mary edith thomas (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. None Stated. The Summer 1951 issue (v 1, # 2) of a digest from the early 1950s that covers a variety of genres - sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, crime, etc . Edited by Theodore Irwin. Cover art is uncredited. Stories includes "Operation Peep" by John Wyndham; "World Withon" by Thomas A. Coffee; "Blood Will Tell" by Nathaniel Weyl; "The Nightmare Face" by Walter Snow; "Elusive Witness" by Georges Simenon; "Survival" by Thomas Gilchrist; "Fatal Mistake" by John Basye Price; "Criminal at Large" by Larry Holden; "Pardon My Terror" by Irving Burstiner; "Evil Is the Night" by Edith Saylor Abbot; "Black Death" by John Krill; "Maiden Beware" by Richard Lewis; "A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce; "Penny Wise, Fate Foolish" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; "The Perfectly Calm Murder" (novelette) by F. Hugh Herbert. Light edge wear. .25" loss at the top left corner of the front cover and down the spine. Another .5" chip/gouge on the spine about 2.25" up from the tail. Soiling to the fore edge of the rear cover with loss at the edges down the bottom half. Folded corner to the top left of the rear cover. The internals are good with light toning to the pages. An acceptable copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing; trade edition ] ; ix, 214 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm. ; ISBN 9780934601764, 9780934601771, 0934601763, 0934601771 ; OCLC 20012286 ; LCCN 89016100 ; LC SB466.U65 G46 1989 ; Dewey 712/.09758 ; sand-colored cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Savannah and the Coast --- Coastal Georgia -- The Piedmont plateau -- South Georgia -- Atlanta and North Georgia -- Index of Gardens -- Sources for quoted material -- Bibliography ; Graced with one of the longest growing seasons in North America, Georgia has a rich and interesting tradition of gardens and gardening. That tradition is vividly portrayed in Gardens of Georgia, commissioned by the Garden Club of Georgia, Inc., to commemorate its sixtieth anniversary and to celebrate the heritage and beauty of Georgia's gardens.As noted by Georgia founder James Oglethorpe in 1732, Georgia has a happy climate. From the broad-shouldered mountains of the Blue Ridge, through the red clay of the rolling piedmont, across the sprawling piney coastal plain, and on to the subtropical islands on the Atlantic, Georgia is blessed with four regions of gardening opportunities, distinctly defined by differences in elevation, climate, soil, and natural vegetation.Writer William Mitchell and photographer Richard Moore have portrayed the wonders of gardens historic and contemporary, public and private, and urban, suburban, and rural from each of these regions. Whether illustrating overall gardenscapes or capturing intimate vignettes and individual blossoms, Richard Moore's photographs have a depth of color and clarity of detail that immerse the reader into a world of delightful splendor. The text by Willaim Mitchell not only describes the settings as they are today, but also spins a rich background of history in the context of the botanical Eden observed by early explorers.The richest legacy of each generation is to preserve and protect an always vulnerable natural environment and help nature bring forth its green and glowing cycles of rebirth. Gardens of Georgia celebrates that legacy, sharing the ongoing dream of paradise--a new Eden--whether it is in a grand formal garden from an earlier era or a small plot of perennials in a Georgia yard. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; 256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm OCLC 80914154 ; black cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; The purpose of this book is to preserve the memory of a time what will never be seen again. We extend our sincere thanks to the folks who helped accomplish this purpose by sharing their personal memories ; filled with photos ; FINE. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, title page printed in red and black. Original green linen, paper label to spine, lettered in black, ruled in red. Gently rubbed, traces of paper label and a few marks to upper board. Edges foxed and browned. Endpapers heavily and unevenly browned, a few chips (former insect damage?), Anthony Charles Thomas' illustrated ex libris to front pastedown, inscribed by Ellis in sepia pen to ffep: "Harry Edmunds, from EMO Ellis, Xmas 1908". Foxed, else, clean and tidy. Good. JiscLHD locates four copies only (BL, Bodleian, CambridgeUL & NLS). Unusual. A robust, inscribed copy of the "considerably revised and in parts rewritten" and re-titled 1907 edition of Edith Ellis' most popular, protean and (inadvertently) persecuted novel about free love and female desire, set in Cornwall, with a pleasing Cornish provenance: from the collection of Charles Thomas (19282016), the eminent British historian and archaeologist, who was Professor of Cornish Studies at Exeter University. In its original iteration as Seaweed (1898), Ellis' first novel her own "sex bomb," as she discussed it in a letter to her friend Edward Carpenter was accidentally swept up in the furore and subsequent censorship for obscenity of her husband Havelock Ellis' Sexual Inversion (1897) and suppressed. The trial, and the potential for exposure as a queer woman, deeply affected Edith Ellis, who had provided 'Case XXXVI.Miss H., aged 30' for her husband's book. Seaweed, and Kit's Woman, are also significant for their subject matter, "which in many ways anticipates, and quite possibly inspired, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, another famously censored and suppressed book" (Wallace, 2008). Following her 1907 revisions, which toned down Kit's coarseness and removed a number of "erotically charged passages," Ellis would revise it again for the American market as Steve's Woman, "eliminating much of the Cornish dialect"; it also had a theatrical iteration as "a four-act play that received a special performance at the Court Theatre with Beryl Faber playing the leading role" (ibid). Finally, a popular, paperback edition of Kit's Woman was published posthumously in 1916, possibly to help clear the debts Ellis had left. Edith Mary Oldham Ellis (née Lees; 18611916), known professionally as Mrs Havelock Ellis, was an author and lecturer embedded in the overlapping progressive circles of fin de siècle England. A 'New Woman', she was a feminist and socialist, a one-time vegetarian and an advocate of eugenics, as well as, briefly, secretary of The Fellowship of the New Life (a precursor to the Fabian Society). Ellis was gregarious and well-networked across radical groups, publishing and lecturing in the UK and US, but with strong ties to Cornwall, where she farmed and made her home (the Ellises sought a different conjugal formation based on shared values and comradeship rather than sexual attraction; they had separate incomes and residences). Ellis bought a number of cottages at Carbis Bay and renovated them for tenants, alongside keeping animals on a free hold. As well as an invert, she described herself as: "a farmer, lodging-house keeper, novelist, dramatist, and observer." Jo-Ann Wallace (2008) 'The Very First Lady Chatterley? Mrs. Havelock Ellis's Seaweed,' English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 51: 2, pp. 123-137.