Baroness orozy (2 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good to Fine. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **CONTENTS(1) The Question by Stanley Ellin (2) The Old Barn on the Pond by Ursula Curtiss (3) The Hearts House by Mary McMullen (4) The Phonograph Murder by Helen Reilly (5) Testimony of a Witness by McGarry Morley (6) The Night Calhoun was Off Duty by Thomas Walsh (7) The Missing Mortagee by R. Austin Freeman (8) The Beauty In That House by Florence V. Mayberry (9) Man in Hiding by Vincent Starrett (10) Mrs. Kendalls Trunk by Robert Twohy (11) Franz Katka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen by Charles West, Jr. (12) Falling Object by William Brittain (13) The Mysterious Death in Percy Street by Baroness Orozy (14) The Good Times Always End by David Morrell (15) The Men in Black Raincoats by Pete Hamill (16) Monday Is Quiet Place by Marjorie Carleton (17) The Shop That Exchanged Evils by Lord Dunsany (18) The Bag Man by Brooke Weld (19) The Neighbours by John Galsworthy (20) A Question of Neighborliness by David Ely (21) Whos the Blonde? by John D. MacDonald (22) In A Country Churchyard by Robert L. Fish (23) Deja Vu by Mary Barrett (24) Fishing Can Be Fatal by Stephen Wasylyk (25) Rear Window by Cornell Woolwich >> Cover scuffing Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover (illustratore). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Presentation Certificate attached to first page. Some ageing to pages 1-5, front cover water marked. A thoroughly interesting read. Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy was born on 23 September 1865 at the family estate "Tarna-Örs" in Hungary, the second daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a composer and conductor, and his wife Emma. baron Orczy was a friend of the great composers Wagner, Liszt and Gounod, who were regular visitors to the family's estate. The baron, fearful of the consequences of a peasant revolt in Hungary, moved himself and his family from Budapest to Brussels and then on to Paris. In Brussels and Paris young Emma was educated in convent schools and studied music without success. The family soon thereafter moved to London where Emma was 15 when she learned to speak English. In London she studied at the West London School of Art. Later, while studying at the Heatherby School of Art, Emma Orczy met Montague Barstow, who she married in 1894. Together they wrote and illustrated books and magazine articles and together published an edition of Hungarian folk stories. The gifted young Emma was also a talented artist and her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. Book. …