154. Ackroyd, Peter:
The Collection
Published by Chatto & Windus, London. 2001.
1st edition hardback in fine/as new condition. Appears to be new and unread. Unclipped dust wrapper has original £25.00 price.
A fascinating anthology of Peter Ackroyd's journalism, lectures, short stories and miscellaneous writing.
THE ORESTEIA
1928 GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN
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1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD IN A VERY GOOD EDGEWORN D/W WHICH IS PRICE-CLIPPED AND SUNNED TO THE SPINE. THE GREAT TRILOGY IN ONE VOLUME. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE BY GILBERT MURRAY WITH A LONG NEW INTRODUCTION.
COLLECTED SHORTER PROSE 1945 - 1980
1984 JOHN CALDER
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1ST EDITION. A FINE BOOK IN A NEAR FINE UNCLIPPED D/W. THE JACKET BEING ONLY SLIGHTLY SUNNED AT THE SPINE. THERE ARE NO PREVIOUS OWNER NAMES OR MARKS. CONTAINS THE ENTIRETY OF SAMUEL BECKETT'S SHORTER PROSE WRITTEN BETWEEN THE END OF WWII AND THE NOVELLAS WHICH HAVE APPEARED SINCE HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY. SCARCE.
Writing Home
Faber and Faber , London. 1994.
1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The dustwrapper is price clipped and is a little rubbed with some wear at the edges otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or marks.
Writing Home includes the diary Alan Bennett kept during the production of his first play, Forty Years on together with hilarious accounts of the filming of his many television plays. Also includes The Lady in the Van.
BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS
1974 HART-DAVIS, MacGIBBON LTD
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NEAR FINE BOOK AND PRICE-CLIPPED D/W. 1st edition.
Beyond the Looking Glass: Extraordinary Works of Fairy Tale and Fantasy - Novels, Stories & Poetry from the Victorian Era edited with an Introduction by Jonathan Cott, Special Introductory Essay by Leslie Fiedler. Much more than pleasurable escape, these works illustrate, in all their myriad and fantastic dimensions, projections of our inner most fears and desires. The texts by Jonathan Cott and Leslie Fiedler place these works in their historical and literary perspectives, exploring the remarkably sophisticated spiritual, psychological and even political ideas given life in the stories under the guise of fanciful romance. Superb colour and black & white illustrations. A heavy book.
Field, Andrew
Nabokov: His Life In Art
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1967.
1st UK edition hardback in fine condition. There is a tidy previous owner name and date along the top edge of the front endpaper otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and retains the original 50s net price at the front flap.
Vladimir Nabokov is a major figure in both Russian and English literature, yet he is considered neither a Russian nor an English writer by those who acclaim his works. The brilliance, size and variety of his output, while attracting a host of admirers, has been such that both praising critics and ardent admirers are unfamiliar with his total oeuvre. Andrew Field, a distinguished young American critic, is a rare exception and has here undertaken a major task the first critical study of the complete Nabokov. It is a study which has led him to the discovery of a staggering mass of poetry, prose, drama and criticism, some of which has been forgotten by Nabokov himself during the course of his writing career of half a century. The combination of Mr. Field's knowledge of Russian and his unique treatment of Nabokov's work as an oeuvre, aided by Mr. Nabokov's co-operation, has, for the first time, sharpened the critical focus on Nabokov to reveal a greatness and stature that even the writer's fervent admirers may not have suspected.
2185. Franzen, Jonathan: How to be Alone: Essays
Published by Fourth Estate, London. 2002
1st edition hardback, fine in condition with no previous owner names or marks. A collection of the personal essays and painstaking, often humorous reportage that have earned Franzen a wide and loyal readership, including what has come to be known as 'The Harper's Essay', Franzen's controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. From the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, from his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease to a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author, each piece wrestles with Franzen's familiar themes: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in post modern imperial America.
GLIMPSES AND REFLECTIONS
1937 HEINEMANN
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1st EDITION. NO D/W. BLUE CLOTH & GILT, SLIGHTLY DARKENED SPINE WITH LIGHT WEAR TO EXTREMITIES. CONTENTS FOXED OTHERWISE VERY GOOD.
Euripides ALCESTIS
1999 FABER AND FABER
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1ST EDITION. A FINE BOOK AND UNCLIPPED D/W. AN INSPIRED RETHINKING OF THE STORY IN THIS VERSION BY TED HUGHES FINISHED JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 1998.
Salman Rushdie
Imaginary Homelands : Essays and Criticism 1981 - 1991
Granta Books, 1991
US 1st edition hardback in near fine condition, there are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper has general shelfwear, it has not been price clipped and still retains the $24.95 net price. A collection of Rushdie"s essays and criticism written between 1981 and 1991. Includes commentary on such writers as Nadine Gordimer, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin. An important record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy-five essays collected here cover an astonishing range of subjects - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression.
PHINEAS REDUX
1913 G. BELL AND SONS
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2 VOLUME REPRINT OF THE CHAPMAN AND HALL 1ST PUBLISHED
IN 1874. GREEN BUCKRAM AND GILT DARKEND AT THE SPINE. TOP EDGE GILT. SOME
SLIGHT FOXING AT THE PAGE EDGES. CONDITION IS VERY GOOD
CORRESPONDENCE OF SARAH, LADY LYTTELTON.
1912 JOHN MURRAY
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NO D/W. RED CLOTH WITH BLIND AND GILT DECORATION. TEG. SLIGHT WEAR TO EXTREMITIES. DAMP STAINED REAR BOARD TRANSFERS THROUGH TO LAST 4 PAGES.LIGHT FOXING TO PAGE EDGES. LETTERS OF SARAH SPENCER 1787-1870 ELDER DAUGHTER OF GEORGE JOHN, SECOND EARL SPENCER. EDITED BY HER GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER THE HON. MRS. HUGH WYNDHAM WITH PORTRAITS.