Stephen tennant (43 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Pictorial blue paper wrappers with narrow flap folds, 4 pages,stabbed & tied, edges slightly faded and rubbed. Cover separated at spine. Series: Ariel Poems ; No. 14. This poem was first printed, with slightly different text, in Flame, an Independent Labour Party magazine, in December 1925, under the title To An Inconspicuous Friend. Record # 379120.…

First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 249. Bound in cloth backed boards, spine label worn. Hinge tender, decorations by Stephen Tennant, frontis portrait, decorated cover,o/w VG. A collection of poems and short tales. Stephen Tennant (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK BIRO, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£18.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 397pp, illustrated. They say that being a good doctor boils down to just four things: Shut up, listen, know something, care. The same could be said for life on the road too. When Stephen Fabes left his job as a junior doctor and set out to cycle around the world, frontline medicine quickly faded from his mind. Of more pressing concern were the daily challenges of life as an unfit rider on an overloaded bike, helplessly in thrall to pastries. But leaving medicine behind is not as easy as it seems. As he roves continents, he finds people whose health has suffered through exile, stigma or circumstance, and others, whose lives have been saved through kindness and community. After encountering a frozen body of a monk in the Himalayas, he is drawn ever more to healthcare at the margins of the world, to crumbling sanitoriums and refugee camps, to city dumps and war torn hospital wards. And as he learns the value of listening to lives, not just solving diagnostic puzzles, Stephen challenges us to see care for the sick as a duty born of our humanity, and our compassion. Very scarce signed. Jacket by Harry Tennant (illustratore). Signed by Author(s). …

Condizione: New. Presents a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. This work concludes, Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological .

8vo, xvi + 463pp. Original boards in pictprial dustwrapper, slightly edgeworn. Numerous b/w photogrpahic illlustrations on plates. A near-fine copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Tennant, Stephen. Leaves from a missionary's notebook. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986 edition of title first published in 1929. Hardback, VG, in GOOD, price-clipped dustjacket bumped to corners, with small hole to the spine, general shelfwear and small, closed,tears and creases along the rear top edge; back cover generally a bit grubby with a patch of rubbing near the base. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Introduction by Hugo Vickers, followed by an unpaginated sequence of cartoon illustrations with text, the versos blank. Contents clean and bright. Stephen Tennant, a British aesthete, socialite and member of the 'Bright Young Things', known for his extravagant lifestyle and literary ambitions, authored this collection of whimsical and satirical reflections presented in the style of a missionary's observations. Tennant plays with the conventions of colonial-era missionary reports, offering book offers surreal, poetic, and often absurd musings, with homoerotic subtext. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Stephen Tennant (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good. 4to. 128 pp. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Minor crease on verso, else fine. Color plates throughout.ISBN: 9781911164135 1911164139.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket Issued. Limited First Edition. Limited edition, this is number 185 of 400. Signed and numbered by author Siegfried Sassoon. With drawings by Stephan Tennant. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Text and drawings are unmarked and clean. Boards have some dust-soil. Binding is sound but not tight against boards. From a private home collection. Signed by Author.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Philip Allan & Company; London, 1925. Hardcover. A Good Only, marbled boards and black cloth spine, paper title label on front board and spine, exposed board corners, large tear front joint buckram, bit of fraying to spine edges, small abrasion bottom front board edge, some rubbing along board edges, some age toning to pages, spine partially detached from backing material, starting and partially cracked front hinge, some age toning to pages, mild scattered foxing and few small soiled specks to text block edges, without Dust wrapper. A good only copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 63pp., b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book. …

Cloth. Condizione: Fair. First edition. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this scarce poetry work by Stephen Tennant and his mother Pamela Grey. First edition. Scarce. In the publisher's original quarter-cloth binding with marbled boards. Spine unfortunately detached but present and tipped in. With beautiful illustrated endpapers and thirty-two tipped-in plates by Stephen Tennant. Collated, complete. A delightful poetry work by Stephen Tennant, best remembered for his central role in the "Bright Young Things" group of the 1920s. The text was a collaboration with his mother Pamela Grey, one of the Wyndham Sisters famously painted by John Singer Sargent. In the publisher's original quarter-cloth binding with marbled boards. Spine unfortunately detached but present and tipped in. Externally, smart with minor loss of paper to spine tips, the odd mark and reasonable fraying where spine missing. Internally, generally firmly bound, binding marginally more delicate to pages 32, 41, 48 and also to front hinge. A bright and clean copy with subtle discolouration and the odd spot. Fair. Stephen Tennant (illustratore). book.…

Near very good sewn Paperback. Edges faded and worn, covers lightly marked, bookplate (From the Library of Anne Renier and F G Renier) inside front cover, initials written inside back cover.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Marbled boards are bumped at corners and superficially marked from shelving; spine is slightly loose and marked; binding is mostly tight but front joint slightly exposed; pages are crisp, slightly sunned with bright and clear illustrations. Overall, this is a beautiful copy that shows its age just a touch. ; 7.5 x 1 x 10 inches; 62 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated frontispiece by Stephen Tennant. Blue Cloth Binding tight and clean, text clean and bright. 61pp. Vol I? 23.5cm x 18.3cm. Dedicated to Barbara Hutton.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Copy 29 of 500 copies signed by Sassoon on the limitation page. Large paper edition. Very bright, minimal fading of spine. Previous owner's small bookplate on front paste down. Stephen Tennant (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).

hard cover. Condizione: good. no jacket. Large-paper edition, printed on English hand-made paper. Limited to 400 copies. This is no.177. Green paper covered boards, gilt lettering to front board. Signed by Siegfried Sassoon by green ink. b/w illus.on half title page. A colored plate. (11)pp. Front board sl.darkened. Spine sl.chipped. [f1315-171423]. signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First trade edition, following the private limited edition printed on vellum. Publisher's original blue cloth with white titles to the upper board, with the illustrated dust-jacket which is slightly rubbed at the spine and torn at fold joints and front panel (neatly repaired from the inside with archival tape) Endpapers and titlepage lightly foxed, otherwise contents clean with no old inscriptions or other markings. Tennant's drawings and handwriting are illustrated in facsimile to describe scenes of gay abandon in the life of a missionary sent to the tropics. A VG+ copy in the decent jacket, which is frequently absent with this title. Although date of publication given as 1929, it was not published until 1937. Tennant's decidedly risqué 'Notebook' is a camped-up tale of the Rev. Littlejohn and his two female companions who embark on a missionary expedition into the jungle. No end of mishaps and strange 'encounters' befall them until they eventually head for home, seen off at the beach by a troupe of jigging sailors. Tennant was a British socialite and reputedly the brightest of the 'Bright Young People'. He was the youngest son of Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, and the former Pamela Wyndham, one of the Wyndham sisters and of The Souls clique. His mother was also a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas (18701945), Oscar Wilde's lover and a sonneteer. During the 1920s and 1930s he was romantically involved with Siegfried Sassoon. Book.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. The beautifully illustrated and scarce first trade edition of Stephen Tennant's highly amusing work on the adventures faced by a missionary sent to the tropics. The scarce first trade edition of this work, which was initially published in a limitation of only 125 copies.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Stephen Tennant, a British aesthete, socialite and member of the 'Bright Young Things', known for his extravagant lifestyle and literary ambitions, authored this collection of whimsical and satirical reflections presented in the style of a missionary's observations.Tennant plays with the conventions of colonial-era missionary reports, offering book offers surreal, poetic, and often absurd musings, with homoerotic subtext.Illustrated throughout by Tennant himself.Although date of publication for this work is always given as 1929, it is believed that it was not published until 1937: 'Due to various problems, Stephen"s book was not published until 1937, by Secker & Warburg', ('Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant' by Philip Hoare, Penguin, 1992). In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear and a touch of fading to back strip tail, with minor bump to back strip head. Significant loss and large closed tear to head of front wrap of dust wrapper, repaired with clear adhesive tape to the reverse. Significant closed tear at head of fold over front joint, repaired with age toned tape. Minor losses to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, with clear adhesive tape repair to reverse. Horizontal closed tear to back strip centre, repaired to reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright, with instances of spotting. Very Good Indeed. Stephen Tennant (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very good+ in very good - dust jacket. Some wear to the back of the DJ and shelf wear to the edges. (loc Lima).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Limited Edition. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 1931. Printed at the Curwen Press. First limited edition, this being number three hundred and ninety-eight of four hundred copies. This is a very near fine copy. In the leaf green paper covered card as issued. Some marginal foxing to the text blocks, and very light rubbing to the spine tips. The limitation bears the signature of the author, Siegfried Sassoon, who signs his name in black ink. Overall, this is a very near fine copy of the thirty-fourth title in the Ariel Poems series. Ariel Poem No. 34, written by Siegfried Sassoon and illustrated by Stephen Tennant. Stephen Tennant (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. Printed at the Curwen Press. First limited edition, this being number thirty-six of five hundred copies. This is a very good (or better) copy. In the light red paper covered card as issued. Mild foxing to the top edge. Slight sunning to the spine. The limitation page bears the signature of the author, Siegfried Sassoon, who signs in black ink. Overall, this is a very good copy of the fourteenth title in the Ariel Poems series. Ariel Poem No. 14, written by Siegfried Sassoon and illustrated by Stephen Tennant. Stephen Tennant (illustratore). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. TENNANT, Stephen [80] pp. Hamish Hamilton 1986 10 7/8" x 7" Leaves from a Missionary's Notebook, subtitled 'The Story of Felix Littlejohn. Missionary and Explorer', was Stephen Tennant's only commercially published book. It reveals, through pictures and Tennant's swirling text, the adventures of a missionary sent to the South Seas. The residents are not however susceptible to conversion and Littlejohn is surrounded by lusty locals and beefy sailors, common motifs in Tennant's works. Although the book was completed in 1929, it was not published until 1937. It was republished in 1986 to celebrate the author's eightieth birthday when it was banned by Lambeth libraries for it's racial stereotypes. …

1st edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt front lettering, small spine repair, the large-paper edition, printed on handmade paper, numbered 289 out of only 400 such copies, signed by the author, colour illustration by Stephen Tennnant, all contents clean and tidy. No. 34 of the Ariel Poems, in very nice condition indeed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Limited Edition. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1930. Printed at the Curwen Press. First limited edition, this being number two hundred and fifteen of five hundred copies. This is a very near fine copy. In the leaf green paper covered card as issued. Mild foxing to the top edge. Minor bumping at the spine tips. The limitation page bears the signature of the author, Siegfried Sassoon, who signs in black ink. Overall, this is a very good copy of the twenty seventh title in the Ariel Poems series. Ariel Poem No. 27, written by Siegfried Sassoon and illustrated by Stephen Tennant. Stephen Tennant (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. "My Brother Aquarius" by Stephen Tennant. , Bournemouth: Nash Publications, 1961 first UK edition, illustrated frontispiece by Stephen Tennant, endpapers slightly toned, original cloth in dust jacket, boards marked and slightly discoloured. rare.…

First edition. Silk-backed decorated paper boards. Barry Humphries' copy, with his bookplate. Fine copy in original decorated box, with printed label to lid, with a fractional amount of light rubbing to corners. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. One of 200 copies, octavo size, 55 pp., with prospectus and publisher's box. British socialite Stephen James Napier Tennant (1906-1987), known for his idle and decadent lifestyle, was one of the "Bright Young People", a bohemian group of young aristocrats who received much publicity for their lavish parties and overall luxurious way of life. Tennant was a prominent figure in this group and was the inspiration for several fictional characters, including Cedric Hampton in Nancy Mitford's novel "Love in a Cold Climate"; he was also, for several years, a partner of the poet Sigfried Sassoon (1886-1967). These two stories by Tennant were printed by Elysium Press, which began in 1980 and often prints writings that are out of print or out of fashion, with a focus on the works of gay writers which "ha[ve] been neglected or overlooked by the commercial trade" (per the Elysium Press website). Over the course of nearly forty years, Tennant worked on the novel "Lascar", producing copious amounts of unpublished material; the two stories in this volume represent his rich writing style, largely unread and unknown by the public. The volume is housed in the publisher's box with a pattern matching that of the binding, with the prospectus, which features one of the colour illustrations by Tennant found in the book. Scarce in the marketplace, we find no other copies online as of this writing; our search of OCLC located fifteen copies with institutions. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter purple cloth with dark blue boards featuring an all-over pattern of stars, dark blue lettering and ornament on the spine, fore-edge rought cut, title page with green border of stars and purple lettering, monochrome photograph of Stephen Tennant by Cecil Beaton on the verso of the title page, text printed in brown, green, and purple, seven full-page colour illustrations by Tennant throughout, line drawings in brown by Tennant throughout; Cochin type, Zerkall paper, octavo size (9.5" by 7.5"), pagination: [4] [i] ii-iii [iv-vi] [1] 2-41 [42-44] [1 colophon], one of 200 copies, this copy out of series (unnumbered). With prospectus, one sheet printed in blue, with a duplicate of the illustration facing page 9 on the verso. Housed in the publisher's box, covered in blue paper with the same star pattern as the boards, white paper label with black decorative border and lettering on the front. ___CONDITION: A fine copy, the covers clean, the corners straight, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; light rubbing to the corners, else fine. The prospectus is fine, clean and without wear. The publisher's box is near fine, strong and sturdy, clean but for a few specks on the rear board, without wear but for light rubbing on the bottom edge and corners of the front board. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note the following: (i) additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs, please inquire for details; and (ii) any taxes, duty, or tariffs charged by your country will, of necessity, be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.…

First edition. Quarto. Eight-page publicity brochure. Wrappers. The exhibition seems to have featured the paintings and drawings from Stephen Tennant's Lascar series which he made as part of an uncompleted novel-writing project. The cover illustration is a colour reproduction of one of the pictures, this one showing at least twenty-eight denizens of Marseille, the setting for the novel. Inside are four photographs of Tennant, including one by Cecil Beaton of him as Echo in his ballet The Mirage and the Echo. Three of the pages are devoted to reproduction of what appear to be diary entries in his handwriting, which is flamboyant almost to the point of illegibility. Loosely inserted is a four-page flyer for the exhibition containing three more photographs of Tennant.On the front cover of the brochure (in the margins away from the main image) is a presentation inscription by the artist: ''to Darling Ava from her forgotten old friend S. November 1955. Do please come & stay with me. & bring Sir John''. The recipient is possibly the wife of Sir John Anderson who had recently been made a Viscount. Tennant had known Ava Wigram, as she then was, in the twenties when he was ''the brightest of the Bright Young People''.Very good indeed. …

First edition. Original purple wrappers, stapled, printed paper label. Illustrated. Roger Senhouse's copy, with his pencilled ownership signature to outer corner of title-page. Wrappers unevenly faded and slightly soiled, staples rusty, else a good copy. Tennant's scarce first book, publication of which was paid by his mother, to accompany his first exhibition, when he was fifteen.…

First edition, first printing. Limited edition, One of 125 copies on vellum paper. Signed by the author. Publisher's original yellow cloth with gilt titles to the upper board, in the author illustrated dustwrapper. Tennant's drawings and handwriting are illustrated in facsimile throughout. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth just a little darkened at the head of the spine, is otherwise bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has a few tiny closed tears and some toning to the spine and panel edges. An attractive example, uncommon in this deluxe issue. A deliberately camp and extravagantly illustrated fantasy that takes the form of the diary of the fictional Reverend Felix Littlejohn, a missionary travelling through an imagined tropical landscape. The book is dedicated to E. M. Forster, an early champion of Tennant, the quintessential "Bright Young Thing" of whom Cecil Beaton famously remarked, "He makes the rest of the world seem squalid". Although the title page is dated 1929, publication was delayed until 1937. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First Edition. 64p quarto, illustrated with black and white tipped in plates. A very good tight copy in blue boards and cloth. Dinged at the crown reflecting the top of the spine but nothing affecting text or illustrations all of which are accounted for. Tiny bit of wear at 2 corners. Paper labels.…