marsh pseud (3 Ergebnisse)

8vo, pp. 126. Half-bound marble boards, half-title bound in, original front wrapper pasted to front pastedown. Printed in double columns. Spine label. Contents browned, portion of (later) spine label missing, but a well preserved copy. Rebound popular edition. First published by Methuen in 1902. The prolific 'Richard Marsh'/Richard Heldmann [1857-1915] wrote in a wide variety of genres, but is now best remembered for his weird and supernatural fiction -- he was the author of The Beetle (1897), a best-seller published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula. His grandson was the modern master of weird fiction, Robert Aickman. The Twickenham Peerage is one of Marsh's more conventional tales: an impoverished aristocrat needs money to enable him to marry. Scarce in this cheap and flimsily made edition.

Very Good. A study of married life from the seventeenth century, commonly attributed to female author Aphra Behn. Reprinted from the original with an introduction by John Harvey. With the original twenty plates and two engraved titles re-engraved. First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. pp.18/[6pp.]/pp.280 . 9.0" x 6.5" x 1.5". Cream cloth covered boards, with bumped corners. Spine with gilt titles (a little dulled). Deckled page edges. Clean text and illustrations throughout. A very good book. ** Note fron COPAC (British Library): "With reproductions of original title-pages: (1) The ten pleasures of marriage, relating all the delights and contentments that are mask'd under the bands of matrimony. Written by A. Marsh, typogr. [Ornament] London, Printed in the year, 1682. (2) The confession of the new married couple, being the second part of the Ten pleasures of marriage. Relating the further delights and contentments that ly mask'd under the bands of wedlock. Written by A. Marsh. Typogr. [Ornament] London, Printed in the year 1683." *** "The Ten Pleasures Of Marriage And The Second Part, The Confession Of The New Married Couple was written in 1682 and is attributed to Aphra Behn, the dramatist and poet, the first woman to earn her living by her pen. While the pen name for the work is A. Marsh and initials at the end of the letter to the reader, marked A.B. has lead to the assumption that Aphra Behn wrote this work. - Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature. Along with Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood, she is sometimes referred to as part of "The fair triumvirate of wit.".

Typescript, 242pp., 4to, brown paper wraps, damage to top of spine but no loss, label on front with author ("Owen Edwards") and title. A semi-autobiographical novel based on Marsh's experiences during the Second World War in the London Ambulance Service. Initially a "Notice" "The characters in this book are fictitious. Some of the incidents are naturally based on real happenings during the war but they are none of them wholly accurate[.]". The novel starts with the hero, Lang, joining the Service. Subjects include: the work environment and fellow-workers; routine work on the Station; shifts; London background; women workers (even a "girl driver") ; state of repair of the ambulances; a German colleague; a Welsh colleague; bridge and solo; transporting wounded American soldiers from St Pancras Station; billiards; bedding arrangements (inc. "peephole to the girls' room"); the canteen inc. personnel; a communist; inter-station contests (first-aid etc); "auxiliaries who cracked up in the raids"; incidents during Blitz; practice and lectures; a "biting" lady instructor; hero wrote first aid based doggerel (examples given inc. "The Ballad of the Bones by A. Bonypart", p.99); [.]; "Occurrence Book"; etc., etc. A comprehensive portrait of the ambulance service and its personnel after the Blitz (although Marsh is said to have served during the Blitz.Box 41.