Varieties of Parable by Louis MacNeice - 1965

Cambridge University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Fine. The Clark Lectures, 1963) Ex-library copy, smaller, sturdy book, quality black cloth, gilt lettering very bright on spine, 157 pages. Essays on Spenser, Bunyan, Romantics, Victorians and modern literature. Brown glue residue at top and bottom of both inside covers, first front end paper removed. DJ heavy paper with a dark red background to front and spine, light green back, white library stickers at spine top and bottom, an ad for Tony Tanner's "The Reign of Wonder" on most of back Fine, considering it is ex-library.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge at the University Press, 1965. First U.K. Edition . Cloth. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 157pp w bibliography and index. Black cloth w gold lettering. No wear to covers or spine but top edge to 1cm and spine are moderately sunned. Standard university library markings though condition suggests the book saw limited circulation. No DJ. The Clark Lectures, 1963: Spenser and Bunyan; The Romantics; The Victorians; The Contemporary World: Poetry and Drama; The Contemporary World: Prose Narrative. Louis MacNeice delivered these Clark Lectures in the spring of 1963, a few months before his death. They are printed here with no more than the necessary minimum editorial revision. A short bibliography has been added.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Will Carter (dust jacket design). 8vo. Pp. vii, 156, (1). Includes a bibliography. Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the printed dust jacket. MacNeice dazzling overview starts with Bunyan and Spenser and quickly incorporates (near-) contemporaries, including Franz Kafka, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, et al. The book is composed of lectures delivered by MacNeice, lightly edited, and published here soon after his death. A bright, fresh copy, with the dust jacket now preserved in a clear, removable archival protector.

Faber And Faber, 2008. Paperback. New. 166 pages. 8.50x5.31x0.47 inches.

London:: Cambridge University Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a near fine (both corners of front flap are clipped) dust jacket. .

UK: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Uncorrected proof in brown wraps, internally good (no bibliography at rear).. Proof. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge of University Press 1965. First edition, octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Cambridge: University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm). Original black cloth, in burnt orange dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii],[157]pp; publisher's ad to rear of jacket. Bookseller's ticket of Foyles, London, to front pastedown. A tight, straight copy, pushed at head and tail, tiny touch of sunning to extreme upper edges of boards: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $4.50 and 22s. 6d.), lightly rubbed at edges with one or two tiny chips and tears, sunned at rear along edges: Very Good. A pleasing copy of MacNeice's last extended work of literary criticism: discussions of "parable, symbolism, allegory, fable, fantasy, myth" given as the Clark Lectures in 1963, shortly before the author's death.