Anne Kennington (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Firmly bound yellow cloth boards without a jacket, dark blue titles and decoration, cover is marked from dust and handling, mostly on the spine, on a couple of pages are some untidy notes in ink.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Brown pictorial boards. Brown and white text illustrations. 40 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Endpapers and outer page edges foxed. Brown pictorial wrapper is edge-worn. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Gordon, C. Conway (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A Fairy story. Illustrated with drawings by C Conway Gordon. First edtion. 4to. Original pictorial cloth, marked on end papers. Dust wrapper slightly nicked around edges. Complete with original price. All books outside sent airmail. All books sent tracked. All dust wrappers are film protected. PayPal accepted. C Conway Gordon (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Brown pictorial boards. Brown and white text illustrations. 40 pages. SIGNED by author, with dedication. A few marks to covers. Wrapper has a few marks and is edge-chipped. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Gordon, C. Conway (illustrator). SIGNED - please see description for details.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A signed presentation copy of Anne Kennington's very scarce children's tale, inscribed to the prolific theatre director and early suffragette Edith Craig. The first edition, first impression.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Inscribed to the front free endpaper: 'To Edith Craig in appreciation of her great service to the theatre, from Anne Kennington'. Dated March 1947.Craig was a prolific theatre director, producer, costume designer and early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England. She lived in a ménage à trois with the dramatist Christabel Marshall and the artist Clare 'Tony' Atwood from 1916 until 1947.With vignette illustrations throughout from C. Conway Gordon.With the bookplate of Nicolas McDowall to the front pastedown. McDowall was an artist and the founder of the Old Stile Press, a private press that produced its first book in 1981.A charming children's work. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with bumps to back strip head and tail. Bookplate to front pastedown, with inscription to front free endpaper. Small closed tear to head of dust wrapper rear wrap. Small ink spots towards tail of rear wrap. Back strip a touch age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. C. Conway Gordon (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Condition: Very Good. Small 4to. 18 typed and printed pages. Green cloth lettered gilt on cover. Pre-publication proof. Loosely inserted autograph Letter signed by the publisher A.E. Lowy of The Favil Press enclosingproof sheets of poems for Anne Kennington dated 5th January 1962, several pp. loosely inserted occasional pencil crossings-out, Anne Kennington has mounted 2 printed and illustrated pages from Favil, the rest are typed. There is no sign the book was ever published although the letter states the project is going ahead and in some detail. Possibly published just for the poet and unrecorded. Mainly topographical themes - the Thames, Majorca, Lincolnshire, Cornwall et cetera -o Mne poem mourns the death of her artist brother Eric Kennington (1888-1960). Anne Kennington, daughter of Victorian artist Thomas Kennington and sister of war artist and sculptor Eric Kennington. The latter was a close friend of T.E. Lawrence and sculpted the statue of Lawrence in Wareham Dorset. Anne Kennington moved within the London theatrical circuits however only one of her plays was ever performed, at the Gateway Theatre in 1952, and had one book published in her lifetime, 'The Winged Princess' in 1945. Very good solid clean tight copy with only slight wear. …

Condition: Very Good. Small 4to. pp 66 typed recto only. Bound in red cloth gilt lettered at spine. Typed manuscript, signed on endpaper by Anne Kennington. Stage directions in red type. Typed cast list of the actors in the play when it was performed at the Gateway Theatre in April i952, produced by Gordon Ricahardson. Starring John French, Josephine Stroud, Dorit Welles and Anne Kennington herself in 2 short walk on parts. Play set in 1928 and 1947 mainly in a detached house 'on the outskirts of Middlesex and Essex at the end of soap land where soap factories cease to function.' About a middle-class family involved with a local factory, there is an attempt to put on a play, a factory strike and the main character remarries so the second part in 1947 has his new wife with a visit from the old one. Completely unknown to the infobahn apart from a record of this very book/ MS being bought at auction. Sold with a string bound folder containing some verse and titled 'A Theatre Book of Nonsense' by Anne Kennington with type label and her address ( Harcourt Terrace London S. W. 10) and signature on the cover and the first page and a few notes in her hand - 19 short humorous poems about the theatre each with excellent, mostly signed, illustrations by Richard Carey whch appears to be the originals. Although a rather talented caricaturist, this artist does not look up anywhere. The play is in very good condition. The poetry manuscript has some wear but is in reasonable near very good condition. Anne Kennington, daughter of Victorian artist Thomas Kennington and brother of war artist and sculptor Eric Kennington. The latter was a close friend of T.E. Lawrence and sculpted the statue of Lawrence in Wareham Dorset). Anne Kennington moved within the London theatrical circuits however only one of her plays was ever performed, at the Gateway Theatre in 1952, and had one book published in her lifetime, 'The Winged Princess' in 1945. Signedes.…