aka barrington (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 2 books: The Way of Stars: A Romance of Reincarnation. Beck, L. Adams (E. Barrington). W. Collins Sons and Co., 1926, 306p, hardcover no dust jacket, boards bumped/scuffed/fraying/chipping, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + The Key of Dreams: A Romance of the Orient. Beck, L. Adams. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929, 353p, hardcover no dust jacket, boards lightly bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean, small tears at hinge between half title page and title page--25.00 for both.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Captain Java. Moresby, Louis (aka L. Adams Beck; aka E. Barrington) Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., Garden City, NY, 1928. 368p. hardcover no dust jacket, boards bumped/scuffed, solid binding, text clean/unmarked, name inscribed half title page, some minor staining front fly/ title/intro pages31.00.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1stUSedn; 8vo black cloth spine over gilt patterned bds ow VG/ndj: [10]+331Pp. 16 stories prev publ by Lily Adams (Moresby) Beck ["E. Barrington, "Lily Moresby"], daughter of Admiral John Moresby, R.N., spent many years in the Orient before going to live in British Columbia. From 1919 to 1922 she concentrated on the writing of short stories. She then turned to books of fiction on Oriental mysticism and the romance of history and wrote nearly thirty in the remaining years of her life. (Rhodenizer p. 722.).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1stedn thus [Collins Pocket Edn]; 12mo blue cloth bds, gilt spine titles very bright. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen mark to front endpaper. Brown Unclipped jacket with slt edge wear and tanning. Fading and sunning to spine and there is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends with tape to interior. Very Rare in dj, Ow VG/vgdj: [6]+290pp. Set in Peking, the hero is a young Englishman in Chinese customs service and the villain is the Empress Dowager. He visits a lost Buddhist temple beyond the Western Hills where he finds "thrills and wealth and love" and adventure in Mongolia [dj blurb]. After viewing a "movie" of events involving the murder of his ancestor a hundred years earlier who was the British agent for the smuggling out of China of the treasure of the eponymous Ho, he resolves to seek the blue-eyed Manchu lady who is the only living descendant of said ancestor now serving as the hand maiden of the Empress Cixi. Two years later the Boxer rebellion breaks out but our hero remains outside the legations and become the disciple of the blind seer providing spiritual advice to the empress Cixi. He himself becomes the medium for info on the advancing allied relief column toward Peking, and assists in casting the horoscope of the Empress predicting her flight from the palace when the allies relieve the besieged foreigners. So basically this novel gives us the inside story of what Empress Cixi was up to during the Boxer troubles/massacres/legations siege. It has a whiff of credibility when the details of our English hero's presence and love interest are disregarded [He speaks and writes Mandarin, Hakka, and Manchu and with a little make up passes for a Chinese at court] and Cixi's known belief in fate prognostication and spirit seances to inform her politics is considered. / Author was British writer of short stories, novels, biographies and esoteric books, under the names of L. Adams Beck, E. Barrington and Louis Moresby. Elizabeth Louisa "Lily" Moresby was born in 1862 in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, UK.Her father, a Royal Navy captain, explored the coast of New Guinea and was the first European to visit the site of Port Moresby. She first married a commander in the Royal Navy and they traveled extensively in Egypt, India, China, Tibet, and Japan. Settled at 60 years old in Canada, she began publishing books and stories in the 1920s. By mid 1920s she began producing works and novels of occult mysticism: The Treasure of Ho: A Romance of Revelation (1924); The Way of the Stars: A Romance of Reincarnation (1925); Rubies: An Adventure in Burma (1925); Dreams and Delights: Fantasy Stories (1926);The Splendour of Asia: The Story and Teaching of the Buddha (1926);The House of Fulfilment: The Spiritual Romance of a Soul in the Himalayas (1927);The Story of Oriental Philosophy (1928);The Way of Power: Studies in the Occult (1928) (also titled: Siddhis, Miracles, & Occult Power);The Garden of Vision: A Story of Growth (1929) She has been noted as a major writer of Theosophy.