Scott Ernest Introduction (5 results)

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1937 Reprint: xv, 367 pages plus 16 page publishers adverts. Original covers, no dust jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4172.…

1st ed. Hardback small, no jacket (as issued), good condition, green cloth boards (gilt title cover & spine), black & white photos (of drawings), frontispiece portrait, light toning endpapers, spine title little faded, minor edgewear, white correction mark front free flyleaf. 44 pp. First edition. The diary of Lord Robert Cecil during his visit to the Victorian Goldfields in 1852. This very special little book gives a vivid look at the life of the diggers on Bendigo Creek and at Mount Alexander. Lady Gwendolen Cecil found the diary among the papers of her father, and arranged to have this copy printed. Introduction and notes by Ernest Scott, professor of history, University of Melbourne. The illustrations are from drawings by S. T. Gill, except those of the Chief Commissioner's camp at Castlemaine (Mount Alexander), and the junction of Pegleg and Sailorâs Gully, which are from drawings by C. Rudson Read. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new title edition. 384 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Copy #S of 26 lettered copies. Fine in full gray calf, in folding cloth box, with original silkscreen art signed by Lou Stovall and numbered 19/250. A collection of essays based on talks delivered at the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Gala on the subject of obsession. Signed by each author at his or her contribution: Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Ann Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer, and Scott Spencer. A gorgeous item and, obviously, an uncommon one. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover with slipcase. Limited Edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. A frontispiece, of sorts, which is a limited print by Lou Stovall, signed and numbered in pencil, is bound by elastic to the inside of the front board, under a tissue guard. Bound in gray cloth with black lettering stamped on front board along with the blindstamp of the PEN emblem, black lettering on spine. In the matching gray cloth slipcase. Light stains on cloth, light loss to lettering on spine. Laid in is a "PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction" notecard on which is written "Lot of Love / Kay". Each author has signed his or her contribution. Of 44 deluxe copies, this is one of 18 that are numbered (this being number 16). The book is composed of short pieces addressing the subject of "obsession" that were read by prominent authors at the annual PEN gala in Washington, DC in 1993. Lou Stovall (signed print, laid in) (illustrator).…