The Poetry of Childhood de Editor-Samuel Carr - 1981-06-25

Paperback. Very Good.

B T Batsford Ltd, 1981. First. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine/price Clipped. pp.92 clean tight copy with some tanning to text edges d/j sunned on spine with slight edge and corner wear and sunning to top edges Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

UK: Batsford Books, 1978. Hardcover. Very good condition. From the collection of poet Gavin Ewart. Signed and dedicated by editor on F E P. In price clipped dust jacket, with tanning on inner lapels, edge wear, and a nick on upper edge of front cover. Spine is sunned. Pages and text fine. RB. Signed and Dedicated By Editor. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1981. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 8.75 x 5.75. The interior of the book is crisp and clean, without even the name of a former owner. The red cloth covers are bright, showing minor wear at edges and corners. The dust jacket is price-clipped, and is also in very good condition. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover, and looks very attractive.

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1981. Some of the best poems about childhood, Samuel Carr believes, have been by writers who were themselves childless, and he cites the verses of William Blake, Charles and Mary Lamb, William Cowper, Thomas Gray, R.L. Stevenson and Christina Rossetti as cases in point. These poets are all here represented, but so too are many others by writers who knew children from a parent's point of view, not least Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth. Twentieth century poets, American and British, are also represented, among them John Betjeman, Frances Cornford, Phyllis Grinley, Anthony Thwaite, Randall Jarrell, John Wain and R.S. Thomas. As a complement to the poems there is a selection of paintings, drawings and prints by, for example, Rembrandt, Berthe Morisot, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Constable, Thomas Bewick, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, etc, etc. The collection is thus a double anthology in which poems and pictures mutually illuminate one another. Four colour plates....30 b/w… Leer más

London: B.T.Batsford [0-7134-3445-7] [1981], 1st Ed.. (Hardcover) 92pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, black and white and color illustrations, index. (Poetry, Childhood).

London: Batsford, 1981 4 colour plates and 28 black & white illustrations; Hardback: red cloth lettered in gilt on spine, illustrated end-papers (different front and back); Old bookseller's price roughly removed from front free end-paper, otherwise near fine in slightly less fine price-clipped dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall