Edited collection of poems and essays in honour of the literary critic and mountaineer, I.A. Richards. Contributors include William Empson, Cleanth Brooks, Basil Willey, John Paul Russo and Janet Adam Smith, in addition to the editors and others. 367 pages printed and bound on dark blue boards, with gold, gilt lettering to centre of front board and spine. Former owner's signature in pen with date to f.e.p. and very light fox-marks to some page ends. Otherwise, in VG condition - contents are very clean and tidy and the book is tightly bound. With the addition of an A5-size loose-leaf letter from Mary E. Ryan at W.W. Norton and Company, US publishers, to Professor Basil Willey in Cambridge. With non-clipped dust-jacket in overall Good-minus condition - two cellotape repairs on inner to top & bottom of spine, some creases to spine and light spotting/marks to covers. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 221004

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Title: I.A. Richards. Essays In His Honor

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Le Plessis Books
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