Book Joad by C E M Joad (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1935. Hardcover. 320pp. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1935. Hardcover. 320pp. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Condition: Good. 1944. Reprinted. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is clear.

Condition: Good. 1945. Reprint. 224 pages. Brown dust jacket with red lettering over green cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Minor foxing and soiling to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine and edges, with minor soiling to DJ.

Condition: Good. 1939. Hardcover. Published in 1939, reprinted in 1944. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing to edges with minor nicks and bumps on dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is price-clipped. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. 1939, reprint, hb, no dw, some ink underling, fair.

Condition: Good. 1939. Hardcover. Published in 1939, reprinted in 1944. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing to edges with minor nicks and bumps on dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is price-clipped. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Faber & Faber 1961 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reissue. Navy boards with gold lettering to the spine. Neat inscription to the ffep. Light foxing to the inside boards and some spotting to the closed page edges only. No further inscriptions, 320pp, clean pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Reprint 1943/1939. The author's Dislikings, Morals and my lack of them, and On not being so black as I have been painted. 224pp. Purple cloth with no dj. VG.

A poignant letter, written during Joad's final illness (he died on 9 April 1953). Joad's entry in the Oxford DNB ends with this assessment: 'Cyril Joad was an outstanding educator, a tireless proponent of 'progressive' causes, and one of the best-known broadcasters of the 1940s.' The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler, and the letter concerns his 1952 book 'The Choice of Words'. 2pp, 4to. Aged and discoloured, and cropped at the head with loss of a line of text. Folded once for postage. Date given in ink at head, presumably by Collins. Written in pencil in a barely-legible hand. Signed 'Your old friend / Cyril Joad' and beginning: 'Vere, / You've written a lovely book. I'm ill in bed - have been for a very long time; prostate! - and have therefore read it with continuity and attention as it is "sweet" in the Victorian good sense of the word - the sense in which there aren't any 'sweet' girls now.' The concluding half of the letter is difficult to decipher. Postscript: 'PS For the next impression should not "Sydney" on p 154 be Melbourne? / PS (2) Why not continue in the same vein up to our time / Come and see me'.