malcolm elwin editor (10 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. -----------------Red cloth covers with bright gilt spine lettering, book is 8 1/2" tall. 252 pages with 2 portraits------FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket Very Good Conditionustrations. Book in fine condition, dj near fine. With original price present on dj.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Tight, clean, no marks. An unread copy. Spine has faded and lettering is barely readable.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. with the original illustrations Ilustrador. First Thus. Firmly bound, maroon boards. No jacket, no writing inside.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition 8vo, published in fair unclipped jacket with wear, abrading and closed tears, yellow boards, sound binding, very good internal condition. A collection of post WW2 essays, poems and photographs.

Condición: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A slight tan to the page edges.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Thus. Firmly bound red boards without a jacket, some scuffing on the corners and on the edges of the spine, scuffing and residue from a removed label on the front paste down, brown marks on the top corner of the first and last pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Acceptable. Hardcover in good condition. Loose, printed plastic dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is scuffed, and edges are chipped. The upper section of the jacket rear is absent, and secured with tape. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block and endpapers are lightly tanned and blemished. Name penned to FEP. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 44 pages. Andrew Dakers "An Epic of the Barren Lands" / Sybil Thorndike "After Ten years" / Hugo Eckener "Zeppelin" / Somerset de Chair "Red Bread" / Malcolm Elwin "Robert Walpole" / Thomas Moult "I Came Here to Work!" / Sidney Dark "Friends & Adventures"/ Max Murray "I went to Russia" / E M Delafield "A Letter to the Publisher" / Alec Brown "Moscow Has a Plan" / Major Phelps Hodge "Long Way to London" / David Garnett "A note on 'Charlotte's row'" / W Walmesley White "Migratory Birds" - there are also photographs of; francis Stuart, Edward Garnett, H E Bates. (U.P.).

Condición: D'occasion - Bon état. Macdonald illustrated Classics, General Editor Malcolm Elwin, sans date (vers 1950). 702 pages. Reliure en percaline rouge avec armes du Malvern College au 1er plat, lettrage doré au dos, un peu usée en bordure, en bon état sinon. Ex libris Malvern College. Tranche supérieure teintée en rouge. Papier un peu jauni. Livre en bon état général. 6 illustrations hors texte en couleurs. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Pp.1, 2, 4 [missing 3] with additional unnumbered page entitled "bibliography of [.] the Detective Story", folio, connected with stud creating hole which only marginally affects the text, good condition. Lightly corrected MS. An early, pioneering study of the genre as it developed, as a phenomenon similar to literary predecessors (Elizabethan drama). He associates the "craze" for the detective story with the (post) First World War, but (obviously) finds topoi in Sherlcok Holmes and "Murders in the Rue Morgue", citing R. Austen Freeman, whose "stock investigator is a medical jurist, who combines an intimate knowledge of the law with an application of advanced scientific systems. The plot is worked out syllogistically in a manner so minutely accurate as would have won the approval of the logical Jevons or John Stuart Mill." He then discusses the genre in terms of the characteristic content of authors: Le Queux, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace (seeking 'thrills' like the Gothic novel). The public, he says, appear similar to the readers of Mrs Radclkiffe and "The Castle of Otranto" (apparently quoting someone else he says, "raised on the structural scheme of the modern detective novel"). He then explores the plot in detective novels, "No plot in fiction is so fascinating, so complex, and yet so simple as that of the detective novel [.]", citing that of A.E. W. Mason's "The House of the Arrow". AT THIS POINT, page 2 concludes with the words "The blackmailer", to be continued on the missing page 3. P.4 commences with complimentary words about Chesterton (obviously continuing the agument in the missing page), saying "The creation of the character of Father Brown is a triumph in detective fiction", entering an explanation of that claim. He then speculates that "It is possible the fact that the scope of the detective story is as wide as its circle of readers which accounts for the neglect of this form of fiction by our literary critics [.] the time has come when the detective story has so far asserted itself as to leave its mark on literary history." He then speculates on who will be in University courses. "Poe will be read as a matter of course", Gaboriau "though a foreigner", Wilkie Collins ("two novels already classics". Then he names later writers : Mason, Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, winding down to conclude "there is no doubt that the writers of detective stories have made a notable contribution, not only to fiction, but to literature." The one-page "bibliography" ("The following bibliography may be found useful to students of the detective story") starts with Poe, includes authors mentioned above, adding Bramah, Sax Rohmer, John Ironside, A.K. Green, J.S. Fletcher, and some now obscure. The review of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", one page, folio, edges with small closed tears, text apparently complete, lightly correct and with additions. e comments on Poe's mastery of he short story, expalining why "it is the greatest of detective stories". It does howver require the reader to use "one's" intellect, adding "The story is mental aperitif". He concludes "The ['author' elided] creator of Sherlock Holmes is often proclaimed the disciple of Gaboriau, but Poe seems to have been the master of both [.]"Notes: A. Dorothy L. Sayers does not figure in this essay. She had only published two books when this essay was written. Nor Margery Allingham who had yet to publish; B. Presumably this is the earliest attempt to define the burgeoning Golden Age and give Detective fiction academic respectability with literary parallels and a pioneering bibliography; C. I have been unable to establish whether these were published.