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The Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies
by Cecil, Lord David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st edition, no d/j, brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Only the slightest wear to corners, else a
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Constable, 1957. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, no d/j, brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Only the slightest wear to corners, else a fine copy - square and neat with bright and crisp pages. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Lord David Cecil was an Oxford don and sometime member of the Inklings. This book of literary criticism with chapters on reading, Shakespearean Comedy, John Ford, English Fiction, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Scenery, Joseph Conrad, The Prose Tales of Walter de la Mare, Female Letter-writers, Hazlitt's Essays & Walter Pater
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC68651
- Title
- The Fine Art of Reading and other literary studies
- Author
- Cecil, Lord David
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st edition, no d/j, brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Only the slightest wear to corners, else a
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 222
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, literary criticism, Inklings
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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