Swingler Randall (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 120 pages. Richard Pankhurst "Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian Anti-Fascist Movement" / Alison Macleod "John MacDiarmid's Ghost" / Andy Croft "Extract from 'Letter to Randall Swingler" / Andy Croft "Randall Swingler and 1956" (SL#125/8).

Condition: Very Good. 17 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: London Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

TIDY EX LIBRARY, FIRST EDITION, paperback softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

No Binding. Condition: Fair. Intro. by John Manifold. 12mo. Stapled. First and last pp. detached. 39pp., sl. toned. Water spot from final p. to front, o.w. clean. N.d. "Text of the poems and songs presented by five living poets of the Labour Movement at three concerts organised by the Workers' Music Association.".…

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.…

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.

Paper Cover. Condition: Very Good. Oct-Nov 1941 Cover feature Gorki on Lenin in London. Cover reproduced from Chinese woodcut with Picasso drawing on inside cover. 28pp rare.

Paper Cover. Condition: Very Good-. June 1941 28pp scarce.

Tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Stapled card covers, in dustjacket. N.d. [1946]. Gift inscription in ink on half-title dated "Xmas 1947." Fair only. No marks to text. The staples are holding the pages securely, although the attachment to the cover is tenuous. Dustjacket and card covers are heavily worn--partly worn through at the spine and fore-edges. A 1 1/2" tear to the DJ on the front panel. Front DJ flap is glued to the cover. There is creasing to cover and pages, and miscellaneous stains, but pages are mostly clean, though with fore-edge soil. First edition (no subsequent edition listed). With drawings by James Boswell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Blue paper-covered boards with printed label affixed. viii, 40pp. His first book. Somewhat spotted including to the edges, the bulk of the text clean however, the boards a little bumped at their tail edge and the spine slightly faded, in the jacket, rubbed and marked, with small chips to extremities, the spine panel scuffed and dulled, but sound.…

Blue Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. 40pp. Printed paper label on front board. Spine repaired with small fragment missing at its head. Some light foxing to fore edge & first few pages. Partially unopened. Very scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 62 pp. Softcover. Condition: Very good, but lacks the original red covers. Browned with age, and front page and some other pages worn at edges, but binding and contents otherwise still intact, with no markings. Scarce prewar Left Book Club item including songs by Alan Bush, Hanns Eisler, Dmitri Shostakovich and others.…

Softcover. Key Poet. Band 3. Paperback softcover, 23 pages, 16 x 11 cm. Cover with signs of use but good condition. Gewicht: 36.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 68 pages. Illustrated. Ralph Fox: A Tribute / Dona Torr "Ralph Fox & Our Cultural Heritage" / John Lehmann "Letter from Tiflis" / C Day Lewis "An Expensive Education" / Stephen Spencer "Tangier's & Gibraltar NOW" / Randall Swingler "William Blake - The Imputation of Madness" / Maurice Carpenter"We ask for LIFE" (poem) / "Charles Madge "Magic & Materialism" / George Geraint "Red Coal" / Herbert Read & Hugh Sykes Davies "Surrealism - reply to A.L.Lloyd" (SL#84).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 40pp. Papercovered boards with paper label. Slight bump at the crown, near fine in very good dust jacket with an internally repaired tear. Part of "The Gateway Poets" series.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Stitched wrappers. 16pp. His rare second book. A little light spotting to the head edge, the oversized wrappers mildly marked and rubbed, and slightly dusty internally, also with a nick to the upper wrapper at the fore edge and some vague toning.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 4 volumes: 2 in plain wrappers and 2 ringbound. 4 Sections of the opera Fantasy Fair, composed in 1951 with a libretto by Randall Swingler. Reproductions of fair-copy manuscripts of vocal scores with a 2 piano accompaniment. 1: Overture (2 copies in plain wrappers, 7pp); 2: 2 arias, a duet and "Steam Organ Music with Chorus" (1 copy ringbound, 62pp); 3: "Introduzione ed aria" & "Scena" (as 1, 22pp); 4: 2 choruses and "Final Duet" (as 2, 45pp). With the composer's stamps to the wrappers of 1 and 3, with some corrections in red ink. Fantasy Fair "A contemporary legend", originally in three acts, was unstaged, concert extracts only were performed in London in 1953 (Andrew Plant, musicweb-international). Some staining to edges, some fading to some wrappers, some wear to edges, some rusty staples, binders. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A smart first edition of this collection of poetry from English writer Randall Swingler, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. The Gateway Poets series. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of poetry, including titles such as: Before the Sea, Secret Images, Request for the Day, Toward the City, and August Swallows, amongst others. Written by Randall Carline Swingler, an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light sunning to the spine and small cracks to the joints at the head of the spine. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and sunning to the extremities. The odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting throughout and light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A first edition of this work by poet and Communist proponent Randall Swingler. Randall Swingler (1909-1967) was an English poet whose works were primarily written in promotion of communism. He wrote a great deal of war poetry, and since his death has been seen as an important writer of communist English poetry.This work is a scarce novel written by a important figure in British communist literature. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, cloth is a touch discoloured with minor wear otherwise. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Garrick Poets I. N.d. [1946]. Stiff grey pictorial wrapps., black lettering, illustration, sl. tanned at edges. Date on 1/2 t.p. Frontis. Illus. 55pp. Nice copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry from English writer Randall Swingler. First edition. Very scarce. A collection of six poems, including: New Year, Ode to a Plane Above the City, Sunset Over Camden Town, Spring Ode, The Mountaineers, and Prelude to Revolution. With Autumn Vale attached to the rear wrap by paperclip. Written by Randall Carline Swingler, an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest. In the original paper wraps. Externally, smart with light wear and the odd crease to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine with spotting to the wrap edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting throughout. A page with a further poem is attached to the rear wrap by paperclip with some rust transfer to the opposite page. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A scarce first edition copy of this collection of poetry by an English poet Randall Swingler, illustrated by James Boswell. The first edition. In the publisher's original paperback binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. A selection of poetry by Randall Swingler, an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest. Illustrated by James Boswell, a New-Zealand born British painter, draughtsman and socialist. Including poems such as 'Summer Beauty', 'Fear', and 'The Possible'. In the publisher's original green paperback binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Externally, smart. Stamp to rear of front wrap. Dust wrapper pasted to paper wraps to the front flyleaf. Dust wrapper with closed tears to spine, sunning, and slight loss to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. James Boswell (illustrator). book.…