A Local Habitation. An Autobiography (1945-90) - 5 Angebote vergleichen

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA.
(Cape Town: David Philip, 1991) 086486180X. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. x + 310; photographs and line drawings. Trace of spotting to top edge. Near fine condition. "This eagerly awaited third volume of Guy Butler's autobiography is even richer and wider in scope, and more varied in content, than Karoo Morning and Bursting World. It reflects the exceptional range of his interests (from Shakespeare to carpentry) and his achievements: seminal student years at Oxford (1945-7); academic apprenticeship at the University of the Witwatersrand (1948-50); Professor of English at Rhodes University since 1952. It outlines his subsequent career as a campaigner for Southern African literature in schools and universities, and his tireless devotion to the improvement of the teaching of English, as first and second language. But the Professor receives less attention than the Poet and Playwright. The emphasis falls on his imaginative life, his literary friendships and a creativity that always has a practical spin-off. He not only lectures on Shakespeare but produces his plays; he not only teaches poetry but writes it; and through anthologies and literary magazines he is assiduous in helping other poets into print. ... The significance of family, so powerful in Karoo Morning, and so frustrated by war in Bursting World, finds its fulfilment here." .

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA [560699], Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. x + 310; photographs and line drawings. Trace of spotting to top edge. Near fine condition. "This eagerly awaited third volume of Guy Butler's autobiography is even richer and wider in scope, and more varied in content, than Karoo Morning and Bursting World. It reflects the exceptional range of his interests (from Shakespeare to carpentry) and his achievements: seminal student years at Oxford (1945-7); academic apprenticeship at the University of the Witwatersrand (1948-50); Professor of English at Rhodes University since 1952. It outlines his subsequent career as a campaigner for Southern African literature in schools and universities, and his tireless devotion to the improvement of the teaching of English, as first and second language. But the Professor receives less attention than the Poet and Playwright. The emphasis falls on his imaginative life, his literary friendships and a creativity that always has a practical spin-off. He not only lectures on Shakespeare but produces his plays; he not only teaches poetry but writes it; and through anthologies and literary magazines he is assiduous in helping other poets into print. . The significance of family, so powerful in Karoo Morning, and so frustrated by war in Bursting World, finds its fulfilment here.".

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Chapter 1 [4804038], Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa.
Signed by Author(s)The jacket is shelf rubbed and marked.Signed by author.Well bound.Very good copy.[R.K], Books.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Chapter 1 Books, Johannesburg, [RE:5].
Hardcover, 1st Edition.

Lieferung aus: Südafrika, plus shipping, Shipping area: INT.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Chapter 1 Books, Johannesburg, [RE:5].
Hardcover, First Edition.