talbot pseud (16 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Covers slightly faded at spine. Signed by the author on the title-page and inscribed by her to Anthony Astbury, founder of the Greville Press, "Tony, with love July 1998". A close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Ilse Gross married the painter Kit Barker, younger brother of the poet George Barker, in 1948, and adopted the pseudonym Kathrine Talbot for her first novel, Fire in the Sun (1952). The title poem is about the Football League War (South) Cup Final in 1943. Arsenal beat Charlton Athletic 7-1. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; purple c w/gilt titles;lite wear at extremities; lite sunning os spine; dj flaps tipped in on pastedown pages; 244 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition with dust jacket. 188 pgs. Publisher's textured blue cloth, brilliant gilt stamped image on front and gilt stamped letters on spine. Orange inked head of text block. Binding tight and square.Hinges firm. Minimal scuffing to corners. Age toned pages; prior owner's inked name and comment on ffep. Small stain on page 114, random underlines and erasures. Illustrated tricolor dust jacket, lightly soiled and age toned. Worn chipped edges, torn and/or missing corners. $2.50 price on front flap. Mundy's only non-fiction book, published posthumously.

8vo. viii, [2], 544 pp. Red cloth, gilt Tibetan prayer wheel in lower right corner, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Betty Grasso, NF/NF copy. First edition, thus, with new preface of this last title by Mundy, and the second of the Old Ugly-Face series set against the backdrop of American Tom Grange combatting attempts by Russian, Japanese, and German attempts to seize the Himalayan Kingdom, published the same year China invaded and forcibly annexed Tibet.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. - Adventure Romance Set in India - attractive old musical themed private bookplate else vg in bright lightly used pictorial dust jacket showing a Harum of young white women threatened by two sinister robed, knife & flintlock gun carrying guards - typical Mundy period sensational jacket art. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The First UK Printing published by Faber and Faber Ltd, London in 1955. 8vo., bright green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in the publisher's printed wrapper (unclipped, '12s 6d net') featuring a pencil sketch by the author's husband, Kit Barker (unattributed); The BOOK Is in Very Good++ or better condition, just slightly toned along the spine, with minor rubbing to the edges of the cloth; ever-so-slight shelf lean, and a couple of tiny marks to the fore-edge, one or two within the page margins; The WRAPPER is in Very Good++ condition, being rubbed along folds with a little loss of colour; some small losses to the ends of folds and mostly at the spine tips, with no loss of lettering; spine and lower panel a touch toned; completely unrestored. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Inscribed in the year of publication to the front blank end-paper : "I want to inscribe this book to you, dear Elaine, with many thanks for all your help & your faith in 'The Innermost Cage.', Ilse, Bexley Hill, September 1955." Barker's second novel writing as Katherine Talbot. Born in 1921 to German-Jewish parents, Ilse Barker was sent to international school in Geneva, where she began to write poetry and the animated correspondence for which she would later become known. As tensions began to rise further in Europe she was sent to England, where she worked unpaid until the end of the war, and began to focus her writing on short story collections. It was in 1947 that she learned her parents had been murdered in Auschwitz and Terezin concentration camps. She moved to Cornwall and married the artist Kit Barker, and together they moved to America. 'The Innermost Cage' was published just a few years later. It was the first to use her adopted pseudonym, which the author chose voluntarily, believing her first name to be 'too foreign' and wanting a literary, artistic identity separate from her husband's. Semi-autobiographical, the story follows a successful novelist who suffers from a traumatic past, having been shipwrecked at sea as a child, and orphaned in the process. During her time in America, Barker also corresponded actively with the American poet Elizabeth Bishop - over 400 letters between them are now held at Princeton University. A book "Like the pinprick opening of a lens into the past", as she writes within. A scarce association copy. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. Tired Business Man's Library edition. First published as Khufu's Real Tomb in Adventure magazine, October 10, 1922. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt stamped skull image on front and spine with TBML and AC. Gilt stamped letters on sunned spine. Gilt rubbed on spine, vivid on front. Pale green endpapers; no markings. Spine head and tail softened, corners slightly frayed and scuffed. Slight forward lean. Binding tight; hinges strong. Age-toned pps. vii; 279. 7.75" x 5.5" w. "Chapter I. We Americans are ostriches. We stick well-meaning heads into the political sands of these United States, swear--probably correctly--they are better than all other sands, and accordingly declare ourselves free for ever from entangling alliances.".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, leather label, minor rubbing, occasional spotting, sprinkled edges, very good. first published 1852; 281 pages.

8vo., First Edition, small inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's second novel, following 'The Innermost Cage' (1955). Ilse Eva Louise Gross Barker (1921-2006), poet and author, was born in Germany, She married the English painter Kit Barker and the couple divided their time between England and the US, where they became close friends of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Barker wrote several novels under her pen name 'Kathrine Talbot' and used this persona also in her many translations of foreign verse and prose. Her first two novels are very scarce. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

First edition, paperback original. 8vo. Softcover. A near fine/fine copy. Light wear to extremities. No chipping or splitting. Internally clean and appears unread. An uncommon title. Harbottle & Holland A272. Alvar Lazade is wounded and living with his sister where he is drawn into another dimension mentally, a fantastic green world peopled by alien flora and fauna. The story unfolds as a weird fairy tale filled with giant beetles and a ravishing queen named Elvera, who needs to be rescued from alien invasion.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's goldenrod pictorial cloth stamped in red and black, in illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 310pp. Creasing, wear, and chipping to the top and bottom edges and corners of jacket, shallow losses to spine ends, cloth a bit dust-soiled and margins lightly scuffed, else a Very Good copy in a Good only jacket. From prolific pulp-writer Talbot Mundy, author of "King of the Khyber Rifles" and the Jimgrim series, comes a tale of romance set in pre-Independence India: American Lynn Harding, along with her widowed aunt, are vacationing in India as guests of the Maharanee and Maharajah of Kadur. Lynn soon finds herself pursued by two men: British Captain of Engineers Carl Norwood and Prince Rundhia, the heir of the throne of Kadur. While both vie for Lynn's affections, political disputes and culture clashes loom on the horizon. Published in the UK as "Diamonds See in the Dark".

8vo. [8], 312 pp. Gold cloth, black & red illustration of looming figure over a globe, black lettering (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Indian Woman holding a British Officer at gunpoint in a cave by Ferdinand E. Warren (slight shelfwear, minor sunning to spine, price-clipped), NF/VG copy. First edition in book form of one of Mundy's most imaginative and original novels set in India as a British Officer searches for a missing colleague and instead stumbles across a conspiracy to hide a trans-dimensional doorway. These originally appeared serialized from October, 1934 to January, 1935 in The American Weekly.

8vo. [8], 279, [1] pp. Brown cloth, gilt & black decorated spine (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of T.E. Lawrence type figure by Ferdinand E. Warren (slight shelfwear, minor sunning to spine, price-clipped), NF/VG copy. First edition in book form of this first occult adventure novel in the Jimgrim series, with Jimgrim as an American working for the British Secret Service. These originally appeared as Adventure of El Karak and Under the Dome of the Rock in 1921 in Adventure Magazine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.One of the few Mundy titles to be serialised after publication in book-form. A Criminal Investigation Division of India caper, featuring Chullunder Ghose, and a Thuggee sect. Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the 'Jimgrim' series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.Book VG; jacket a little rubbed and marked, spine slightly dulled, but overall a very good example.

8vo. vi, 280 pp. Gold cloth, black & red illustration of looming Fu Manchu over a globe, black lettering (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Thuggee assassin peering over a wall, (slight shelfwear, rubbing, very minor sunning to spine), VG/VG- copy. First edition, 1st printing, stated, of another title in the Chullander Ghose series featured as inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department. Written with a special affection for the rotund inspector and great respect for his abilities against a plot by the Rajah to poison his cousin, the priests of Kali in the Thuggee Cult, and sinister temple in the jungle. Serialized the next year in Adventure, March & April, 1933.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket."Perhaps the most intensely mythic and symbolic of all Mundy's work." (Taves, Philosophy Into Popular Fiction: Talbot Mundy and The Theosophical Society) Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the 'Jimgrim' series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.Cloth a little dulled at spine, but overall VG; jacket dulled at spine, edge wear, but overall an attractive first edition.