Literary Blasphemies (humorous literary criticism) by Ernest Boyd

1927. BOYD, Ernest. LITERARY BLASPHEMIES. NY: Harper, [1927]. 8vo., cloth & boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Review Copy, so stamped lightly on the front cover of the dust jacket. Very Good; some wear, tears & small chips d/j. $10.00.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers. Cover sunned, paper label chipped, couple short, closed, edge tears, else Good. . Good. Purple Cloth. First Edition. 1927.

Harper & Brothers, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 265 p. Signed by Marie Louise Friedenwald.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. Hardback in very good condition with good plus dust jacket. Small tear/chip on back top edge of jacket. Great condition for the age of this book. Stated 1st edition, 1927.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

HARPER & BROTHERS, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Signed. Good hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1927 EDITION. INSCRIBED TO PREVIOUS OWNER AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/soiling. Hinge cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

New York NY: Harper & Brothers. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; 265 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with lightly soiled boards. Lacking the dustwrapper.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. 8vo. 265 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover quarter bound in green buckrham cloth with green boards and matching title piece on spine. Stated First Edition. Slight darkening to spine at edges, wear to cloth of upper spine end. Paper over front hinge cracked, underlying binding remains intact. Clean and unmarked throughout. Jacket is present but in fragments, pieces are separated at the paper folds, held in place in a clear archival cover. With a refreshing attitude of "appreciative irreverence", a literary Friar's Roast of sorts, biographical commentaries and critiques are presented for William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Thomas Hardy. Excerpt from the chapter on Walt Whitman: "Walt Whitman was the first of the literary exhibitionists whose cacaphonous incongruities and general echolalia are the distinguishing marks of what is regarded… Read More

Harper & Brothers Publishers. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Acceptable dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Early bookseller's lable to pastedown. (classic, literature, cricism, essay, anthology)

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. 265pp., plus (iii). Book clean and square. Quarter-cloth hardcover. Complete title label over lightly bumped buckram spine. Plain green boards undamaged. A former owner's details (dated 1928) and old price indentation on ffep., tinted top edge, laid paper, untrimmed foredge and foot, else text-block clean. Printed dustjacket price-clipped, jagged nips and tears, plus closed tear and several small biopredation spots on front panel and spine. A series of critical essays, by Ernest Boyd, on some of the giants of the literary world: Milton, Dickens, Whitman, Poe, Swift, Shakespeare, Byron . . . Book weight approx. 635g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good/Fair +.