Into an Old Room by Peter de Polnay - 1950: The paradox of Edward Fitzgerald

Creative Age Press, January 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Creative Age Press, Inc. Good. Hardcover in dustjacket, some edge wear to jackeet, previous owner's name on front endpaper, pencil underlining throughout, solid binding, a nice copy!

Creative Age, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. No jacket. Fading to cloth on spine..

New York: Creative Age, 1949. hardcover. Frontispiece. 305pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Creative Age, 1949. Very good.<br/> <br/>

New York: Creative Age Press, 1949. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Former owner's name inside front cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Paperback / softback. New.

From the back of the d.j.: "The impulse to write this study of Edward FirzGerald sprang from a fortuitous fellow-feeling for the man who seemed to haunt, with fastidious delicacy, the house which Peter de Polnay had rented. Soon after settling into Boulge Hall, Woodbridge, the urge came upon him to know more of the eccentric recluse who had chosen never to stir far away from the precincts of his early home and whose name, only after his death, became a household word through the universal enthusiasm for his translation of The Ruba,iyat of Omar Khayyam, and through the publication of his Letters to his many literary friends.
The author made a careful study of the FitzGerald papers in Trinity College Library, Cambridge, searched for and found much new material in Woodbridge and Ipswich, and has been permitted to publish for the first time two intimate EFG letters from a private source. Permission has also been granted for the inclusion in this book of a hitherto unknown and very little portrait study of… Read More