Lady pakenham (10 risultati)

Hard Cover with Jacket. Condizione: Very Good - (Book condition). Very Good- (Jacket Condition). First Edition. A very nice ex-library copy (stamp to front free end page and to inside back paste-down along with usual library card). Owner's name to front free end page. Jacket is price clipped and shows light wear, some chipping and some sunning. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.…

Hardcover with dust jacket. G/G. Edge-worn boards, chipped dust jacket. 227 pp.

Hard Cover with Jacket. Condizione: Very Good - (Book condition). Very Good- (Jacket Condition). First Edition. A very nice ex-library copy (stamp to front free end page and to inside back paste-down along with usual library card). Owner's name to front free end page. Jacket is price clipped and shows light wear, some chipping and some sunning. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.…

hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy, clean and free from markings. The dust jacket unclipped, lightly chipped and with some minor strengthening to the verso. 227pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, spine faded, some slight overall browning and time staining to largely white jacket, some slight yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 490pp. Stepping into the world of country houses and nannies at the turn of the century, we follow the life of Violet Hesketh from childhood, through two world wars, the roaring twenties, the depression, through years of social and political upheaval, to the fulfilment of her ambitions as a leading public figure and politician in the 1970s. As the lives of Violet, her daughter, her friends and lovers, interweave over 70 years, we see reflected in their ambitions and desires, their hopes and fears, the changing face of a nation. Lady Rachel Mary Billington OBE (nee Pakenham, b.1942), is a British author, the third daughter of the 7th Earl and Countess of Longford and godmother to Boris Johnson. Jacket by Mon Mohan (illustratore).…

Condizione: Very Good. . Fine copy in fine dust wrapper. DW has minor nicks and tears, remains a fine copy. . . . .

Condizione: Very Good. . Fine copy in fine dust wrapper. DW has minor nicks and tears, remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First American Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The outpourings--charming, funny, passionate, inspiring--of Henry VIII, Proust, Zelda (to Scott, Chekhov, Kafka, Robert Schumann, Napoleon (to Josephine), Sarah Bernhardt, and other lovers and beloveds, in glorious variety, from ancient times to our own. Illustrated with 17 drawings. SUB-TITLE: An Anthology. BOOK NUMBER: 10/77. JACKET DESIGN BY: Ray Cruz. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Declarations; Pleas; Rejections; Fears and Worries; Ecstasies; Passions; Jealousies; Gallantries; Separations; Farewells; Unions; Nature of Love; Total Love; About Letters; Beginnings; Endings; In Brief; Biographical Details. SYNOPSIS: Here are 135 wonderful love letters--dashed off, through the centuries, by a glorious variety of lovers, passionately expressing their ardor, ecstasy, jealousy, pique, despair, adoration, utter enslavement, amazed joy. Kafka to his beloved Felice: "I should like to throw myself bodily on this letter, so that it cannot be mailed, but it must be mailed." Byron to Teresa Guiccioli: "My destiny rests with you, and you are a woman, eighteen years of age, and two out of a convent, I wish that you had staid there, with all my heart." Zelda in a note to Scott: "Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered--and I was delivered to you." James Joyce to his future wife, Nora Barnacle: "Can you not see the simplicity which is at the back of all my disguises?" In the twelfth century, Heloise writes from the convent to Abelard: "I will finish a long letter with a brief ending: farewell, my only love." A suspicious Napoleon writes to Josephine: "My spirit is heavy; my heart is fettered and I am terrified by my fantasies." Dora Carrington replies to Mark Gertler's declaration of love: "Do not think I rejoice in being sexless." Stendhal begs Madame Curial for the smallest signal: "A half-closed shutter or a half-lowered blind, would tell me that I could come up." A joyful Rosa Luxemburg writes to her comrade Leo Jogiches.Oscar Wilde writes to Lord Alfred Douglas (a letter used against him at his trial).Ellen Terry to George Bernard Shaw ("Oh what a curse it is to be an actress!").Alfred de Musset to George Sand ("You will show me the door and you will think I am lying.").And the Prince de Joinville, on his card, to the actress Rachel (after seeing her perform one evening): "Where?--When?--How much?" And her rely: "Your place--Tonight--Free." In all, a magnificent treasury of the world's most fascinating love letters, selected and introduced by Antonia Fraser, the incomparable biographer of Mary Queen of Scots and Cromwell. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. James Hutcheson (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pakenham, Lady, Catholic Approaches. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. 1955. 1st Edition. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper, has price overwritten in red ink, in removable protective film. PP227. Includes Art and Sacrament by David Jones. Excellent clean bright and tight condition throughout.…

One page, sm. folio, fold marks, very small closed tears, basically good condition. The Agenda (typescript) includes: Apologies; Minutes of the Last Meeting, Matters Arising [.]; Date of next meeting; Candidates; Report of Meeting of Assembly of Delegates in Venice; Caracas Conference; Honorary Members in Prison; Death of Bela Menczer [.]; Any Other Business." Lady Fraser has put a tick or cross beside each item except Any Other Business. And heavily doodled (perhaps a little bored?) with patterns, names (Leslie Caron, Rose Tremain, Jaquetta, Janetta, Lewis Carroll, Michael Foot), and other snippets. See image.…