Selected with Notes and an Introduction (25 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First printing. Part of The Laurel Poetry Series edited by Richard Wilbur. Moderate cover wear, including light crease to upper front cover corner and a few pen-pint pressure marks. Otherwise clean and tight.

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Prior impression. Good condition book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good, unmarked book with slightly sunned spine and minor soiling to orange cloth; no DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Red cloth cover with black emboss on cover and spine is soiled and worn. The lower tips of both the back and front boards are bumped and frayed to the point of exposing the board slightly. The pages show signs of discoloration due to age, previous owner's names are written on the inside front cover and the first flyleaf. The pages are relatively clean, but have a few pencil notes from one of the previous owners. The binding is tight and the hinges open freely. This book is in good to very good condition.…

Under its general editor Richard Wilbur of the series. From a scholar's library with some notes to the text which may be helpful to the next reader. Wraps.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 260 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use and clean text. Slightly slanted spine. Slightly creased spine. Pages slightly detached from spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "Cardinal Edition;" 443 p., clean and unmarked on paper that is tanning on edges but is not chipped; binding firm; gold and red wrapper has tiny crease on upper corner of front panel and more pronounced crease on lower corner of rear panel; faint smudging on rear panel. Essays include : "On the Art of Conversing" - Montaigne; "Of Revenge" - Francis Bacon; "The Art of Political Lying" - Jonathan Swift;" "How Should One Read a Book" - Virginia Woolf; "Better Than Shakespeare" - G.B. Shaw; "Defence of Nonsense" - G.K. Chesterton; and many other intriguing writers and topics.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Laurel Poetry Series, general editor Richard Wilbur. Stated eighth printing of November, 1967. Paperback is very clean, square, with a tight, flexible binding. Early portions of text has minor notes in margins.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Blue clothbound with dustjacket. Blue cloth is clean and square; dj is rubbed and cracked along edges. Body of dj is clear and intact except for spine, which is faded and stained. Interior is very clean and tightly bound. Prior owners name and nameplate on fep are only flaws to interior. Fold-out map at rear fep is excellent, as are illustrations and maps. …

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Simultaneous paperback edition. 570pp. Very good with creasing, rubbing, and edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine in near fine, lightly soiled dust jacket.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Lightly age worn; a nice copy overall. 417 pages. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Book doesn't fit scanner. Some colour, but mostly black and white illustrations. Corners very lightly bumped. Any other imperfections minor/negligible. 168 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1914 EDITION.VG HARDBACK.NO DUSTWRAPPER.NEAT NAME FEP,47. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter black cloth gilt with marbled paper-covered boards, 4to., xxiii, 100 plates. Printed tissue guarded frontispiece. Minute bookseller's ticket. Printed at the Curwen Press. But for cloth separating along the front spine edge, this would be a near fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Revised. Paperback. Slight browning to top edge of pages through age. This collection now contains 175 poems b7 86 poets and ranges chronologically from W. B. Yeats, who was born in 1865, to Geoffrey Hill, who was seven years old when Yeats died in 1939. The youngest generation, of poets still under twenty-five, many of whom have not yet produced a book, is unrepresented; and perhaps the word 'contemporary' in the old title, which is retained for familiarity's sake, is already an umbrella with absurdly long spokes when it is to provide cover both for Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Dylan Thomas, and their contemporaries and for the poets who have established themselves in the nineteen-fifties. 411 pp. (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.).…

paperback. Condition: Good. Fast Despatch Soft Covers - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 8vo, i-xv, 129 pp, 10 black and white illustrations, an excellent copy in a similar dust wrapper. An anthology of writings from a number of hunters including Gordon Cumming, Selous, Cornwallis Harris and more recent authors from South Africa.…

Brossura. Condition: nuovo. senza sovraccoperta. seconda edizione.

paperback. Condition: Good. Vintage Penguin. #D15. A well-curated Penguin edition of Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected and introduced by W.H. Gardner, one of Hopkinsâs most important editors and interpreters. Gardnerâs selection presents Hopkinsâs major poemsâ"rich in sprung rhythm, musical density and spiritual intensityâ"alongside key prose pieces drawn from his journals, sermons and letters, offering a rounded portrait of his creative and devotional life. Gardnerâs introduction and notes provide clear, authoritative guidance on Hopkinsâs themes, techniques and religious imagination, making this an accessible yet scholarly volume. A portable and reliable Penguin edition ideal for students of poetry, Victorian literature and readers seeking a strong introduction to Hopkinsâs work. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Foreword by Michael Cox. First paperback edition, 1989. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed, creases and a touch edge worn, with scuffed marks alongside the spine. Internally the pages are neat, clean and complete. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Mass market paperback. 128pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, near fine. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman. "Sixty poems and translations that reveal the poet at his best.". Signed.