Search Results: into an old room by peter de polnay

Creative Age Press, January 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable.

Secker & Warburg, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. First Edition. 269 pages. Pink dust jacket over brown cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Minor tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and rubbing. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.

Secker & Warburg, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. First Edition. 269 pages. Red jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

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/>

N. Y.: Creative Age Press, 1949. cloth backed boards are in very good condition with light wear and the dust jacket is also in very good condition with some rub to extremeties now protected with mylar cover. copy is unmarked and tightly bound. 305 pages includes bibliography.. First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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

Secker & Warburg, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. **1st Edition** **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition