Search Results: Titles starting with T from Inklings & Yarnspinners

London: Faber & Faber, 1970. 5th imp. h/b. Very good, 5th impression (1st published thus in 1963), unclipped d/j in protective sleeve (vg, slight bumping), blue clothbound boards, clean, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked. Printing Error: pp227-238 printed at front! Owner's bookplate on front pastedown: W D A Rowlands.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes. Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

London: Faber & Faber, 1952. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve). Insert: Times obituary of Gallup, 2000. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A first edition bibliography of T. S. Eliot by Donald Gallup. Including contributions to periodicals and foreign translations. ""In its extended form it covers, in five fully indexed sections, the whole range of Mr. Eliot's printed work.""

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition with unclipped d/j in wrapper, grey boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages bright and crisp, unmarked, binding good. Provenance: Prof Bill Trowbridge OBE, engineer and physicist, one of founders of computational electromagnetics (plate on front pastedown). 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Eliot had left instructions that his biography should never be written, Peter Ackroyd received no help or assistance from those who knew him best including Eliot's widow. However when he began to search what was availbabe he found a mountain of letters and other material in Englend and America and from this he has been able to to assemble a much fuller account of Eliot's long and many sided life than has ever been revealed before.

London: Faber & Faber, 1966. 3rd. h/b. Very good, 3rd revised edition, in clipped d/j in protective sleeve (some slight chipping), brown clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright, text block firm, pages crisp and clean (with occasional underlinings). Owner's name stamp on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote: 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions.' The text includes some of his most important criticism, especially parts of The Sacred Wood, Homage to John Dryden, the essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, For Lancelot Andrewes and Essays Ancient and Modern

London: Longmans, Green & Co for The British Council, 1950. 1st. paperback. Good, British Council pamphlet, stapled pages, crisp but slightly tanned.. C (216 x 135). M. C. Bradbrook was a British literary scholar known for her work on Shakespeare who became Cambridge Professor of English.

London, Sydney, Toronto: Bodley Head, 1976. 1st. paperback. Very good, text block firm, unmarked pages, slight tanning.. C (216 x 135). Traversi was a British scholar of English literature who worked in Italy and USA.

London: PL Editions Poetry, 1948. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, clipped d/j in protective sleeve (some chipping), pale yellow clothbound boards, gilt spine titling on burgundy panels; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked, but slight foxing on occasion. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A fine festschrift for Eliot on his 60th Birthday, in the year that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1948), including contributions by Auden, Aiken, Moore, Lewis, Betjeman, Durrell, Spender, Muir and many others. It was compiled by Richard March and the Sri Lankan poet (and founder of PL Editions Poetry) Tambimuttu.

Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1965. reprint. paperback. Good, reprint (from 1963), some scuffs on cover and spine, otherwise intact and tight (couple of spine creases), pages unmarked.. A (178 x 110). Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was a Canadian literary scholar, considered by many to be the finest of his generation. His crtical introduction to Eliot was widely regarded.

New York: OUP, 2006. 1. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, untrimmed d/j (vg), green clothbound boards, silver spine titling, text block firm (slight forward lean), pages crisp and clean, some underlinings.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). The winner of the Nobel Trize for Literature, the twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet _ forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. Now, in this brilliant exploration of T.S. Eliot's work, prize-winning poet Craig Raine reveals that, on the contrary, Eliot's poetry (and drama and criticism) can be seen as a unified and coherent body of work. Indeed, despite its manifest originality, its radical experimentation, and its dazzling formal variety, his verse yields meaning just as surely as other more conventional poetry. Raine argues that an implicit controlling theme_the buried life, or the failure of feeling_unfolds in surprisingly varied ways throughout… Read More

London: Ewart, Seymour & Co, Ltd, 1912. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, original green cloth-backed boards, gilt ruling & titling on cover and spine; some bumping; text block firm, pages uncut and untrimmed, internally unmarked and crisp, but some foxing in endpapers; and plate on front pastedown.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). A satirical work of poet and journalist T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924); this time he turns his scorn on the Welsh (having already done so about the Scots, Irish, English and Japanese).

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (good, a little bumping and marks); blue boards, blue clothbound spine with bright gilt spine titling v.g.; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp but a little foxed on edges. Donor's inscription on 2nd fep).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has so far eluded him.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (good); blue boards, blue clothbound spine with bright gilt spine titling v.g.; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has so far eluded him.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition (1st printing), unclipped d/j (good, a little bumping and marks); blue boards, blue clothbound spine with bright gilt spine titling v.g.; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp but a little foxed on edges. Donor's inscription on 2nd fep).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A thriller from the author of OUR GAME in which an old Etonian and spy is on a double mission in Panama to keep an eye on the political maneouverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has so far eluded him.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, red clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightly bound; sunning on endpapers, owner's inscription on front pastedown. A little foxing on edges.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). A comic novel that follows the progress of twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn, who has moved from her family home in the North of England to a small town not far from London to teach primary school children. Jenny is a 'traditional' Northern working-class girl whose dusky beauty strikes people as being at odds with the old-fashioned values she has gained from her upbringing, not least the conviction of 'no sex before marriage'. A thread of the novel concerns the frustrations of the morally dubious Patrick Standish, a 30-year-old teacher at a local private secondary school and his attempts to seduce Jenny; all this occurs against a backdrop of Jenny's new teaching job, Patrick's work and his leisure time… Read More

London: Little Brown, 2006. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, signed to title, unclipped d/j (vg some bumping to base).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). We could tell you about the bodies. We could tell you their names, where they were found, the state they were in. We could tell you about the suspects too, the evidence, the investigators; join a few dots, even throw you a motive. But what would be the point? You're going to make your own assumptions anyway. After all, you know these people, don't you? You went to school with them. We all did. Granted, that was twenty years ago, but how much does anybody really change? Exactly. So if you really knew them then, you'll already have all the answers. If you really knew them then... Put on your uniform and line up in an orderly fashion for the funniest and most accurate trip back to the classroom you are likely to read, as well as a murder mystery like nothing that has gone before it. Forget the forensics: only once you've been through school with this… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson, n.d. (?1940s). hardback. Fine; blue calfbound limp boards, no d/j, rose-gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp; appears unread.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). A pocket edition of the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays for children.

London: Hutchinson, 1962. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, clipped d/j (in protective sleeve);green boards, gilt on blue panel spine titling bright; text block firm; pages crisp and unmarked (some slight browning) top edges blue.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). SIR OSBERT SITWELL's five-volume autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand! is accepted as one of the great literary accomplishments of our time; the work of an artist, polished, witty, brilliant; a piece of social history, full of vivid characterization of people, above and below stairs, with their graces and oddities. From these volumes there emerged life-size portraits, not only of the author himself, but of an exceptional man and an exceptional father, Sir George Sitwell. Inevitably, for reasons of the general design, and because of the very symmetry of the work, several memories of Sir George Sitwell had to be omitted, even though in themselves they claimed the author's attention by their vivacity and originality. In this way Tales My Father… Read More

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. 1st UK. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, green boards with gilt ruling, design and spine titling bright; text block firm, untrimmed pages unmarked (frontispiece portrait a little loose); notes on separate sheet inserted at back.. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as one of the America's great poets, though he became temporarily less fashionable after his death. A great admirer of the European tradition, he contributed greatly to the American intellectual life against the contemporary grain of isolationalism.

London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1922. Nash's Famous Fiction. hardback. Very good, no d/j, blue clothbound boards, good, spine with gilt titling and blindpressed titling on front (some bumping); some tanning on pastedowns, otherwise pages unmarked and tightly bound.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, n.d.. hardback. Near fine, no d/j, blue leatherbound boards, gilt titling on spine bright, pages tightly bound, unmarked. Undated but possibly 1950. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). Collection of short stories: Karain - a memory; The Idiots; An Outpost of Progress; The Return; The Lagoon