Lord Robert Blake (21 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Limp bound. Condition: Very Good. LIMP COVER EDITION (leatherette). VERY GOOD CONDITION,date writtne in pen top of title page "Dec 2015" ; gold title with gold & silver decorative trim, all on rich brown, wraparound leatherette limp covers.An attractive volume, easy to the touch.Decorated endpapeers show many small leaves. ; 115+pg pages; Most poets are represented with one of their most imortant & popular poems.Index by author at back of book.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

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.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Condition: Very good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. KARLIN, Eugene (illustrator). 1st thus. Fine condition, octavo, quarter brown leather, brown cloth boards, gilt decorated front and rear, four raised bands and gilt title and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker, decorated end paper, xxv plus 461 pages including index of first lines. [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. R T Pritchett (illustrator). 1st Edition. Usual brown decorative cloth. Mild bumping to extremities. Hinges cracking at front and rear of Volume IIr, but secure. Inked previous owner's name on half title page of both volumes. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout, and firm. Both first editions of the Badminton Library 2 volume set on yachting. Heavy set, will require additional carriage charges for non UK customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.

[no date]. (Hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 250pp. Illustrations, maps, plans. Light wear to edges, water marks to front cover and spine, corners bumped. Biography of Robert Blake, Edward Boscawen, Sir Francis Drake, Horatio Nelson, Admiral Lord & George Rooke. Locale:. (Military, Naval History).

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. Dust jacket price clipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: Fine. Facsimile reprint editions of the original 1894 work. Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, gilt title and lettering to the spines and to the front covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Contains (xviii), 479 pp; (xviii), 501 pp with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Fine condition books in Fine condition acetate dust wrappers. Unused new volumes. Heavy volumes weighing 2 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. SAILING BOATS (Yachting).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. R. T. Pritchett (illustrator). Second edition reprint. Two vols. Small, stout 8vo. Vol.I, xvi, 430pp. Vol. II, xvi, 488pp. Frontis. in vol. shows the Jack as of 1606, that in Vol. II, flags from the Royal Thames Yacht Club, both with tissue guards. Lavishly illustrated, mostly with line drawings by R. T. Pritchett and photograph reproductions. Decorated endpapers. Armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Uniformly bound in brown cloth with elaborate decoration on front cover that spills over to spine. Spine with stamped gilt lettering. Rubbed edges; just a touch of dulling to spine. This edition corrects mistakes in the first edition, and includes additional information. A title in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. A handsome, well-preserved set.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Pogany, Willy (illustrator). First Edition. Stated at copyright: "First published 1912 by George G. Harrap & Co. Limited. New edition, revised, published June 1923; Reprinted August 1923; September 1930." Blue cloth boards, cover plate with titles, navy spine titles, moderate shelf wear, discoloration. Adhered cover plate nearly size of volume features upper portion of Pogany plate, below this are stylized titles and flourishing golden border: "What the sun looks like when it's asleep" from verse at page 68. Thick heavy stock leaves, very good, clean. Frontispiece plate repeats full plate of the resting sun with young boy looking down upon from tree with lit home and night sky in b.g. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Includes scarce original wrapper, some edge wear, chip, missing areas of material upper front and back panels; protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel matches cover plate of volume; back panel features available Harrap titles with brief summaries for the children's library. Rare near very good treasury in mostly intact original wrapper. Presented here is a large and wondrous collection of verse and rhymes for the little ones. Features many richly colored plates by the inimitable Willy Pogany. Also, profusely illustrated by Pogany with b&w imagery, headers and vignettes, full and partial-page, throughout. Printed in Great Britain by Jarrold & Sons Limited, Norwich. 256 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Revue les Quatre Vents - Cahiers de Littérature n° 7 de 1946. In-8 broché de 172 pages au format 14 x 19,5 cm. Couvertures gris clair, avec titre imprimé en bordeaux et noir. Dos carré, légèrement insolé, avec petites rousseurs. Plats et intérieur frais, malgré quelques rares rousseurs aux couvertures. Exemplaire non coupé. Revue dirigée par Henri Parisot. Superbe numéro spécial consacré au Merveilleux et à la Poésie Romantique, avec des textes inédits de Jacques Cazotte, S.T. Coleridge, Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Nodier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Keats, William Blake, Lord Byron, Clemens Von Brentano, E.T.A Hoffmann, Thomas de Quincey, Charles Robert Mathurin, etc. Sommaire de rêve. Rare édition originale, surtout dans un tel état de fraicheur. Complet du prière d'insérer.

On one side of a 29 x 39 cm piece of vellum. In fair condition, with the usual discoloration found in vellum. A printed document, completed in manuscript, with a good example of George IV's signature as Prince Regent ('George P R') at top left. The royal seal has been removed from the space beneath the Prince Regent's signature. The signature of the Home Secretary ('Sidmouth') is at bottom right, somewhat faded. The document is a warrant appointing 'George Philips Esqr. Captain in the York Chasseurs', 'Commanded by Our Trusty and Welbeloved Major General Hugh Mackay Gordon'. Printed at the head of the document: 'In the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty.' Tax stamp on blue paper in left-hand margin, with corresponding label on the reverse. Beneath the text, towards bottom left is the signature of William Blake's patron, Thomas Butts, as Assistant Commissary of Musters: 'Entered with the Comsry General of Musters. | Tho: Butts'. In the margin beneath the tax stamp: 'Entered with the Secretary at War | Robt Lukin' (i.e. Robert Lukin (1772-1835). From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.