introduction guy holt (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Without dust jacket (if issue. First Edition. Limited edition of 1000 copies, of which 800 are for sale. Octavo 9 1/4" tall, xi + 85 pages, red hair-line decorations, black and white illustrations, laid paper with deckled edges gilt top-edge, brown three-quarter cloth. A very, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear; gilt spine titles; binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. Without slipcase.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Selected from the familiar letters as first published between 1645 to 1655.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First edition. Three quarter brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title, gray papercovered boards, top edge gilt. Illustrated. Top corner on front board a bit worn, else a very good or better copy.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Limited Edition. No Dust Jacket, As Issured. xi, 85 pp, list of 5 b&w illustrations, Introduction; The Selected Letters. Reprint Edition Limited to 1000 copies. "James Howell (c. 1594-1666) was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol. On the eve of the English Civil War, he finally gained a secretaryship of the Privy Council, which according to one eminent critic, was 'very close to the type of appointment that he had sought for 20 years'. The conflict meant that he never took up the position, and at about the same time, he wrote his first book, or 'maiden Fancy', Dodona's Grove, which represented the history of England and Europe through the allegorical framework of a typology of trees. It is worth noting that he started to publish at this time of ferment although he was already well established as a writer of what we would know today as 'newsletters' but were then known as 'tracts' or 'pamphlets'. He was the first writer to earn his living solely from writing in the English language. He was also the first writer of an epistolary novel, a novel of letters, in English ("Familiar Letters"). His 'Lexicon Tetragloton, was not a dictionary in four languages, as its name would suggest, but in six; a dictionary of Latin vernacular (Romance language) proverbs. It is a highly respected work in the Portuguese and Spanish languages as well, quite apart from his native Welsh. He was a prolific writer. His 'New English Grammar' is also considered, by modern historians of formal English, as a work of foreign language teaching and as the first work of its kind in the English language." Lacking slipcase. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown three-quarter cloth with light-brown paper-covered board lettering and red decorative borders. Size: Large 8vo. Book.

VERY RARE MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET Beyond Life by James Branch Cabell with an Introduction by Guy Holt. First published by the The Modern Library in 1923 this is an early 1927 reprint. According to Toledano this is a leatherette spine type 4 with Bernhard endpapers. The book is NEAR FINE gilt on cover and spine extremely nice and bright, boards are extremely bright. Matching topstain nice and bright. Owner name of ffe, No other writing or marks in the book. Contents are clean and bright! APPEARS UNREAD. The rare dust jacket is in VERY GOOD+ condition with a thermo sealed dust jacket cover which actually kept the jacket in great condition. Rare in any form and otherwise bright and beautiful. 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. Titles listed on inside jacket include some from 1927 indicating a 1927 printing. BEAUTIFUL! VERY RARE AND HARD TO FIND EDITION WITH DUST JACKET! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. RARE SURVIVING COPY, CLEAN Navy Blue Leatherette; blue topstain; Spine #2; BL logo on Front of Cover; Brodzky Endpapers; 107 Titles listed in back make this a first printing. ABOUT AUTHOR: Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his works were most popular. P.S. May have murdered his mother's boy friend, never charged.