Mildred spurrier topp (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. ***FREE SHIPPING STANDARD IN U.S.*** Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Some wear and tear due to aging. Binding intact but has some wear. Pages yellowed. Some minimal markings. Still usable.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Book Club Edition. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Rubbing and fading to boards. Bumping along edges of boards. Spine creases. Spine is slightly cocked.

Early reprint (per lack of date at botom of of title page). [8], 280 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 13.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Yellow cloth soiled with some light staining; light bumping to boards' top fore-ege corners; slight wear to rear bvoar's bottom fore-edge corner with minor losses to bottom corners of a group of rear leaves. Mild bumping at top corners of interior leaves; a few scattered spots of light soiling but interior pages overall remain quite clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy. An uncommon biography of strong-willed Greenwood, Mississippi professional studio photographer Lillian Spurrier with the autobiographical musings of her like-mannered daughter, Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963), who taught creative writing at Ole Miss, authored one book of fiction titled IN THE PINK (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), was a close friend of Eudora Welty, and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1935. Topp family b/w portrait images upon front and rear endpapers. {MS-Shelf #11}.…

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition date same on title. NOT an ex library book. Book with orange cloth binding. 280 pages. Dust jacket has 1/2" chip bottom rear of spine, 1/2" tear, some peeling top of spine. Price is clipped. Story of the author's mother, a widow, who pioneered forty years ago in what was then a new field for women, photography.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. fore-edge, head and foot of book have light wear and toning. inscription and number written along upper edge of front free end paper. no dust jacket.

Probable first edition (not stated but with 1950 split by publisher logo on title page and 1950 on copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [10], 242 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Green cloth; staining to boards; spine cloth toned. Light foxing to text block edges. Past owner's inelegant bookplate on front free endpaper verso; author's undated seven-line ink inscription upon half-title page; a few spots of interior foxing but pages overall remain clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy. A close friend of Eudora Welty, Greenwood, Mississippi native Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963) taught creative writing at Ole Miss and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1936. {MS-Shelf #5|CMS-00863}.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Yellow pictorial cl., brown illus., bkst. brown lettering, design. Photographic endpapers. Names on verso forematter p. and t.p. 280pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: USED Good. Fair Jacket. First Edition. Tears and chipping throughout the jacket. Clean text, slight yellowing from age, inscription on front end page in blue pen. Square and tight.

Probable first edition (not stated but with 1950 split by publisher logo on title page and 1950 again at top of copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [10], 242 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled, mild color fading to spine panel, nicks and several tears at edges, moisture staining across all lower panels and flaps with color loss to the original pink at lower front panel, original $2.50 price printed at front flap's top corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green cloth, light color fading to spine, staining at bottoms of front and rear boards. Light toning to edges; both pastedowns have usual slight offsetting relative to their respective board margins; interior leaves have some faint shallow staining at their bottom margins but are otherwise clean. Author's nine-line ink inscription on half-title page: "To my Friends | Maude and George Chambless | with | Love | and | Best Wishes | for | Happy Reading! | Mildred Spurrier Topp." Binding is firm. Overall still a very good- copy in a good dust jacket. A close friend of Eudora Welty, Greenwood, Mississippi native Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963) taught creative writing at Ole Miss and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1936. {MS-Shelf #3}.…

First printing (per Houghton Mifflin's standard practice of matching dates upon the title and copyright pages) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [8], 280 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 13.75cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Dark orange cloth soiled and stained. Some toning and stains to text block edges. Author's two-line ink inscription "Happy Reading! | Mildred Spurrier Topp" on the title page's opposing verso; past owner's three-line ink inscription on dedication page; impression of now removed rusty paper clip at top gutter margins of pages 146-163; a few stains and some soiling to interior pages which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. An uncommon biography of strong-willed Greenwood, Mississippi professional studio photographer Lillian Spurrier with the autobiographical musings of her like-mannered daughter, Mildred Spurrier Topp (1897-1963), who taught creative writing at Ole Miss, authored one book of fiction titled IN THE PINK (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), was a close friend of Eudora Welty, and served one term in the Mississippi State Legislature from 1932 to 1935. Topp family b/w portrait images upon front and rear endpapers. {MS-Shelf #12}. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.