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Verlag: The Cresset Press, London, 1949
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed first edition of Anthony Powell's edited selection of the works of John Aubrey, inscribed by Powell. The first edition of this work.Inscribed by the author to the title page, inscribed to his friend Miranda Wood.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A selection of the writings of John Aubrey, the English antiquary.Including his best known work, 'Brief Lives', a selection of short biographical pieces.Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Powell. Powell was an English author, best known for his twelve volume work, 'A Dance to the Music of Time', which is one of the longest novels in English. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. A little fading to the spine and head of the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Dustwrapper is discoloured to the spine with some marks to the wraps. Loss to the head of the wraps and spine. Closed tear to the spine and a small chip to the front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot, mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good. signed by author. book.
Verlag: London: The Cresset Press, 1949, 1949
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe Signiert
First edition thus, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "Lucy, with love from Tony Powell". The recipient, Lucy Hayes, was "a great love and lifelong friend" of Anthony Powell's father Philip, whom she met in the early 1920s. Violet Powell, reminiscing about Philip, her father-in-law, noted that "he had not been without his partisans, mostly ladies with whom he had been on flirtatious terms" (A Stone in the Shade, 2002). Anthony Powell "accepted their relationship and was fond of Lucy. She greatly enjoyed his novels". He inscribed several of his books to her. Powell was a reluctant and at times ungracious signer of his own books, even for friends. Lucy Hayes (1878-1965) served as a nurse in the First World War. She worked at the Dimitri Palace in St Petersburg, the main Anglo-Russian Hospital, and a photograph album relating to her time there is held by the Imperial War Museum. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Spine ends slightly faded, foot of spine and lower tips a little bumped, a little foxing to top edge and endpapers. A very good copy in the jacket, spine panel slightly darkened, head of spine slightly chipped, a few creases and closed tears to extremities.
Verlag: London, The Cresset Press, 1949, 1949
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
Erstausgabe
Octavo, xxvi+410 pages, original boards in dustwrapper, lightly edgeworn, name on flyleaf, a very good copy. First edition.