Hortense Flexner (78 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, 78 pages. Very good condition, owner's signature. Poetry.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear; a few slight rust/foxing spots to back cover. Hard-to-find issue. Book.

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

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Hortense Flexner, with a brief inscription to the former owner, dated 1969. Limited, numbered edition. Copy #1694. Poems printed in English and French. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Some light handling on the boards and spine. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some edge wear, small chips and tears at the ends of the spine, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 78pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1975, xiv, 95pp. Wrps. Limited edition, number 63 of 500 copies. VG+ in VG+ dj. From the dj: "Hortense Flexner was a member of the distinguished Flexner family of Louisville, Kentucky, which included Abraham, the medical educator, Simon, the scientist, and Morris, the doctor. She married Wyncie King, eminent cartoonist, satirist, artist and social critic. Both worked on Louisville newspapers and moved to Philadelphia, where Miss Flexner taught at Bryn Mawr, and to Bronxville, where she taught at Sarah Lawrence College." She returned to Louisville two years before her death in 1973. This posthumous publication is the University's and her friends' way of paying tribute to her. With an introduction by Harvey Curtis Webster.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Slight wear to spine ends. Pencil scribble on fly leaf, incompletely erased. Slight browning to endpapers.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The North American Review Vol. 211 No. 2 February 1920. Various (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gold titles on maroon spine with gray cloth covers, 78 pages plus 12 pages of introductory material. Some margin marks and undrlinings in text. Appears to be a first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition of the poet's first book of poetry. Green boards and spine with crisp dark green lettering and pretty decorative illustration on front board. Small book 5"x7". Spine is soiled. Backstrip has chip and has split from spine along the front edge. Small stain on back board. No DJ. Some light foxing. Gift inscription neatly written in pencil on front endpaper. Pages are clean, smooth and secure in binding. Other than backstrip damage, this is a lovely little book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. (1943) Original blue cloth covers, lightly soiled w/ modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine a bit sunned. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. Several leaves have fingerprints to margins. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Wyncie King (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W drawings by Wyncie King. Ex-lib with stamping and marking, residue to end papers. Dust jacket shows chipping and chunks missing from top-bottom spine, all four corners. Gutter crack and light soil internally. Record # 300853. Wyncie King (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1930. Hardcover. Good clean copy in dustwrapper with some shelf wear. Large tear to spine of DW and some edgewear, remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 40pp. Price-clipped dust jacket a little soiled.

Condition: Good. 1930. Hardcover. Good clean copy in dustwrapper with some shelf wear. Large tear to spine of DW and some edgewear, remains a good copy. . . . .

Cloth. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth, lettered in white on spine panel. Slightly rubbed spine extremities, nearly as issued. Lacks front flyleaf. ix,78 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Extremities slightly worn; top corner of pages slightly bumped; otherwise very good condition. ]. 118p.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Poet and playwright Hortense Flexner, called the "la grand poetess du Maine" by her friend Marguerite Yourcenar, was a thirty-plus-year summer visitor to Sutton Island, the third largest of the Cranberry Isles, off the coast of Mount Desert. A collaborative, limited-edition poetry and art collection. It honors the distinct landscape and legacy of Sutton Island, Maine. The book features work by noted Maine art writer and poet Carl Little, alongside the historical work of twentieth-century poet Hortense Flexner. The book functions as a unique dialogue between two eras. It pairs Carl Little's contemporary verses with Hortense Flexner's mid-century poetry. Scarce copy. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.