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RUBENS. Complete Edition with One Hundred and Forty Plates, Four in Full Colour, and a Selection From the Painter's Correspondence.

By: Burckhardt, Jacob

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Phaidon Publishers Inc. (distributed By The Oxfurd University Press): 1950

Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated

Seller ID: 1243

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

12mo. 374 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. Blue decorated cloth, clean and unmarked. Jacket has several small edge tears and rubbing to paper at edges. Complete Edition with One Hundred and Forty Plates, Four in Full Colour, and a Selection From the Painter's Correspondence. Edited by H. Gerson. Contents: Editor's Introduction, Synopsis by Burckhardt, Recollections of Rubens, Notes, Selected Letters of Rubens, Plates, Index of Collections, Index of Ruben's Works. Nicely illustrated throughout. Burckhardt's essay is translated by Mary Hottinger. The translation o...
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Candle in the Dark. A Postcript to Despair.

By: Edman, Irwin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, The Viking Press: 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

88 pgs. Good to Very Good condition hardcover, no jacket. Navy boards with blind stamp decorative front cover, tan spine, top edge of textblock is colored red. Internally clean, tight, unmarked. Exterior is has one light paint spot on front cover and a bump to edge of back cover affecting the edge of the last few pages. "First published November 1939" on copyright page. In a time of war and global turmoil, Edman's words are a clear flickering "Candle in the Dark", sharing the timeless darkness but offering glimpses of light and hope. Excerpt: "The crisis of civilization thr...
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The Poems of Robert Frost

By: Frost, Robert

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1946

Seller ID: 2583

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

xxiii.445pgs+adv. Very Good+ condition green cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket, clean, unmarked, bindiing tight, blue top edge of text block, Number 242. Circa 1934-1963. Kent endpapers, number 8 binding. 405 Modern Library tites lissted on inner side of dust jacket, Original 1.95 price intact. Contents: an essay by the author "The Constant Signal" is followed by sections of his poems in intervals: North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, West-Running Brook, A Further Range, A Witness Tree, Book#2583.
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Poe. Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Prepared, and Edited, with a Commentary, By Louis Untermeyer; Illustrated with Lithographs By Hugo Steiner-Prag. The Heritage Sandglass Number 6G

By: Poe, Edgar Allan

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1943

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2597

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

4to. ix.214pgs. Very Good+ cloth hardcover, no jacket. Clean and unmarked, blue top edge very slightly faded near headband, spine decorated in red, blue and gold. Heritage Press Sandglass Number 6G pamphlet laid in, with biographical information about thepoet and the illustrator. The editor's introduction is followed by the poems, sonnets, essays, notes and editor's commentaries distributed throughout nine chapters: Poems Written Before 1827, Poems Added in the Edition of 1829, The Purpose of Poetry [An Essay], The Poetic Principle [An Essay], Poems Added in the Edition of 1845, The Rationale ...
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Reading. An Essay.

By: Walpole, Hugh.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1927

Edition: November 1927.

Seller ID: 501

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

12mo. 89 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover. Lavender gold-flecked boards with slight sunning of spine. Paper title piece intact. Clean and unmarked within. An essay on reading divided into chapters: Reading for Fun, Reading for Education, Reading for Love #501.
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Arnold's Essay on Wordsworth with Selections from the Poems of Wordsworth

By: Ward, Benjamin R.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Co.: 1927

Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated

Seller ID: 1911

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

viii.192 pgs. Very Good green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, minimal external wear to cloth, owner name on front endpaper.Occasional marginalia in light pencil. Forty nine poems of William Wordsworth are critically studied by Matthew Arnold. Introductory material provides biographical material for both. Included are suggestions for study, discussion of certain types of lyrics and questions on the individual poems. Contents: Life and Writings of William Wordsworth, Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, Introduction to the Essay on Wordsworth, Essay on Words...
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Nature Abounding. With Decorations By C.F. Tunnicliffe.

By: Watson, E.L. Grant (Editor).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber Limited: 1951

Seller ID: 1311

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 384 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, clean and unmarked. With Decorations By C.F. Tunnicliffe. An anthology of nature essays by authors including Thomas Hardy, W.H. Hudson, Fraser Darling, Sir John Lubbock, William Cobbett, J.Mills Whitham, Count Keyserling, J.G. Frazer, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Waterton, Charles Darwin, Herman Melville, Gilbert White, Herodotus, Edward Jesse, George Borrow, Adrian Bell, Frank Buckland, Grant Watson, J.P. Jacobsen, Henri Fabre, Edward Carpenter, Havelock Ellis, R.W. Emerson, Edward Thomas, Richard Jeffries, H.M. Tomlinson, R,M, Lockley, Elliot Howard, Er...
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Keyword: essay

RUBENS. Complete Edition with One Hundred and Forty Plates, Four in Full Colour, and a Selection From the Painter's Correspondence.

Candle in the Dark. A Postcript to Despair.

The Poems of Robert Frost

Poe. Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Prepared, and Edited, with a Commentary, By Louis Untermeyer; Illustrated with Lithographs By Hugo Steiner-Prag. The Heritage Sandglass Number 6G

Reading. An Essay.

Arnold's Essay on Wordsworth with Selections from the Poems of Wordsworth

Nature Abounding. With Decorations By C.F. Tunnicliffe.

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