valentine dobree (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1928. No Edition Stated. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Firmly bound and clean blue boards. Minimal rubbing to spine edges with light browning bands to end papers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Good / --. Third printing. The Borzoi Pocket Book series XIX. Gilt titles to spine and upper cover on green boards. Faded spine and split to upper half of back strip. Wear to cover edges and small damp stain to foot of upper cover. Binding is OK although there is a slight lean to the spine. Even tan to page edges. Three lines inscribed on dedication page. Not ex-library.OK as a reading copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Endpapers slightly foxed, near fine in a fine dust jacket.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Emperor's Tigers' is a sophisticated and evocative novel by Valentine Dobree, a writer and artist deeply embedded in the intellectual circles of the early twentieth century. Set against a backdrop that blends elements of fable with sharp social observation, the work explores themes of desire, disillusionment, and the pursuit of meaning within a highly structured society. The narrative follows a series of intricate interpersonal relationships, mirroring the complex dynamics of the era's cultural landscape.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Unprinted green wrappers. Tiny spot on cover, still fine.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Unprinted green wrappers. Fine.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The sole UK printing published by Faber and Faber, London in 1929. Original publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; upper edge top- stained purple, else untrimmed; striking decorative endpapers matching wrapper design (unattributed artist), priced 6s. net to the front flap; The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition with a couple of splash marks and scratches to the upper edge; lightly bumped to spine tips; The WRAPPER is in Very Good condition, retaining much of its original colour, with moderate splitting along the spine and folds. The front flap is detached. There are some losses to the ends of the spine and folds; spine a touch toned. The striking wrapper however comes together very well and is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. An interesting work, the second novel by the visual artist, novelist and poet Valentine Dobree. Dobree (nee Gladys May Mabel Brooke-Pechell) was born in India in 1894, and studied art under the tutelage of Andre Derain. In 1913 she married Bonamy Dobrée, and after the war traveled to London, where she became involved with the London Group and the Bloomsbury Group. She began an affair with the painter Mark Gertler, who produced two portraits of her - one in 1919 and the other in 1920. Her first, semi-autobiographical book, 'Your Cuckoo Sings by Kind', was published in 1929, and 'The Emperor's Tigers', with more fantastical undertones, followed shortly after. Dobree's works were much admired by writers such as T. S. Eliot and Graham Greene, though are little known today. Better remembered are her surrealist paintings, though she once described herself as "one who regards the arts as a many-faceted crystal rather than as personified by separate Muses". A very elusive title, especially so in the striking wrapper. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Zustand: Good. 1929. First Edition. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Upper edge stained purple; other edges untrimmed. Eye-catching yellow and red illustrated endpapers. Pages have slight foxing and tanning, slightly more assertive to endpapers and front matter. Binding is firm. A few minor edge tears and creases, as expected with untrimmed edges. Price in pencil to second leaf. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. A few liquid droplet marks. Spine and adjacent parts of boards are heavily sunned, with slight brown marks. Boards a little rubbed, marked and generally mottled overall. Lettering has dulled.

FIRST EDITION, pp. 72, crown 8vo, original green boards printed in a darker shade, top edge and free endpapers lightly spotted, faint crease to top corner of flyleaf, dustjacket repeating board design, nicked at head of front and rear panels, that to front slightly larger and internally tape-repaired, very faint waterspots towards foot of backstrip panel, very good. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, to a fellow-poet: 'Leonard Clark, with every good wish from Valentine Dobrée'. The author, née Gladys Brooke-Pechell, was the wife of Bonamy Dobrée - with him part of Eliot's circle, and on the fringes (and occasionally in the beds) of the Bloomsbury Group, she was also highly regarded as an artist. She had earlier published a couple of novels and a volume of short stories, but this was her first (and only) collection of poetry.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, using the English sheets, pp. 284, crown 8vo, original quarter lilac cloth with patterned paper boards, backstrip lettered in maroon, top edge yellow with tail-edge roughtrimmed, dustjacket with a design by Hester Sainsbury to front panel, slightly darkened backstrip panel and the odd tiny nick, very good. Valentine Dobrée's debut, scarce; a novel of childhood, narrating a few years in the life of eleven year old Christina Maynard (though the blurb misnames her as 'Caroline').

First edition. This is Dobree's second novel, an allegorical fantasy about the emperor's tigers cloistered away in the private garden of Transmappamondia. This title is uncommon, especially in such excellent condition. Dobree was best known for her surrealist paintings and her writing was admired by the likes of T.S. Eliot and Graham Greene. Her first book Your Cuckoo Sings by Kind was published in 1927, and The Emperor's Tigers followed two years later. Octavo. With dust jacket. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge dark red, others untrimmed. Lower corners bumped, binding otherwise sharp and bright, contents clean, pages mostly unopened; jacket unclipped, spine toned, couple of nicks to extremities: a near-fine copy in like jacket.