Smyth edith (20 risultati)

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. A Double Mistake. [A Tale.]. Book.

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Condizione: New. In English.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1930. 1st edition. Very good book without dust jacket. Previous owner's name. Paper-clip mark on front endpapers. Small margin notes on a few pages. [N].

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Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 336 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Second impression, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, incl. b/w portrait frontis. Original blue buckram, paper spine label, lettered in black. Wear and bumping to extremities, spine label toned, nicks to backstrip and edges, a few scores to bottom board. Top edge dusty. Warmly inscribed in brown ink to ffep: "To Edith, In grateful memory of kindliest hospitality shown me in Nov. 1932, Ethel Smyth", occasional fox spots. Else, clean and tight. Very good A rare inscribed copy of Ethel Smyth's second memoir, including 'Recollections of the Empress Eugénie'. Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), flamboyant English composer, memoirist and Suffragette, is perhaps best remembered for composing the Women's Social and Political Union's (WSPU) rousing anthem, 'The March of Women' (1911, lyrics by Cicely Hamilton). While she was the first female composer to be awarded a damehood, her loss of hearing in the early C20th, led her to invest her prodigious energies in writing (alongside golfing). Of her autobiographical works, Vita Sackville-West wrote: "she might have entitled her successive books ME ONE, ME TWO, ME THREE, and so on [.] All Ethel's books are about Ethel, from one point of Ethel's view or another". A lover of women, Smyth had a late, passionate friendship with Virginia Woolf in the 1930s (during the time of inscription, then), who recalled first seeing the composer at a concert in 1919: "I suppose I told you how I saw you years before I knew you? coming bustling down the gangway at the Wigmore Hall, in tweeds and spats, a little cocks feather in your felt, and a general look of angry energy, So thats Ethel Smyth!"(all citations in Raitt, 1988). The hospitable Edith remains unidentified. Suzanne Raitt, 1988, 'The tide of Ethel': Femininity as narrative in the friendship of Ethel Smyth and Virginia Woolf. Critical Quarterly. …

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Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 222.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 222.

Limited Edition. Quarto. 6 preliminary leaves, 74 pages, 4 color plates (including frontispiece) limited to 350 copies. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter shows the interaction of the ships which came for supplies but for whom inner California was still a mystery. There was much on the Presidio with a lovely frontispiece when it was still under the control of Mexico. Bound in 1/4 linen over beige patterned cloth, paper spine label lettered in orange, light wear to corners, small stain to upper board. A very good copy.…

Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 222.

San Fransico: Book Club of California, 1941. Folio, (12), 74 pp. With 4 color plates (including frontispiece). Grey boartds, vellum backstrip, top edge a bit gnawed, internally fine. § Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter describes Beechey's visit en route to the Pacific. Coulter owned the original watercolors reproduced here for the first time.…