses' black panther vampire. Benstock, The Kenner conundrum: or who does what wih which to whom. Schutte, An index of recurrent elements in Ulysses: "Proteus." Notes, review, letters. ; 9.0" tall; 101 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Front board slightly scuffed. Suede spine moderately rubbed and tiny tear at base. 1" piece missing from edge of title page.Otherwise, a clean and unmarked copy in excellent condition. Inside, decorative boards. 650 copies printed on Strathmore Charcoal. 190 pages.

Near fine with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is clipped at top corner of front flap, has clear tape at all four corners, and is lightly bumped at top edges. 328 pages with index and bibliography plus five illustrations.

First American edition. Inscribed and Signed by the author. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 5 x 7 in. Cloth and suede boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; small spots on front, minimal wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. A few pgs have been poorly cut. Fic. Stax.

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. V. scarce. First UK edition. Fine in good dust wrapper. DW showing age and shelf wear, sunned to spine and with small nicks. Light foxing on ffeps. Ownership name on ffep. Text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1968. First Edition. 328 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to reverse of frontis, covered with tippex. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. V. scarce. First UK edition. Fine in good dust wrapper. DW showing age and shelf wear, sunned to spine and with small nicks. Light foxing on ffeps. Ownership name on ffep. Text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. First edition copy. . . .

FIRST EDITION, tidy ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardback. 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.

hardback. Condition: Fine. The First Twenty Years. 1st ed. L.(Faber) 1962. Fine in soiled dw.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 137p. ; 23cm. Subjects: Lowell, Robert (1917-1977) -- Criticism and interpretation. 1 Kg.

None. Hardback. 137pp. An assessment of the American poet. Ex library with usual stamps, etc. ticket pocket and date stamping to rear endpapers. Red cloth has shadows of tape marks where missing dw had been attached. Rubbed and bumped. Sound reading copy only.