Clemence Dane Winifred Ashton (56 results)

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Errata slip tipped in. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. First American edition. First printing. Dane was an English novelist and playwright known for writing the play, "A Bill of Divorcement" made into a movie starring Katherine Hepburn as well as the screenplay for "Anna Karenina" starring Greta Garbo. She also won an Academy Award and she was the inspiration for Noël Coward's play, "Blithe Spirit." Ex-library with usual markings in a worn dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition / Unstated Printing. First edition / unstated printing. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket : Spine slightly faded, slight wear at top of spine. 14.5 x 21. hard cover. 703pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages; Physical description: 22 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 -- Great Britain -- History. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 703 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with vignette. Inscribed by the author. First American edition, first published in Britain in 1931. Dane's 1931 novel Broome Stages followed the fortunes of an acting family from the time of Queen Anne to the present. Broome Stages became a surprise bestseller. Condition: Inscribed on front end paper. Slightly shaken, corners bumped and rubed, spine gilt dulled, soiled. News clipping glued to back end paper about the performance as a play. About very good. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages; Physical description: 22 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 -- Great Britain -- History. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 116 pp. Stated first edition. Black cloth over boards. Corners and spine ends bumped, rubbed; edge wear, light stains to cloth, spine titles faded, binding secure, spine square, clean interior. Set in 18th century London and in the present about the tragic suicide death of Thomas Chatterton. Book.

Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-43 [44-48: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], original yellow wrappers printed in black, sewn. First edition. Limited to 250 copies signed by Ashton. Part of "Benn's Yellow Books" series. Wrappers dusty, else a very good copy. (#160165). Signed.

Octavo, 48 pp., two-part boards. First edition. Short story about the godson of William Shakespeare. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing to spine panel. (#133923).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Signed, numbered limited edition (534/1000). Good condition, medium octavo, patterned boards, black cloth spine, wear to corners and spine extremities, light foxing, viii plus 110 pages. [QP]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is very good plus, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding. Jacket has edge wear and chipping, spine sunned. Price intact on front flap.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. paper wrappers as issued (lower cover dated June 1923), covers dust-soiled and a trifle marked, leaves tanning at edges, a reading copy. 262 pages; keywords: fiction; Todd and Bowden 4573.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dust jacket, spine bumped, fore edge feintly spotted, ink inscription front free endpaper, good. from the library of W J West with his book label front pastedown; first published 1919; 194 pages.

Octavo, original blue cloth. First edition. NCBEL IV 928. Armorial bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#115316).

Condition: Good. FOUR VOLUME SET. 8vo. 378 pp. Very Good+, Black Cloth On Decorative Boards with rubbing, & edge wear; glue remnants from labels on end papers; some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. minor sunning to spine, ink inscription front free endpaper, very good; concerns the Bronte family; first published 1932; 101 pages.

Hard cover, 20.5 x 13cm, 22 pages, , no 209, signed by Author, cover showing a little wear, corners & spine slightly bumped, rear cover has two 1.5 x 3cm stains, end pages have foxing, binding fragile in a couple of areas. Clemence Dane is the pseudonymn of Winifred Ashton.A fictionalized account of the execution of Anne Boleyn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original lilac cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Cloth generally sunned, faint stamp (Joint Fiction Reserve) on verso of title page, poor quality wartime paper lightly browned throughout, good. Dane wrote some 30 novels up to 1965, but probably achieved her greatest success writing screenplays for the cinema. First the Blade was her second novel: uncommon. Book.

Condition: Very good. London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1924)., (1924). Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is chipped with its spine & extremities darkened & with tears to & pieces out of the top edge, affecting the titling. [vii] & 93 pages with an errata slip bound in. There is a small stain to the front pastedown & some very light staining to the front endpaper. The fore-edge is foxed with occasional light foxing to the front edges of the leaves. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. Clemence Dane is the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton. Signed by the author as Clemence Dane on the half-title. Also initialed by her, "WA", on the dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Archival Photos & Maps (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1964 First Edition, 1 Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace shelfwear. History of London's Covent Garden, referred by Londoners simply as "The Garden", and today's home to the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". Other historical, buildings, theatres & entertainment facilities that occupuy the area include the London Transport Museum & the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Author, British novelist, playwright & artist Clemence Dane (1888 - 1965), pseudonym of Winifred Ashton, resided in Covent Garden for some 30 years. A story of how open fields of the 7th century behind the country house of Queen Elizabeth's Burleigh, evolved from a social center w/markets to a world center of entertainment & arts. Volume concludes w/the sentence: "They say Paradise is a garden" . a complimentary reference to the title, "London has a garden." 211 pgs w/archival maps & photos in 11 chapters.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good in the original cloth. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

Condition: VG. London 1955 3rd Michael Joseph. 8vo., 689pp., hardcover. **Signed by Dane on titlepage and inscribed and signed again by her on the front end paper. VG in Good DJ (painted by Dane), light wear, a few small closed tears and chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

703 S. Clemence Dane, 1888 - 1965, war eine britische Schriftstellerin und Drehbuchautorin.// From content: "[.]The first Richard Broome was born in 1715 and spent his childhood making brooms. He sold them to the lazy gypsies and brought the halfpence to his mother. From her he had his letters and his knowledge of the Bible, and so his pure speech. But whence did he get his fairytales? For he would as soon have doubted the existence of the Virgin Mary as the existence of the fairy mistress who might any day speak to him from the middle of the burning broom.[.]"/// Vorsatz fehlt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 970 22,5 x 16,5 cm. Orig.-Leinenbd. mit Goldprägung.

No Binding. Condition: Good. English Novelist and Playwright. [110 x 140 mm. / 4¼ x 5½ ins.] Signed in ink, on thin paper. In good condition. [Within the UK postage is not charged. Outside the UK, shipping is by airmail and at cost.]. Signed by Author(s).

19 x 12. Solapas. 175 págs.

Papel. Condition: Aceptable. Cub. ilustrada en color. -- Revista Literaria Novelas y Cuentos, año XXXIV, nº 1632, 19 de agosto de 1962.

Tela con sobrecub. Condition: Bien. Sin Sobrecubierta. Traducción del inglés por E. Toda Valcárcel. -- 285 p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 110; [2]. Publisher's black quarter cloth over patterned paper covered boards, titles in gilt to spine, top edge red others untrimmed. Number 879 of 1,000 copies signed by the author to the limitation page. Some light spotting within. Boards a little rubbed and worn to extremities. Very good. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A bright first edition copy of Clemence Dane's The King Waits, with the original glassine wrapper. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original paper wraps, with the original dust wrapper and the very scarce glassine wrapper. Winifred Ashton, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane (1888-1965), was an English novelist and playwright. She was most famous for her series The Babylons. This work is one of her short stories. In the publisher's original paper wraps, with the original dust wrapper and glassine wrapper. Externally, very bright and smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is attached to the paper wraps but is in excellent condition. Glassine wrapper is in very smart condition. Fine. book.