The letters of A.E. Housman
1971, First Edition. London : Hart-Davis. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Text edges, preliminary and final leaves faintly foxed, with the interior remaining strong and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Item #476504
ISBN: 0246640073
Physical description; xxii, 458 pages, 8 plates : facsimiles, genealogical table, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Edited by Henry Maas. Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-441). Contents; Early letters : 1875-1877 – Oxford : 1877-1880 – The patent office : 1885-1890 – University College : 1892-1896 – A Shropshire Lad : 1896-1910 – Cambridge : 1911-1936 – Letters on classical subjects. Subjects; Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward) (1859-1936) – Correspondence. Poets, English – 19th-20th centuries – Correspondence. Classicists – Great Britain – Correspondence.
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