miss thackeray ritchie (11 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: good. . Foreign Classics for English Readers, clean copy, name on endpaper, no other markings, foxing to endpapers, feint toning to pages, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Published in 1881, bound in a quarter leather binding bound by Birdsall and Son of Northampton, this copy bearing the bookplate of its original owner, Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 ? 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of the Mabinogion, the earliest prose literature of Britain. Guest established the Mabinogion as a source literary text of Europe, claiming this recognition among literati in the context of contemporary passions for the chivalric romance of King Arthur and the Gothic movement. The name Guest used for the book was derived from a mediaeval copyist's error, already established in the 18th century by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh societies. The book is a small slim format, marking to both boards, small piece missing from lower corner of rear board, internally noticeable foxing to endpapers a few creased page corners else in good acceptable condition. this is a lighter book, overseas shipping costs will be reduced at checkout where possible.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Navy bue boards with gilt to spine. Although ex-libris (Leeds), it dosn't seem to have been borrowed much, as it is in superb condition! Rare. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Hardcover. First US edition. 104 pp., illustrated, text in double columns; octavo, contemporary red morocco and marbled boards. Publishd the same year as the UK first edition. Anne Isabelle Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919) was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition, notes that she wrote "novels of an impressionistic kind which influenced her step-niece Virginia Woolf." Wear to corners and spine ends, else about very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First American edition. First American edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. 12mo. hardcover in blindstamped pebbled brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 224 pp. A tight, very good copy, spine lettering somewhat rubbed and bit of wear to the otp and bottom edges of the mspine; occasional light foxing in the text. "This is the story of a foolish woman, who, through her own folly, learnt wisdom at last; whose troubles--they were not very great, they might have made the happiness of some less eager--were more than she knew how to handle.". Anne Isabella Thackeray (1837-1919, later married to her cousin Richmond Ritchie) was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray and was quite highly regarded as an author in her own right in the mid- to late- Victorian era becoming a significant literary figure by the late 1800s. She was the custodian of her father's literary legacy and her short fiction, which placed traditional fairy tales in Victorian settings, was particularly popular.

First Edition, Late Impression. Very good copy finely bound in gilt-blocked, blue half leather over blue marbled boards, now slightly rubbed at the corners, joints and endbands. Spine with decorative, gilt-tooled raised bands. All edges gilt, with preliminary and final leaves foxed and the interior remaining otherwise tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; viii, 531 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Kensington. London. Local history. 19th century. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. Brown cloth with bevelled edges. Decorative gilt lettering and black line designs to spine and front. Blind embossed logo to rear. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Neat inscription to top corner of title page ?A.N.A. from Lady Colebrooke, Sept. 1885.? One or two very minor handling marks else pages all very clean and tight. Else a very good copy. vi + 229pp. Biographical writings of influential female Authors.