The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters Tapa dura - 1985

Macmillan Publishers Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Macmillan,, 1985. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo. Very good in a slightly worn and marked, very good dust jacket

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The back of the jacket, now protected, is damaged at the head with twoclosed tears. There's a bookplate on the front paste down and the tail of the boards are rubbed from sitting on a shelf for nearly 30 years.

Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 1.5 kg; XXVI, 542 pages, includes chronology, and index. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photography. In original dustwrapper. Slight rubbing to the base edge of the boards, a couple of spots on the front edge of the text block, and offset tanning of the front end pages from a newspaper clipping. Grainger was one of those people who could impress a great deal of himself into the letters he wrote. These 500 odd pages are full of jokes, daily events, confessions, sexual fantasies, musical reported, linguistic speculations, racism and affection. The race talk is an interesting phenomenon, being in part that neo-scientific speculation which was so widespread in the first third of our century, but having subjective quirks energetically built in. -- "the farthest north of humanness " is a model of scholarship, at once clear and thorough. The letters are… Leer más

Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1985 xxvi, 542 pp., illustrations. Light wear at edges of dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by Kay Dreyfus to Saul Novak, chairman, School of Music, Queens College and his wife. ''To give way to human feelings, to overflow & swim in human feelings, is human enough, but the farthest north of humanness is, for me, to be a lightning conductor of such feelings in such a way that they are particularly fitted to fill niches in coming men's minds & sit itchingly and inflamingly like small fishhooks in men's consciousness throughout changing customs and different rules for playing cricket.''--Grainger, 1907, in a letter to his mother.. Inscribed By Editor. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.