Asquith cynthia editor (12 Ergebnisse)

Yellow Cloth. Zustand: Good. First American Edition. Color frontispiece and three color plates. A fairly clean but worn copy, fraying at corners, some b/w illustrations are colored in by previous owner; bookplate, owner's inscription. Color and B/W Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Charles Scribner's Sons January 1926 Binding: Hardcover spine is shaken. ffep through frontispiece is detached but present. hand soiling to boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Quarto, 198 pages, pictorial beige cloth soiled, one front signature repaired. The American issue. Short pieces by Algernon Blackwood, Mary Webb, P. G. Wodehouse, A. A. Milne, Katharine Tynan, Walter de la Mare, and J. M. Barrie's "The Blot on Peter Pan". Illustrationis by Rex Whistler, Hugh Lofting, H. J. Ford, Stephen Tennant, Josselin Bodley, H. A. Riley, Harold Earnshaw, Daphne Jerrold, A. K. Macdonald, Enid M. Chadwick.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. undated c1920s ; large format hardback book for older children. Illustrators include Hugh Lofting, Rex Whistler,Henry Ford, etc. Authors include AA Milne, Herbert and Cynthia Asquith, J M Barrie, P G Wodehouse etc. Interior has ex pencil price mark otherwise clean with no writing, mark or tears and all pages tight in binding. Brown cloth covers generally clean and usncuffed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No jacket. Putnam, 1932. Hardback, 4to, xi,232pp, illust. Owner name, ink price, patchy foxing. Original blue cloth, worn and marked. A fair reading copy. /0.8uk.

Pictorial Laminated Card. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A good copy, for its age, of the 2nd edition (5th printing) of this collection of Ghost Stories. No Dust Jacket. Cover: pictorial laminated card with colour image of a graveyard and white and black lettering to front, white lettering to spine, and red and black lettering to rear; bright and clean; some rubbing to all edges commensurate with age and use, some darkening to spine but overall good for its age. Internally: clean and tightly bound; no markings inscriptions or book plates; darkening to page edges but overall in good condition. 224 pp.…

Zustand: Good. Reading content is in clean and readable condition. Crease to the spine and slight tanning to the edge of the pages.

Important supernatural and mystery anthology. Third edition. Covers faded and covered with adhesive film (non removable) Some foxing throughout particularly to prelims and endpapers. A Good+ reading copy of a scarce anthology.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Pictorial tan cloth. 4to. 166pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated. An anthology of stories for children with contributions by A.A. Milne- "Tigger Comes to the Forest", Hugh Lofting, Algernon Blackwood, Hilaire Belloc, Katharine Tynan and others. There is a color frontispiece by A.K. Macdonald and three tipped in color plates by A.H. Watson. There are also many black & white illustrations in the text. A very good copy with some light wear to the spine tips. The text is very good with minor wear. There is some foxing to the front blank, the frontispiece mount and facing page and to the top of the title page, else the contents are very good with some occasional light foxing. The scarce jacket is chipped and worn with over half of the rear panel lacking. It is chipped at the spine tips and the front panel has some soiling and edge-chipping.…

FIRST EDITION, occasional light spots to page borders, a minor correction (probably authorial) to p. xv, a few marginal marks in pencil by David Cecil (see below), pp. xvi, 162, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, a sliver of waterstaining at head of lower board, spots of discolouration to backstrip, good. Inscribed by the Editor on the flyleaf, to the author and literary scholar, David Cecil: 'David, from Cynthia, 1934' - note below directs him, 'For 'Julia', do not read Julia Maguire' (i.e., the great granddaughter of Sir Robert Peel). The anthology includes work by two of Asquith's most notable literary friends J.M. Barrie, to whom she was secretary, and D.H. Lawrence. There is a family connection between author's presentation of this copy and the work's printed dedication, the latter being 'To the memory of Guendolen Cecil' - i.e., the wife of Algernon Cecil, David Cecil's first cousin, once removed.…

FIRST EDITION, a few corrections to the text (made by Sir Edward Marsh, see below), pp. xvi, 162, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter very slightly faded, publisher device blind-stamped to lower board, dustjacket a little chipped, browned and soiled, good. Inscribed by the Editor on the flyleaf: 'Eddie, with love from Cynthia, 1934'; the recipient was Sir Edward Marsh, translator and literary editor as well as patron of the arts and civil servant (most notably as Churchill's secretary). A laid-in ALs from Asquith to the same, on her headed paper and dated Oct 26th 1934, presents the book 'with so much thanks for your invaluable help', whilst a note at the foot remarks her shift 'to the less congenial task of a synopsis of the King's reign! "He walks in What?"' Marsh's corrections restore a line missing from a passage of Pope's verse, but otherwise notes a few small typographical errors. The help he offered was probably as Rupert Brooke's literary executor. The anthology includes work by two of Asquith's most notable literary friends J.M. Barrie, to whom she was secretary, and D.H. Lawrence, to whom Marsh introduced her.…