Stewart frida (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. Color endpapers by Alfredo Martinez. Small chip to DJ spine crown; 1" closed tear to DJ rear bottom; else a very good DJ. A beautiful edition.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gripping account of one woman's experiences in the Spanish civil war and passionate belief in the Republican cause, plus escape from internment in France during WW2. With a foreword and afterword from Angela Jackson, based on her oral history interviews with Stewart. All in VG+ clean and bright order throughout. Minimal wear to smart pictorial covers. Though recently published, surprisingly hard to find. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 281pp.…

Comb Binding. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket (as issued). N.d. [First Edition, c. late 1930s]. Collection of songs (with vocal scores) collected by the left-wing activist, Frida Stewart (1910-1996), and pub. for The Basque Children's Committee in aid of refugees from the Spanish Civil War. Not dated (First Edn., circa late 1930s); metal comb spine; beige card covers; titling/illus. printed in black to front cover; [iv]pp. + 20 leaves; illus. bw. drawings. Foreword by the Duchess of Atholl, Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray (1874-1960). Metal comb spine slightly crushed at top/tail, but complete/intact; front cover partially detaching from comb spine; rear cover creased at bottom corner; covers very soiled; p.[i] lightly nicked at fore-edge; sporadic slight (occasionally heavy) foxing/soiling (including paint splashes) to pages, but text fresh; illustrations have been coloured (quite artistically/neatly) using watercolour paint. All complete. Lightweight item, hence overseas customers will have SHIPPING CHARGES REDUCED subsequent to ordering. Fair. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by JAMES BOSWELL (ilustrador). Softcover.…

Condición: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | After the Spanish Civil War was lost, around half a million Republican loyalists fled across the border into France, where they were herded into concentration camps. Frida Stewart-who, during the civil war, had driven an ambulance to Spain and assisted in the evacuation of thousands of Basque children-went to France to help the refugees. When the Germans invaded, she was arrested and sent to internment camps, from where she escaped back to England with the help of the French Resistance. This is her memoir of those events, first published almost eighty years ago.…

Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | After the Spanish Civil War was lost, around half a million Republican loyalists fled across the border into France, where they were herded into concentration camps. Frida Stewart-who, during the civil war, had driven an ambulance to Spain and assisted in the evacuation of thousands of Basque children-went to France to help the refugees. When the Germans invaded, she was arrested and sent to internment camps, from where she escaped back to England with the help of the French Resistance. This is her memoir of those events, first published almost eighty years ago.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. No date circa 1936. Illustrations by James Boswell and a Foreword by the Duchess of Atholl. 20pp of songs each illustrated. Words in Spanish and English. Ring bound. Larger format. Rare.

Original Wrappers. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 34 issues of this monthly magazine given out by the Red Cross From issue 1 No 1. May 1942 to Issue 37 in May 1945. Each 16 pages stapled binding, only 39 issues were produced and this run lacks No's 14, 22 & 24. the first 8 issues from No 1 to No 8 have the serialised account of Sir Winston Churchill and his account of HIS escape in the Boer War. The condition is in the main very good, some age browning, one or two fold creases, staples a little thin on a couple, but no loss or cut-out areas, no inscriptions of tears. The contents have a page or two of letters of prisoners, interior photos of camps and camp internees, games, sports, theatre activities, health and mental and physical issues, the Japanese wouldn't reveal much and serious excuses or disinterest is shown, hiding numbers and conditions of prisoners from this group, etc. accounts of Red Cross working parties and the reports of care or lack of it when visiting or sending food parcels, one issue has the famous Colditz as its main focus. Many other Oflag's and Stalags numbered named and discussed with accounts of who is interned where. A very rare collection, only the British Library appear to hold a complete run and this isn't confirmed as much of this period was lost and ghosts appear that remain uncorrected. Small quarto approx 10 x 8 inches. Good+ to Very Good.…