Wolfe Humbert Ed (19 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 31pp no date pamphlet.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Soft cover, has bumps with light creasing to the spine ends and corners, sunning to the spine and cover edges, a thin vertical crease to the center of the book, some edge wear with a short creased tear to the fore edge of the back cover, and faint rubbing with some small smudges to the covers, otherwise a solid Near Very Good copy.

Condition: Fair. 1930. No Edition Remarks. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm, text is legible. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.

Condition: Good. 1930. No edition remarks. 351 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Frank Adams. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. vi, 7-30 pp. Original printed white stapled wrappers. Light soil, else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. (SL#81).

Condition: Good. Boards may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

paperback. Condition: Good. old edition. VERY GOOD Condition, CLEAN, SOLID COPY PAPERBACK; black shadow titles on white title box, all on fragile tweed design brown paper wrappers.(pamplet) ; 31pg thin pages; Collection of scattered verse found in his four volume Literary History of Persia.Charm & novelty" of the pieces selected.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pbk, 31p. London: Ernest Benn, [1927]. Second series, No. 2. A clean unmarked copy in good condition. g242 / m5250.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Augustan Books of English Poetry, second series, No. 13. Original paper wraps bound into plain red boards lightly marked, name to ffep, some foxing throughout, sound, good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Half blue leather binding with decorative paper covered boards. Rubbing to spine, slight wear to corners of boards. Light marking to leather, light browning to boards. Good solid binding. Tanning to free endpapers, very clean text throughout. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: Iv, 30, [2].

Paper Cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 193pp, (pages numbered 559 to 751) + xiv ads. The cover is worn at extremities and spine with front cover detached, content still well bound together. Some light foxing otherwise interior in nice clean condition - no deliberate marks. Owner's names on 1st page of ads.

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st UK Edition. An anthology of different translations of ancient Greek poems."The order in which the translations are printed follows that of the Loeb edition, except for the first two poems." This appears to be earlier than the poems included"Others Abide" 1927.Tightly stitched text block in paper over board covers, handwritten label with this title. 30p.No publisher, No date. slight foxing [ There is no title page and the last poem [p 31] is missing and it appears to a rebind of the Ernest Benn edition c.1924-26 . Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 186 pp., 8vo, tan wrapper with yapp edges, textblock edges untrimmed. A literary quarterly edited by T. S. Eliot during its entire run from October 1922 until it ceased publication in January 1939 ("Perhaps one of the most influential critical reviews of its day," Miller-Price 45). The piece by Maritain is a translation by F. S. Flint. Also with book reviews by Bonamy Dobrée, Herbert Read, T. S. Eliot, and others. A good, generally well-preserved copy; contents clean; wrapper age-toned and a bit dust-soiled (and small stain on rear panel), wrapper yapp edges frayed as usual, with some short closed tears.

Soft covers. Benn's Augustan Books of English Poetry, Second Series. Brown covers with white space for Front cover titles. Chipped & creased covers with small piece missing from rear cover. Disbound twin-staple booklet. 8.3" x 5.3". 30 pp. Wt: 0.25 Kg. Reading Copy Only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st UK Edition. "These translations are in the order of the Loeb edition of the Greek Anthology, The translator's aim has been to follow the original as close as he could " 119p. Slight soiling to cream coloured boards and minor wear to spine. Gift inscription -1928 - to previous owner -on ffep. Book.

Condition: Near Fine. London and NY 1930 first edition. Eyre and Viking. Hardcover octavo. 351p. Attractive bright orange geometric patterned boards. **Signed by Wolfe . Copy #171 of 250. Decorated by Frank Adams. Contributions from Samuel Pepys, Addison, Wordsworth, Austin Dobson, Tennyson and many others. Some poems by Humbert Wolfe as well. Largely uncut. Near Fine.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. 349 untrimmed pages, t.e.g. Small 8vo, vellum-backed decorative boards. Bookplate. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1930. Near fine. Number 12 of 225 copies signed by Humbert Wolfe.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce anthology of Gerald Gould's poetry, issued for the second series of the 'Augustan Books of English Poetry'. First edition of this collection.Number twenty from the 'Augustan Books of English Poetry' Second Series.Attractively bound in quarter cloth, with decorative paper covered boards.Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.Comprising the poems of Gerald Gould, including 'Wander-Thirst', 'Green Leaves', 'My Love', 'Child's Song' and more. Gould was also a journalist, reviewer and essayist who was made chief reader for Victor Gollancz Ltd, where he was involved in the early publication history of George Orwell.This series was edited by Humbert Wolfe, an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. Bound in quarter cloth, with decorative paper covered boards.Externally, very smart, with really only minor rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.