pandoras letter box being discourse de moore doris langley (5 resultados)

Parchment Hardcover. Condición: Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Georgiana Frost Ilustrador. #74/200 signed copies bound in parchment. long gift inscription on first page; Limited Edition; 5 1/8 x 7 5/8"; Signed by Author.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour chevron designed cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the blue cloth spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [iv] 296 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Very light spotting to the closed text block edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.

Hardcover. Condición: Near fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. vii + [i], 296 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white drawings by Georgiana Frost. Near fine in original lavender-colored parchment, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, with lavender ribbon marker, boards splayed. Very good dust jacket, small chip from front spine panel, spine-faded. Limited issue, numbered 96 of 200 copies and signed by Doris Langley Moore.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original faded aubergine parchment covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt tulip flower vase and wine glass to the upper panel, top edge gilt. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [iv] 296 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. As mentioned the boards are faded, touch of foxing to the end papers, boards slightly sprung and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. No. 20 of 200 Limited Edition copies bound in parchment and SIGNED by the author. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.

Full parchment. Condición: Very Good. SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION, no. 72 of 200. 8vo, incl. b/w line drawings by Georgina Frost. Original full lilac parchment, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated with gilt floral and wine motif (reproduced on title page). Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine sunned, edges foxed. Signed by Doris Langley Moore in blue ink to limitation page, POI in pencil to ffep: "May C. Towler, Dog Park," some foxing to front and rear matter, else, clean, tight and bright. In the original lilac and white patterned dust jacket, white paper title label, ruled and lettered in green, to front wrapper: spine sunned, loss to head of spine, some chipping and nicking. Very good/ good+ A robust copy of the, understandably, stylish signed, limited edition of the important British fashion historian and costume designer's third book, a discourse on fashionable life, addressed to her infant daughter Pandora, and featuring Georgina Frost's charming line illustrations. Doris Langley Moore OBE (19021989) was a fashion historian, costume designer and curator, who would, just over thirty years after publishing this book, found Bath's The Museum of Costume (now the Fashion Museum, Bath). She was also a novelist, respected Byron scholar, biographer (of Ada Lovelace and Marie Bashkirtseff, amongst others) and wrote the scenario of The Quest, a ballet first performed in 1943. Moreover, she designed Katharine Hepburn's dresses for The African Queen (1951). A collector of costumes herself, Langley Moore's "most exciting acquisition was the Albanian costume bought by Lord Byron on his grand tour of 1809, which he wore for the portrait painted by Thomas Phillips in 1814" (ODNB).