Pollard Arthur Editor (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Victorian age was one whose principal tenets were progress and individualism, and one characterized by Tennyson as "an awful moment of transition". In this volume introductory essays on aspects of Victorian thought, faith and doubt lead into chapters on the major novelists and poets of the period, as well as pieces on women prose-writers, fantasy and nonsense, the Victorian theatre and the "fin de siecle". "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature in ten volumes. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned for the series, which, taken together, cover 14 centuries of literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the present. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. 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.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket (paperback). Popular Library Edition August, 1976. The book is in fair condition. The cover shows significant wear, including creases, tears, and edge chipping, indicative of frequent use. The pages are yellowed with age, and there are some stains, but they are free from inscriptions or library markings. The binding is intact, ensuring the book remains usable for reference.…

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. Condition: slight wear & toning to DJ; rubber-stamp to upper corner of 1st free endpaper; else near fine in very good DJ. 436 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Popular Library 1976 850 pages. light age toning to wraps. pages slightly browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1973 Hard Cover., World Publishing. 850 pgs. Owner notation Title Page. No other reader marks, clean pgs, binding tight. Navy boards with title in gilt on spine. Corners lightly bumped. Light shelf wear. DJ good with light shelf wear. Slight scuffing to cover. Records the vital facts concerning over 1,100 authors and literary genres and some 6,000 individual works. English and American literary genres, poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists from the earliest days forward. Alphabetical organization of information. …

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. x+850pp, lacks front endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. Comprehensive guide to English & American Literature, covering some 1100 authors & about 6000 literary works. 1400 grams.

Paperback. Condition: New. 2nd.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. UK edition. Chipping to the top and bottom of the spine with some rubbing and light tearing along the edges. Chipping around the edges of the front cover. Browning to the back cover. Browning to the page edges with some chipping and creasing to the corners. The pages are browned with some small edge tears to a few pages. Contains 'Death of a Spaceman' by Miller, 'The Double Spy' by Moore, 'Ring Once for Death' by Arthur, 'The Draw' by Bixby, 'Operation Lorelie' by Salton, 'Keep Out' by Brown, 'Sorry, Wrong Dimension' by Rocklynne, 'Call Him Savage' by Pollard (Howard Browne),'The Cuckoo Clock' by Barefoot, 'Appointment at Noon' by Russell and 'Leonardo in War. and in Peace' an art feature by Castenir. Cover by Clarence Doore. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Doore, Clarence; Schroeder, Ernest; Kossin, Sanford; Barth, Ernie; Ashman, William; Castenir, Ralph (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No jacket. Macmillan, 1978. Paperback, 8vo, 237pp. Covers yellowed. A fair copy. 0333215141/0.3uk.

1st edition. 8vo. 247pp. B/w. illustrations. Original boards and d/w. ISBN 0333258312 US$9.

Hardback. Hardback. 495pp. Reviews, comment and articles on his works by a range of writers including Hazlitt, William Empson, Southey, Byron, Jane Austen and R. H. Dana. Some edge wear. Slightly bumped. Light sunning to edges. Discrete ex library copy with no external marks. Light dust soiling. Good, sound copy. …

Dent, 1976. Paperback, 8vo, xx,274pp. A little worn. A fair copy. 0460110853.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo bound in cloth and paper-covered boards. Contains bookplate of noted book collector Estelle Doheny inside front cover. B&W illustrations. Condition: slight shelf-wear; else near fine with many pages unopened. Pages: vi, 352 plus front and rear covers and ads of the issues bound in at the back of the book.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Harback First Edition Webster's New World Companion to English and American Literature.850 pp. From the blurb: "An indispensable reference work for every reader, student, or teacher, this totally new Companion concisely records the facts concerning over 1,100 authors and literary genres, and some 6,000 individual works. All the important English and American literary figures - poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists from the earliest days to the present - are described in articles ranging up to 4,000 words in length. In addition, their significant works are identified and, in many cases, summarized, and a succinct assessment of their literary achievement is provided. The alphabetical organization of the book makes it possible for the reader or researcher to find quickly and accurately the answers to a wide variety of questions involving literary history, criticism, forms, and styles as well as the facts of biography and bibliography. The book also has a 92-page appendix citing full bibliographical data of relevant critical works. In addition to the articles on the authors, there is a whole range of entries dealing with such general topics as literary movements, genres, and schools of poetry. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Sphere History of Literature in the English Language Volume 6 The victorians 436p.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Cloth, no dj. Minor shelf wear; two small parallel dents (each less than one half inch) on bottom edges of boards. Else very sound, with clean internals.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ex library hardback with DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1978 by MacMillan, London. Some highlighting otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 48C*.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-library, hardback with D/J and plastic sleeve, usual stamps and markings. Published in 1978 by MacMillan, London. Slight shelf wear to the boards, page edges a bit grubby, small pencil marks/creases to a couple of pages. Ready for immediate dispatch from UK. 48C*.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 56pp, plan, appendices, bw ills. Or card covers. Hay and date written inside front cover, otherwise near new. Sixty year history of the Hay War Memorial High School in NSW. Size: 4to.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Arthur Pollard to Sir Brynmor and Dora Jones. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper designed by Milton Charles. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Inscribed by the editor in black ink to the front free endpaper "Dora and Brynmor Jones / with good wishes / Arthur Pollard / April 73". Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire and educated at the Grammar School there, Pollard studied at Lincoln College, Oxford after serving in the Second World War. After a period working in the English Department at Manchester University, he became Professor of English at the University of Hull in 1967. This Webster's Companion "concisely records the vital facts concerning over 1,100 authors and literary genres, and some 6,000 individual works. All the important English and American literary figures-poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists from the earliest days to the presentare described in articles ranging up to 4,000 words in length. In addition, their significant works are identified and, in many cases, summarized, and a succinct assessment of their literary achievement is provided" (from the jacket). Sir Brynmor Jones (19031989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

First Edition. AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. Pp. xii+850, appendix; boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, edges very slightly worn; World Publishing, New York, 1973. First edition. *Alphabetical listing of over 1,100 authors and literary genres, and some 6,000 individual works.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. A medieval-fairy-tale atmosphere, that is also dark, dreamlike, heroic & sunny! The Deluxe edition, & one of 500 copies signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham, in full vellum, a little marked & rubbed at edges, corners bumped, gilt titles & tooling. Spine, faded, gilt titles & tooling, edges bumped. Internally, half title, publishers details to verso, Rackham signed limitation, coloured frontispiece with guard, title, [6], (v-xxiv), 509 pp, 16 mounted coloured illustrations by Rackham, each with a captioned tissue guards, 7 full page B&W illustrations by Rackham & 66 B&W illustrations within text, bookplate to fpd (Amy Beatrice Huntington), ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a few tiny marks to title, tissue-guard to first plate with few very small nicks to fore-edge, some light offsetting & some light browning to endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut, many partly unopened. (281*226 mm) (Riall p130/1. Latimore/Haskell p47/8). Rackham's Arthurian world doesn't look like a straightforward historical medieval England. It feels more like a dreamlike fairy-tale world, where forests, castles & misty landscapes conceal magic & danger. RACKHAM Arthur 1867-1939 (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Early printing. A Very Good copy of the 1926 Second Printing of this Rackham illustrated classic. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black (slight darkening and wear; no jacket).

First edition. xxiv, 509pp, [1]. With half-title, a chromolithograph frontispiece and 22 further illustrated plates by Arthur Rackham. Original publisher's gilt-decorated navy cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, with surface wear to extremities and chipping to head of spine. Endpapers browned. The first edition, in original cloth, of Alfred W. Pollard's (1859 â" 1944) retelling of Malory's classic compilation of Arthurian tales, illustrated by leading figure of the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration, English artist Arthur Rackham (1867 â" 1939), whose trichomatically-printed pen-and-ink drawings defined the landscape of early twentieth century children's publishing from Grimm's fairy tales to the Wind in the Willows. Size: Quarto.…