Elst Violet (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Early polemic by longtime crusader against the death penalty. Scarce in jacket. Inscribed by author on inside front cover: "To Mr. Howe, I hope he will read my book and many others." Pages clean and binding tight, DJ chipped at edges, fair condition only. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lacks frontis. Very uncommon. All plates plus extra at pages 17, 120 & 130, not called for in list of plates. Publishers burgundy cloth, titled white. Anti-Capital Punishment Campaigner attracted large crowds to her speeches.

First edition. 12mo. 287 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrations. Cloth binding, white lettering, no jacket, good condition. (74985).

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Publisher - The Doge Press, London, 1937. 1st ed. Poor condition, boards marked, stained and warped, front pastedown partly torn off, rear board and endpapers nearly detached, marked and stained, rear endpapers nearly torn off board. Jacket front panel, front flap and part of spine tipped in, these have chips and tears. Old insect damage to a few pages. Otherwise the textblock is good, with good binding and all the plates present. The frontispiece unsigned, but with the author's inscription on the front free endpaper, "Yours very 'sincerely?] Violet Van der Elst". A polemic against capital punishment.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 79 pages, no markings, date not stated circa 1930's.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. June 1939, 2nd edition. Octavo. 288pp plus advert leaf. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, a little spotted and marked. In the printed dust wrapper, some minor edge wear and creasing. Contents in good clean order. Overall a 'Very Good' copy. Uncommon 2nd edition. An eccentric critique of capital punishment in Britain.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). ''First published September, 1937'' on copyright page. Collects thirteen stories, of which at least four, ''The Coming Of Death'', ''The Immortal Soul'', ''The Haunted House'', and ''How A Secret Power Saved My Life'' have fantasy/supernatural content. Two others, the title story and ''The Christian Martyrs'', are extremely gruesome - and the last story in the book ''Snow!'' is about the perils of cocaine abuse. But then again there is ''How Young Lives Are Ruined In Mayfair's Gambling Halls'', and ''Don't Be Silly, George!''. A rare title and never reprinted. Page edges browned, light spotting to first and last couple of pages, a VG+copy (lacking the dustjacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

The Doge Press. 1937. 8° Original cloth with original dust jacket. Violet van der Elst (1882-1966) was born Violet Dodge, in Surrey, England. - She married the Belgian painter Jean Van der Elst. She gained publicity from her vocal campaigns against capital punishment, and stodd three times, unseccessfully, as a Labour party candidate to be an M.P. - She died in 1966, penniless and largely forgotten, in the year after capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain. In the 2005 film 'Pierrepoint' she is played by Ann Bell. - Wrappers a little marked. Otherwise a very good copy with the scarce dust jacket. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.