John Gawsworth Editor (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 5.25 X 8.25 inches, 118 pages (vi) Paperback. Orange cover with black type. Unmarked. A few pages with turned corners. Very Good.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 283, [5] p. ; 18 cm. Notes; With two final advertisement leaves. Includes index, p. 273-283. Subjects; English poetry 19th century. English poetry 20th century. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Vol 41 No 4, p181-238, octavo, original paper wrappers, fine condition, a little dusty. Poems and reviews.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. volume 41 No 3, p121-theme 178 [iv], octavo, original paper wrappers, fine condition, a little dusty. The Greenwood Prize.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Vol. 43 No 2, p67-126, octavo, original paper wrappers, fine condition, a little dusty. Poems and reviews.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 283, [5] p. ; 18 cm. Notes; With two final advertisement leaves. Includes index, p. 273-283. Subjects; English poetry 19th century. English poetry 20th century. 1 Kg.…

Condition: As New. ~ Traducciones de Alejandro García Reyes & Antonio Iriarte & Javier Marías ~ Antología dedicada a escritores en lengua inglesa que, por su corta vida o por su interés en otros géneros, sólo escribieron un relato del género fantástico, de terror o de fantasmas. Cuentos únicos rastreados, seleccionados y recopilados por Javier Marías, quien incluye un cuento suyo oculto bajo seudónimo ~ Rústica original ~ 304+[1]p+1f ~ 19x13x2cm. ~ Como nuevo ~ LANGUAGE: Español // We accept PayPal & EU bank transfer in EUROS //.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, 78pp., bound in green cloth, paper label to top cover, spine lettering red, in printed dust jacket. label stained, browning to board edges and spine, light fraying to spine tips, in soiled and rubbed dust jacket. a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Small 8vo.pp. 235. Original publisher's cloth binding in cream, lettered dark blue at spine. Contributors include: Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (ie John Gawsworth) ; Edmund Spenser; John Evelyn Barlas; Henry Lawrence Jeayes; C. Phyllis Julius Henry Marzials. Near very good. Sound. Very slight wear & slight marking of covers. Need inscription on front endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The Pantomime Man by Richard Middleton (First Edition) A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners. Very light offset tanning to endpapers. Owner's signature to front free endpaper. Title page dated 1933. First published 1933, stated. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling; photographic frontispiece of the author with stamped signature. Editor's stamped signature to Foreword. 313 pp. Includes bibliography. Foreword by editor John Gawsworth and Introduction by Lord Alfred Douglas. John Gawsworth(Editor) Lord Alfred Douglas(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

9pp., 8vo. In fair condition, on nine leaves of worn and creased paper, the first leaf white, the others green. Minor emendations throughout. The poem is in five sections: 'The Exhortation' (beginning: 'In the crook of my arm | Rest again, nest again. | You are elbowed from harm, | []'), 'The Twinge' ('Never again, never again | Shall I know release from pain; | Never more, never more | Enter the diamented door.'), 'The Bravado' ('To you I raise | Praise, | Indifferently worded, | Heart-sworded, | And, | Merely, today's,'), 'The Fear' ('This hour of affliction | My thought returns | To that affection | A fool spurns, | [.]'), 'The Revanche' ('Were I to hate you | I should overrate you | And should I curse you | Seem to reimburse you | For that debt | I "should never forget."'). Gawsworth has numbered the lines in type 1-260, and then deleted the numeration. Note on first page in Gawsworth's sprawling hand: 'All were accepted by Fanchette for Two Cities in Spring '61 but he only published No 2 & 4 in Two Cities Etc 1961. | John Gawsworth'. 'Two Cities' was a literary magazine published in Paris from 1959 to 1964. Founded by Jean Fanchette, who also served as editor, and Anaïs Nin, it printed French and English material of interest to the Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell circles. The poem and its parts do not appear to have been published elsewhere.…

On nine loose 12mo leaves torn from an album. In fair condition, on aged and browned paper. Wrapped by Gawsworth in a larger piece of paper, on the front of which he has written in pencil the presentation inscription: 'Kenilworth | love | from | His King | J R | 16 Feb. 1967', with the following in blue ink over the 'J R': 'Abdicated | Juan R'. 'Marlow Hill' was Gawsworth's fourth collection, self-published by his Richards Press in 1941. Three of the nine leaves carry layouts of the book's title-page and prelims, with pencil notes 'Pubd 15 Oct 1941' and '33 lines to page'. The other six leaves carry 12pp. of drafts of poems, with emendations throughout in ink and pencil throughout. The pages of poems are paginated in pencil by Gawsworth: V-VI, 9-10, 11-12, 15-16, 23-24, 25-26. P.V carries the poem 'In Memoriam W. H. Davies'; p.VI, 'Author's Apologia'; pp.9-12, 'Marlow Hill | Triste amore é l'autunno'; pp.15-16, 'Advice', 'Nudity', and part of 'No Escape' and another poem; pp.23-26, 'Hardy in his impasse', 'Was' (poem of two six-line stanzas, marked as 'Suppressed'), 'Self Portrait', 'To Suspicion', 'Encounter' (marked as 'My favourite poem'), and part of 'Seasons'.…

First Edition. Scarce horror collection with 17 previously unpublished stories including 4 by Hugh MacDiarmid, stories by Arthur Machen, E.H.Visiak, M.P. Shiel, John Gawsorth. A VG copy in a VG- jacket which is repaired internally to the top of the spine. Contemporary sticker advising 'cannot be reprinted', presumably to do with the author's payments/ copyright.…