Deneke Helena (10 results)

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered gilt to a faded spine, lacking dust jacket, a tightly bound copy, some light scattered foxing, signature of a previous owner, portrait frontis, b&w plates, 225pp. Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875-1940) OBE was an author, principal of what would become St Anne's College, Oxford and vice-chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institutes.…

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 225 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white plates. Fold-out facsimile letter. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate to heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. 225 pages. NO dustjacket. B&W plates. Blue hardback binding with colour-fading (to grey and foxed) at spine and spine-junctions and top edges of boards. Moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Moderate browning and foxing (brown spotting) to page-edges and light foxing to endpapers o/w pages are clean and tidy.…

Hardback. 1 St UK. a very good copy without a dw. book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages; Physical description.: 225 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject: Hadow, Grace E. (Grace Eleanor), 1875-1940. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages; Physical description.: 225 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject: Hadow, Grace E. (Grace Eleanor), 1875-1940. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. First (only) edition. Foreword by R. C. K. Ensor. Very good copy. The first author (Deneke) was a Germanist at Oxford University. A report based on field visits to post-war Germany.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in March 1946, this is a second impression of July 1946. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FFEP BY THE AUTHOR'S SISTER ' Inscribed by the writer's sister with every good wish on 3 May 1956 after 'Descriptive (illegible) at (illegible) College, Margaret Deneke'. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, some overall time staining to unlaminated flesh coloured jacket. Not price clipped (10s 6d), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 225pp. Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE (1875-1940), was an author, principal of St Anne's College, Oxford University and Vice Chairman of the Women's Institute. In 1921, Hadow wrote the first edition of the National Federation of Women's Institutes Handbook, she travelled all over the world promoting the WI and at her death in 1940 the hymn 'Jerusalem' was sung at her funeral. Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. Pp. [viii]+226(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, plus 18 plates, folding facsimile letter, appendix, index; boards lightly faded and worn; dust wrapper, soiled and quite torn; bookplate (on upper pastedown) and ownership markings (inscription and card on upper free endpaper) of Lorna Mitchell, plus the printed card of the Society of Oxford Home Students laid on half-title page, the lower free endpaper slightly marked, a little light offsetting; Oxford University Press, London, 1946. First edition. *Grace Hadow was a notable figure in the history of the education of women in Oxford, and the Principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students. Loosely inserted is a postcard from Hadow to Lorna Mitchell, stamped and post-marked 26 September 1938. Signed.…

Paperback. 29pp card covers, London 1947. Account of a visit to the British Zone by the Women's Group on Public Welfare Very good ex-library copy.