Margaret bellasis (7 resultados)

Condición: Good. 1955. First Edition. 271 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Blind stamp and pencil to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Heavy white speckling marks to boards. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild sunning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Mild water staining to surfaces.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good +. Jacket in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. Book has The glue of a plate to the front paste-down else a fine copy. Jcket has three closed tears and very minor chipping. Not price clipped.

Condición: New.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in July 1948, this is a second impression of November 1948. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN DARK BLUE PEN, ON PASTED IN PAPER SLIP, ON FFEP 'With all good wishes to a fellow Scribbler - 'Francesca Marton'. Scribbler jubilee. Oxford. April 1950'. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of largely pink jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, small scratch to bottom front jacket, some slight yellowing to spine and back jacket, price clipped, no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 422pp. 'Francesca Marton' was the pen name of author and Wolverton (Milton Keynes) resident Margaret Bellasis(1884-1961). She was also a cousin of poet Robert Graves. Apparently Margaret took Sir Francis Bond Head's description of the Wolverton Railway Refreshment Rooms and the seven very young ladies who waited upon the passengers and gave one of the girls the name Hannah Mary Christmas and used this character as the basis of this novel. Exceptionally scarce signed. Jacket by Lynton Lamb (ilustrador). Signed by Author(s). …

2pp., 12mo. 36 lines. She begins by accepting an invitation to give a talk to Wiener's 'Society', about which she has 'hears so much'. She is 'honoured to add my name to such a distinguished roll of speakers'. She next explains why she believes radio to be 'infinitely superior to TV'. She next turns to 'Mr. Sieveking's adaptation', which she considers 'very clever, as he had to leave out the descriptions which formed such an important part of the book. He allowed me to see and criticise all his scripts, too. I'm so glad you are liking the result. Isn't the signature-tune pleasing? Something by Dvorak.' She suggests the title 'Writing About the Past' for her talk: 'I have spoken on this before; and as, in addition to four novels set in the past, I hahve published two serious historical studies under my own name, I have some material.'.…