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THE CONDEMNED PLAYGROUND - Essays 1927 - 1944
by Connolly, Cyril
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Routledge, 1946. Book. Illus. by Augustus John;. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 12mo. (viii) 287 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; frontis drawing of the author by Augustus John. Light chipping on the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; some loss at the head of the spine; price intact; no interior markings. This collection contains: The Position of Joyce; Lews Faux Monnayeurs; Distress of Plenty; New Swift Letters; Lord Chesterfield; Imitations of Horace; Illusions of Likeness; A. E. Housman: A Controversy; Thomas Mann; Onus Vallis Visionis; French and English Cultural Relations; Ninety Years of Novel Reviewing; More About the Modern Nobel; Defects of English Novels; Reviewers; Mr Mossbross Takes the Class; Felicity; The Novel Addict's Cupboard; Felicity Entertains; Told in Gath; Where Engels Fears to Tread; Year Nine; What Will He Do Next; An Unfortunate Visit; Ackermann's England; Spring Revolution; Barcelona; England Not My England; Conversations in Berlin; The Fate of an Elizabethan; A Tyrant of Taste; Psycho Analysis; The Ant Lion; 1843; The Art of Being Good; and Writers and Society 1940 - 1943..
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Details
- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227731
- Title
- THE CONDEMNED PLAYGROUND - Essays 1927 - 1944
- Author
- Connolly, Cyril
- Illustrator
- Augustus John;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- english literature; journal; journalism; opinion; review; critique;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Writing and Language;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- New
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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