Annotations di miles susan (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by Susan Miles on the front free endpaper, 'Margaret Thomson, With all good wishes from L S Stebbing's friend, Susan Miles, September 1943'. 54pp. Quarter bound in pale blue cloth over decorated paper-covered boards, red title label on front panel. 8vo. Boards are worn and faded around edges, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a few marks. Boards a little bowed. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Susan Miles was the pen name of Ursula Wyllie Roberts (1887-1975). The niece of Newlyn School painter, William Titcomb, she published several slim volumes of poetry under that pen name, Annotations being the second, after Dunch (1918). Harold Munro, in his often harsh Some Contemporary Poets (1920) spoke of her poetry positively and Herbert Palmer described her as 'one [of] the most original' in his 1938 study of post-Victorian poetry. As Ursula Roberts she also wrote several pamphlets on feminist themes, including "The Cause of Purity" and "Women's Suffrage". The verse novel, Lettice Delmer, was first published in 1958 and reissued by Persephone Books in 2000. The L S Stebbing referred to in the inscription is likely Lizzie Susan Stebbing, a prominent British philosopher - the first women to hold a philosophy chair in the UK, and first female President of Humanists UK. Stebbing was indeed a friend: she died in the same month as the inscription is dated.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Slim half boun volume slight bending to boards + owners name to end paper & libris plate.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 56pp. 8 inches/ 20.2cm. No dw. Decorative boards, rubbed corners, linen spine. Untrimmed pages. Internally, faint foxing to endpapers, no owner's marks, contents as new. Scarce. 200g. (Poetry, Literature, Women) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

pp. 56. Original cloth-backed boards with paper label on the front cover, lower corner of the rear free end-paper and the opposing corner of the paste-down slightly chewed by silver-fish, in other ways a very good copy.

Quarter cloth, paper boards. Condizione: Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original quarter grey cloth, blue and orange patterned beige paper boards, red title label to upper board. Edges untrimmed. Darkened, slight warp to boards, wear to corners. Edges browned. Inscribed in blue ink: "Marjorie Wheatley, With all good wishes from the author March 11th 1960," offsetting to feps, else, clean and bright. Good+ A pleasing inscribed copy of Susan Miles' second collection of poems. Under her pseudonym, Ursula Wyllie Roberts (18871975) published eight volumes of poetry and three novels, including her novel in verse, Lettice Delmer (1958). Roberts only using her given name for her 1911 polemic, The Cause of Purity and Women's Suffrage, published by the Church League for Women's Suffrage. …

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 68. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1922 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 68.…

FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots, pp. 56, crown 8vo, original quarter grey cloth, boards of patterned paper, red printed label to upper board, slight wear at corners, borders slightly faded and upper board bowing slightly, edges untrimmed and slightly toned, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Janet Cookson, with gratitude and all good wishes from the author, Christmas 1950'. Her second collection; the first, 'Dunch' (Blackwell, 1918), drew positive notices from T.S. Eliot in The Egoist (he would later praise her novel in verse, 'Lettice Delmer') and Harold Monro. Active in various causes, including pacifism and women's rights, she had earlier published a pamphlet, 'The Cause of Purity and Women's Suffrage', under her own name in 1912 - but the majority of her work was under the Miles pseudonym.…