• For Your Consideration:
• A Lot of THREE (3) Books about:
• CHARLES WILLIAMS, INKLING
• “I had met many good people before…but in the presence of this man—we never discussed anything but literary business…I felt myself transformed into a person who was incapable of doing anything base or unloving.”
—W. H. AUDEN
• “One of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century.”
—TIME MAGAZINE
• “Reading CHARLES WILLIAMS is an unforgettable experience.”
—SATURDAY REVIEW
• TITLE 1 →
• “CHARLES WILLIAMS: AN EXPLORATION OF HIS LIFE AND WORK”
(Oxford University Press, 1983) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing)
• BY ALICE MARY HADFIELD
• “Poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, critic, and theologian, CHARLES WILLIAMS was the author of nearly forty books. Among his close friends were such literary lions as W. H. AUDEN, DOROTHY SAYERS, and T. S. ELIOT. In this, the first full biography of WILLIAMS, ALICE MARY HADFIELD—a close friend and colleague—provides a sympathetic portrait and sheds new light on the essentially Christian worldview that charged his writing.”
—THE PUBLISHER
• “I have read this book with great interest and have learned much from it. Its use of so much previously unavailable material makes it an indispensable source for all future work on CHARLES WILLIAMS’s life and writings. Scholarly and thorough, it is a perceptive and sympathetic study by one who not only knew CHARLES WILLIAMS well but who also understood and believed in his ideas. The biographical material is handled with restraint and common sense.” .”
—GLEN CAVALIERO, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, “CHARLES WILLIAMS: POET OF THEOLOGY”
• “MRS. HADFIELD has the advantage of knowing CHARLES WILLIAMS and most of his closest friends and also a thorough intimacy with his works. Likely to be the definitive biography.”
—CLYDE S. KILBY, FORMER CHAIRMAN, DEPT. OF ENGLISH, WHEATON COLLEGE
• “It is still number one on the ‘must-read’ list of books on WILLIAMS…. Essential reading….”
—THE ODDEST INKLING (BLOG)
•• TITLE 2 → →
• “CHARLES WILLIAMS: POET OF THEOLOGY”
(Wm. B. Eerdman’s Publishing Co., 1983) (Hardcover, First US Edition, First Printing)
• BY GLEN CAVALIERO
• “CHARLES WILLIAMS (1886-1945), the friend of T. S. ELIOT, C. S. LEWIS and J. R. R. TOLKIEN, was both a writer with many gifts and a religious thinker of an unusual kind. Poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, critic and theologian, in each capacity he displayed a distinctive and highly imaginative cast of mind. Here, in the first full-ength study to appear for over twenty years, GLEN CAVALIERO discusses WILLIAMS’ work in it is entirety, and plays particular attention to the manner in which his theological ideas were shaped and furthered by his various literary achievements.”
—THE PUBLISHER
• “A particularly useful tool for anyone tracing the evolution of WILLIAMS’ work and thought…. The heart of CAVALIERO’s critical study, covering the matured seed at the core of WILLIAMS’ work, namely his theology, strikes a welcome balance….”
—DMITRI PHILLIPS, THE C. S. LEWIS CHRONICLE
• “Like many readers of WILLIAMS (self included), he [CAVALIERO] is an enthusiastic disciple, eager to bring the ideas WILLIAMS popularized with his specialized vocabulary out to the world, and even has included three indices: one general, one of works by WILLIAMS, and one for ‘special subjects,’ organized by his ideas and terminology. But he is nevertheless a critical reader, and his major achievement is to bring WILLIAMS’ writings out of the cave of specialized reading and into the mainstream of criticism.”
—GORD WILSON, AMAZON REVIEW
• “Williams believed in poetry as he natural voice for theology, as it allows a vehicle for making the abstract tangible. This is masterfully done in his works, and the analysis in this book highlights prime examples.”
—GRETCHEN, GOODREADS REVIEW
• “This work of literary criticism is organized by genre, discussing CW’s poetry, criticism, biographies, plays, novels, Arthurian poetry, and theology. It examines many important themes in the work, especially coinherence..”
—THE ODDEST INKLING (BLOG)
••• TITLE 3 → → →
• “ESSAYS PRESENTED TO CHARLES WILLIAMS”
(Wm. B. Eerdman’s Publishing Co., 1977) (Trade Paperback, Fourth Edition Thus)
• EDITED (& WITH A PREFACE & AN ESSAY) BY C. S. LEWIS
• CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS BOOK:
• DOROTHY SAYERS
• J. R. R. TOLKIEN
• C. S. LEWIS
• A. O. [OWEN] BARFIELD
• GERVASE MATHEW
• W. H. LEWIS
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• For other details about the three books in this lot, please see below.
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TITLE 1: “CHARLES WILLIAMS: AN EXPLORATION OF HIS LIFE AND WORK”
AUTHOR: ALICE MARY HADFIELD
ILLUSTRATOR: B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Oxford University Press (New York), 1983
EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “Printing (last digit): 9 8 7 6 5 4. 3 2 1.”
NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy.
PAGES: 268
ISBN: 0-19-503311-6
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($24.95) is unclipped. Front & back have instances of light smudging but are still bright & clean. Spine is lightly sunned. Corners & spine tips are bumped & there is light crumpling around the top area of the spine. Edges are fine. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.)
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Light smudging on front board but boards are otherwise clean & bright with sharp corners. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Text-block edges are clean. There are two paragraphs of notes inked onto the last blank page at back (please see photos)—otherwise pages are pointedly bright & clean—with no other writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc.
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TITLE 2: “CHARLES WILLIAMS: POET OF THEOLOGY”
AUTHOR: GLEN CAVALIERO
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: William B. Eerdsmans Publishing Company (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1893
EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, this statement: “This American edition published 1983 through special arrangement with Macmillan”—with no later printings listed.
NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy.
PAGES: 199
ISBN: 0-8028-3579-1
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. Per Eerdman’s house style, not issued with price on DJ. Though sides are moderately but persistently scratched & smudges, DJ is clean. Top corners & top spine tip are bumped; others are rubbed. Light wear along edges. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.)
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Green cloth boards are bright & clean with bumped corners. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Name inked onto inside front cover. Text-block edges are lightly toned. There is a tiny red checkmark in the margin of the first page of the SAYERS essay. Pages are also lightly toned but also pointedly bright & clean—with no (other) writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD.
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TITLE 3: “ESSAYS PRESENTED TO CHARLES WILLIAMS”
EDITOR & PREFACE (& ESSAY): C. S. LEWIS
CONTRIBUTORS: DOROTHY SAYERS • J. R. R. TOLKIEN • C. S. LEWIS • A. O. [OWEN] BARFIELD • GERVASE MATHEW • W. H. LEWIS
ILLUSTRATOR: JIM CAMPBELL
TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1977
EDITION: First Edition, Fourth Printing Thus*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, this statement: “Fourth Printing, April 1977”—with no later printings listed.
NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy.
PAGES: 145
ISBN: 0-8028-1117-5
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD. Book is square & firm. The main problem with this copy occurs along the spine (which is moderately tight): there is half-inch detachment between the top spine area & the front cover & there an open cut in the middle of the spine (please see photos). Spine is also sunned—with creasing. Wraps are lightly but persistently scratched & smudged with bumped corners (spine tips are rubbed). Light wear along edges. Text-block edges are moderately age-toned. Despite the moderately toned edges, pages themselves are bright & clean—with no writing, no underlining, no highlight, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc.
SHIPPING NEWS: These three books be wrapped with care before being shipped together in a protected & sturdy box. THANK YOU!
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