Bryher Pseud Annie Winifred Ellerman (7 results)

Very Good to Fine. Price-clipped dust jacket, 12mo., 118 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Good but for a small area of color absent on boards, and a ink gift inscription on free endsheet, in a price-clipped, lightly rubbed and shelf-worn dust jacket. Bryher (1894?1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends from a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein?s work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist, as exemplified by this novel that brings to life a ruined city in Italy populated by three ancient Greek temples of the Doric order. "The Gate to the Sea is always the way to freedom." -- quoted from the upper fold-in. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Good but for a small area of color absent on boards, and a ink gift inscription on free endsheet, in a price-clipped, lightly rubbed and shelf-worn dust jacket. Bryher (1894?1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends from a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist, as exemplified by this novel that brings to life a ruined city in Italy populated by three ancient Greek temples of the Doric order. "The Gate to the Sea is always the way to freedom." -- quoted from the upper fold-in.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. Light blue paper covered boards over white cloth spine. 119 pp. Illustrated with photographs of Paestum by Islay de Courcy Lyons. Fine, touch of fiant foxing to the spine cloth. In very good dust jacket. A novel set among the greying ruins of the columned temples of Paestum, an other of the author's series touching significant moments in history when mankind has faced the dissolution of an epoch. The daughter of the wealthiest man in England at the turn of the 20th century, Ellerman adopted the pen name "Bryher" when she entered the famed 1902s literary world of Paris whose epicenter was Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. bookshop. She was a friend of Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittlew and others of that period; openly lesbian in Paris, she entered into a marriage of convenience with Robert McAlmon in order to hide her sexuality from her family in England. They divorced after her father's death in 1927. She used her wealth to suppor many new or struggling authors, artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, the "little magazines" of Montparnasse and beginning around 1930, became interested in filmmaking.

Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in lightly foxed and frayed dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends from a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist, as exemplified by this novel that brings to life a ruined city in Italy populated by three ancient Greek temples of the Doric order. "The Gate to the Sea is always the way to freedom." -- quoted from the upper fold-in. .

Cloth and boards. Gilt green cloth. First edition, preceding the UK edition by almost two years. Near fine in very good, lightly rubbed and smudged pictorial dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends with the proceeds of a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist. This novel deals with 1066 and all that. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 191 p. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine, upper corners and spine ends very lightly bumped, old ink price to the top corner of the front endpaper. Dust jacket with wide flap folds, priced 4s. 6d net, light wear to the edges, a little darkened and the spine darkened and a bit scuffed, light chips in the corners and spine head. A clean and tight copy.