Birrell, Augustine

Collected Essays: Volume I & Volume II (set)

Elliot Stock, London, 1899. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. title pages in red & black; contents list at front of each volume; the collected essays by this Honorary Fellow of Trinty Hall, Cambridge mainly on literature, poetry, & their authors but also on men, women, books & some on other subjects such as nationality, politicians & book buying. Birrell was elected to parliament for West Fife at a by-election in 1889, as a Liberal MP & held his seat for some ten years. He was defeated in 1900 but returned for Bristol North at the general election of 1906 & introduced the Education Bill of that year which, later, was dropped making it impossible for Birrell to continue in his post, and in January 1907 he was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. While serving in government, Birrell supported a number of progressive measures and proposals such as expanded housing provision, land reform, and meals for schoolchildren. However, his failure to take action against the rebels in the weeks and months before the Easter Rising in Ireland led to his resignation in 1916. Birrell wrote, and spoke, with a characteristic humour which became known as birrelling. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 326 & 343 pages. 2-volume set (complete). Bindings tight, covers and spines fully intact. Slight foxing to endpapers only. Deckled outer & bottom edges (rough cut). Gilt titles spine. maroon cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Cambridge University; Trinity Hall; Books on Books; England; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3312. This book is fairly heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

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Buchan, John

The Novel and the Fairy Tale (English Association Pamphlet No 79)

The English Association, London, 1931. First Edition, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. English Association Pamphlet No 79 published in July, 1931 in which John Buchan embarks on, in his words, "an informal gossip about literature" Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 16 pages. Initials to front cover. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles front. Minor water damage to covers, text unaffected. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; John Buchan; English Association Pamphlets; Fairy Tales; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 4774.

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Buchan, John

Some Notes on Sir Walter Scott (English Association Pamphlet No 58)

The English Association, London, 1924. First Edition, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. English Association Pamphlet No 58 published in March 1924 in which John Buchan attempts a justification for his appreciation of Scott as a great writer who has perhaps been taken for granted & rarely been the subject of serious critical study, Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 19 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; John Buchan; Sir Walter Scott; English Association Pamphlets; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 4775.

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Chesterton, G. K.

Essays of Today and Yesterday

Harrap, London, 1928. First Edition, Hardcover (Paper Covered Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles, introductory notes & contents to front; G. K. Chesterton was a master essayist. But reading his essays is not just an exercise in studying a literary form at its finest, it is an encounter with timeless truths that jump off the page as fresh and powerful as the day they were written. The essays in this book are: A Defence of Nonsense (from ‘The Defendant’); Pickwick Papers (from ‘Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens’); Charles II (from ‘Twelve Types’); Thomas Carlyle (from ‘Twelve Types’); A Meditation in Broadway (from ‘What I saw in America’); The Spirit of England (from ‘What I saw in America’) & Two Stones in a Square (from ‘Irish Impressions’) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 80 pages. Black titles spine & front. light wear to edges of spine. Includes bibliography. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 4782.

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Hogben, Lancelot

Lancelot Hogben's Dangerous Thoughts

Allen & Unwin, London, 1939. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles, introductory note by the author, & contents list to front. These extremely witty and challenging essays on the history of science, on teaching methods, and on current political and social questions are unified by the common theme that modern science has created the possibility of a collectivist economy of leisure and plenty for all; that its realization demands far-reaching changes in the content of education and wholesale rejection of the mental habits of an age when the price of the comfort and culture of the few was the poverty of the many. 4 pages of publisher's titles (mostly by Hogben) to the rear; loosely inserted review of the book from the New Statesman dated December, 23rd 1939. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 283 + 4 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's inscription to fep. in ink, neat. Gilt titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Science; Sociology & Culture; Politics & Government; Britain/UK; 1930s; Education. Inventory No: 4784.

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Maccarthy, Desmond

Experience

Putnam, London, 1935. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and journalist; he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1896. Though often thought to be a member of the "Bloomsbury Group", MacCarthy in fact had a wider circle of friends including Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore whom he met at Cambridge. In 1917 he joined the New Statesman as drama critic, and in 1920 became its literary editor. He wrote a weekly column under the pen-name "The Affable Hawk". Later, in 1928, he became a literary critic for the Sunday Times, and several volumes of his collected criticism were published. This is the third volume of his 'collected essays' series which includes essays of an autobiographical character as well as many presenting personal impressions of literary & general subjects. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 311 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. brown cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Literature & Literary; Journalism; Biography & Autobiography; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 3436.

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Mack, Maynard & Ian Gregor (editors)

Imagined Worlds: Essays on some English Novels and Novelists in Honour of John Butt.

Methuen, London, 1968. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. This collection of essays was originally planned as a sixtieth-birthday tribute to John Butt, formerly Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. The English novel was chosen as the subject in recognition of Professor Butt's long labour towards a new edition of the works of Charles Dickens. Professor Butt knew of the projected tribute, sealed with his approval its list of contributors, and took a lively and amused interest in its progress while he lived. When he did not survive to his sixtieth birthday, it was decided to carry on with the volume at a slower pace and make it the finest possible tribute to his memory. The twenty-three essays cover the range of English fiction from Congreve's early Incognita (1692) to Rayner Heppenstall's The Connecting Door and The Woodshed (1962). The coverage is necessarily .selective, and not every English writer of fiction is represented, but authoritative essays may be found here on Congreve, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Scott, Surtees, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, Moore, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Waugh,and Heppenstall, as well as . theoretical discussions of such topics. as "authorial presence" in the novel and the novel's modes of characterization. At the rear of the book is a list of the published writings of John Butt Size: Octavo (standard book size). 486 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. in archive acetate film protection; some browing to spine. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's signature in ink is of Kenneth J. Fielding - one of the contributors to the book.. Gilt titles on black label spine. illustrated by 2 fold-out b/w. photo's.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Novels; Novelists; English Fiction; England; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3204.

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Meynell, Alice

Alice Meynell (Essays of Today and Yesterday)

George G. Harrap, London, 1926. First Edition, Softcover. Fair Condition. black paper covers with blue & black titles in red border to paper label front; introductory note & contents to front. Mrs. Meynell held very insistently the belief that in the practice of literature and the arts women and men must work on an equality, be tried by the same tests, and ask no indulgence, the one from the other, on the score of sex. None the less, a woman must be an expert when writing of women; and, seeing that some rule of selection must apply to the arrangement of a volume such as this, the choice has fallen on such essays as relate to women who have created literature or been by literature created. Her own words have been in the compiler's mind: " The genus of Humanity is obviously larger than the species, Womanhood; but the species has its own value, keen and intense." Some of the essays, reclaimed from the periodicals to which they were contributed are here first published in book-form, often with the advantage of final amendments made by the author's own hand. One or two others appeared in volumes now out of print; and three are included in the volume of collected Essays. When passages from different articles on the same theme have been brought together the sequence has necessarily been the compiler's, but not without the assurance that it would have been also the author's own. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 76 pages. Slight foxing to page edges. no Dust Jacket as published.. covers with flaps are present but detached at spine; mark to rear cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Women & Feminism; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 4767.

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Van Der Post, Laurens.

The Voice of the Thunder

Chatto & Windus, London, 1993. First Thus, Blue Cloth. As New/Very Good. 9780701160364 gilt titles spine; (price intact) D/J has only 2 slight nicks at top; An urgent manifesto for renewal in the human spirit the book contains previously published essays 'The Little Memory' and 'The Great Memory' with a new chapter, 'The Other Journey'; barcode price sticker inside front cover; 229 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Self Help & Motivation; Africa; Philosophy. ISBN: 0701160365. ISBN/EAN: 9780701160364. Inventory No: SAF00014.

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Priestley, J. B.

Talking: Being One of a Series of Essays Entitled These Diversions

Jarrold & Sons Ltd. London, 1926. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor. colour frontis. portrait drawing of Priestley. As an essayist Priestley wrote for the 'middle brow' audience. His topics and themes are numerous. Of all the Yorkshire-born writers to have graced the twentieth century, none seems to embody the supposed characteristics of this county more than John Boynton Priestley. Born in Bradford in 1894, he seems now to exist in public memory as a grumpy, pipe-smoking purveyor of common-sense but his talents were many and this curmudgeonly persona seems to be something of a myth which he himself delighted in propagating. “I have a sagging face, a weighty underlip, a saurian eye and a rumbling voice,” he explained. “Money could not buy a better grumbling outfit.” Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 86 pages. Gilt titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; 1920s; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 4783.

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Swinnerton, Frank

The Georgian Literary Scene - (Everyman's Library Volume 943)

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1938. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Everyman's Library No. 943 in their 'Essays & Belles-Lettres' catagory; blind-stamped publisher's device to front cover; white on orange patterned end-papers; preface & contents to the front followed by essays on Henry James; Virginia Woolf; D. H. Lawrence; George Bernard Shaw; H. G. Wells; Joseph Conrad; James Joyce; Siegfried Sassoon & many other major authors; dramatists; essayists & poets of the late 19th & early 20th centuries. 8-page list of Everyman's Library titles to the rear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12 + 379 + 8 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact; slight fading to spine colour. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep.. Top edge brown. Gilt titles spine. orange cloth. Includes index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Georgian Literature; Georgian Authors; Georgian Poets; Britain/UK; 19th & 20th century; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3880.

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