Francesca claremont (13 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. 1939. No Edition Remarks. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned. Water staining to plates. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Tearing to spine ends.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, Green boards, gold lettering. Set in the Alpine foot-hills of Provence, this is an unusual tale told with deep insight and dramatic power. The visits of the youthful shepherd Battista with his wandering flock prove as perturbing to the women as they seem ominous to the men of the scattered farms, or mas, and particularly do his occasional presence and piping tune affect the people of Gardo-Estello, the former Castle of the Star whose walls still enclose a separate world with ways of its own. The tragic outcome stems from these roots and the story is curtained by the outbreak of war in 1959. 319 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, Green boards, gold lettering. Set in the Alpine foot-hills of Provence, this is an unusual tale told with deep insight and dramatic power. The visits of the youthful shepherd Battista with his wandering flock prove as perturbing to the women as they seem ominous to the men of the scattered farms, or mas, and particularly do his occasional presence and piping tune affect the people of Gardo-Estello, the former Castle of the Star whose walls still enclose a separate world with ways of its own. The tragic outcome stems from these roots and the story is curtained by the outbreak of war in 1959. 319 pages. Some light foxing.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Animal Folk-Tales. Green cloth with black titles. Quaint illustrations. Scarce. Gladys M. rees. (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good -. Hard cover green cloth bds, some fading, spine ends a little worn, corners bumped, pp156, foxing to pge edges, rear ep missing, neat name to ffep. A sound reading copy fo this lovely book filled with short stories and rhymes.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardback. With fixed dust jacket. First edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Claremont, Francesca. Lost paradise. First edition. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1933. Hardback, VG, in GOOD, price-clipped dustjacket with shelfwear and small nicks and tears to edges, and patches of loss to the top and base of the spine. Green cloth with a little colour fade to the top and base of the spine; black lettering to spine. Binding strong. Pencilled gift inscription to ffep. 288pp., genealogical table. Contents clean and bright. "This not everybody's novel; but so unusual in setting and atmosphere, and so effortless and convincing, is its narrative, that it has claims to be regarded as a little masterpiece of ts unusual kind" (from the cover description). RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hard cover green cloth bds, black lettering to upper bd and spine, light cup stain otherwise VG, no dust jacket, contents nice and tight, occas. age-speckles, pp159, neat school stamp to top of front pastedown. Filled with tales such as: Why The Woodpigeon Builds An Untidy Nest; Why the Owl Does not come Out in the Day Time; Why the Cuckoo Builds No Nest; The Fox and The Geese; How the Robin Got His Red Breast; The death of the Little Hen; The Hen Who Went to Tell the King The Sky was Falling; The Pea, The Bean and the Twelve Goats; The Snail's Wedding;Marusia and the Cat; The Little Brown Pony etc. Games such as: Fox and Goose; Hen and Chickens; Tiggy, Tiggy Touchwood; Rhyme for See-Saw; Rhyme for Leap-Frog; Shepherd and Sheep. Rhymes such as: Cuckoo; Goose; Hen; Bat; Bee; Cats; Frog etc.…

Hard. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Pages clean and bright, light foxing on endpapers, boards and binding tidy, dust jacket price clipped, some foxing to dust jacket with light shelf wear to edges. Size: 8vo.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condizione: Bien. Condizione sovraccoperta: Aceptable-Bien. 1ª Edición. Cuidada letra tipográfica para su portátil tamaño. Encuadernación original editorial en pasta dura entelada color rojizo, conservando bella sobrecubierta ilustrada a colores (con leves faltas en sobrecubierta, pero que conserva) por lo demás, buen estado general de conservación. Textos en Inglés. Primera edición de esta rara autora, que fue asistente o pedagoga (o de alguna manera pionera) en lo que luego fue el Instituto Montessori del Oeste de Los Ángeles.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Fair; firm binding; contents good; spine-cocked; cloth tears at head of spine; fading to spine; no dust jacket. Hard Cover Edward Arnold 1936 Fiction.

unknown_binding. Condizione: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Faded red cloth boards with black title to spine. Novel set in Aigues Mortes, the French port planned to be the point of embarkation for the Crusades, featuring the governor of the port, the adventures of his grandson, and the fortunes of his lovely niece. 336 pages Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…