Lehmann John (179 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Good cover, dust jacket missing, tight binding, clean text Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. 47 p., bibliogr., 15 cm. Collection La petite collection; 203. Traduction de l'anglais et postface de Guillaume Villeneuve; illustrations de Karine Daisay. Traduction de A letter to a young poet. Texte souligné (sur cinq pages), sinon très bel exemplaire. Pages propres. Reliure solide. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG/VG. Very light wear. Dust jacket is in a clear protective sleeve. Interior is clean. No writing or markings of any kind.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG+/VG+. Excellent condition with minmal wear. Dust jacket is in a clear protective sleeve. Ownership signature of actor Edward Herrmann in pencil on the rear endpaper with his small bookplate on the front pastedown. Text is clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 112 pages. George Barker "Ballad of the Muse at Sea" / Jack Cope "The Crack in the Sky" / Eudora Welty "Spring" / John Holloway "Recognition Scene" / L A G Strong "Yeats at his Ease" / H L R Edwards "Stendhal in London (1817)" / Rex Warner on C Day Lewis.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. D J Enright "The Peaceful Island (poem)" / Brian Glanville "The Footballers" / Attilio Bertolucci 2 poems / Jeremy Gardner "The Silver Collection" / J C A Rathmell "Explorations and Recoveries - I Hopkins, Ruskin and the Sidney Psalter" / Michael McKeown 2 poems.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index. Contents; Pt. I Golden Lad -- 1. Dynasty -- 2. Burst of the Old Music -- 3. Across the Idyll -- 4. Romantic Ninny -- 5. Between Two Worlds -- Pt. II Wars -- 6. Vienna -- 7. New Writing -- 8. Triumph of the Blood -- 9. Dark Lieutenants -- 10. Co-operation of the Penguins -- 11. Penetrating that Room -- Pt. III Gilded Nuts -- 12. Ends and Beginnings -- 13. Looking for Ganymede -- 14. Thinking Poet, Writing Editor -- 15. Too Late for Anything but the Truth -- Pt. IV Old Flames -- 16. Minor Cultural Monument -- 17. Speaking for England -- 18. Bone Standing Out. Subjects; Lehmann, John 1907-1987. Lehmann, John 1907-1987 Friends and associates. Lehmann, John 1907-1987 ; Biography. Poets, English 20th century ; Biography. Editors Great Britain ; Biography. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. Poets, English 20th century. Editors Great Britain. Publishers and publishing Great Britain 20th century ; Biography. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; viii, 150 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Isherwood, Christopher 1904-1986; biography. Lehmann, John 1907-1987 Friends and associates. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 132 pages. Features on; John Betjeman / collecting Dr Who Annuals / John Dickson Carr / Rosamond Lehmann / Butterfly Books / Punch Magazine part 2.

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Some contributions were specially written for this issue of Penguin New Writing, and are the first publication in the UK, including Graham Greene's piece on re-visiting an unfinished novel in 'Across the Border'. With colour and photogravure illustrations, including work by Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al. ***A good only reading copy in colour-illustrated thin card covers. The covers show some rubbing and creasing commensurate with age and handling, with a couple of deep creases to the front cover. Spine edges rubbed with some surface loss. No actual loss to the fragile spine covering. Paper stock lightly tanned as usual, with heavier tanning to the page block edges. Internally there is quite a lot of page creasing, and the paper has got wet at some stage, and some of the pages are wrinkled as a result (please see scans). No previous ownership inscriptions and no internal foxing. No tears. ***180mm x120mm. 192 pages. ***Contents: J. Maclaren-Ross: Monsieur Felix; Louis MacNeice: Street-Scene; Tom Hopkinson: Above the Snow-line; Donagh MacDonagh: Three Poems from the Irish; Graham Greene: Across the Border; Henry Reed: Antigone; A.C. Wann: Growing up in Chad Street; Norman Nicholson: Two Poems; Boris Pasternak: The Thrushes; Giles Romilly: Two Poems; John R. Townsend: Poem After Victory; R.C.M. Howard: The Voyage Back; Gillian Hughes: Calm Sea. ***The Critical View: Film Critic: Parade of Violence; V. S. Pritchett: Men of the World; John Lehmann: The Search for the Myth; From a Painter's Note-Book VI. ***The Living Moment: Stuart Hood: The Valley; Rollo Woolley: The Search; Sacha Carnegie: Snow. ***New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism. During the Second World War, in 1940, with New Writing's future uncertain, John Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe which was published by Penguin Books, a critical summary of the writers of the 1930s. ***Allen Lane of Penguin Books managed to secure paper for a new series which became Penguin New Writing, a monthly book-magazine, this time produced as a paperback. Penguin New Writing ran to 40 issues in total, surviving until 1950. ***First impression of the true first edition of John Lehmann's Penguin New Writing Issue 30, published in 1947. Of interest to collectors of collectable Penguin paperbacks. ***Please note the above-mentioned faults - a reading copy only. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Ceri Richards, Edward Burra, Keith Vaughan, Graham Sutherland et al (illustrator).…

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Revue littéraire. Les Lettres Nouvelles Décembre 1972 Janvier 1973. 5/72. Souvenirs de John Lehmann sur Virginia Woolf de Romano Bilenchi sur Elio Vittorini. 12x21 cm. 191 p. Broché. Bon état. Papier légèrement bruni. Couverture légèrement défraîchie. in-8°.

Condition: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index. Contents; Pt. I Golden Lad -- 1. Dynasty -- 2. Burst of the Old Music -- 3. Across the Idyll -- 4. Romantic Ninny -- 5. Between Two Worlds -- Pt. II Wars -- 6. Vienna -- 7. New Writing -- 8. Triumph of the Blood -- 9. Dark Lieutenants -- 10. Co-operation of the Penguins -- 11. Penetrating that Room -- Pt. III Gilded Nuts -- 12. Ends and Beginnings -- 13. Looking for Ganymede -- 14. Thinking Poet, Writing Editor -- 15. Too Late for Anything but the Truth -- Pt. IV Old Flames -- 16. Minor Cultural Monument -- 17. Speaking for England -- 18. Bone Standing Out. Subjects; Lehmann, John 1907-1987. Lehmann, John 1907-1987 Friends and associates. Lehmann, John 1907-1987 ; Biography. Poets, English 20th century ; Biography. Editors Great Britain ; Biography. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. Poets, English 20th century. Editors Great Britain. Publishers and publishing Great Britain 20th century ; Biography. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; viii, 150 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Isherwood, Christopher 1904-1986; biography. Lehmann, John 1907-1987 Friends and associates. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is a little scuffed. Edges are creased and nicked. Page block head is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; 264 pages, 3 pages of plates : facsimilies, frontispiece, portraits ; 23 cm. Subjects: Sitwell, Edith 1887-1964. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; Description: 264 p. Facsim. , ports. 24 cm. Subjects: Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964 --Correspondence. Poets, English --20th century --Correspondence 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; Physical description. : 175 p. ; 18 cm. Subject: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Harcourt Brace, NYC., 1955. First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE hardcover book in GOOD dust-jacket. Price-clipped. There is a 1x2 inch chip missing from the lower left corner of dj's rear panel. NOT remainder marked. NOT faded. NOT a book club edition. NOT an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

Condition: Good. Used, cover has light marks, outer edges have minor scuffs, some outer pages have gone Brown, book content is in very good condition.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 175 p. ; 18 cm. Notes; A copy of this title is held in the Readerships and Literary Cultures collection. Contents; Report on to-day: It was D-Day / Denis Glover -- Wonderful holidays-II / Rosamond Lehmann -- Spiv on the steppe / A. W. Baird -- Now I know / Humphrey Knight -- A song of the cold / Edith Sitwell -- The ebbing tide / James Stern -- The self-made blonde / William Plomer -- The slip / Jim Phelan -- Elegy / Maurice James Craig -- A heap of ripping / Percy Coates -- Three poems / Laurie Lee -- Night worker / V. S. Pritchett -- Two poems / Terence Tiller -- Iseult la belle / Henry Reed -- English painting and the future / Art critic -- Book front: The realist novel and poetic imagination / Stephen Spender -- The decline and future of the English novel / Philip Toynbee -- The defeat of Romanticism / John Heath-Stubbs -- Poetry supplement. Subjects; Penguin New Writing. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Very Good. 15, [2] pp., paperback, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

1st American ed. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii,178p : ill ; facsim., ports ; 22cm. Subject: Brooke, Rupert 1887-1915 ; Biography. 1 Kg.

1st edition thus. 8vo. 228pp. Tipped in b/w. portrait. Original boards. Beige d/w. with black and green lettering to spine, slightly rubbed with 1cm tear. ISBN 0333278755 US$15.

Hardback. Reprint. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. No dustjacket as issued (?) Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 248 pages. Includes essays by J.I.M. Stewart [Biography], Philip Toynbee [Experiment and the future of the novel], Roy Fuller [Poetry: tradition and belief], T.C. Worsley [The Author and the Theatre, Francis Wyndham [25 years of the Novel], G.S. Fraser[The poet and his medium], Alan Pryce-Jones [The Personal Story]. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket [as issued]. First Edition. Black cloth binding with titles on spine and front cover stamped in gilt, very scarce in hardcover. Clean unmarked copy, solid binding, former owner's tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. Contributions by various authors. Includes a complete list of books published by John Lehmann Ltd. and a bibliography of books written and edited by John Lehmann, notes on the contributors, 166 pages. …