Peter traill guy mainwaring morton (3 Ergebnisse)

hardback. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. hardback, second impression, octavo, blue cloth damp stained toward the leading edges of the boards but not penetrating further, the binding remains tight and the text is free of markings, signatures etc, the evocative pictorial dust wrapper has loss along the top of the front panel and spine & is soiled to the spine and rear panel, now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, 288pp.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The scarce first edition of this charming novel from Peter Traill, the pseudonym of author Guy Mainwaring Morton. The scarce first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further illustrations by Aubrey Hammond.Guy Mainwaring Morton was a barrister and writer who wrote a number of crime novels, including 'The 3-7-9 Murder' and 'Mystery at Hardacres'.The follows a young boy who encounters a magical cherry tree.It was reviewed in The Spectator as having 'an Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley touch'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards vibrant. Fading to back strip, and to head and tail of boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Aubrey Hammond (illustrator). book.…

FIRST EDITION, a couple of faint spots to margins of prelims, receding into text and recurrent at rear, pp. 348, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original light green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly nicked at head, darkened to backstrip and borders with a couple of faint spots to cloth, top edge green, the others slightly toned and spotted, free endpapers with faint partial browning, Ralph Keene dustjacket, a little browned overall, particularly to the backstrip panel, chipped and nicked, good. A scarce work, the author's fourth book - two of his earlier novels had been published by Faber. After attending Rugby School, the author went up to University College, Oxford; he served in the Great War and was mentioned in despatches. The present work tackles 'the problems of the modern inheritance' from a female point of view, presenting through three generations 'the woman of to-day, the woman of to-morrow, and the woman of yesterday'. It is recommended by the publisher as 'a book every woman should read'. Ralph Keene executed a handful of dustjacket-designs for Faber and other publishers in the latter half of the 1920s; his work is distinctive and uniformly excellent.…