Non-Fiction Books
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition, English Universities 1964. Illustrations, diagrams and tables. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, discreet inscription to endpaper, no further marks of any kind. In very good purple lettered wide-weave grey cloth with very slight surface rubbing to upper corners, still crisp. A great addtion to the library of reader and collector alike, an examination of the mechanics and psychology of words by the author of A Clockwork Orange.
Binding tight, text clean, cover and edges have alittle wear, stored in a smoke-free environment
Large oblong folio size, lavishly illustrated book with 24 color plates reproduced in six-colored lithography from original 18th. & 19th. Century engravings, bound in green cloth with gold lettering & decorations. Book is fine but for tape ghosts on the endpapers where the dj protector was taped down..The Dj is also fine but has been covered with a clear plastic lamination.Heavy book may require extra shipping charges, please ask.
The book begins with a brilliantly evocative essay by Anthony Burgess, which strikingly recreates the Grand Tour experience, and a brief but penetrating article on eighteenth-century art by Francis Haskell. The book includes sixteen full-page colour plates and four facsimile views by Piranesi and Zocchi, magnificent examples of the painters' and the engravers' art, all superbly reproduced with sensitive accuracy. The art of Turner, Tiepolo, Wattreau and Canaletto has never appeared to a greater advantage. Throughout the book are interspersed more than 230 monochrome engravings, water-colours and drawings.
a student's guide to contemporary fiction. Library sticker on front cover. No dust jacket.Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition.
This biography of William Shakespeare aims to build up a profound sense of literary and theatrical history, and the energy of the Elizabethan age.
Very good softbound volume. Clean and tight. Shipped in a sturdy cardboard book box. Daily shipping.
From front dust jacket flap: "Children must be coerced into it, enthusastists leap into it, many of us have to be dragged out of it. Bed. ... an irresistible combination of pictures and prose, tells us much of what goes on in bed - a subject that tickles nearly everyone's curiosity. Most of us were conceived in bed, spent the first months of childhood in bed, sleep one-third of our lives away in bed, and will probably end our days in bed, for, as the author says, 'few people die in chairs unless they are electric.' Anthony Burgess, author of the best-selling 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Earthly Powers'l, here turns his investigatory talents to the fact and fancy, the history and psychology of beds and mankind..." SEE PHOTOS!!
Provides a critical analysis of the history of British writing in the fields of drama, poetry, fiction, and diaries
The novelist lists his selections of the ninety-nine best novels written in the past forty-five years and discusses each novel in a short essay that explains why he has chosen to include it
Traces the life of the English author, D.H. Lawrence, and examines the development of his fiction and poetry
This collection of nonfiction pieces includes irreverent views on such diverse topics as travel, people, food, film, music, literature, and language
You've Had Your Time Being The Second Part Of The Confessions Of Anthony Burgess
A survey of language describes how it reached its present state, how it operates, and how it will develop in the future, discussing such topics as Shakespeare's pronunciation, low-life language, and English's place in the world. 30,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.