The Screens and Other Poems by RICHARDS, I.A - 1960

Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

New York: Harcourt, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good in good dustwrapper. Small dent on edge of pages. Dustwrapper rubbed with tearing along top edges, smudging and ink on back. 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.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. Book. Fine. Printed Paper Boards. First Edition. 127pp. Jacket slightly soiled and edge-worn..

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with a little foxing in modestly rubbed very good or better dustwrapper. Author's second book of poetry.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Ex-library copy with bookplate and pocket removed, else very good in very good or better dustwrapper with some rubbign and two very small nicks. Author's second book of poetry.

Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book shows light scuffing to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's name inside front cover and four instaces of marking in pen in the text: three words underlined in the last section and marking on page 13; otherwise clean.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A fine copy in bright, near fine dust jacket; pictorial jacket has original price crossed out in ink on front flap, modest edgewear. I.A. Richards was born in England in 1893. His first book of poems, 'Goodbye Earth and Other Poems,' was published in 1958, at the age of sixty. Author's second book of poems.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1960. First American edition. 8vo. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine and leaf motif on recto pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket has some bumping to head and foot of spine, small crease at bottom of front corner with light bumping. A very good copy. First American edition. 8vo. Inscribed to linguist Roman Jakobson. Richards, one of the main voices of the New Critics, engaged with Jakobson's work throughout his career, particularly in writing So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World English (1968). Roman Jakobson was an important linguist, one of the founders of Russian formalism, and a significant literary critic in his own right. An important association of two of the giants of twentieth century criticism.