Search Results: the dead seagull by barker george

Panther 1968. paperback (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 keeps postage costs down.

London: John Lehmann, 1950. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, with original wrap around band reading "Recommended by the Book Society. A nice copy with closed tears to jacket, soiling to rear panel of jacket.

London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1965. Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. dark blue hardcover with gilt titltes to the spine, originally published in 1950. Ex-library copy, barcode on front endpaper, stamped on title page 'standard fiction reserve'' usual stamps and marks.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., [1951] (first American edition). Octavo, 142 pages. Cloth lightly marked and foxed, and a little sunned about the spine; top edge, endpapers and adjacent leaves a little foxed and tanned; a very good copy with the unclipped dustwrapper a little foxed, rubbed, chipped and torn. Loosely inserted is the publisher's 'Book for review' slip with the inkstamped publication date of 20 July 1951.

Macgibbon & Kee, 1965T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover.

London: John Lehmann, 1950. Paperback. 18.5cm x 12.5cm. A proof copy of The Dead Seagull - titled here as Marsden, changed before publication. 142pp. 1st edition 1950. Covers slightly creased. Scarce. (bs119). 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Duodecimo size, 142 pp. English poet George Barker (1913-1991) wrote numerous works of both poetry and prose, often part of the New Apocalyptics movement, a refutation of the realism of the 1930s using mythical themes. "The Dead Seagull", although a work of fiction, draws from Barker's love affair with poet and novelist Elizabeth Smart (who also wrote about the affair in her book "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"). A surprisingly scarce novel in the first or early editions, "'The Dead Seagull' is a work of great originality, a poet's novel written with the richness of colour, the concentrated violence of style that have distinguished George Barker's verse" (per the dust jacket flap). The date of publication and "First American edition" are noted on the front free endpaper by a prior bookseller. ___DESCRIPTION: Full orange cloth, black cloth spine labels with gilt decorative borders and lettering, title page… Read More