Susan hill intro (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First American Edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2002. Hardcover. First American Edition (stated) / full number line. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 192 pages. A unique window on an extraordinary life lived with tremendous zest, discrimination, and intelligence. The Duchess of Devonshire is the youngest of the Mitford siblings, the famous brood that includes the writers Nancy and Jessica. Like them, she has lived an unusually full and remarkable life, and like them she has an inimitable expressive gift. In Counting My Chickens, she has gathered extracts from her diaries and other writings to create a multifaceted portrait of her life at Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of Devonshire, that is pithy, hilarious, wise, and always richly rewarding. Will Topley (illustratore). …

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Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. A scarce, privately printed limited edition of the chilling supernatural tales of E. F. Benson, with an introduction from Susan Hill. A very scarce privately printed limited edition, one of only 750 unnumbered copies produced.A first edition thus, edited by Cynthia Reavell, and with an introduction from author Susan Hill.E. F. Benson was an extremely prolific English writer,First printed in Hutchinson's Magazine in 1925, the eponymous tale was later added to Benson's third supernatural anthology 'Spook Stories' in 1928.With the blind stamp of architecture collector and cardiologist Dr Derek Gair Gibson (1935-2021), to a front blank. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Externally, fine. Blind stamp to a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustratore). book.…