Wolfe Humbert Editor (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Hard cover. Edges dust darkened/tanned with some foxing. Pages tanned with some occasional foxing but otherwise sound. No jacket. Some marking to front cover. Spine faded. Minor wear/bumping to corners and spine ends. 351 pages. Frank Adams (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 31 pages. (SL#81).

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Date circa 1926. 31 pages. Original printed paper covers very good with some general wear and dust soiling, worn along spine with a few splits. Contents clean. A good copy. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 31 pages. (SL#81/2).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 31 pages. (SL#81).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 282 Pp. Near Fine Book With Light Wear And Bumping To Ends Of Spine, No Fraying, No Names Or Marks Or Stains. Dj Also Lightly Used, Light Browning To Spine With Wear And Bumping At Ends, No Chipping Or Tears, Not Price-Clipped.…

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. No Date circa 1928. 31 pages. Original printed paper covers good with some general wear, worn through at staples, a little dust soiled. Contents clean and tight. A good to very good copy. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 31 pages. (SL#81).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good. Booklet in the 'Augustan Books of Modern Poetry' second series. Number Four. No date c. 1930 Tipped in notice that the errata are the responsibility of the General Editor and not of Robert Graves who made the selection.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Here is a volume of essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, that was edited by John Drinkwater, Poet Laureate of England. The essays are on obscure and not-so-obscure literary subjects, but one of them ventures into science, and another into historians. Drinkwater, himself a Fellow member, also contributed an essay and the book's Introduction. The book was published in 1932 by Cambridge University Press. This is the First Edition. The book has a very interesting provenance and gift inscription (See Below). The Book is now OP. TABLE OF CONTENTS : - Sir Henry Taylor - by Lascelles Abercrombie - Arthur Hugh Clough - by Humbert Wolfe - The Early Novels of Wilkie Collins - by Walter De La Mare - Exit Planché . Enter Gilbert - by Harley Granville-Barker - Punch in the 'Sixties ("Punch Magazine") - by C. L. Graves - Historians in the 'Sixties - by F. S. Boas - Eneas Sweetland Dallas - by John Drinkwater - George Whyte-Melville - by Sir John Fortescue - Science in the 'Sixties - by Sir Oliver Lodge TITLE : The Eighteen-Sixties - Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature EDITOR : John Drinkwater (1882 - 1937) INTRODUCTION : John Drinkwater AUTHORS - CONTRIBUTORS : John Drinkwater; Lascelles Ambercrombie; Humbert Wolfe; Walter De La Mare; Harley Granville-Barker; C.L. Graves; F. S. Boas; Sir John Fortescue; Sir Oliver Lodge IMPRINT : Cambridge University Press PLACE : Cambridge, England DATE : 1932 EDITION : First Edition PROVENANCE : From the personal library of a famous Doctor, deceased SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Has interesting gift inscription. PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover; Contains an Introduction, nine essays, and an Index; has three line illustrations (reproduced from "Punch Magazine") ; x + 282 pages; 5 1/2" x 8 3/4"; smooth brown cloth-covered boards and spine; gilt lettering and decorative embellishment on spine; Royal Society device stamped in gilt on front cover; bottom text-block edges rough cut. At the top fore-edge corner of the front pastedown is the following gift inscription (or, rather, and inscription by the book's owner that the book was a gift) : "W. R Bett - 16.ix.34 - from W. R. Dawson. " W. R. Bett was Dr. Walter Reginald Bett (1903 - 1968). Physician, medical historian, author, orator, scholar, librarian and man of letters; he was the co-founder of the Osler Club of London. W. R. Dawson (1888- 1968); Warren Royal Dawson was an English librarian, Egyptologist and antiquarian. He was encouraged by Wallis Budge to pursue Egyptology , and became an expert on hieroglyphs and mummification. He wrote several esteemed books on Egyptology, among which were "Mummy as a Drug", and "Magician and Leech: a Study in the beginnings of medicine with special reference to ancient Egypt". It's a very interesting inscription, revealing a friendship between scholars who shared interests in history, medicine, literature ,and who had had an extended correspondence by mail. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR -- The spine displays some abrasion and loss of surface color - at the head the loss is more clearly discernible ' spine extremities are compressed and display abrasion, with fraying just starting; gilt lettering still fairly bright; front board is clean with but mild rub; rear board is clean , but has slightly more rub; rear board edges display a few small dents; text-block edges are toned, else clean. BINDING -- Paper over end-paper hinges are not split; hinges are cracked between pp 112 and 113, else binding is still solid with no loose or detached leaves. INTERIOR : Interesting Gift Inscription on front paste-down (see below). End-papers toned, and displaying slight smudging; small book number label affixed to bottom fore-edge corner of front paste-down; text paper is toned and displays foxing ; else the interior is clean and free of marking.…

Condition: Very Good. 1930. Paperback. .8vo.Good copy in original printed wrappers. Irish Poetry. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1930. Paperback. .8vo.Good copy in original printed wrappers. Irish Poetry. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Demy8vo, iv, 5-31 p. Quarter fawn buckram, shamrock pattern paper covered boards. VG+ tight and clean copy in what appears to be a custom binding. First edition. Light book, postage will be reduced to cost on processing.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 351pp. Decorated by Frank Adams. 1st edition 1930. D/w slightly grubby and worn, with some creasing to spine. A little spotting to edges. A decent copy. (bs45). Adams, Frank (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1930 November, second Impression. Hardback with Dust Jacket. Book acceptable to good condition, discolouration to covers, foxing to edges. Tanned edge paper. Dust Jacket poor with a big stain to the back cover lost to the top of the spine, a tear to the back cover and to corners. Inv U5A44.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original stapled white paper covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains 32 pp. A little tanning to the edges of the covers and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

First Edition. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iv; 31; [1], back cover. Illustrated softcovers. Toning throughout, folding to corners of pages including front cover. Very good. This slim pamphlet of W.B. Yeats' verse includes 47 of his poems including 'Down by the Salley Gardens', 'The Everlasting Voices', and 'The Rose of the World'. 'The Augustan Books of Poetry' First Series was collated between 1927-26 and continued into a second series in 1927 with the aim of collecting some of the greatest poets in the English language. …