cornish ritchie (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo. A good copy with minor wear to grey card covers, spine a little sunned. Page edges browned, po names on inside front cover. Book.

Half title vol. I. Two volumes bound as one in original red cloth remainder binding; diagonal fine-ribbed cloth, front board blocked & lettered in black, back board in blind, spine lettered & decorated in gilt, with publisher's imprint at tail. Not in Sadleir; Wolff 7065, in original two volume format. See Wolff's amusing quotations from a letter from Lytton Strachey to Duncan Bell in 1907. Warre-Cornish was wife of the Provost of Eton: 'She is incredibly affected, queer, stupid & intelligent. I dare say she's mad and I'm pretty sure she's a minx, and a minx of sixty. "Can't one tempt you to Eton, Mr Strachey? You'd find all Walpole's letters in the library and a great many delightful toys." What was one to say to that?'.