Marvell holt (6 Ergebnisse)

Tapa blanda. Zustand: Bueno. nº 56, edicion 8.12.1934, 64 paginas, aviejada sobrecubierta suelta.

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: Very Good. Vintage piano sheet music in plain cream paper covers. 11'' x 8½''. Contains 5 printed pages of score for the piano and voice with words. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Rubber stamp on front cover. A few pencil markings. Moderate rubbing and foxing.; Sheet music. 6 pages of music. Total of 4 leaves. Cover illustration of Bing Crosby. Dimensions: 11"by 8 5/8".; 4to.

Zustand: Good. 1935. Reprinted Cheap Edition. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges.

FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots to page-heads, pp. 192, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, patches of discolouration to cloth, edges roughtrimmed, bookplate to corner of front pastedown, dustjacket with an attractive design by Albert Rutherston, browned and lightly spotted, a little chipped including to centre of backstrip panel, good. Inscribed by the author on the title-page: 'For Christopher, from Holt Marvell, Sep 1930'. A 'story of quite exceptional originality and wit and malice' (blurb), in which Lady Hermione Flourish enlists the 'last of the Witches' (p. 9), Emmeline Turner, to assist her in various intrigues and entertainments - played, as the title suggests, for comic effect. In his Foreword, the author bemoans that people nowadays 'have no time to believe in Witches when Movies and Television, Airships and Radio already make so large a demand upon their credulity'. The world of popular entertainment was one with which the author - born in Birmingham and educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge - was familiar: he wrote the screenplay for 'Goodbye, Mr Chips', as well as providing the lyrics for popular songs including 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' and 'These Foolish Things'. This is his second novel, following 'Husks in May' with the same publisher; he later collaborated on detective novels with Val Gielgud.…