Introduction by ernest a baker (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. Spine is cracked at half title page. Pages have some light browning. Endpapers have some light fading. Spine has some fading, and moderate wear around the edges. Top edge of spine has some chipping.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Routledge, 1913. Handsome black linen with beveled edges. Gilt spine titling: "The Royal Slave and Other Novels Aphra Benn Early Novelists Ed. by E. A. Baker". "Behn was an English playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. One of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." (wiki).…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condizione: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original black cloth with gilt stamp lettering to spine. Wear to covers and corners. With library stamps and labels.; Ex-Library; 14x21x3.5 cm; 380 pages.