Search Results: Authors starting with R from C L Hawley

New York: Columbia University Press,. Hardback. 243pp. An examination of the apparent rejection by post-war British novelists of modernist experimental fiction. Extended focus on Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis and C. P. Snow (as both novelist and critic), with some reference to William Golding, John Braine, Iris Murdoch, Alan Sillitoe. Bibliographies for the main 3 writers are given in detail covering books, essays and book reviews, and ending in 1962. Blue cloth is slightly rubbed and bumped. Lightly sunned to spine. Good+ copy . Hardcover. 1967.

Hachette. Paperback. 143pp. Edited with notes by Léonce Girard. Text in French. Small selection of black and white plates. Previous owner's name in ink to front. rubbed. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good copy . Paperback. 1969.

Folio Society,. Hardback set of six volumes in slipcase. With illustrations by Sarah Van Niekerk. Each volume bound in quarter cloth with paper to the sides printed with a specially commissioned design by David Eccles. Black cloth with gilt titles to spines. Red slip case with decorative Gothic titles in black. Coleridge said of Radcliffe's most famous work: "...curiosity is kept upon the stretch from page to page, and from volume to volume, and the secret, which the reader thinks himself every instant on the point of penetrating, flies like a phantom before him, and eludes his eagerness till the very last moment of protracted expectation" All six books are very clean bright and neat. The slipcase has some uneven faded. The top face of the slipcase is faded and one side face is faded in a bar pattern. the slipcase is clean and sound thought the papers to the sides are lifting very slightly at the overlaps. . Hardback.

Burns and Oates. Paperback. 218pp. Very clean and neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 2012.

Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme,. Hardback. Handsomely bound early edition of this Gothic classic by Mrs Radcliffe , sadly lacking volume IV. Sixth edition. Three copper plate engravings. Full leather binding in red. Raised bands with decorations to compartments both blind stamped and gilt. Gilt ruled borders to boards with decorative corner pieces also in gilt. Gilt to all edges. Three volumes only, volume IV is missing. Slightly sunned to spine. Bindings are tight and square. Leather has some light scuffing and occasional minor marks. Some slight discolouration to endpapers. Clean and sound. Good+ set . Hardback. 1806.

Pan. Paperback. 318pp. First Pan paperback edition. Novel from the award winning Canadian writer Thomas Raddall, set in Nova Scotia. Somewhat rubbed to edges. Split approx 1.5 inches to tail of front spine joint. Pages are tanned. Clean and sound. Good copy . Paperback. 1961.

Roundtuit. Paperback. 93pp. Occasional black and white illustration. Lightly rubbed. Light reading wear. Previous owner's address label to first prelim. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 2006.

London: Macmillan,. Hardback. 203pp. A study of Mailer's development from 'The Naked and the Dead' to 'Marilyn'. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. is neat and bright. Hint of bumping to spine ends. Dust wrapper is slightly tanned to spine but is otherwise neat. Very good copy in good dust wrapper . Hardcover. 1975.

Spring Books,. Hardback. 188pp. Second in the series of adventures with Brenda Dickson. Blue boards have some slight fading through the areas of loss in the colour illustrated dust jacket. Pages are tanned. Dust jacket is worn to all edges with some light creasing and some nicks, tears and small areas of loss. The is a a double patch of two circles of surface damage to the middle of the front illustration of the dust jacket. Good+, sound copy in good dust jacket . Hardback. 1949.

Pushkin Press,. Paperback. 195pp. Translated from the French by Christopher Moncrieff. Written by the teenage Raymond Radiguet and published in originally in 1923, and set in WWI. Hard to find in this edition. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Very good copy . Paperback. 2010.

Otley: Smith Settle,. Paperback. 236pp. The true story of the Buck and Whittaker families in the late eighteenth century. The extracts of letters with lively commentary tell the story of the Bucks of Bradford and the Whittakers of Manchester, and William Whittaker's eleven year exile in Charleston, South Carolina. Integral black and white illustrations throughout. Remains of label mark to front. Pen mark through bard code to back. Slightly sunned to spine. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1992.

Leeds: Smithy Publications. Paperback. 82pp. Poems. Rubbed and slightly surface scuffed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 2005.

Areté. Paperback. Includes unpublished letters by Boris Pasternak; Ralph Fiennes on acting Shakepeare; David Lodge and Martin Krasney, new fiction; Ernst Jünger and American Intelligence - deNazification documents; etc. Very clean and neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 2000.

Oxford University Press,. Hardback. First edition, first printing. 202pp. Close reading of the work of T. S. Eliot including his important works The Waste Land and Four Quartets by poet Craig Raine. Also discusses the allegations of anti-Semitism. Smartly bound in grey with darker grey papers to the boards. Silver titles to the spine. Binding is very clean and and sound with just a little rubbing to the tail of spine. Lightly rubbed to edges of dust jacket. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 2006.

Everyman. Paperback. 103pp. Edited by Martin Dodsworth. Pages are tanned. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1999.

Clarendon Press,. Hardback. 184pp+ publisher's lists. Professor Walter Raleigh's criticism of Dr Johnson. Including the Leslie Stephen Lecture delivered in Cambridge in 1907 and Johnson on Shakespeare. Green cloth with paper label to spine is worn to backstrip which has some short splits to the edges, and to the label which has some loss and has been stuck down on one side with sellotape. Spine is faded and tanned. Endpapers are browned. Binding is sound. Text is clean. Good copy . Hardback. 1910.

Ladybird Books. Hardback. 52pp. Children's biography of Princess Diana. Ladybird Books Famous People, Series 816. Laminated pictorial boards. Colour photographs throughout. Family tree to rear endpapers. Somewhat bumped. Clean. Good, sound copy. . Hardback. First Edition. 1982.

Manchester University Press,. Hardback. 65pp. Indexed. Maroon boards with gilt titles to the spine are very clean and neat. Dust jacket is neat but has some light, uneven sunning. Near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket . Hardback. 1972.

Chatto and Windus. Hardback. 442pp.+32pp publisher's catalogue dated 1890. Dark red cloth with blind impressed decorations to both boards and gilt titles and decoration to front. Cloth is somewhat dust and darkened to spine and edges and slightly faded with surface scuffing and faint marks. Worn to spine ends with some small nicks and tears. Front inner hinge is split significantly in several places though still attached. Text is clean. Good copy . Hardback. 1887.

Chatto and Windus. Hardback. Dark red cloth with blind impressed decorations to both boards and gilt titles and decoration to front. A very early edition. Cloth is very faded with surface scuffing and faint marks. Internally the stitching to the gatherings is stretched and internally the binding is rather shaky. A readable copy. Reading copy only . Hardback. 1878.