Murdoch walter editor (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd edition., 287 pp. Brown hardcover, gilt on cover and spine, Very Good. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 56 pages. Douglas Martin "Nigel Lambourne" / Margaret Diane Stetz "Walter Murdoch: Bookman".

Hardcover. Condición: Good. ***Please Read*** 1960 printing - Dj has moderate wear and a few small tears - Some writing inside cover but text is clear - My shelf location - so-e-49*.

8vo. 306pp. Original wrappers, a very good copy. . First edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Australian ediiton. 180 pages. cover worn and spottd.

Paperback octavo, very good condition, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 303 pp. A collection of essays written by Sir Walter Murdoch who was the Foundation Professor of English at the University of Western Australia. This selection restores this writer's work back into print for a new generation of readers. Walter Murdoch, a popular broadcaster and public speaker, was one of Australia's bestselling twentieth-century authors. He wrote weekly essays in The Argus and other newspapers. He was uncle to Rupert Murdoch, who provides a foreword. Edited by Imre Salusinszky. .…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. First Edition. These 181 pages have offerings from Robert Browning. Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Tennyson -poets you likely know well. Perhaps less well - Walter Savage Landon, William Ernest Henley, Thomas Dekker, Joseph Addison and Robert Bridges. Cond : Boards are blue with gilt lettering - face and spine. Binding decent but loosening. Book plate of p/o verso front cover. Pencil notes on first blank page at back, and incidentally throughout. Minimal csoiling. Excellent reading copy. QUote (p. 11) : " They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fiils, And dances with the daffodils. " (Wordsworth) . Size: 12mo.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. An anthology of Australasian literature compiled by Walter Murdoch (1874-1970), a well-respected Australian academic and intellectual. This copy is in Near Fine condition with a dust jacket in poor condition. The dust jacket has significant loss at the top of the spine and torn corners, as well as chipping at intervals along the edges.…

From the Macqueen-Pope papers. (See his entry in the Oxford DNB.) The Clan Chattan Association is a confederation of highland clans. 2pp, 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight creasing to one corner, and rust staining from paperclip. Folded twice for postage. Addressed to MP's London address in Coventry Street. 'I've heard about your James MacQueen. His name appears in quite a few locally published papers &c. on Culloden. His new teeth are quite famous up here.' He accepts the proposal for an article: 'if you could go to 900-1000 words I'd be happy'. He reports: 'Our President - The Mackintosh, has just been returned unopposed as representative of the parish of Moy & Dalarossie on Inverness County Council. He was also the other day commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant. / During the last two years of the Home Guard I commanded a platoon - about 300 strong! - located outside Inverness and mostly in the Mackintosh country'. He names locations, adding: 'I had a big number of MacQueen's in the platoon. About half dozen in the Farr section were very strict Wee Frees and wouldn't turn out to drill on the "Sabbath", our chief day for drills!' He continues with reference to 'a coast defence battery' he recruited, and ends with reference to his recent ill-health.…