1945ref. 6043161945. at the end in blue fountain pen ink by Maurice Carpenter. ca. 1945. 7" x 8 3/4"; 5 leaves including title page. Two deletions and two corrections in the Carpenter's hand. Fine. See #109 in the Lehman/Parker edition of Sitwell's "Selected Letters" for an example of her intimate correspondence with Carpenter. Sitwell was god mother to Carpenter's son. This poem in tribute to Dame Edith comprises of 72 lines. Carpenter co-edited with Jack Lindsay & Honor Arundel "New Lyrical Ballads" London 1945; "His Gentle Exercise and Other Poems" was published in 1950 as No. 8 in the "Key Poets" series - joining Dame Edith's "Poor Men's Music" which was No. 1 in the series. No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. unknown books
ref. B200644-2New York The American Numismatic Society 1976. 47pp. 25 illus. Wraps. Texts by Homer A. Thompson Alison Frantz Michael L. Bates Richard Ettinghausen. New York (The American Numismatic Society), 1976. paperback books
1999ref. 349180New York: Barricade Books 1999. 303p. inscribed & signed with signed card laid-in first edition stated hardcover bound in boards and unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Barricade Books unknown books
2002ref. 2335105New York: PublicAffairs 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Scuff to front jacket. 2002 Hard Cover. 400 pp. What Jonathan Miller one of its high priests calls a "peculiar episode in British cultural history" provides rich material for Carpenter to dig into. He explores the creeping postwar unease fast-growing consumerism and other social factors of the early 1960s that set the stage for the explosion of "a new . characteristically English style of subversion" that took the form of the most silly social and political commentary. Carpenter also a biographer of Tolkien Auden Pound and others traces the people who fed England's sudden appetite for satire including Miller Michael Frayn Peter Cook Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett. PublicAffairs hardcover books
1969ref. 41676Beaconsfield England: Darwen Finlayson. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Reprint Edition. Cloth. 0852080182 . Edition in Near Fine condition with some sunning in a Very Good clipped dust-jacket with minor tearing along the top edges ; Deals with places in Hampshire and with famous familes of the county but is essentially a connected narrative from pre-Roman times up to the present day; 8vo; 80 pages . Darwen Finlayson hardcover books
1966ref. 189188New York: John Day Co 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good hardcover with Very good dust jacket. The book has shelf rub of spine ends. The dust jacket has minor wear of all panel edges and light soiling of panels. The text is nice and clean. John Day Co hardcover books
ref. 142953hardcover. many illus. 3 in color. 491pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; d.w. rubbed. London: John Baker 1966. unknown books
1994ref. 9010757Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Second printing. Author's first book. Milkweed Editions hardcover books
1994ref. 913821Minneapolis: Milkweed. 1994. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Milkweed hardcover books
1976ref. 582788New York: Simon and Schuster 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1976ref. 58165New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0671223232 . A Nearly Fine first Printing of the First Edition that has minimal edgewear in a shelfworn dust-jacket in the same condition; Wilde Meta Carpenter and Orin Borsten tell the story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter from their courtship in the 1930s to their final days together in the 1950s. The book is full of insights into Faulkner's character his writing and his relationship with Meta Carpenter.; 8vo; 334 pages . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1976ref. 25943New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1976. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels a bit of wear along top edge including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine. B&W photographs INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love / Meta Wilde / March 1 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with William Faulkner which began when she was a script girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came to Hollywood to work on the scenario for THE ROAD TO GLORY and continued over the next thirty years whenever time and chance gave the lovers an opportunity." Wilde went on to become one of Hollywood's legendary script supervisors working well into the 1980s sometimes under the name Meta Rebner with an impressive string of credits including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THE GRADUATE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT SHAMPOO and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The inscribees of this copy were director Delbert Mann and his wife; Ms. Wilde had worked for Mann on the 1960 film THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Signed by Author . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1960ref. 1000621Los Angeles: Rounce and Coffin Club 1960 Clothbacked decorative boards. Octavo. Spine slightly faded. Rounce and Coffin Club, hardcover books
1925ref. 144453Oxford: Oxford University Press 1925. Hardcover. A. Parker's Books Offering antique books vintage books and rare books for over 43 years View our other listings: A.Parker's Books A Naturalist in East Africa: Being notes made in Uganda ex-German and Portuguese East Africa G.D. Hale Carpenter Oxford: Clarendon Press 1925 8vo. 6 by 8 3/4 inches 187 pp. eight plates and small fold-out map. Numerous b/w photographs. Spine sunned head and heel lightly rubbed. Owner plate to front pastedown. PH F3 V. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1911ref. 98348London: John Murray 1911. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. xv 517pp. 8vo cloth; spine faded and with small tear at top edge. London: John Murray 1911. A very good copy. John Murray unknown books
1950ref. 38028New York: Peter Smith 1950. First edition. Cloth. Edges foxed else a near fine copy. vi 333 pp. 8vo. Peter Smith hardcover books
1950ref. 54063New York: Peter Smith 1950. hardcover. very good. 333pp. 8vo beige cloth. New York: Peter Smith 1950. Very good. Peter Smith unknown books
1988ref. UCARSER00tpmFaber and Faber 1988. Very Good. Carpenter Humphrey. A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound. London: Faber and Faber 1988. 1005pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped edges. In dust jacket protector. Faber and Faber hardcover books
1988ref. 510944Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. 1005pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Some page toning else near fine in a fine dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1988ref. 504385Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Gray wrappers. Fine. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1988ref. 57411Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1988. Uncorrected Proof Copy. With a typed & autographed letter signed from Peter Davison on Houghton Mifflin stationery laid in dated August 2 1988 to American writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin. Davison forward the uncorrected proof copy and then adds “I thought you were the perfect devil’s advocate if that is the right term of the TV version of Pound. Carpenter is the d.a. in print: I like his irony and skepticism. P.” Peter Davison was a poet and editor. His first collection of poetry "The Breaking of the Day" won coveted publication in the Yale Younger Poets series. Davison published 11 volumes of poetry that won praise from figures like Alfred Kazin and W.S. Merwin. He spent four decades as a literary editor for the Atlantic Monthly Press and Houghton Mifflin and 30 years as poetry editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Kazin has published a number of articles on Pound’s poetry. Thick 8vo. printed gray wraps; 1005 pages. Illustrated. Very Good covers nice with little wear head of spine; contents clean & tight; minor fold edge of letter. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1988ref. 446047Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 1005pp. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates. Age-toned pages with foxing on the boards near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light internal foxing. Biography. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1988ref. 9025405New York: Houghton Mifflin 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter white cloth and tan boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1892ref. 1369835Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1892. Student's Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 284 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt text. Boards have mild edgewear and shelfwear and rubbing to corners. Textblock has light age toning and faint staining to rear endpaper and pastedown. 1369835. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1911ref. 58754London: George Allen 1911. First separate UK edition. 67 pp. Light foxing to the fore-edge and preliminaries else fine; an unusually crisp copy with the spine still snowy white. First separate British edition originally published in FROM ADAM'S PEAK TO ELEPHANTA 1892 with a new Preface by the author. Attractive bookplate of Ileene Knox. London: George Allen, unknown books
