Edited Viola Meynell (7 results)

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good, with a Good+ dust jacket. Edgewear to dust jacket, including bumps, chips, and a few short tears. Small piece of jacket missing at top corner of rear flap. Staining and smudging to jacket. Minor edgewear to boards, including a few small bumps at spine. Toning to front and rear pastedowns. Text is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of Barrie by Peter Scott. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1956 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges, in a good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, foxing to covers and spine, spine and edges browned. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. 308 pages with index. Illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. NO JACKET. Hardback 1956. Front end paper has an inscription. Clean & tight book. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref M53. The Best of Friends. Further Letters to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell from Siegfried Sassoon, Bernard Shaw, Freya Stark, T. H. White & others. Edited by Viola Meynell. Published in 1956 by Rupert Hart-Davis, London.…

First Edition. Name scored through on fep and date of 1943 remains. A VG copy.

Condition: Good. Letters of J. M. Barrie - Edited by Viola Meynell, 1943. Includes dust-jacket.Publisher: Peter Davies, London.Binding: hardback cloth.Description / Condition: Edge wear, tears and browning to jacket. Light shelf wear to boards. Ownership mark to first page. Light foxing to pages. A nice copy for its age.Please see pictures for further information.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. 311pp. Boston bookseller ticket on front fly. Spine sunned and light wear, near fine lacking the dust jacket. Actress, playwright, and screenwriter Ruth Gordon's copy: she has boldly Signed the front fly: "Ruth Gordon 26, October 1963 Wonderful Book!" Bookplate on the front fly of her and then-husband Garson Kanin, with whom she collaborated on the screenplays for *Adam's Rib* and *Pat and Mike*, both of which were directed by George Cukor. Gordon received an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy, and two Golden Globe Awards for her acting, and three Academy Award nominations for her writing.…

London, J. Cape, (1940), in-8, tela editoriale con titolo oro al dorso, sovraccoperta (con lievi difetti), taglio sup. colorato, pp. 384. Con 16 tavole di ritratti fotografici, fra cui quello di Cockerell (segretario di W. Morris e W. Blunt, esperto di miniatura medievale, ma soprattutto per 30 anni direttore del Fitzwilliam Museum) e di alcuni fra i numerosi corrispondenti (J. Ruskin, Morris e famiglia, Burne-Jones, O. Hill, Ouida, W.S. Blunt, T. Hardy, R. Fry, C. Ricketts, T.E. Lawrence.). Prima edizione con invio autografo di Cockerell a Edith Finch, ultima moglie di Bertrand Russell.…