The Profession of Poetry de H W Garrod - 1929

Oxford University Press, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 1929. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1929. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

London: Oxford, 1929. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 270. Owner's name on flyleaf. VG in some worn dj. Lectures delivereed while chair of the poetry dept at Oxford. .The profession of poetry.--Poets and philosophers.--'Pure poetry.'--Byron, 1824-1924.--Coleridge.--Wordsworth's Lucy.--The place of Hazlitt in English criticism.--Cowley, Johnson, and the 'Metaphysicals.'--The nightingale in poetry.--Rupert Brooke,--The poetry of R. L. Stevenson.--Mr. Humbert Wolfe.--Mr. A. E. Houseman.--Massinger.--Milton and Oxford.--How to know a good book from a bad.--Walter Raleigh.

Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1929. First edition.. Hardback.. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.