Michael roberts compiler (5 resultados)

13th Impression. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Some highlighter markings to a few pages. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 388 pages ; 19 cm. Contents: Max Adeler (C.H. Clark) -- Canon Alfred Ainger -- Henry Adlrich -- Richard Pepper Arden, Baron Alvanley -- W.E. Aytoun -- Balliol rhymes -- Rev. R.H. Barham -- Jane Barker -- James Beattie -- James Hay Beattie -- Hilaire Belloc -- E.C. Bentley -- Isaac Bickerstaff -- William Blake -- Marguerite Power Blessington -- James Bramston -- W. Bridges-Adams -- Shirley Brooks -- Thomas Brown -- Sir William Browne -- Robert Browning -- Frank Gelett Burgess -- Robert Burns -- Samuel Butler -- John Byrom -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- C.S. Calverley -- Roy Campbell -- George Canning -- Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) -- G.K. Chesterton -- Charles Churchill -- A.H. Clough -- Hartley Coleridge -- S.T. Coleridge -- Mortimer Collins -- W. Congreve -- E.E. Cummings -- Clarence Day -- A. De Morgan -- Charles Dibdin -- T.S. Eliot -- C.D.B. Ellis -- William Empson -- Epitaphs -- Thomas Erskine -- Abel Evans -- Marjory Fleming -- Samuel Foote -- Colin Francis -- J.H. Frere -- David Garrick -- John Gay -- Sir W.S. Gilbert -- A.D. Godley -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Harry Graham -- Robert Graves -- John Gray -- Thomas Gray -- G. Rostrevor Hamilton -- Sir John Harington -- Bret Harte -- Master Heath -- W.E. Henley -- John Heywood -- A.C. Hilton -- Samuel Hoffenstein -- James Hogg -- Thomas Hood -- G.M. Hopkins -- A.E. Housman -- Thomas Hughes -- Sir Hildebrand Jacob -- Richard Jago -- Francis Jeffrey -- C.E.M. Joad -- Samuel Johnson -- John Keats -- B.H. Kennedy -- Benjamin Franklin King -- Hugh Kingsmill -- Rudyard Kipling -- E.V. Knox -- R.A. Knox -- Charles Lamb -- W.S. Landor -- Andrew Lang -- George Granville Lansdowne -- Walter Leaf -- Edward Lear -- H.S. Leigh -- C.C. Leland -- D.B.W. Lewis -- Limericks -- Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve) -- W.L. Mansel -- Don Marquis -- Sir Theodore Martin -- James Clerk Maxwell, G.K. Menzies -- Owen Meredith (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton) -- Thomas Moore -- James Appleton Morgan -- Robert Murray -- Ogden Nash -- Charles Neaves -- R.H. Newell -- George Outram -- Edward Henry Palmer -- Henry Parrot -- T.L. Peacock -- William Plomer -- Alexander Pope -- Richard Porson -- Ezra Pound -- W.M. Praed -- Matthew Prior -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Henry Reed -- John Wilmot Rochester -- Sir George Rose -- Warham St Leger -- C.P. Sawyer -- Sir Owen Seaman -- P.B. Shelley -- Sir Arthur Shipley -- P.N. Shuttleworth -- W.W. Skeat -- Horace Smith -- James Smith -- Naomi Royde Smith -- Robert Southey -- Sir John Squire -- J.K. Stephen -- James Stephens -- L.A.G. Strong -- Jonathan Swift -- A.C. Swinburne -- J.M. Synge -- Bayard Taylor -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- W.M. Thackeray -- D'Arcy W. Thompson -- H.D. Traill -- Joseph Trapp -- Alaric A. Watts -- Carolyn Wells -- E.G. White -- Rev. Cornelius Whur -- Edward Young. Subjects: English poetry. English wit and humor. Humorous poetry. English poetry 20th century. 1 Kg. …

13th Impression. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Some highlighter markings to a few pages. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 388 pages ; 19 cm. Contents: Max Adeler (C.H. Clark) -- Canon Alfred Ainger -- Henry Adlrich -- Richard Pepper Arden, Baron Alvanley -- W.E. Aytoun -- Balliol rhymes -- Rev. R.H. Barham -- Jane Barker -- James Beattie -- James Hay Beattie -- Hilaire Belloc -- E.C. Bentley -- Isaac Bickerstaff -- William Blake -- Marguerite Power Blessington -- James Bramston -- W. Bridges-Adams -- Shirley Brooks -- Thomas Brown -- Sir William Browne -- Robert Browning -- Frank Gelett Burgess -- Robert Burns -- Samuel Butler -- John Byrom -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- C.S. Calverley -- Roy Campbell -- George Canning -- Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) -- G.K. Chesterton -- Charles Churchill -- A.H. Clough -- Hartley Coleridge -- S.T. Coleridge -- Mortimer Collins -- W. Congreve -- E.E. Cummings -- Clarence Day -- A. De Morgan -- Charles Dibdin -- T.S. Eliot -- C.D.B. Ellis -- William Empson -- Epitaphs -- Thomas Erskine -- Abel Evans -- Marjory Fleming -- Samuel Foote -- Colin Francis -- J.H. Frere -- David Garrick -- John Gay -- Sir W.S. Gilbert -- A.D. Godley -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Harry Graham -- Robert Graves -- John Gray -- Thomas Gray -- G. Rostrevor Hamilton -- Sir John Harington -- Bret Harte -- Master Heath -- W.E. Henley -- John Heywood -- A.C. Hilton -- Samuel Hoffenstein -- James Hogg -- Thomas Hood -- G.M. Hopkins -- A.E. Housman -- Thomas Hughes -- Sir Hildebrand Jacob -- Richard Jago -- Francis Jeffrey -- C.E.M. Joad -- Samuel Johnson -- John Keats -- B.H. Kennedy -- Benjamin Franklin King -- Hugh Kingsmill -- Rudyard Kipling -- E.V. Knox -- R.A. Knox -- Charles Lamb -- W.S. Landor -- Andrew Lang -- George Granville Lansdowne -- Walter Leaf -- Edward Lear -- H.S. Leigh -- C.C. Leland -- D.B.W. Lewis -- Limericks -- Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve) -- W.L. Mansel -- Don Marquis -- Sir Theodore Martin -- James Clerk Maxwell, G.K. Menzies -- Owen Meredith (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton) -- Thomas Moore -- James Appleton Morgan -- Robert Murray -- Ogden Nash -- Charles Neaves -- R.H. Newell -- George Outram -- Edward Henry Palmer -- Henry Parrot -- T.L. Peacock -- William Plomer -- Alexander Pope -- Richard Porson -- Ezra Pound -- W.M. Praed -- Matthew Prior -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Henry Reed -- John Wilmot Rochester -- Sir George Rose -- Warham St Leger -- C.P. Sawyer -- Sir Owen Seaman -- P.B. Shelley -- Sir Arthur Shipley -- P.N. Shuttleworth -- W.W. Skeat -- Horace Smith -- James Smith -- Naomi Royde Smith -- Robert Southey -- Sir John Squire -- J.K. Stephen -- James Stephens -- L.A.G. Strong -- Jonathan Swift -- A.C. Swinburne -- J.M. Synge -- Bayard Taylor -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- W.M. Thackeray -- D'Arcy W. Thompson -- H.D. Traill -- Joseph Trapp -- Alaric A. Watts -- Carolyn Wells -- E.G. White -- Rev. Cornelius Whur -- Edward Young. Subjects: English poetry. English wit and humor. Humorous poetry. English poetry 20th century. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. y Fair. n 12th Impression. London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1960. Book. Good. Brown Cloth Boards. 12th Impression. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collection which covers the whole field of English comic verse, apart from 'light verse'. 388pp with index. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to spine and corners, spine a little slack and top edges dusty, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ marked and edgeworn, with closed tears to corners. Loosely enclosed, press cutting of poem by A P Herbert to the Editor of The Times. Book. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, fourth printing. Hardback, bound in brown cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 12.5cm, 388pp. Signed and dedicated by Michael Roberts to the half-title. A wonderful selection of comic verse from the fifteenth century through to the twentieth, with poets including Hilaire Belloc, E C Bentley, Byron, C S Calverley, Lewis Carroll, G K Chesterton, Edward Lear, Ronald Knox, and many more, and of course, limericks. The compiler was a polymath, being a poet, writer, scientist, mathematician, critic and broadcaster, and who made his living through teaching. He is perhaps best remembered for his editing of The Faber Book of Modern Verse, one of a number of anthologies he edited for a variety of publishers.Condition: A good copy. The cloth binding is a little dull and bumped to the corners. Inner biding secure, pages tanned due to the wartime economy paper but remaining in good strong readable condition. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condición: As New.