John Hayward Compiler (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Light reddish cloth binding with blue title box, gold colored print on spine. Soil spot on top edge. Bottom edge is rough-cut. Previous owner name on frontr flyleaf.Sound and otherwise unmarked. 311 pages including list of first lines, titles and authors.…

Paper Wraps. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Catalogue. From exhibition of first and early editions of English poets in London. Former owner's intials on front free endpaper; bottom right corner of endpaper bent. Spine discolored. FITZ.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Blue printed wrappers, a little worn at the head and tail of spine. A very good copy. An excellent catalogue, listing 346 items.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Green hardcover. No. 207 of 550 limited edition. The spine ends rubbed, and the pages slightly toned. Dust jacket condition: The spine and part of the back cover are darkened. There is light edge wear, including slight loss at the ends of the spine and corners, as well as a few small tears. Not price-clipped.…

Small 4to, x,141pp., orig. printed wrappers. 346 items described.

Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, 1947, 1st edition. Original card covers. Black lettering on blue card. 9.75ins x 7.25ins, x, 141pp. Catalogue of an exhibition of first and early works of the English poets from Chaucer to the present day. 346 items described with bibliographic details. Small "splash" stains to front cover. Contents VG.…

FIRST EDITION,GREEN CLOTH, VERY GOOD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. No 548 of 550 printed: 141 pages inc index. + 6 pages of Additions and corrections + 346 photo plates of the title pages to books on 190 pages, two to a page mostly, from early poetry to the 1930's all plates printed on glossy art paper. Green cloth with ruled gilt borders and titles on the spine, contents and boards all very clean and tight, 4 faint old marks rom some cover protection, perhaps on a wrapper? that has left ghosts on the endpapers front and rear, but hardly noticed. Small quarto. 1950. * Published in 1947 without any plates this is numbered 548 of 550 copies printed WITH the title page plates.The bibliographical detail on the plates makes this a classic work with many examples only loaned for this display of poetry books from Chaucer to T. S.Eliot and lastly David Gascoyne. …

THE REVISED ILLUSTRATED EDITION, LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 279. TOGETHER WITH A TWO-SIDED HAND-WRIITEN LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR, ADDRESSED FROM CHEYNE WALK. HAYWARD SHARED A FLAT WITH T. S. ELIOT. THE BOOK IS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROGER SENHOUSE (PUBLISHER, TRANSLATOR AND MEMBER OF THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP) WITH HIS BOOKPLATE AND SIGNATURE. ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH, TEG. VERY GOOD.…

First illustrated edition, no. 186 of 550 copies. 346 items illustrated on black and white plates. x, 148 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The illustrated edition was prepared using the sheets of the original 1947 edition with additions and corrections at pp. 143-148. Original green buckram, t.e.g. Fine 346 items illustrated on black and white plates. x, 148 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First illustrated edition, no. 186 of 550 copies.…