Maude meagher (37 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Fair. Green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, 209 pages. Fair condition: cover soil & owner's stamp, age darkened pages, weak binding. "Nearly 1200 years have passed since Yang Kuei-fei hung dead from the branch of a pear tree at Ma Wei. She is still execrated, still adored. The historians and moralists of China condemn her as the woman whose beauty caused the apparent demoralisation of one of China's greatest Emperors and threatened to destroy the T'ang culture at the moment of its highest development.".…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A novel of Lady Murasaki and Arthur Waley.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. New Edition. New edition 8vo. Pale brown with faded gilt to spine, splits to spine sides, minor bumped wear to extremities, small marks, slight forward lean, front hinge repaired, binding else sound if occasionally spread, good page condition.

very good , darker spine, spine end and corner chips jacket only, NO BOOK.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Later. Good/Hardcover no dust jacket Browned. Cover rubbed with staining, wear.

Condición: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. 1st US edition. (China, concubinage, fiction).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The story of David Martin, a humble clerk who was not afraid to dream, who stretched the boundaries of imagination to comprehend Alexandrai, the Aztecs, and the court of Genghis Khan. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a 1" closed tear at top corner, and is unclipped and protected by Mylar. Very scarce.…

Softbound. Condición: Very Good. Quarto, stapled paper covers, 16 pp., b/w photos, map endpaers, map on the rear cover Articles are "The Wizad of the Nile," Elizabeth Morse, "The Baby Camel and The Red Fez," Ruth P. Collins.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. 5 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Signed by Meagher on ffep. dated 1938. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers have a few small marks and some flecks of white paint. Minimal shelf wear. BInding tight, text spotless. Bookplate on pastedown. Fic. Stax.

Cloth. Condición: Near Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Good. First Edition. Pale-lavender cloth with spine titles in gilt and decorations in orange and brown, in non price-clipped dustjacket. Author's second novel, wherein a disenchanted clerk shuns the materialistic world in search of a higher comprehension of the beauty the world has to offer. Dustjacket shows age soiling, edge-wearand darkening to backstrip. Tight solid copy, near very good in near good dustjacket. Attic: Box JJ.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. The photos in the listing are of the actual book you will receive. good condition with edge wear, toning and light bumping to corners and board edges, previous owner bookplate detached from front free end paper with glue residue. Jacket has edge wear, light rubbing, toning to spine. See photos clphE.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Undated.boards are shelf worn and marked.no title or half title page,starts on dedication page.tanning.fair binding.good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. B00086JRK0.

Hardcover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. First Edition. nice, collectable copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. [light shelfwear to bottom edge, a bit of foxing/spotting to top of text block; jacket lightly soiled, tiny tears at upper spine extremities]. Historical novel of ancient China, "the story of a Chinese Helen of Troy who, by her taste and intelligence, raised the T'ang period to its highest level, and, by her wantonness, quenched it in a sea of blood." The lady in question was Yang Kuei-fei, mistress of the Emperor Ming, who was put to death at age 37 on his orders (long story, look it up). Known as one of "the Four Beauties of ancient China," her story has been the subject of many works of literature, opera, theatre, film and television; the version most likely to be familar to Western audiences was the 1955 Japanese film PRINCESS YANG KWEI FEI, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. This was the second novel by this author who published her most famous work, the Amazon-Lesbian classic "The Green Scamander," a few years later.…

hardcover. Condición: Good. 1931 FIRST HOUGHTON MIFFLIN EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

hardcover. Condición: Good. The dust jacket is missing. Hardcover Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping Monday Through Saturday! - Safe and Secure.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Book measures 19x13cm, 159pp. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt title lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, light dust/dirt marking. Jacket in very good condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. A very fine hardcover copy in a near fine+ jacket/brodart covered. First Edition. This is a very nice copy. Paper label to jackets spine is perfect. Bright yellow jacket is very difficult to find in nice condition. This one has slight toning to spine with a small tear to bottom of jackets spine. Jacket is not priced clipped. Exceptional copy. = WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH USPS TRACKING. = WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 35 YEARS.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Ed. 298pp, small octavo hardcover in dj. minor wear to book edges, boards clean, minor lean to book when flat yet binding remains solid, light toning to map endpapers, interior text clean. DJ covers mildly worn, chipping and loss bottom dj spine, mild creasing and small closed tears to edges, not price-clipped, in mylar cover.…

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1460 COPIES. RATHER GRUBBY BLUE CLOTH.

First Edition. Fine fresh copy in a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny tears and a very faint 1/4Ó x 2Ó spot to the spine. From the jacket text: ÒThe story of a humble clerk who was not afraid to dream; who stretched the boundaries of the imagination to comprehend the golden temples of the Aztecs, the painted courtesans of Alexandria, the fabulous court of Jenghiz-Khan.Ó.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, Surface of covers a little faded and worn, light stain on cover, Corners worn, edge worn, Top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, spine faded and stained, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing.…

Condición: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 160pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Slight wear, otherwise very good in slightly rubbed, faded and edge-chipped, very good dust jacket. Bookplate and name to pastedown.

8vo. [6], 298 pp. Green cloth, illustrated map endpapers (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Amazon (minor edgewear, creasing, minor sunning), VG/VG-, w/ former ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this historical novel set during the Trojan War, and the Amazons coming to aid Troy in its hour of need against the Greeks. Meagher's novel has been considered to be one of the lesbian historical novels reflecting an intense need among lesbian authors and readers for representations of a lesbian past through historical fiction. A contemporary reviewer notes that "One feels a somewhat uncomfortable and defiant undercurrent of perversion." See: Wolfskins and togas: Maude Meagher's The Green Scamander and the lesbian historical novel (1996).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition. Original green cloth titled in blue, map endsheets, green topstain. Signed by Meagher to the half title page. Slight rubbing to edges. Pages slightly toned. The DJ is chipped/rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. First Edition. Original cloth. Signed by Meagher to the ffep. Spine ends softened, trace insecting to cloth, one spine break. The DJ is chipped to edges, losses to spine ends, small holes to joints, toned spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed and lightly marked, owners bookplate to front pastedown. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1460cc. Offsetting to prelims, else a very good hardback in a darkened jacket that has a few small closed tears, a couple of spots to the front an da chip to the head of the spine.

First Edition. Bleiler listed fantasy of Amazon women. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket.