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Cambridge University Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Writing inside. Dust jacket is Slightly dampstained. Dust jacket has clipped corner.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. Cloth. Good/Good. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling. In good+ condition. Patchy fading to cloth colour on covers, a few minor markings internally, generally clean, binding is very good. In good dust jacket, a bit grubby with some wear to edges. 232 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 232pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, lacking the front fly, spine tanned and cocked with ends fraying, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Essays.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Good/Good. 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket, repairs, price clipped. Green cloth spine with bright gilt titling on spine, faded colour cloth boards. No ownership marks. viii, 32 pages clean and tight. Mr Sampson is not altogether a comfortable essayist-he may be read in bed, but even there he will unsettle his readers' fixed ideas, make them interrupt, question, dispute with him. There is no mistaking what he means, for his plea on behalf of clear, masculine language is admirably supported by his practice; but sometimes what he means (as he well knows) is disturbing. His constant topics in these seven chapters are literature, education, and music, about all of which he feels deeply and writes urgently, though with a light touch. He is aware of the character of the age upon which we have entered, and is jealous to bring into it the threatened aesthetic values. His life-long passion has been on behalf of a true notion of education.… Read More

Great Britain: Cambridge at the University Press. Good/Good. 1947. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. Marks to cloth. Wear and a couple of tears to edge of D/J. Slight foxing to D/J. Price clipped. The author's constant topics in these seven chapters are literature, education and music, about all of which he feels deeply and writes urgently, though with a light touch. He is awatre of the character of the age upon which we have entered, and is jealous to bring into it the threatened aesthetic values. His life-long passion has been on behalf of a true notion of education. This book will certainly stimulate all teachers and shcoolamsters, even thought it is dierect more widely. Behind the variety is convition: that the spiritiual values ares supreme and supremely rewarding; and that there can be no such thing as a sacrifice for truth. 232 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. George Sampson (1873-1950) was a renowned literary scholar and educationalist. First published in 1947, this book gathers together a selection of essays by Sampson on a variety of subjects. The text is comprised of a mixture of reprinted works and original material.