Smith John 1924 (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Entering Rooms" by John Smith was The Poetry Book Society Choice for 1973, and published by by Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press in the Phoenix Living Poets Series. This is the First Paperback Edition, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. The book has the "Poetry Book Society Bulletin" laid in (No. 76, Spring 1973), in which this book is discussed. SERIES : Phoenix Living Poets AEGIS : The Poetry Book Society TITLE : Entering Rooms AUTHOR : John Smith (John Charles Smith, b. 1924 ) IMPRINT : Chatto & Windus - Hogarth Press PLACE : London DATE : 1973 EDITION : First Paperback Printing (Issued simultaneously with the hardcover format STATUS : OP - Out of Print SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Laid - in is the "Poetry Book Society Bulletin", No. 76, Spring 1973 PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade hardcover, published for the Society; 5 3/8" x 8 1/2", decorated wraps, glued; 39 pages. Poetry Book Society Bulletin is a single sheet, folded once, measuring when folded 5 1/4" x 8 1/4". CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book which remains nicely preserved, clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : Modest surface rub , a bit of minute surface loss along the crease along the spine on front and rear (this crease there by design). Spine itself is not creased. Slight chipping along cover edges. Soft bump to top fore-edge corner. BINDING : Tight INTERIOR : Clean with no writing or marking. No signatures. BULLETIN : Clean, crisp and unsullied.…

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 39 pp., 23 cm. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 39 pp., 23 cm. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. 1 Kg.

good dust-jacket chipped at top and bottom of spine, light wear to edges, cover price 1.50 pounds UK net, very good peach orange hardcover. LAID IN: damaged wrap around advertising band: The Choice of the Poetry Book Society. SIGNED on title page: John Smith / in addition, INSCRIBED and SIGNED on front endpaper to John and Lydia, it has been such a pleasure to enjoy your company in my rooms / John. SMITH, JOHN. Entering rooms. London: Chatto and Windus / with The Hogarth Press, 1973, 1st edition (no further printings noted on copyright page), 39pp., . Series: The phoenix living poets. 9780701119256 ISBN 070111925X.…

First Edition. Signed and inscribed to Mary Woodland. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 46 pages ; 21 cm. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Signed and inscribed to Mary Woodland. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 46 pages ; 21 cm. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine copy in illustrated boards, in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by BOTH author and artist. Physical description: 64 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects: Children's stories; Children's stories in English, 1900- Texts; Illustrated Books for Children; Fairt Tales. 1 Kg. David A. Goddard (illustrator). …

1st edition. Near fine copy in illustrated boards, in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by BOTH author and artist. Physical description: 64 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subjects: Children's stories; Children's stories in English, 1900- Texts; Illustrated Books for Children; Fairt Tales. 1 Kg. David A. Goddard (illustrator). …

First Edition. Signed. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 47 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; English literature; 20th century. English literature. English poetry. English poems; 20th century. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Signed. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 47 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; English literature; 20th century. English literature. English poetry. English poems; 20th century. 1 Kg.…

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson's original dry-plate negatives, each with printed caption and red ruled border, mounted as individual plates on the rectos of the leaves between pages 3 and 43; all of the woodburytpes and their page mounts are in superb condition, without fading or foxing; title page and last page of text with browning (as in other examples), upper margins of a few text pages with mild insect damage, hinges cracked but holding. The first use of published photographs as social documentary. In 1877-78 John Thomson had first collaborated with radical socialist writer Adolphe Smith Headingley in creating 36 photographs accompanied by textual commentary for the monthly parts of Street Life in London. Of this collaborationJohn Hannavy, inThe Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, wrote: 'The bringing together of the photographer John Thomson and the left-wing political writer and activist Adolphe Smith Headingley to work on the project which resulted in Street Life of London (1877-78), was a logical progression from the collaboration between Richard Beard and Henry Mayhew more than two decades earlier on Mayhew's study of London Labour and the London Poor. Headingley, who wrote under the name of Adolphe Smith, was relatively unknown when he and Thomson collaborated on Street Life and the pairing was an inspired one. Both men had sympathy towards the living and working conditions of their subjects.' In 1878 the twelve monthly parts ofStreet Lifewere reissued in book form; in 1881 an abridged version, Street Incidents,was published which retained the 1878 text but included only 21 of the 36 photographs (the present edition). Street Incidentswas issued essentially as a new work, and the publishers do not credit Thomson as the creator of the strikingly sharp imagesphotomechanically reproduced by the Woodburytype process from the photographer?s original dry-plate negatives. The images in Street Incidents are titled as follows: A Convict's Home; The Wall Worker; Covent Garden Labourers; Halfpenny Ices; Black Jack; The Cheap Fish of St. Giles; Cast-iron Billy; Worker's on the "Silent Highway"; The Street Fruit Trade; The London Boardmen; The Water-cart; "Mush-Fakers" and Ginger-Beer Makers; November Effigies; "Hookey Alf" of Whitechapel; The Crawlers; Italian Street Musicians; The Street Locksmith; The Seller of Shell-fish; Flying Dustmen; Old Furniture; The Independent Shoeblack. The taxonomic approach taken by Thomson to his work can almost be considered scientific: like an anthropologist, he was concerned to classify and accurately capture what he referred to as "the true types of the London poor". Smith (Headingley), with his evocative contextual essays based on interviews with the subjects, brought the element of reformist zeal to the equation. "A pioneering work of social documentation in photographs and words . one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history." (Parr & Badger, Thephotobook: a history, I, 48).…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 162 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1922. Text in English. This comprehensive history of the Twenty-Second United States Infantry covers its service from 1866 to 1922. Originally prepared by Major O.M. Smith, the narrative was expanded by Captain W.H. Wassell to include the period from the Spanish-American War to 1904. Captain Daniel S. Appleton brought the history up to date, while Colonel John McA. Palmer and Major William R. Smith edited and prepared the work for publication. The preface is signed by G.C. Graham, captain of the 22d Infantry and adjutant. This volume provides valuable insights into the regiment's operations and contributions during a significant period of U.S. military history. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. …