Mccarthy lily lambert (9 resultados)

Condición: Good. 1999. Reprinted. 228 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket Issued. Privately Printed. paperback, illustrated, 228 pages, a fine clean copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated kin and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B198.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Very good paperback that appears unread with no creasing to spine and no inscriptions or annotation. 738g. 228 pages. [Loc. J9-4].

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1999 reprint - ***please read*** no marks - my shelf location bn7-e-23*.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1999, reprint. Large Octavo. 17cm x 25cm approx. 228pp. Illustrated. Printed card covers. A 'Near Fine' copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Copy # 7. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Card Cover. Condición: Fine as New. First Edition. Signed by Lily Lambert McCarthy to 'Paddy and Ann Lewin with best wishes Florida 1996'. With many b&w illustrastions. 228pp A record of the Lily Lambert McCarthy collection at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth England. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Number 76 of a limited edition of one hundred and twenty specially bound copies - signed and numbered by Lily Lambert McCarthy. Blue hardcovers with light blue slipcase. The endpapers in this special edition are reproduced from an engraving of San Juan, Nicaragua. The slip case is a reproduction of a piece of fabric depicting the Funeral Procession of Nelson. Both book and slipcase in excellent condition. Just top corner of front board slightly bumped. …

Quarter cloth, paper boards. Condición: Good+. FIRST US EDITION, 1 OF 550 COPIES, FORMERLY OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS: "Gift of Mrs. John G. McCarthy, 1959". Tall 8vo, title page printed in red and black. Original quarter black buckram, spine lettered in gilt, orange patterned paper boards. Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Pushing and gentle wear to spine ends, corners bumped and worn, various library labels and tape to spine and rear board. ALP ex libris to ffep, black circular stamp of the American University of Paris overlapping it, and repeated in blue ink to half-title and penultimate page, library pencil notes to limitation and description pages, library pocket and tickets to rear endpapers, related shelf numbers in black pen, else, clean, tight and bright. Good+ An expat US library association copy of H.D.'s long verse form Imagistic re-writing of Euripides' play based on the myth of Hippolytus, gifted to the American Library in Paris in 1959 (two years before the poet's death) by one of its trustees, Mrs John G. McCarthy; Lily Lambert McCarthy was an American book collector and benefactor, a member of the Hroswitha Club and President of the 1805 Club, who also donated her extraordinary collection of Nelsonia to the Royal Navy Museum in 1972. Established in 1920, the American Library in Paris was a subscription library whose core collection derived from the American Library Association's Library War Service, through which American libraries donated books to US armed forces personnel serving in WWI. Its motto, featured on its ex libris, translates: "After the darkness of war, the light of books". Among its first trustees were H.D.'s ex patriot American literary contemporaries Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, as well as Edith Wharton. In the 1930s the library introduced evening author programmes, drawing prominent French writers, and acquaintances of H.D., including Colette, Andre Gide and Princess Marie Bonaparte. H.D. visited Paris frequently in the interwar period, but was not a member of the library, instead frequenting Shakespeare and Company. An heiress of the of Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical family, Lily Lambert McCarthy (1914-2005) came from a family of book collectors, including her stepmother Grace Lansing Lambert and her sister Rachel Lambert Mellon. Her second husband, John G. McCarthy, had served as U.S. representative to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation and minister for Economic Affairs at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Paris during the late 1950s. He later served as President of both the Motion Picture Export Association and the Television Program Export Association. …