Cynthia asquith ed (17 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Undated. A couple of the b/w illustrations have been beautifully hand-coloured, and a couple less skilfully. Cover a little crumpled at top and bottom of the spine. Blue cover boards mostly clean and bright except for a whitish patch on the front cover and a a few spots to the back panel. Daphne Jarrold (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good. 1956. First Edition Thus. 223 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First American Edition. AS IS. Fair because some brat marred one leaf at beginning of book bearing an illustrated poem by using colored and regular pencil to scribble on the page. Also blank page opposite p. 165 has a child's pencil drawing. Unfortunately child was not an art prodigy. So, a reading copy though it is overall quite a nice reading copy apart from the scribbling. Some fraying at top of spine and some darkening along spine. Normal darkening to paper. A sound copy lacking dust jacket. Addison Burbank (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear and stain on the boards. Foxing on the edges. Text and illustrations are clear of markings and notations. Binding is intact. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Jacket has moderate wear -- small tears and light soiling with a narrow strip missing on the bottom back panel.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 244 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st edition thus. No date [1935]. Orange cloth with black lettering to front and spine. 148 x 222 x 32mm. 256pp. Spine sunned, with faint vertical crease, boards also sunned and lightly soiled; previous owner names to front and rear endpapers; pages rather browned with a few grubby marks, but text otherwise unmarked. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 198 pp. Original tan cloth covers, foxed. Foxing to edges of text block and scattered throughout. Illust. w/ tipped-in color plates.

Gross-8°. 223 S., s/w Abb. im Text, 7 Farbtafeln, 1 s/w und 2 farbigen, doppelseitigen Tafeln. OLn. - Einband berieben und fleckig, Schrift auf Innendeckel. - Innen sauberes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Hbk no d/w; 4to; Vg-; a little to boards; marks on pp edges, blue boards have black lettering and decoration. Blue boards/spine black writing. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: VERY GOOD. First Edition. 200pp. + 4 tipped-in color plates on blue paper. 4to, beige cloth with brown stamped lettering, sort of a drab cover for such a fun and richly-illustrated children's book. With contributions from many notable writers including G.K. Chesterton (To Enid who acted the Cat in Private Pantomime), A. A. Milne (When We Were Very, Very Young), and two fresh 'cautionary tales' from Hilaire Belloc ('Jack and His Pony, Tom' and 'Tom and His Pony, Jack'). Tips worn and a bit soiled, backstrip frayed along rear hinge, clean and fresh internal text. Notably, the first appearance in print for the editor, Cynthia Asquith, notable writer of horror and ghost stories. She contributes two original fairy tales for this collection.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Edition. Turquoise cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 232pp; four colour plates plus b/w ills by H.M. Brock, A.K.MacDonald, J.H.Thorpe and A.H.Watson. Cloth discoloured to sections; bumping to corners; foxing to page block edges; occasional strained gutter. Unclipped dustwrapper has a number of large tears and losses including to spine ends with significant rubbing to folds and edges and tape repairs to reverse holding it all together, now in removable, protective sleeve. A collection of stories and poems including 'Fost' by Angela Thirkell, 'Further Outlook: Settled' by Alan Delgado, and 'The Magic Farm' by Susan Buchan. [126: N2]. VARIOUS (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. HB. An anthology of stories and poems for children. Light-green cloth boards with green lettering to (faded) spine and same + green cornucopaeia to fnt. With the odd tiny stain and fading; slight foxing to page-edges. . 232 pages, incl. 31 stories & poems, 4 colour plates, many b&w illlus, throughout and vocabulary. Book tight and clean. A H Watson (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First American Edition. (pictorial orange cloth; no dust jacket) [modestly worn book, a touch of fraying at ends of spine, some dust-soiling to top of text block, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper]. Lady Asquith's second anthology. Contents: "Shall We Join the Ladies" (J.M. Barrie); "The Killing-Bottle" (L.P. Hartley); "An Unrecorded Instance" (Mrs. Belloc Lowndes); "A Considerable Murder" (Barry Pain); "The Tarn" (Hugh Walpole); "The Islington Mystery" (Arthur Machen); "Circumstantial Evidence" (Edgar Wallace); "The Prince" (W.B. Maxwell); "The Smile of Karen" (Oliver Onions); "The Lovely Lady" (D.H. Lawrence); "The Hospital Nurse" (Shane Leslie); "Telling" (Elizabeth Bowen); "Footprints in the Jungle" (W. Somerset Maugham); "The Lovely Voice" (Lady Cynthia Asquith).…

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Orig. black cloth, spine lettered in silver; extremities sl. rubbed & frayed, a bit marked & dulled, sl. bowed. Faded ink publisher's stamp to title: 'With the publisher's compliments'. A good copy only. Copac records five copies in BL, NLS, NLW, Oxford and TCD. A collection of 15 stories including 'The Apple Tree' by Elizabeth Bowen, 'A Little Ghost' by Hugh Walpole, 'A Threefold Cord' by Algernon Blackwood, 'Opening the Door' by Arthur Machen, 'The Cotillon' by L.P. Hartley, 'God Grante That She Lye Stille' by Asquith, and others. Lady Cynthia Asquith, 1887-1960, was an English writer and socialite with esteemed connections: she was the daughter of Hugo Charteris and Mary Constance Wyndham, members of Victorian social elite group The Souls; she worked as the private secretary to J.M. Barrie, and was a close friend of D.H. Lawrence. Dubbed 'The First Lady of Horror', Asquith was well known for her anthologies, particularly in compiling The Ghost Book (1926).…

Condizione: Good+. First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm); 327pp. Boards in teal cloth with pictorial front cover and black stamping. Boards rubbed, bumped, worn, and soiled overall with fading to spine and toning to page edges. Pages lightly toned with spotting to prelims and rear pages. Interior relatively clean with some soiling to pages 170-171. Previous owner penciled name to first pastedown. Front hinge recently professionally reinforced. A Good or better copy of a collection of ghost stories, including one titled The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence, compiled by Lady Cynthia Asquith who wrote one of her own under the pseudonym C. L. Ray.…

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy quarto 200pp., colour frontis., colour plates, illustrations in text, Contributors Include; Thomas Hardy, Alfred Noyes, Thomas Hardy, Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Walter De La Mare, W. H. Davies, & Hugh Lofting. Nice copy in bright blue boards, with nice gilt titles. Neat ownership signature o/w a very nice bright, tight & square copy in blue decorated boards with a very nice dust jacket with minimal chipping at edges.…

Half title. Orig. navy pictorial cloth depicting a screaming head, blocked & lettered in green; spine darkened & chipped at head & tail, a bit marked & rubbed. 'With the publisher's compliments' stamp on title. A good sound copy. Copac records five copies in BL, NLS, TCD, Manchester and National Trust. Asquith collects 15 stories, including 'Those Whom the Gods Love' by Hilda Hughes, 'The Travelling Grave' by L. Hartley, 'Crewe' by Walter de la Mare, 'The Cat Jumps', by Elizabeth Bowen', and previously unpublished contributions by M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, E.F. Benson, and one by the editor. Lady Cynthia Asquith, 1887-1960, was an English writer and socialite with esteemed connections: she was the daughter of Hugo Charteris and Mary Constance Wyndham, members of Victorian social elite group The Souls; she worked as the private secretary to J.M. Barrie, and was a close friend of D.H. Lawrence. Dubbed 'The First Lady of Horror', Asquith was particularly known for her anthologies and collecting unpublished works.…