Dane Clemence Pseud (13 results)

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.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge nicked dw, now mylar sleeved. Remains, particularly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and quite sharp cornered; 75 pages; Description: 8vo. 4 p. L. , 75 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Drama. Form/Genre: Tragedies 3 Kg.

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.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge nicked dw, now mylar sleeved. Remains, particularly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and quite sharp cornered; 75 pages; Description: 8vo. 4 p. L. , 75 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Twentieth Century English Drama. Form/Genre: Tragedies 1 Kg.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1921] First Printing. No.164 of a limited edition of 275, numbered and signed by the author. Quarto, original quarter-cloth with printed title label over decorated paper-covered boards a little worn along edges; fine internally; printed on hand-made paper by Woods & Sons of London; illustrated with 5 b/w woodcuts; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere, some pages unopened. Signed by Author(s).

1. Ediz. Milano-Longanesi, 1948 in 8° pp. 301. Leg. tutta tl. coeva.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; frontispiece; publisher's cloth, a little rubbed and darkened at extremities, dust-jacket with design by F.E. Warren, correctly priced $2.00 and listing other new titles published in 1928, a remarkably fine example. A stunning copy of this detective fiction title, introducing the character Sir John Saumarez; this edition, published by the somewhat obscure Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, seems to predate the first UK edition published by Hodder & Stoughton. In 1930 the book was adapted into two films: Murder! and a German-language version Mary, both of which were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); mustard yellow cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in navy blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; xii,315,[1]pp, with frontispiece and two black & white illustrations by Sydney Seymour Lucas. Base of spine gently nudged, touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, with some faint finger-soil to margins of the title page and a few internal leaves; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), with a small tear to upper rear panel, else a bright, very Near Fine example. A novel involving a young British stage actress who is put on trial and convicted of murder, and her fellow actor, Sir John Saumarez, who takes up her cause and tries to prove her innocence. Basis for the 1930 film Murder! directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Herbert Marshall and Norah Baring. Hubin, p.107.