Wilson, Edmund

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters 1940-1971

Nabokov, Vladimir; Wilson, Edmund; Karlinsky, Simon (ed) · 1979 · San Francisco Book Company

€35.00 ($39.05 | £29.27 | ¥6,201)

New York Harper & Row Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 346 pp covers worn on the edges dj worn and torn on the edges owner's name written on the dj and front pastdown. Good good

The Little Blue Light a Play in Three Acts

Edmund Wilson · 1951 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.83 | $46.67 | ¥7,412)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A first UK edition of this play by Edmund Wilson. Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters. Wilson was interested in modern culture as a whole,...

Poets, Farewell!

Edmund Wilson · 1929 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.80 | $60.02 | ¥9,532)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this book of poetry by literary critic and poet Edmund Evans. The first edition. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the scarce dust wrapper. This book of poetry was written ...

Works by Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson · 1950 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.76 | $73.36 | ¥11,650)

New York and London , Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Macmillan and Co. 1950-1980. Cloth. Three bright volumes of work by Edmund Wilson. Three volumes of work by Edmund Wilson, who was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. Classics and Commercial, A Literary Chronicl...

The Undertaker&Apos;S Garland

John Peale Bishop; Edmund Wilson Jr. · 1922 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.67 | $100.03 | ¥15,886)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation copy of the first edition of this reflection on death, across prose and poetry, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. A very scarce example of a presentation copy of this first edition title.Illustr...

The Triple Thinkers: Ten Essays on Literature

Edmund Wilson · 1938 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.25 | $226.74 | ¥36,009)

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of essays on literature from American writer Edmund Wilson Jr. First edition. A collection of ten critical essays discussing the careers of writers such as Pushkin, Hous...

Red, Black, Blond and Olive Studies in Four Civilizations: Zuni, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel

Edmund Wilson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£33.00 (€39.45 | $44.01 | ¥6,990)

London, W. H. Allen, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this detailed study observing four civilizations from American writer Edmund Wilson. First UK edition. A report of the author's observations on four varied civilizations, witnessing a Zuni festiv...

A Piece of My Mind Reflections at Sixty

Edmund Wilson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€418.45 | $466.82 | ¥74,137)

New York, Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Edmund Wilson's essays, written when he was sixty, looking at a various of pressing global topics of the time. Inscribed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper, the name ...

The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts

Edmund Wilson · 1951 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.58 | $65.36 | ¥10,379)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1951. First edition. Cloth. A superior first edition copy of this uncommon play by Edmund Wilson, in the original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first Uk edition of this work. A play in three acts by Edmund Wilson, American writer. His writings influe...

Memoirs of Hecate County

Edmund Wilson · 1946 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.29 | $213.41 | ¥33,891)

New York, Doubleday and Company, 1946. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this novel by Edmund Wilson, banned in America for over a decade after its first publication. The first edition of this fictional work by Edmund Wilson. An exciting first American e...

The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest

Edmund Wilson · 1964 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.80 | $60.02 | ¥9,532)

London, W. H. Allen, 1964. Cloth. A fascinating political attack on paying income tax during the Cold War, written by Edmund Wilson, who refused to pay for nearly ten years. This is an outspoken political protest against the amount of income tax American taxpayers must pay, an...

The Wound and the Bow

Edmund Wilson · 1947 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.16 | $130.71 | ¥20,758)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1947. Cloth. A collection of essays by Edmund Wilson, providing critical analysis on a variety of popular authors such as Kipling and Dickens, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The new printing, with corrections. First published in 1941...

A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty

Edmund Wilson · 1956 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.58 | $65.36 | ¥10,379)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Cloth. A bright first edition, first printing of Edmund Wilson's essays, sharing his thoughts on the social and political issues of the time. The first edition, first printing of this work in the publisher's original cloth b...

Memoirs of Hecate County

Edmund Wilson · 1951 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.87 | $40.01 | ¥6,355)

London, W. H. Allen, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this collection of short stories from American writer Edmund Wilson. First UK edition. A collection of six short stories, including: Ellen Terhune, The Princess with the Golden Hair, and Mr. and Mrs. ...

(1887) Thomas Middleton - Volume I; (1887) Thomas Dekker; (1888) Thomas Heywood; (1888) Nero & Other Plays; (1888) James Shirley; (1890) Thomas Middleton - Volume II.

Thomas Middleton; Havelock Ellis; Thomas Dekker; Ernest Rhys; Thomas Heywood; A. Wilson Verity; Herbert P. Horne; Arthur Symons; James Shirley; Edmund Gosse · 1887 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.38 | $186.73 | ¥29,655)

London, Vizetelly & Co. 1887-1890. Cloth. A desirable collection of six uniformly bound volumes of classic drama by Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, James Shirley, and more. The unexpurgated edition. Collection comprised of: (1887) Thomas Middleton - Volume I, ...

Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s. The Shores of Light. Axel's Castle. Uncollected Reviews. Ed. Lewis M. Dabney. [The Library of America 176].

Wilson, Edmund. · 2007 · Fahrenheit 451

€30.00 ($33.47 | £25.09 | ¥5,315)

New York, Literary Classics of the United States Inc., 2007, 1st printing, XIII,(1),958,(9) pag., india-paper, original gilt cloth with dustjacket (as new). = The Library of America 176.

Handbook for Highway Engineers. 4th Ed.

Harger, Wilson G. & Edmund Bonney · 1927 · Grimbergen Boeken Antiquariaat

€49.50 ($55.22 | £41.40 | ¥8,770)

New York. McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc. 1927 Fourth Edition. 1721pp. Index. Kl 8vo. Leather Bound Good attractive copy Many, Plates, figures. tables and maps in bl.w.. l Subtitled: containing information ordinarily used in the design and construction of rural highways...

Fifties. From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period.

WILSON, EDMUND & EDEL, LEON [ED.]. · 1987 · Antiquariaat FRANS MELK

€15.00 ($16.73 | £12.55 | ¥2,658)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. Hardcover (clothbound) with dust jacket. 19,5 x 12 cm. - XXXII, 663 pages - NEAR FINE COPY

EUROPE WITHOUT BAEDEKER; Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England

Wilson, Edmund · 1966 · The Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore

$30.00 (€26.89 | £22.49 | ¥4,764)

Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket Farrar, Straus & Giroux Revised Edition DJ worn and faded with tape repair; With notes from a diary of 1963-64: Paris, Rome, Budapest. This is a look at post WWII Europe and its ruins.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 467 pages New York

Il castello di Axel. Studio sugli sviluppi del simbolismo tra il 1870 e il 1930.

WILSON Edmund - · 1988 · Libreria Piani

€16.00 ($17.85 | £13.38 | ¥2,835)

Milano, SE, 1988, 8vo stretto, brossura originale con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 206. Condizioni molto buone.