Preliminary Essays

Author: WAIN, John Barrington (1925-94)
Title: Preliminary Essays
Publication: London: Macmillan and Co., 1957

Description: [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[10] 196. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s to front flap. With a loose postcard inserted. Interior lightly toned. Some soiling to cloth. Jacket gently toned with minor edgewear. Very good. A fine work of literary criticism which includes musings on Restoration comedy, Ovid, William Wordsworth, and more contemporary poets such as Ezra Pound and Dylan Thomas.

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Subject: Literature

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