A Mania for Sentences by D.J. Enright - 1983-07-21

Hardback. Very Good.

hc. Good+. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Chatto & Windus, 1983. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0701126620

Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1983-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 1.0000 in x 8.6000 in x 5.6000 in.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. author's note, list of books referred to and index. Blue coloured boards gilt titles to the backstrip. Rubbing to the lower book edges and faint foxing to the top text block edge. Light age toning of the text block and of the internal pages. Offset tanning to the endpapers. Plain text dustwrapper with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels. "These linked essays relate to particular literary works or to language as it appears (and disappears) in writing and in speech." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (6), VII-VIII, (2), 3-211, (3) pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Language & Linguistics. ISBN: 0701126620. ISBN/EAN:… Read More

Chatto & Windus, 1983.. /Dust Jacket Included. 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0701126620 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 211pp, slight browning, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0701126620 .

London : Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Publisher's review copy. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 211 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208) and index. Contents; Democracy of gods : a life of Heine -- The story of two souls : Goethe and the Manns -- Stupendous cannot be easy : on Robert Musil -- Echt Brecht -- Tours de ... : on Max Frisch -- Sisyphus and his stone : Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boll -- Tale of Genju and two women diarists -- Flaubert : his letters and ladies -- Honour of defeat : Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Sancho Panza and Peter Pan : on The good soldier Svejk and its author -- Chinese fictions -- at home and abroad -- Scholarship, sexship, shitship : misadventures among words -- Usage : good, common, and most uncommon -- Rust-removers :… Read More