G brown ashley (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Tapa dura. Zustand: New. Con frecuencia se acepta que durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX fueron los escritores varones quienes desarrollaron y ampliaron el horizonte de los relatos atroces de misterio, y que las mujeres escritoras se limitaron a seguir su estela. ¡Nada más lejos de la realidad! La antología que hoy presentamos reúne las contribuciones de dieciséis maestras y amantes del miedo exquisito; muchos de cuyos nombres se perdieron en las revistas pulp y underground de principios de siglo. Por fin podremos conocer el lado oscuro de «El jardín secreto», de Frances Hodgson Burnett, y en qué consistían las pesadillas de la mismísima Marie Corelli. Escucharemos cautivados, a la par que temerosos, las voces de las escritoras que poblaron las páginas de la revista Weird Tales, como Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Greye La Spina o Margaret St. Clair, y nos inclinaremos ante lo sensacional, lo surrealista y lo desafiante de sus magníficos relatos de terror. Un conjunto de narraciones que rompieron con las barreras del género en la épocay que levantaron a sus autoras del abismo de la pobreza, de las adversidades de su infancia y de sus vidas de mujeres casaderas.…

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 941 Pp. Deluxe Full Morocco, Thick Covers With Curvilinear Edges, Gilt And Stamped In Blind. First Printing, 1914 Date On Title Page. All Gilt Brilliant But With Wear To Edges, Fraying At Corners And T Top Edge Of Spine. Map At Rear Present But With Browning And Small Losses At Two Outer Folded Edges. Fifteen Page Article On Native Americans, Which Provides No Indication That They Are Still Living Or The Where Or How Of Their Present Lives; But A Fourteen Page Article On Sports; Ain't Imperialism Just Grand.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. 495 p.p. Lacking folding map. A huge compilation of facts, photography, statistics, etc., with many sketches of small communities and businesses throughout B.C. Publisher's cloth binding. Gilt title and publisher on spine, gilt ram's head on front cover with blind rule panel, scuff to rear board. Lots of b&w photos, incl. 4 full-page images of H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, and the Duchess of Connaught; His Honour Thomas William Patterson, Lieutenant-Governor since December 1909; and Sir Richard McBride, K.C.M.G., M.P.P., Premier and Minister of Mines. Inhabited intials throughout. Slight wear to edges and corners, bumping to spine ends, bubbling on joints. Heavy offsetting to front flyleaf. Ownership inscription on flyeaf. New endpapers pasted onto originals. Minor sporadic staining and one small tear to page.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 952 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded), portraits ; 30 cm. ex-library.

[NONE] 1914. (hardcover) Very good. 451pp. 4to. Folio. Full brown leather with gilt decoration (buffalo head). Title stamped in gilt to spine. Spine has 5 raised bands. All edges gilt. Profusely illustrated. Lovely decorative endpapers. The cover has detached, both top and rear panels, though both are present and as such, this is a fine candidate for rebind. Sold as is. Internally clean and bright. Peel 2445.…

1912, 1st edition. (Leatherbound) Very good plus. 485pp. Quarto. Gilt mountain sheep on cover; gilt printed spine. Extremities nobly rubbed and mildly abraded. Frontispiece ports., many wonderful b/w photo illustrations, large folding map shows a tear not affecting image / text.