Ashton winifred (31 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Clean unmarked interior text. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and page block edges. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. This book is from a library and may include stamps, tape, and markings. Dust jacket condition is Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Errata slip tipped in. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages; Physical description: 22 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 -- Great Britain -- History. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Limited Edition. Signed, numbered limited edition (534/1000). Good condition, medium octavo, patterned boards, black cloth spine, wear to corners and spine extremities, light foxing, viii plus 110 pages. [QP]. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Good. FOUR VOLUME SET. 8vo. 378 pp. Very Good+, Black Cloth On Decorative Boards with rubbing, & edge wear; glue remnants from labels on end papers; some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle.

Zustand: Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in green on a creamy white paper label on the spine. The covers are slightly stained. 135 pages. A previous owner's note is penned at the top of the front endpaper. Very good. From the library of George R.M. Ewing, Jr., with his pictorial bookplate, designed for him by Rockwell Kent, mounted on the front pastedown. …

Signed Limited Edition, 129/275 copies: Hardback, quarter-bound in navy cloth, gold titles, blue and buff bds., 130 x 205 mm., 200 g., 22 pp., signed by the author, Clemence Dane on frontis, VG/VG copy.

Zustand: Very good. London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1924)., (1924). Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is chipped with its spine & extremities darkened & with tears to & pieces out of the top edge, affecting the titling. [vii] & 93 pages with an errata slip bound in. There is a small stain to the front pastedown & some very light staining to the front endpaper. The fore-edge is foxed with occasional light foxing to the front edges of the leaves. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. Clemence Dane is the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton. Signed by the author as Clemence Dane on the half-title. Also initialed by her, "WA", on the dust wrapper. …

First Edition: Hardback, black bds., gold titles, 140 x 220 mm., 800 g., 689 pp., original pictorial dw., designed by Clemence Dane, unclipped, rubbed at crns. and edges with some chipping, G+/VG copy.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO30056761: non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 87 pages. Ouvrage en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. A bright first edition copy of Clemence Dane's The King Waits, with the original glassine wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original paper wraps, with the original dust wrapper and the very scarce glassine wrapper. Winifred Ashton, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane (1888-1965), was an English novelist and playwright. She was most famous for her series The Babylons. This work is one of her short stories. In the publisher's original paper wraps, with the original dust wrapper and glassine wrapper. Externally, very bright and smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is attached to the paper wraps but is in excellent condition. Glassine wrapper is in very smart condition. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First English edition. Tiny owner's stamp, slight wear at the crown, very good or better lacking the dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author. A play based on a biblical incident. Ashton was an actress who, after her health failed, alternated between novels, plays, and screenplays (including *Anna Karenina*, *Fire Over England* and many others). For several decades she was adjudged one of the best serious writers among English women. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition from English sheets. A good only copy with some tidemarks at the top margins, and a soiled spine label, lacking the dustwrapper. Actress Eva Le Gallienne's copy with her bookplate on the front pastedown. Daughter of the poet Richard Le Gallienne, Eva was a distinguished actress, producer, and director. She founded the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York in the 1920s. In 1964 she was presented with a special Tony Award celebrating her 50th year as an actress and honoring her work with the National Repertory Theatre. In 1977 she won a Theatre World Special Award, and in 1986 she received the National Medal of Arts. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. viii, 87 p. illus. 22 cm. ; LCCN: 73-155098 ; OCLC: 596680 ; LC: QH323.5; Dewey: 574/.01/5195 ; paper wrappers ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Winifred Ashton, whose pseudonym was Clemence Dane, was an English novelist and playwright. She took the nom de plume "Clemence Dane" from the church, St Clement Danes on the Strand, London, near to where she taught at a girls' school, after having studied art in both London and Germany. She later collaborated with Helen de Guerry Simpson, with whom she wrote three detective novels featuring the character Sir John Saumarez, the first of which was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1930 as the motion picture, "Murder!". Although 16 novels and 30 plays are attributed to her, as well as a history of Covent Garden, this is probably her scarcest title ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1921] First Printing. No.164 of a limited edition of 275, numbered and signed by the author. Quarto, original quarter-cloth with printed title label over decorated paper-covered boards a little worn along edges; fine internally; printed on hand-made paper by Woods & Sons of London; illustrated with 5 b/w woodcuts; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere, some pages unopened. Signed by Author(s).…

Zustand: Very Good. Original stapled illustrated souvenir theatre programme 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 24 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs of the cast and illustrated advertisements. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of Clemence Dane's final published work, an imagining of the childhood of William Davenant, the godson of William Shakespeare. With a signed Christmas card from the author. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The work of novelist and playwright Winifred Ashton, who published under the pseudonym Clemence Dane. With a loosely inserted signed Christmas card from the author, inscribed 'with Winifred's love'.A charming short story set in seventeenth century Stratford, during a surprise production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards, and price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Rear wrap of dust wrapper age toned, with chipping and minor losses to head of front and rear wrap. Minor loss to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. With a loosely inserted signed Christmas card from the author. Fine. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. An excellent limited edition copy, signed by the author, of this illustrated play by Clemence Dane. A limited edition printed to one thousand copies signed by the author, this volume being number two hundred and ten in the series. A play in three acts by author Clemence Dane, Winifred Ashton's pseudonym, whose first play A Bill of Divorcement had a great commercial success. Illustrated throughout. Signed by Ashton to limitation page. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding, and decorative paper covered boards. Externally excellent, with only minor shelfwear and slight bumping ot head and tail of spine. Signed by author to limitation page. Internally, firmly bound. Minor faint scattered spotting to endpapers, otherwise pages are bright and clean. With illustrations throughout. Near Fine. Unnamed (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with curling to inner edge. Central vertical fold. She thanks her for writing about 'Broome Stages', and is glad she enjoyed it. 'You are quite right, it is a pleasure and an encouragement to hear that a book makes friends.' She concludes, 'Yes, I suppose the name did come from the Church: it gave me the idea, but it was pure chance, there is no association.'.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 8°, 479 (1) S., Orig.Ppbd., goldgepräg. Rü.ttl. Deutsch.

SIGNED PRODUCTION COPY. Octavo, pp.97. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Flyer for the Apollo Theatre production pasted to front paste-down. SIGNED by the author and nineteen members of the cast and crew from the May production of the following year, in black ink to front free end-paper and flyleaf. Spine sunned; light spotting to prelims. Good overall. Signatories as follows: Diana Wynyard; Austin Trevor; Ralph Richardson; Thea Holme; Beatrix Lehman; Stella Albenina; Agnes Imlary; Ethel Wellesley; Joan Swinstead; Florence Marriott Watson; Peggy Simpson; Anne Boyd; Francis Ross-Campbell; Frances Ruttledge; Emlyn Williams; Stafford Hilliyard; Cyril Horrocks; Alban Blakelock; and Erie Bass. Signed.…

Zustand: Good. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 8 inches wide], decorative black, brown & white paper covered boards backed with black cloth with a printed paper label on the spine. The top edge is gilt. The boards are bumped & lightly rubbed with the paper chipped around the edges. The head & tail of the spine are chipped & the label is rubbed. Half-title, title, vi & 133 pages, partially unopened. There is occasional light soiling & staining with a larger stain to the bottom margins of 2 facing pages. Good. Number 115 of a limited edition of 250 copies signed "Clemence Dane" on the colophon.Additionally inscribed to Victor Steghel as Winifred Ashton on the front endpaper and signed "Winifred". …

Zustand: Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Small octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are slightly rubbed along the edges. The dust jacket is darkened & soiled with several chips and short tears along the edges. 192 pages. The leaves are darkened and there is a vertical crease to the title page. Good. First edition. Signed by the author as Clemence Dane on the half-title. Additionally inscribed as Winifred Ashton on the front endpaper: "Victor's copy with love from Winifred". The recipient was Victor Steghel.A story about the man who brought the great news of the fleet's victory and of Nelson's death in 1805.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition from English sheets. Bottom corners a little bumped, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with light chipping, mostly at the crown. A domestic play. Ashton was an actress who, after her health failed, alternated between writing novels, plays, and screenplays (including *Anna Karenina*, *Fire Over England* and many others). For several decades she was adjudged one of the best serious writers among English women. Very scarce in jacket. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition from English sheets. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A domestic play. Ashton was an actress who, after her health failed, alternated between writing novels, plays, and screenplays (including *Anna Karenina*, *Fire Over England* and many others). For several decades she was adjudged one of the best serious writers among English women. Very scarce in jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. Boards a trifle sunned else fine in near fine dustwrapper, with art by William Van Dressel, with some tiny nicks and tears, and slight fading of the spine lettering. Author's second book, a romantic comedy. Ashton was an actress who, after her health failed, alternated between writing novels, plays, and screenplays (including *Anna Karenina*, *Fire Over England*, and many others). For several decades she was adjudged one of the best serious writers among English women. A very nice copy and scarce in jacket. …

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Vol. 1, No. 2. Quarto. 20pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Wraps and centerfold separated from the staples, else moderately worn, staples oxidized, very good. Includes text by English novelist and playwright, Clemence Dane (pseudonym of Winifred Ashton), as well as many photographs from the production of her first play, "A Bill of Divorcement." The hit play would go on to be adapted for the screen three times, each keeping the same name: a silent film in 1922; a 1932 film starring Katharine Hepburn and John Barrymore; and a 1940 film starring Maureen O'Hara and Adolphe Menjou. Miss Dane would go on to have a career writing screenplays, winning an Academy Award for the 1945 film "Perfect Strangers." Reandean was a theater syndicate started after WWI by Basil Dean and Alec Lionel Rea. They leased the St. Martin's Theatre in London, where they grew to put on many successful productions, including plays by Somerset Maugham, J. M. Barrie and Clemence Dane. Uncommon, *OCLC* locates just two holdings.…

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, tan paper covered boards titled in black on the front cover & spine. The covers are lightly bumped & soiled with the extremities slightly darkened. The joints are rubbed, the rear joint is split with the backstrip partially detached & there is a short tear to the top of the front joint. The spine is darkened & rubbed with a tiny tear near the tail. Half-title, title, [2] leaves & 92 pages. The page edges are slightly darkened. Good. First edition.Inscribed to William Arnold by the author on the date of its premiere on the front endpaper: "W. A. from W. A. (Clemence Dane) / March 14 - 1921". William Arnold's attractive bookplate is mounted on the front pastedown.Additionally, the book is signed by the entire cast of the premiere on the cast-list page, as well as by the producer, Basil Dean.…

First edition, first printing; 8vo; frontispiece; publisher's cloth, a little rubbed and darkened at extremities, dust-jacket with design by F.E. Warren, correctly priced $2.00 and listing other new titles published in 1928, a remarkably fine example. A stunning copy of this detective fiction title, introducing the character Sir John Saumarez; this edition, published by the somewhat obscure Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, seems to predate the first UK edition published by Hodder & Stoughton. In 1930 the book was adapted into two films: Murder! and a German-language version Mary, both of which were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. …

See Ashton's entry in the Oxford DNB. Both items in good condition, lightly aged, with evidence of mount to blank reverse of photograph. ONE: TLS. 17 January 1922. 1p, 12mo. Folded once. Signed 'Clemence Dane'. Addressed to G. Railton Barnard, 6 The Crescent, York. She thanks him for his 'interesting letter': 'If the same question had not already crept up once or twice, I should not have thought it possible for anyone so to misunderstand Legend, but I know people do, clear as I thought I had made it.' Barnard is 'absolutely right': 'Madala Grey is head over ears in love with her husband. She dies a truly happy woman, and one much to be envied.' TWO: 14 x 22 cm bromide print. Portrait of a seated middle-aged Ashton, in pearls and scoop neck dress, with forced grimace, staring at the viewer over a small table, on which her hands are clasped. Laid down over the bottom of the print is a 14 x 4 cm. panel of cartridge paper, on which Ashton has typed 'Yours truly' and written out in autograph her pseudonym 'Clemence Dane'. The image does not appear to be in the National Portrait Gallery collection. See image.…