Private View by Mare (19 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG, Wear, Label, Offset,Foxing. 1st Edition. Literary criticism. Book has ink gift inscription dated 1953 on the FFEP. 520gm. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth, tight binding, some discolouration to endpapers otherwise clean. Jacket has edgewear and chipping to spine ends. Not price-clippeed.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. 1953. First Edition. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

First edition. 8vo. [xvi], 256 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (87710). Introduction by Lord David Cecil.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very GoodPages clean and brig. First Edition. Pages clean and bright,Binding firm,Light wear to edges,Some rips and tears 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.

1st edition. 8vo. xvi + 256pp. Bookplate to front pastedown. Original blue cloth. Brown d/w. with dark green lettering to spine, rubbed and chipped to edges. US$15.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Interesting and varied selection of De la Mare's Literary criticism. 256 p.pages, 550g, 9" Tall. No inscriptions except penciled bookseller ref on ffep. Jacket protected in removable clear plastic wrapper. Unclipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 256 pages Essays on Poetry and literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Green hardback without dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

With an introduction by Lord David Cecil. London 1953. 256 pages. Original cloth. No jacket. [#188604].

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). First. Introduction by Lord David Cecil. 8vo, cloth, d.w. (lightly chipped at extremes of spine). London: Faber & Faber, (1953). First Edition. Inscribed by the author "with all good wishes, April, 1954".

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket. Very Good. Some wear, half-inch tear at top edge on verso, and chip at tail of spine. Wrinkling, tear, and small loss on inside flap. Price unclipped. (Dust Jacket only. Book not included).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed, free endpapers embrowned. With the ownership inscription of Lord David Cecil, 1953, his marginal pencillings in the text and his manuscript notes on the rear pastedown - "D.L.M. cant transport me as Yeats does; he hasn't the poetic genius . . ." &c. But he is generous in his introductory praise of these critical essays. "Mr. de la Mare does not see life and art as separate," he writes. "To him the world of imagination is just as 'real' as the world he sees round him in the street. Hamlet as much a living man in his eyes as are his friends, the Forest of Arden as actual a place as is the New Forest . . . Mr. de la Mare reminds us of an important truth; namely, that the first essential purpose in literature is to delight us. His example teaches us another lesson too. By concentrating always on the individual author and not wasting his time in vague, high-sounding generalizations on the nature of art, he directs our eye to the fact that every genuine work of literature is of its nature unique, and must be judged as such. Most critics forget this. They erect iron laws of what is good and bad which involves them in condemning one artist for no better reason than that he is unlike another. How few critics, for example, seem able to admire both Donne and Bridges; for they judge Bridges's poetry by a standard acquired by reading Donne's, or vice versa. In this book Mr. de la Mare shows us it is possible to enjoy both authors wholeheartedly. Incidentally, he also shows us how to enjoy Mr. de la Mare." David Cecil was a devotee of Walter de la Mare, and long an advocate for him; he gave his presidential address for the English Association on the writer in 1973.

With an Introduction by Lord David Cecil. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt title to spine, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber. With a newspaper clipping article on De la Mare loosely inserted.  A very good copy, dust jacket lacking a small piece along lower spine.