miss savage (4 resultados)

380pp, index, sonnets, preface, portrait photographs : letters outlining their thoughts on literature and art and their burgeoning relationship; hardback, almost vg.

1st edition. 8vo. 380pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece. Occasional slight foxing. Slightly soiled original blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. US$12.

Hardback. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. None Ilustrador. First edition. The uncommon first edition of this collection of Samuel Butler and Miss E. M. A. Savage's letters in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Uncommon.Includes two monochrome plates: a frontispiece sketch of Samuel Butler dated 1878 facing pp. 5, and a photograph portrait of Miss Savage facing pp. 17, both of which appeared in Festing Jones's Memoir (1919). Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic best known for his novels The Way of All Flesh (1903) and Erewhon (1872). Miss E. M. A. Savage cultivated an important correspondence with Butler and was the subject of his three 'Sonnets on Miss Savage', which can be found at the rear of this work. This collection of their letters was published on the centenary of Butler's death. In the original publisher's binding with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with excellent colour to cloth and bright gilt titles. Dust wrapper generally clean with slight browning and the odd mark, including a minor stain beneath front title. With archival reinforcements to flyleaves and to head and tail of jacket's spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages and marginal spotting limited to fore edge. Near Fine. book.

Single leaf travel brochure folded in three, printed on both sides. Map and black and white photographic illustrations, a very good copy. Miss Lois Savage arranged and conducted tours of the East Asia from Australia in the 1930s. The tours visited three Queensland ports, passed through the Barrier Reef, before sailing on to Thursday Island, a brief stop for a four hour drive in Manila, then on to Hong Kong, Macao, Shanghai before reaching Japan. The trip in all took "three glorious months" during which the small private party were invited to enjoy the trip "without a care in the world".