Hilda vaughan none (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condition: Used - Like New. Hardcover edition.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. A signed presentation copy of the revised edition of Hilda Vaughan's novella, inscribed to - and with a letter from - journalist and novelist Margharita Laski. The revised edition of this novella, a critically acclaimed work first published in 1934, which unexpectedly sold out within four days of publication.With the inscription 'to Margharita Laski, from the writer, Hilda Vaughan. In grateful memory of a day's gracious hospitality', dated October 23rd 1950.Laski was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. She wrote biographies, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the Oxford English Dictionary.A letter from Laski, addressed to Elsie Gilbert Scott, and dated November 1983, states that 'the author, Hilda Vaughan, who inscribes it, was the wife of Charles Morgan, mother of the present Marchioness of Anglesey and well esteemed in her day, if for a moment - as happens to most writers for a while - nearly forgotten'. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Small tear to paper at back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent, with head of front wrap a touch age toned, and minor marks to front board tail. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). signed by author. book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this thrilling novel by Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan, presented to literary editor Edward Garnett. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Flat signed by the author to the title page.Inscribed by the author 'Edward Garnett, with the gratitude and homage of the writer, May 1932' to the front free endpaper. Garnett was English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in the publication of D. H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers', although he rejected publishing Joyce's 'A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man' in 1915. He was married to Constance Garnett, the famed translator of nineteenth century Russian literature.Loosely inserted is a letter from Garnett, dated November 1936, only three months before his death. In his letter, Garnett discusses 'Harvest Home', a novel by Vaughan published in 1936, which he describes as his favourite 'of your books I have read'.This thrilling first edition from Welsh novelist and short story writer Hilda Vaughan presents a tale in which a 'woman of breeding' murders her husband, in a work the publisher claims 'has the power and terrible veracity of a document of the soul'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with wrap perimeters age toned. Significant loss to head of front wrap. Minor loss to back strip tail, with significant chipping to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). signed by author. book.…