vickridge alberta (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 39pp. Plain card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper, lettered in black and red and with two small decorations. With a frontispiece, two full-page drawings and six decorations in the text. Some toning to the wrapper margins, and a light crease to the base of the upper wrapper. Edges, endpapers and several preliminary leaves and margins quite lightly spotted. A very good copy. A two-page foreword by the author precedes six poems and a song with an accompanying musical score. The author's eighth book, once again hand-printed and issued under her own imprint. Alberta Vickridge (1890-1963) was a Bradford-born author of nine volumes of poetry, six of which were printed and issued under her own Jongleur Press imprint (she also single-handedly issued a quarterly literary journal, 'The Jongleur', for nearly thirty years). She won a Bard's Crown and Bardic Chair at the 1924 Eisteddfod for her extended poem 'The Forsaken Princess', the only Yorkshire woman so awarded; and her work was admired by J. B. Priestley, Wilfred Gibson and Agatha Christie (she and Christie worked together as VADs in the Red Cross Town Hall Hospital in Torquay during the Great War). Today she is all but forgotten in her native Yorkshire. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 225 copies printed by the author on a foot-operated Platen Number 2 Postcard Press installed in the attic of her Beamsley House home. This copy inscribed by the author to an un-named recipient at the head of an unprinted preliminary leaf: "With Poetry, from alberta Vickridge, Xmas, '32". Slim 8vo. 35pp sewn into unprinted card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. Some spotting to the edges, and to four or five preliminary and concluding leaves, and with a touch more sporadic spotting throughout. Some toning to the wrapper margins, and a short, light crease to the upper corner. A very good copy of the author's seventh book. A dedicatory verse and a brief introductory note by the author precedes eighteen poems and the title-piece, a short verse-play. Most uncommon, and much more so with the author's inscription. Alberta Vickridge (1890-1963) was a Bradford-born author of nine volumes of poetry, six of which were printed and issued under her own Jongleur Press imprint (she also single-handedly issued a quarterly literary journal, 'The Jongleur', for nearly thirty years). She won a Bard's Crown and Bardic Chair at the 1924 Eisteddfod for her extended poem 'The Forsaken Princess', the only Yorkshire woman so awarded; and her work was admired by J. B. Priestley, Wilfred Gibson and Agatha Christie (she and Christie worked together as VADs in the Red Cross Town Hall Hospital in Torquay during the Great War). Today she is all but forgotten in her native Yorkshire. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Decorations (mostly vignettes of nude fairies) by Marygold Cecilia Crowe. Thin octavo. 45, [3]pp. Papercovered boards with printed label. A few spots on the boards, foxing on endpapers, very good in lightly toned near fine printed wraparound band. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. One of 250 copies. Vickridge is a mostly forgotten Yorkshire poet, who first gained success during WWI, (where one of her poems was chosen for publication over Wilfred Owens' "Song of Songs". She printed her own books and those of others from the attic of her family home, as well as *The Jongleur. A Quarterly Magazine of Verse*. Her work was admired and praised by J.B. Priestley, Wilfred Gibson, and Agatha Christie. Includes the poem, "The Lesbian" about Sappho.

First edition. Octavo. 48 pages. Illustrated with decorations by Marygold Cecilia Crowe. Boards with title label on front. One of 250 copies. The author had taught herself to print on a handpress installed in the attic of Beamsley House. For thirty years she produced printed work by a number of writers, herself included of course.Corners slightly bumped. Very good indeed in the original glassine dustwrapper which is a bit chipped.

First edition. Octavo. pp 58, [2] adverts. Boards. A collection which includes the author's war poems.Presentation copy from the author to a fellow poet, inscribed by her on the front free endpaper: ''To Wilfrid Gibson a token of sincere admiration. Albert Vickridge. Southern Counties Eisteddfod, 1924''. The book was inscribed on the occasion of the award to Vickridge of the Bardic Chair and Crown for her poem ''The Forsaken Princess''. When Vickridge later learned how to use a hand-printer she had installed in the attic at Beamsley House Wilfrid Gibson was among the poets whose work she published.The backstrip is missing but the book stills holds firmly together. Covers slightly faded at the edges. Small bump to rear cover. Good, internally fine. Scarce, even when uninscribed.

FIRST EDITION, pp. [28], crown 8vo, original black wrappers with printed red paper label to front, touch of creasing to overhanging edges and a couple of very faint marks to rear, ownership stamp to flyleaf, tiny spot at head of same, near fine. Inscribed by the author to the verso of the flyleaf: Christmas Greetings from Alberta Vickridge, 1940'. Scarce. The majority of the poems relate to the present conflict, though there is a section of poems at the back concerning the Great War, during which Vickridge was a VAD nurse. As a female poet, printer and literary editor (her magazine, The Jongleur, combining the three), Vickridge is an important but neglected figure - all her books are scarce, this being the last of them.