baker denys val editor (45 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Pages unmarked. Dust jacket heavily rubbed from shelfwear. Nicks along edges. Binding square & firm.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Clean, unmarked pages with a name written on the front flyleaf. There is yellowing to the pages and soil spots on the page edges. The dust jacket has some soiling. The dust jacket is nicely wrapped in clear Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. This book provides the reader with a series of individual studies of the works of our leading modern writers. The present volume contains studies of American, English, French, Indian, Irish, and Italian writers. Each study is contributed by a literary critic with a real personal interest in the work of his subject, and the aim, on the whole, has been to achieve a positive assessment rather than a mere negative criticism. The result, the publishers believe, will be to refresh the reader's mind and give him a new and deeper insight into the stuff of which contemporary literature is made" The above was presented by the publisher on the front dust-jacket flap. CONTENTS : - ** Ernest Hemingway -by Malcolm Cowley ** Jean-Paul Sartre - by Rayner Heppenstall ** Somerset Maugham - by Louis Marlow ** Mulk Raj Anand -by Jack Lindsay ** Virginia Woolf - by John Lehmann ** Ignazio Silone - by George Woodcock ** W. H. Auden - by Ronald Mason ** John Cowper Powys - by Malcolm Elwin ** Evelyn Waugh - by Rose Macaulay ** H. E. Bates - by Michael Williams ** Liam O'Flaherty - by Sean O'Faolain ** Thomas Mann - by Charles Neider Each essay is accompanied by a brief bibliography of works by each author covered (previous to the date of this book's issue). TITLE : Writers of Today Volume 2 EDITOR : Denys Val Baker (for author contributors please reference the list given above) IMPRINT : Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. PLACE : London DATE : (1948) STATUS : Out of Print - OP DETAILS : Trade hardcover; contains a prefatory Note; [ii] + 200 pages; 4 3/4" x 7 1/8" ; dark red paper-covered boards and spine, with gilt lettering on spine; beige dust-jacket printed in red and black. CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD -- JACKET : GOOD PLUS -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean, solid, and presentable - with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : Compression and a touch of abrasion to spine extremities; boards and edges display no overt wear; text-block edges are slightly toned, else clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : A few shallow surface creases, else the interior is clean and is free of marking. DUST-JACKET : Spine panel extremities are a bit ragged; the extremities of the flap folds display small tears; Surface rub is mild, and the whole displays decently.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Volume 2 hardcover in VG condition (slight handling, moderate foxing on top page edges, slight foxing inside the front cover), with VG dust jacket (light wear). 200 pages, including contributions by Malcolm Cowley, Rose Macaulay, Sean O'Faolain, and others. [8oz]. Book.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. A tight, square copy, in a rust-colored cloth binding; text is clean, crisp, and unmarked, with no creased or torn pages; three small, pale, barely visible stains on outer edge of text block; binding shows light wear; dust jacket is stained, torn, and moisture-rippled. Photo frontispiece. ; "A selection of short stories by English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish writers, around the general theme of romantic love and sexual relationships."; 9.5" tall; 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 200 pages. red cloith coverswith mild edge wear. Dust jacket, not price-clipped, with edge wear and small edge chips. The book is a series of individual studies of the work of writers including Hemingway, Sartre, Maugham, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Waugh, O'Flaherty, and Mann.

Paperback. Condición: Good+. Clean except for bit of writing on endpaper and contents page. Some moderate cover wear. Very sound. ; Writing on erotica and love by: Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Emile Zola, Colette, Alberto Moravia, Amanda Vail, Turgenev, Balzac, Morley Callaghan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, H. E. Bates, and Mary Renault. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 159 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Small 8vo maroon cloth gilt lettering to spine, in a cream and red clipped dustwrapper with small chip to foot of spine. Neat ink name to head of fep. Hemingway, Sartre, Woolf, Powys, Waugh, Mann, and others.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp190.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction; Just a Song at Twilight by Robert Aickman; The Private Torture Chamber by Rosemary Timperley; Fear by Paul Tabori; Hapladies by John Christopher writing as Anthony Rye; A Bit Simple by Ronald Blythe; The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker; The Home Stretch by Peter Ford; Sarah by D. G. Compton; Consanquinity by Ronald Duncan; The Lorraine Cross by Evelyn Fabyan; The Expert by Kate Barlay; A Local Haunting by Charles Causley; The Game of Dice by Alain Danielou; Dear Ghost by Fielden Hughes; Exorcizing Baldassare by Edward Hyams; On Terms by Christine Brooke-Rose; Ivory Joe by John Pudney; A Saving Grace by William Sansom; The Unquiet Spirit by Jean Stubbs; The House by the Water by R.W. Thompson; Water Water Wallflower by Fred Urquhart; Averil at Endercombe by Rosalind Wade; and The Guardian by James Turner. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. In pictorial jacket, 8vo, 229pp. Includes contributions by: Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins, Edwin Muir, Kenneth Clark, C. Day Lewis, et al. (light fading and rubbing to outer extremities). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1946, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes a chapter on John Steinbeck by Bernard Raymond, pages 122-138, also includes chapters on Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, Andre Gide, James Joyce, J. B. Priestley, T. S. Eliot, and others, Goldstone & Payne F17, not recorded by Morrow. Very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. An anthology of ghost stories edited by Denys Val Baker with contributions from : Rosalind Wade, J C Trewin, Fred Urquhart, Chris Simons, R Chetwynd-Hayes, Patricia Daly, Mary Williams, Derek Stanford, Edgar Allan Poe, A L Barker, Lanyon Jones, Meg Buxton, Denys Val Baker. 190pp 22cm x 14cm Very Good in Very Good pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket design by Ionicus.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Covers literature, Performing Arts, Crafts and more. 192 p.pages, 7 1/2" Tall. Grey cloth cover with dull gilt lettering on spine. Hinges sound & text block firm. No inscriptions.

1945 1st edition in tight binding; dust jacket price-clipped with wear, tear and small losses to edges and corners and foxing to inner surface; scattered foxing to page fore-edges; outer pages faintly yellowed; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. An anthology collecting thirteen stories by Rosalind Wade, Fred Urquhart, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Mary Williams, Denys Val Baker, and others. Wrap-around dust jacket illustration by Ionicus. Lower corners lightly bumped, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Printing of the First Edition in a Fine dust-jacket; This anthology contains the work of over seventy writers, both well-known and less-known. Each essay is about the experience of being a woman writer, and includes information on the publishing process, writing advice, and insights into the life of a writer. The essays are thought-provoking, touching, and inspiring.; 8vo; 212 pages.

First edition. 8vo. 160 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, edgewear, else very good copy. (94741). Alan Lewis, H. E. Bates, Rhys Davies, Dylan Thomas, etc.

Cloth. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. Short Stories. Authors include Q, Winston Graham and A. L. Rowse. 336 p.pages, 7 1/2" Tall. Blue cloth cover with Black lettering on spine. Spine colour faded. Hinges sound & text block firm. Small stamped name on ffep and penciled price on title page. No other inscriptions.

Cloth. Condición: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 21 fine Short Stories including: "A Pair of Hands" by Q; "The Defeat of the Amazons" by Charles Lee; "Cotty's Cove" by Winston Graham; "The Botathen Ghost" by R. S. Hawker and "The Witch of Tregonebris" by C. C. Vyvyan. Blue cloth cover with dull gilt lettering to spine. 336 p. pages, 7 1/2" Tall. Spine colour faded. "WISE" staped on ffep and old penciled price on title page. No other inscriptions.

Original Wraps. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 1970 Issue of the Prestigious Cornish Culture Magazine packed with Articles from highly renowned and talented Contributors. 15 Articles + Reviews etc, Including: "Botallack"by D.M. Thomas; "Childhood" by Tom Salmon; "Kilvert on Cornwall" by Ida Procter; "Art in Cornwall" by Michael Tresillian. Illustrated with Full-Page B&W Photos. 96 p. pages. 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good(+). Green-cloth large octavo, gilt to spine and front board, 96,160 pages, b&w illustrations; 25 cm. Volume 5, Number 19. Scarce. Includes "The Labyrinth" by Anais Nin. DJ protected by archival mylar sleeve. Lesbianism -- Literary collections, Sexuality. Contents: Why Celine / by Hal Zucker -- Hobohemians / by Philip Owens -- The tongue of spring and other poems / by Beatrice Baron [decorations by Picasso] -- Five poems / by Shearman Ray -- The labyrinth / by Anais Nin -- Was it will be / by John Lee Weldon -- Tennis anyone? (a photographic study) -- Married misery / by Harry Roskolenko -- Edge of the nest / by Eugene Armfield -- London Aphrodite / edited by Denys Val Baker. Mild wear to spine head and foot, extremely gentle rubbing to rear corners, very minor bumping to top corners, faint musty odor, light soiling to DJ, else Very good(+) in Very good(+) DJ. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated).

Original Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1973 Issue of the Prestigious Cornish Culture Magazine packed with Articles from highly renowned and talented Contributors. 17 Articles + Reviews etc, Including: " Talking to Bernard Leach"; "St. Agnes Seal Sanctuary; "The Brontes, Grand Daughters of Cornwall" by Ida Procter; "Fifty Years a Cornish Journalist" by R. A. Lanyon. Illustrated with B&W Photos. 88 p. pages. 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. 2 small, light thumb creases on front cover.

Original Wraps. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 1973 Issue of the Prestigious Cornish Culture Magazine packed with Articles from highly renowned and talented Contributors. 14 Articles + Reviews etc, Including: "Crosbie Garstin" by Michael Williams; "The Du Mauriers" by Noel Welch; "Memories of Cornwall's Art Galleries"; "In Harlyn Museum" by Jack Clemo and "Cape Walk" by Frank Ruhrmund . Illustrated with B&W Photos. 86 p. pages. 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions.

Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 1968 Issue of the Prestigious Cornish Culture Magazine packed with Articles from highly renowned and talented Contributors. 19 Articles + Reviews etc, Including: "Mebyon Kernow and the Future of Cornwall" by Richard Jenkin; "Love the Tamar" by Tony Soper; "Camborne Memories" by Muriel Sara and "Alfred Wallis" by Frank Ruhrmund. Illustrated with Full-Page B&W Photos including work of Alfred Wallis. 96 p. pages. 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions.

Original Wraps. Condición: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 1967 Issue of the Prestigious Cornish Culture Magazine packed with Articles from highly renowned and talented Contributors. 11 Articles + Reviews etc, Including: "Storm at Harlyn"; " The Surfers" by Denys Val Baker; "A Pig was Putt Away" by C.C. Vyvyan and "The Merry Maidens" by Frank Ruhrmund and "Anne Treneer : 1891 - 1966". Illustrated with Full-Page B&W Photos including Lady Vyvyan at work. 96 p. pages. 8 1/2" Tall. Very slight edge wear to cover. No inscriptions.

Original Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1968 Issue of the Prestigious Cornish Culture Magazine packed with Articles from highly renowned and talented Contributors. 19 Articles + Reviews etc, Including: ""Cornish Culture" by R. Morton Nance; "John Opie" by Michael Tresillian; "Lesvebyon Kernow" by Arthur Caddick; Mrs hezekiah Moses" by C.C. Vyvyan and "Elsie" by Frank Ruhrmund. Illustrated with Full-Page B&W Photos. 96 p. pages. 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions.

First edition. 12mo. 200 pp. Cloth binding, gilt lettering, no jacket, else very good copy. (80642).

paperback. Condición: Good.