Ian Crofton Compiler (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 33380 shelf. Bright gold-stamped deep red bds. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Index. Quotations: Rockwell Kent, Juan Gris, Durer, James Ensor, Graham Sutherland, et al. Giftworthy! 223 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: New dust jacket. First Edition. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 2002. 5.25" wide by 8" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (£14.99). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked -- clearly never read. An A-Z guide that explains the intriguing and surprising stories behind over 1500 curious and noteworthy titles -- novels, poems, plays, paintings, and musical compositions. A feast of allusion, quotation, and hidden meaning. . First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. ix, 548pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. This tells the often intriguing, and sometimes surprising, stories behind an array of titles of works of literature, music and the visual arts. Arranged in simple A-Z order by title, it explains the meanings of, and reasons for, the titles of more than 1500 famous and not-so-famous novels, films, poems, plays, paintings and works of classical music. Embracing titles as diverse and as baffling as Flann O'Brien's AT SWIM TWO-BIRDS and Salvador Dali's ATMOSPHERIC SKULL SODOMIZING A GRAND PIANO, BREWER'S CURIOUS TITLES serves up a feast of explanation, allusion, quotation and hidden meaning that will satisfy the appetite of the most inquisitive of cultural magpies. This is a 1st edition paperback in fine condition. (548 pages & 9 pages of introduction).