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John Morris. From the Third Programme a Ten Years' Anthology. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$3.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1956. First Published. 339 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
John Morris (ed). From The Third Programme. A Ten-Years Anthology. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$5.36 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards have some wear, soiling. Content has light toning. Toning to page ends. No DJ
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Morris, John (Ed). From the Third Programme : A Ten - Years' Anthology. The Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: jacket is worn, torn and price clipped. edge wear and knocking on boards. thorough foxing marks. on both book and jacket. a reading copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Morris, John (edited by). From the Third Programme; A Ten-Years' Anthology. , 1956.
Price: US$10.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1956-01-01. The Nonesuch Press. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ; Acceptable, edgewear. 9x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
John Morris. From the third programme : a ten-years' anthology. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$11.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1956 Nonesuch Press first edition hardback; very good clean copy, with very good unclipped dj, couple of small edge tears; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.28 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects: British Broadcasting Corporation. English literature 20th century. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red cloth with black label gilt, DW, 8vo., x, 339 pages. A fine copy in a bright and clean price-clipped near fine DW with a trace of spotting and edgewear, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
John Morris (Ed.). From the Third Programme: A Ten Years Anthology. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Ed. Good condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout but some minor scuffing tio the rough cut page ends - some pages are uncut. Pencil writing to ffep stating that this is No. 672 of 1300 (Limited Edition). Card slipcase with edge wear and toning
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
John Morris (ed.). From the Third Programme a Ten Years' Anthology. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$16.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1956. First Edition. 339 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild water staining to spine. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Light rubbing and marking all over.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.96 + shipping
Description: x+339; 1956-dated sig.top front end-paper otherwise marred only by fairly extensive tanning spots to top and fore-edges, occ. intruding into outer margins, further light tanning to endpapers. Red cloth cover clean, bright and unworn; unclipped jacket has chip across top spine and a few edge tears & rubbing hints inc. an internally closed chip repair to top front edge, also quite grubby in places, tanning spots and tanning strip to back, will add protective sleeve when ordered however because of text. This reprints talks by virtually every eminent cultural figure of the day on every topic under the Sun, includes famous Bertrand Russell vs Father Copleston discussion on existence of God, talks by T.S.Eliot, Isaiah Berlin, Nicholas Pevsner, Max Beerbohm, astronomer Fred Hoyle, Thomas Mann on Chekhov and poems by Stevie Smith, William Plomer and V.S.Pritchett (who also has a chat with Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen on 'The Artist in Society'. Lots more too.
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Morris John (ed.). From the Third Programme : A Ten Years' Anthology. Nonesuch Press London, 1956.
Price: US$17.96 + shipping
Description: hardback, 8vo., x, 339 pps. Red cloth, foxing on endpapers and fore-edge, neat ownership inscription. Book is VG/VG+ in frayed dust jacket, repaired tears. 0.0
Seller: Jonathan Gibbs Books, Malvern, United Kingdom
Morris, John. From the Third Programme : A Ten - Years' Anthology. Nonesuch, 1956.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edge wear, browning and small chips to jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, no slipcase. x, 339pp. Illustrated. No. 936 of a limited edition of only 1300 copies. 1st edition 1956. Pages partly unopened. Binding a little marked and worn. Previous owner's details to front free end-paper. A very decent copy. (h5)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$22.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: red publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; gilt is bright; blue and brown pictorial dust jacket; lettering in black on spine; minor shelf wear with a little creasing and nicks; price-clipped; four sections of essays under the four topics of Imagination, Argument, Experience and Exposition; Essay contributors include William Plomer, V.S. Pritchett; Bertrand Russell, Max Beerbohn, E.M. Forster, Andre Gide, Maxim Gorky, Edward Sackville-West, Isiah Berlin, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Mann and many others; 339 pages; unnecessary tape reinforcements on underside of d.j.
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Morris, John [ed]. From The Third programme A Ten Years' Anthology. Nonesuch Press, London, 1956.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: x, 339pp. Head of d.j. chipped otherwise a nice copy. Imagination, Argument, Experience & Exposition, transcripts of the broadcasts. Includes V.S. Pritchett's 'Maisie: A Literary Invention'. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.20 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects: British Broadcasting Corporation. English literature 20th century. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$25.54 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects: British Broadcasting Corporation. English literature 20th century. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Morris, John. From the Third Programme: A Ten Year's Anthology. Nonesuch, 1956.
Price: US$28.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, strappi macchie Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, macchie firma
Seller: Librodifaccia, Alessandria, AL, Italy
Price: US$36.34 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects: British Broadcasting Corporation. English literature 20th century. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.51 + shipping
Description: Antologia di prestigiosi interventi al Third Programme della BBC. Edizione limitata di 1300 esemplari numerati. Interventi di James Kirkup William Plomer V.S. Pritchett Henry Reed Stevie Smith Graham Greene Elizabeth Bowen Bertrand Russel Father Copleston Noel Annan Max Beerbohm Isaiah Berlin Laura Bohannan E.M. Forster Andre Gide Maxim Gorky Nikolaus Pevsner Arthur Waley Edward Sackville-West T.S. Eliot Darsie Gillie Fred Hoyle Alan Pryce-Jones Thomas Mann P.H. Newby Magnus Pyke Michael Ventris J.Z. Young X + 339 p. in-8
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Giulio Cesare di Daniele Corradi, roma, ROMA, Italy
Price: US$55.12 + shipping
Description: Provenance: bookplate of James Montgomery Archibald. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; British Broadcasting Corporation. British Broadcasting Corporation. Third Programme. English literature 20th century. Radio programs Great Britain. Radio programs; history. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
MORRIS John. FROM THE THIRD PROGRAMME [ A TEN-YEARS ANTHOLOGY]. NONESUCH PRESS, LONDON WC2, 1956.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Anthology is published to celebrate the completion of ten years of broadcasting by the BBC third programme. Lge 8vo. Pp,x [2] , 3-339 , [3] Ltd edition 839/ 1300. The form and character of the Third Progamme , in accordance with prescription given to experiment has gradually changed, it was decided from the beginning the Third Programme should not compromise . A very interesting book for every body, especially in such good condition.
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Morris, John. From the Third Programme: A Ten Years' Anthology. Nonesuch Press, 1956.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition; edition limited to 1300 copies, of which this is #192, hardcover with marble slipcase; bindings is gray buckram; no markings to the text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
MORRIS, John editor. FROM THE 3RD PROGRAMME: 10-YEAR'S ANTH.. LONDON, NONESUCH, 1956, 1956.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED BY MORRIS FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Provenance: bookplate of James Montgomery Archibald. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; British Broadcasting Corporation. British Broadcasting Corporation. Third Programme. English literature 20th century. Radio programs Great Britain. Radio programs; history. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Morris,John. From The Third Program. A Ten Years Anthology.. Nonesuch Press, London, 1956.
Price: US$73.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition.Publisher's binding in good condition without DJ; gilt upper cut; ex libris Ronald Hanley Marks on pastedown; inside excellent condition, uncut copy N. 901 from 1300; 339 pages; work by T.S.Eliot, E.M. Foster, Graham Greene, Thomas Mann, Isaiah Berlin and many others.
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Number 1050 of 1300 tall copies. Illustrated throughout with b/w engravings by B. S. Biro. x, 339 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt decoration to spine, beveled boards. Fine Illustrated throughout with b/w engravings by B. S. Biro. x, 339 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1300 "large paper" copies printed on Barcham Green paper at the Stellar Press with 4 additional scraperboard illustrations by B.S.Biro. Full grey buckram, spine gilt and decorated in gilt, all edges uncut, t.e.g. Cockerell marbled paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy. Of the four scraperboard illustrations three can be identified as portraits of Bertie Russell, Max Beerbohm, and T.S.Eliot. (Dreyfus 125)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first book appearance of the texts of several selections from the influential BBC radio programme, including poetry by V.S. Pritchett and Stevie Smith, a round-table discussion between Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen and Graham Greene, and short pieces by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Mann, E.M. Forster, André Gide and many others. A brilliant example of the decline of this once significant radio service. A rather depressing comparison to today's diminished content. Clean and tight copy in an unclipped protected jacket.
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with minor edgewear and age-toning.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine with some foxing to the endpapers in a near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a tear at the top of the crown. The first book appearance of the texts of several selections from the influential BBC radio program, including poetry by V.S. Pritchett and Stevie Smith, a round-table discussion between Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen and Graham Greene, and short pieces by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Mann, E.M. Forster, André Gide and many others.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Morris, John. From the Third Programme A Ten Years Anthology. Nonesuch Press, London, 1956.
Price: US$162.00 + shipping
Description: previous owner signed front end page
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Morris, John [Editor]. FROM THE THIRD PROGRAMME. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1956.
Price: US$167.07 + shipping
Description: A ten years' anthology. Imagination; Argument; Experience; Exposition. Edited by John Morris. Pp. x+340(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 4 full page illustrations, publisher's device on title page and at colophon; narrow med. 8vo; grey buckram over bevelled boards, spine lettered & ruled in gilt, the boards a trifle marked; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; within marbled papered slipcase, edges lightly worn ; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed, small chip to fore-edge pp. 167/8; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1956. One of 1300 numbered copies thus. McKitterick 125. *An unlimited edition, in red cloth and without the illustrations (which are by B. S. Biro) was also published. Anthology celebrating the first decade of broadcasting by the BBC Third Programme, edited by its controller. Contributors include Stevie Smith, Graham Greene, Thomas Mann, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, a.o.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$314.28 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 339pp + x prelims. Anthology published to celebrate the completion of ten years of broadcasting by the BBC Third Programme. Designed by Francis Meynell in four sections - Imagination; Argument; Experience; Exposition. Twenty-six contributions (previously broadcast on The Third Programme) by writers, philosophers and scientists such as T. S. Eliot, Isaiah Berlin, Max Beerbohm, E. M. Forster, Edward Sackville-West, Andre Gide, Fred Hoyle and Magnus Pike. Printed on mould-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 1300 tall copies by the Stellar Press for distribution in the UK by the Nonesuch Press. This is copy #53. Gift inscription on ffep handwritten and SIGNED by the Editor, John Morris and is dated19 September 1956. Morris writes the Introduction. Also numbered and signed by the US/Canada publisher, Max Reinhardt on the limitation page at end of the book. Unlike the standard edition this volume contains illustrations by B.S. Biro. Grey cloth covered beveled edged boards with bright gilt lettering and bands on spine. Faded gilt top page edges. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Few uncut (and partially cut) pages, such as pp95/98, p271, p307. Small vertical brown mark (heat/burn?) to top edge of front cover. Otherwise in fine condition. Clean inside pages. Appears hardly read.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1956 First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by V. S. Pritchett. Size octavo, 9.25" tall, 339 pages. Taupe cloth covered boards with gilt titles and bands to the spine, bevelled edges, pages edges rough trimmed many uncut and/or partially unopened. With original marbled paper covered slipcase which is in unfortunate condition, corners and edges are rubbed, falling apart at the seams. Condition very good plus, spine a little tanned, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, contents are very clean. An anthology published to celebrate the completion of ten years of broadcasting by the BBC Third Programme. With various contributions from the shows grouped into the categories of Imagination, Argument, Experience and Exposition. "Unlike the standard edition it contains decorations by B. S. Biro" V.S. Pritchett contributes "Maisie" in the Imagination section and "The Artist in Society" along with Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen in the Argument section. One of a limited edition of thirteen hundred Tall copies printed on Barcham Green's rag mould-made paper by The Stellar Press. Where the number should be handwritten at the end of the limitation statement (which appears at the end of the book) instead is handwritten "Out of Series" and the word Number is crossed out. One of V. S. Pritchett's own copies, with his small owner's label to the front paste-down, signature in pencil on the front free end-paper and below the pencil signature is inscribed in blue biro; "For Lady Warlby. This playlet here included which I wrote in Parkhill Road. VSP with love" Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$325.21 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Includes a slightly worn slip-case in decorated marble paper. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; SIGNED and inscribed in verso by John Morris. Limited edition, no. 100. On t.p.: Imagination ; argument ; experience ; exposition. Title vignette. Contents; Imagination. The descent into the cave / James Kirkup -- The heart of a king / William Plomer -- Maisie / V.S. Pritchett -- Antigone / Henry Reed -- Syler's green / Stevie Smith. Argument. The artist in society / Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett -- A discussion on the existence of God / Bertrand Russell and Father Copleston. Experience. Lytton Strachey and his critics / Noel Annan -- First meetings with W.B. Yeats / Max Beerbohm -- Belinsky / Isaiah Berlin -- Miching Mallecho / Laura Bohannan -- Revolution at Bayreuth / E.M. Forster -- The French language / André Gide -- Tolstoy's wife / Maxim Gorky -- The Dukeries / Nicholas Pevsner -- Some far eastern dreams / Arthur Waley -- The cosmopolitan spirit / Edward Sackville-West. Exposition. Virgil and the Christian world / T.S. Eliot -- Why are they French? / Darsie Gillie -- Continuous creation / Fred Hoyle -- The state of civilisation in France / Alan Pryce-Jones -- Anton Chekhov : an essay / Thomas Mann -- The muse in the nursery / P.H. Newby -- Humbug in science / Magnus Pyke -- The Cretan tablets / Michael Ventris -- Memory systems in the brain / J.Z. Young. Subjects; British Broadcasting Corporation. Radio programs Great Britain. English literature 20th century. English literature. Radio programs. Literature. English literature 20th century. Literature. English literature 20th century. Literature. Great Britain. Genre; Literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked cloth, edges very slightly toned. Includes a slightly worn slip-case in decorated marble paper. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; x, 339 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; SIGNED and inscribed in verso by John Morris. Limited edition, no. 100. On t.p.: Imagination ; argument ; experience ; exposition. Title vignette. Contents; Imagination. The descent into the cave / James Kirkup -- The heart of a king / William Plomer -- Maisie / V.S. Pritchett -- Antigone / Henry Reed -- Syler's green / Stevie Smith. Argument. The artist in society / Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett -- A discussion on the existence of God / Bertrand Russell and Father Copleston. Experience. Lytton Strachey and his critics / Noel Annan -- First meetings with W.B. Yeats / Max Beerbohm -- Belinsky / Isaiah Berlin -- Miching Mallecho / Laura Bohannan -- Revolution at Bayreuth / E.M. Forster -- The French language / André Gide -- Tolstoy's wife / Maxim Gorky -- The Dukeries / Nicholas Pevsner -- Some far eastern dreams / Arthur Waley -- The cosmopolitan spirit / Edward Sackville-West. Exposition. Virgil and the Christian world / T.S. Eliot -- Why are they French? / Darsie Gillie -- Continuous creation / Fred Hoyle -- The state of civilisation in France / Alan Pryce-Jones -- Anton Chekhov : an essay / Thomas Mann -- The muse in the nursery / P.H. Newby -- Humbug in science / Magnus Pyke -- The Cretan tablets / Michael Ventris -- Memory systems in the brain / J.Z. Young. Subjects; British Broadcasting Corporation. Radio programs Great Britain. English literature 20th century. English literature. Radio programs. Literature. English literature 20th century. Literature. English literature 20th century. Literature. Great Britain. Genre; Literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.