jean macvean (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1965. No edition remarks. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 32.Colour illustrated wraps / paperback. pp 32. Signed presentation copy from the author to Francis King (4 March 1923 - 3 July 2011), an acclaimed novelist and poet. He was a President Emeritus of International PEN and was appointed a CBE in 1985. King came out as homosexual in the 1970s and wrote the novel 'Yesterday Came Suddenly' in 1993, after the death of his long-term partner. ISBN: 0902400533 Near fine. Signedes.

8vo. pp 22. Original publisher's illustrated stapled wraps, lettered black on the front cover. Front cover designed by Josef Herman. ISBN: 1870841263 Very good plus.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp.16. Poetry. ISBN:090240041X. Drawings by Josef Herman. Jean MacVean, poet, playwright, and novelist: (1916-1996.) Josef Herman OBE RA (1911Ð2000) was a Polish-British realist painter,and an eastern European Jewish artist who emigrated to escape persecution. His work often depicted workers as its subject and was inherently political. About fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 199. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their stamps on feps and rear of d/w reading 'file copy.' . Neat number '65' on rear of d/w written there by publisher to note date of poblication. Novel set in modern day based on the legend of Tristan and Isolde as told by the 13th century poet Gottfried von Strassburg. When it appeared, it was likened to the work of Ivy Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth Bowen. Mainly a poet and a playwright, this was her only novel. Apart from writing, she was one of the few female officers to be employed by the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. She worked subsequently for M16, being one of the first female department heads. Spying is referred to in the book. Near fine in very good indeed dust jacket.