1982, ISBN: 57b7c83fa9690631f295e24c47ddf0ac

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UK: Fore Publications, 1950. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good ++. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 1st Edition 1950. A Key Poets Publication. From the library of … mais…

UK: Fore Publications, 1950. First Edition Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good ++. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 1st Edition 1950. A Key Poets Publication. From the library of John Edgell Rickword, his wife Beatrix and finally by decent to their daughter Dr Jane Grubb. Small bookplate detailing the provenance attached to each volume. Most of the his books went to institutions after his death so this book is rare thus. John Edgell Rickword, MC 1898-1982 was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s. After joining the army he saw front-line action in France as a subaltern in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was wounded twice-losing the sight of one eye-and he won the Military Cross for distinguished service. After the armistice Rickword was invalided out of the army. The following year he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, to read French literature. His first collection of verse, Behind the Eyes (1921), contains similar styles poetry to be found in Sassoon's war verse. Additionally, these poems, including the much-anthologized "Trench Poets," "Winter Warfare," and "The Soldier addresses his Body," were part of Rickword's already distinctive style. In the 1930's he took up literary work in London. He reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, which led to his celebrated review of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1934, and became increasingly active in political work during the period of the Spanish Civil War; while still writing poetry. During the second world war years Rickword wrote some superb social and literary criticism, including studies of the war poets of World War I, John Milton, and English radical thinkers of the 19th century. Toward the end of the war he become editor of Our Time, a literary review that tried to create bridges between the arts and common people. Later he became Editor of Our Time, the Communist review, from 1944 to 1947, working with Arnold Rattenbury and David Holbrook. Rickword had an upbeat view at the time on the possibilities of popular culture and radical politics, and the circulation rose as he broadened the publication's scope from popular political poetry. Rickword's eyesight failed completely in his last years, though he was working on his memoirs up to his death. He died on March 15, 1982. Rickword's actual contribution to the development of English poetry is undervalued even now, in spite of the fact that several selections from and collections of his poems have appeared at regular intervals since the end of World War II.The reputation of Rickword as a poet has been overshadowed to some extent by his better-known achievements as critic and editor. And yet Rickword the poet-as much as Rickword the brilliant literary and social critic or Rickword the outstanding editor-has been one of the models of creative intelligence in British culture since the end of World War I. Rickword's work stands foursquare in English tradition, but it is in that tradition revolutionized by the same shaping forces of modernism that transformed Eliot's poetry. Rickword, with an intelligence and sensibility fully responsive to both French poetry and to English, opened up new paths for English poetry during the decade after World War I. According to Rickword, "to himself the poet should be in the first place a man, not an author." He certainly followed his own advice. As David Holbrook wrote (about Rickword's most caustic poetry of the late 1920s): "It strikes home, because underlying it is the tragic acceptance of man's situation, and the governed urbanity, civilisation and joy of a sensitive, responsible poet." The bulk of Edgells's archive resides at Manchester University library but the main part of the collection which was deposited by his friend David Holbrook is at Downing College Cambridge Archive. Book is very good and bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16865, Fore Publications, 1950, 2.5, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. Fair. [12], 347. [7] pages. Some discoloration ins bds, fr board weak (restrengthened with glue), bds scuffed, board corners worn, spine discolored, spine edges worn & small tears. William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 - January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Catholicism of his French mother. During World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the US declaration of war in April 1917. He served in the US Army in World War I, earning the rank of Captain and the Croix de Guerre. Percy's most well-known work is his memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. His other works include the text of "They Cast Their Nets in Galilee," which is included in the Episcopal Hymnal (1982) (Hymn 661), and the Collected Poems. One of his pieces was published under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (New York, 1934). Percy was the playwright behind a one-act scene in a volume of poetry, "In April Once" (1920). A friend of Herbert Hoover from the Belgium Relief Effort during the early years of World War I, Percy was put in charge of relief during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, when an area larger than all New England minus Maine was flooded in the spring. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Southerner of the Mississippi Delta tells, discursively and with charm, of his childhood, parents, Virginia relatives, boyhood activities and education and life in the pre-1900's. Harvard Law, a spot of teaching, politics, travel, the First World War and his share. Back to Mississippi, fighting the Klan and the river floods. Pleasant reading, philosophical, retrospective, nicely old style -- of more than local interest., Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, 2<

1997, ISBN: 57b7c83fa9690631f295e24c47ddf0ac

LONDON.CONWAY MARITIME PRESS,1997.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus (originally published J.M.DENT,1988 - this edn in 1997,in the Conway Classic series by Conway Maritime Press.] MINT/FINE.No … mais…

LONDON.CONWAY MARITIME PRESS,1997.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus (originally published J.M.DENT,1988 - this edn in 1997,in the Conway Classic series by Conway Maritime Press.] MINT/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no clip to dw/dj. Blue+white illustrated dw/dj (A print by James Heath depicting the death of Nelson after a painting by Sir Benjamin West) with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges, miniscule bumping/creasing to foot of spine/backstrip and no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents pristine.Unblemished,publisher's plain royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate, plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,vii-ixpp+1-390pp includes title+half-title pages,contents+illustrations lists,16pp b/w contemporary illus/paintings: 8pp between pp118/19 and 8pp between pp214/15 respectively,and an index. Horatio Nelson was the most brilliant and most honoured naval leader Britain has ever known,a great seaman and a great tactician who possessed an extraordinary ability to inspire respect and devotion.David Howarth and Stephen Howarth,two of the United Kingdom's finest naval historians,create here an immensely human portrait of the man - at once humble yet ambitious,kind but at times irritable, exceptionally loveable and yet often vain and self-pitying, unswerving in his sense of professional duty but unfaithful to his wife in one tremendous love affair.And they also evoke a remarkable sense of what it was to sail the seas in Nelson's day, in peace and in war.The great battles at St Vincent, the Nile and Copenhagen spring vividly to life,as do the achievements of the British blockading fleet off the French coast in the months and years before the victory of Trafalgar - a victory so decisive and so devastating that it put an end to war at sea for a century. The Howarths explore successfully the special relationship which Nelson enjoyed with the Navy of his day.Ratings,senior officers,young lieutenants - none was immune to Nelson's "natural,unforced charm, the feeling of mutual confidence and consultation between professionals,ignoring differences in rank and age".Splendid battle scenes and seascape prose mark the odyssey from 12-year-old captain's servant to Vice Admiral,and Hero of England.A penetrating but sympathetic biography by well respected father and son historians,brings us closer than ever before to an understanding of one of our most revered heroes,who even during his lifetime secured an enduring place in the hearts of an entire nation. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.CONWAY MARITIME PRESS,1997., 5, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. Fair. [12], 347. [7] pages. Some discoloration ins bds, fr board weak (restrengthened with glue), bds scuffed, board corners worn, spine discolored, spine edges worn & small tears. William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 - January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Catholicism of his French mother. During World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the US declaration of war in April 1917. He served in the US Army in World War I, earning the rank of Captain and the Croix de Guerre. Percy's most well-known work is his memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. His other works include the text of "They Cast Their Nets in Galilee," which is included in the Episcopal Hymnal (1982) (Hymn 661), and the Collected Poems. One of his pieces was published under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (New York, 1934). Percy was the playwright behind a one-act scene in a volume of poetry, "In April Once" (1920). A friend of Herbert Hoover from the Belgium Relief Effort during the early years of World War I, Percy was put in charge of relief during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, when an area larger than all New England minus Maine was flooded in the spring. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Southerner of the Mississippi Delta tells, discursively and with charm, of his childhood, parents, Virginia relatives, boyhood activities and education and life in the pre-1900's. Harvard Law, a spot of teaching, politics, travel, the First World War and his share. Back to Mississippi, fighting the Klan and the river floods. Pleasant reading, philosophical, retrospective, nicely old style -- of more than local interest., Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, 2<

2020, ISBN: 57b7c83fa9690631f295e24c47ddf0ac

A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** John Brennan is one of the hardest-working, most patriotic public servants I've ever seen, and our country is… mais…

A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** John Brennan is one of the hardest-working, most patriotic public servants I've ever seen, and our country is better off for it. As president, he was one of my closest advisors and a great friend. And in his memoir, Undaunted, you'll see why. I hope you'll read it.--President Barack Obama. A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government. Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President-elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John Brennan said his final farewell to Owen Brennan, his father, the man who had taught him the lessons of goodness, integrity, and honor that had shaped the course of an unparalleled career serving his country from within the intelligence community. In this brutally honest memoir, Brennan, the son of an Irish immigrant who settled in New Jersey, describes the life that took him from being a young CIA recruit enamored with the mystique of spy work, secretly defiant enough to drive a motorcycle and sport a diamond earring, and invigorated by his travels in the Middle East to be the most powerful individual in American intelligence. He details his experiences with very different presidents and what it's been like to bear responsibility for some of the nation's most crucial and polarizing national security decisions. He pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Agency, describing the selfless, patriotic, and invisible work of the women and men involved in national security. He also examines the insularity, arrogance, and myopia that have, at times, undermined its reputation in the eyes of the American people and of members of other branches of government. Through topics ranging from George W. Bush's intervention in Iraq to his thoughts on the CIA's controversial use of enhanced interrogation techniques to his eye-opening account of the planning of the raid that resulted in Bin Ladin's death to his realization that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election, Brennan brings the reader behind the scenes of some of the most crucial moments in recent U.S. history. He also candidly discusses the times he has failed to live up to his own high standards and the very public fallouts that have resulted. With its behind-the-scenes look at how major U.S. national security policies and actions unfolded during his long and distinguished career--especially during his eight years in the Obama administration--John Brennan's memoir is a work of history with strong implications for the future of America and our country's relationships with other world powers. Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, at Home and Abroad offers a rare and insightful look at the often-obscured world of national security, the intelligence profession, and Washington's chaotic political environment. But more than that, it is a portrait of a man striving for integrity; for himself, for the CIA, and for his country."-Minor edge wear on DJ., Celadon Books, 2020, 4, New York: Times Books (Random House), 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue boards, navy cloth spine, gilt titles on spine & monogram on front board, xv, 672 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, index. Edges soiled, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Political memoirs of the long-serving Soviet ambassador. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/Fine. 24 X 16 cm., Times Books (Random House), 1995, 4, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. Fair. [12], 347. [7] pages. Some discoloration ins bds, fr board weak (restrengthened with glue), bds scuffed, board corners worn, spine discolored, spine edges worn & small tears. William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 - January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Catholicism of his French mother. During World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the US declaration of war in April 1917. He served in the US Army in World War I, earning the rank of Captain and the Croix de Guerre. Percy's most well-known work is his memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. His other works include the text of "They Cast Their Nets in Galilee," which is included in the Episcopal Hymnal (1982) (Hymn 661), and the Collected Poems. One of his pieces was published under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (New York, 1934). Percy was the playwright behind a one-act scene in a volume of poetry, "In April Once" (1920). A friend of Herbert Hoover from the Belgium Relief Effort during the early years of World War I, Percy was put in charge of relief during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, when an area larger than all New England minus Maine was flooded in the spring. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Southerner of the Mississippi Delta tells, discursively and with charm, of his childhood, parents, Virginia relatives, boyhood activities and education and life in the pre-1900's. Harvard Law, a spot of teaching, politics, travel, the First World War and his share. Back to Mississippi, fighting the Klan and the river floods. Pleasant reading, philosophical, retrospective, nicely old style -- of more than local interest., Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, 2<

1945, ISBN: 57b7c83fa9690631f295e24c47ddf0ac

Gebraucht, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], AMERICAN SOUTH, MEMOIRS, MISSISSIPPI DELTA, LOUISIANA, WWI, BOYHOOD, SEWANEE, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, KU KLUX KLAN, RACISM, FLOOD OF 1927, SHARE-CR… mais…

Gebraucht, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf, New York], AMERICAN SOUTH, MEMOIRS, MISSISSIPPI DELTA, LOUISIANA, WWI, BOYHOOD, SEWANEE, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, KU KLUX KLAN, RACISM, FLOOD OF 1927, SHARE-CROPPERS, PLANTERS, [12], 347. [7] pages. Some discoloration ins bds, fr board weak (restrengthened with glue), bds scuffed, board corners worn, spine discolored, spine edges worn & small tears. William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 - January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Catholicism of his French mother. During World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the US declaration of war in April 1917. He served in the US Army in World War I, earning the rank of Captain and the Croix de Guerre. Percy's most well-known work is his memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. His other works include the text of "They Cast Their Nets in Galilee," which is included in the Episcopal Hymnal (1982) (Hymn 661), and the Collected Poems. One of his pieces was published under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (New York, 1934). Percy was the playwright behind a one-act scene in a volume of poetry, "In April Once" (1920). A friend of Herbert Hoover from the Belgium Relief Effort during the early years of World War I, Percy was put in charge of relief during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, when an area larger than all New England minus Maine was flooded in the spring. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Southerner of the Mississippi Delta tells, discursively and with charm, of his childhood, parents, Virginia relatives, boyhood activities and education and life in the pre-1900's. Harvard Law, a spot of teaching, politics, travel, the First World War and his share. Back to Mississippi, fighting the Klan and the river floods. Pleasant reading, philosophical, retrospective, nicely old style -- of more than local interest.<

1982, ISBN: 57b7c83fa9690631f295e24c47ddf0ac

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. Fair. [12], 347. [7] pages. Some discoloration ins bds, fr board weak (restrengthened with glue), bds scuffed, board corner… mais…

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. Fair. [12], 347. [7] pages. Some discoloration ins bds, fr board weak (restrengthened with glue), bds scuffed, board corners worn, spine discolored, spine edges worn & small tears. William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 - January 21, 1942), was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger Percy championed the Catholicism of his French mother. During World War I, Percy joined the Commission for Relief in Belgium in November 1916. He served in Belgium as a delegate until the withdrawal of American personnel upon the US declaration of war in April 1917. He served in the US Army in World War I, earning the rank of Captain and the Croix de Guerre. Percy's most well-known work is his memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. His other works include the text of "They Cast Their Nets in Galilee," which is included in the Episcopal Hymnal (1982) (Hymn 661), and the Collected Poems. One of his pieces was published under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (New York, 1934). Percy was the playwright behind a one-act scene in a volume of poetry, "In April Once" (1920). A friend of Herbert Hoover from the Belgium Relief Effort during the early years of World War I, Percy was put in charge of relief during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, when an area larger than all New England minus Maine was flooded in the spring. Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885--1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life -- although his life was exciting and varied -- but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Southerner of the Mississippi Delta tells, discursively and with charm, of his childhood, parents, Virginia relatives, boyhood activities and education and life in the pre-1900's. Harvard Law, a spot of teaching, politics, travel, the First World War and his share. Back to Mississippi, fighting the Klan and the river floods. Pleasant reading, philosophical, retrospective, nicely old style -- of more than local interest., Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, 2<