Laski Philip (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. Book of the Month Club (BOMC) better than usual quality printing. A nice and newish unread book with stiff spine, rigid boards and pointed tips. Tiny smudge on top of text block. Jacket has tiny tear at bottom spine back. Looks great in its new plastic book protector. A great edition that gives a cross section of excellent mystery writers for someone who thought about getting into the mystery genre but hasn't yet done so.

Softcover staple bound, 24 pages; very good condition; laminate from cover starting to peel from lower right corner; no internal marks.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. album MZ. Gallery catalog. Shelfworn.

0 44 p. Includes illustrations. Good. moderate shelfwear, creases, ex museum stamp on blank flyleaf,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in green boards. Overall a bright and attractive copy. Bright gilt embossed lettering to the spine. No markings to the text. Illustrated. Former owner's name to the front end page. 222 pp.

8°, Broschur. 44 S. Broschur. Bei dem Buch handelt es sich um ein ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. L2129. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with only light wear at the edges and corners, spine is intact and solid with minimal bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings. Dust Jacket: complete but with some scuffing on surface and a little tattiness along edges especially at spine. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 361 Pp. Original Card Covers, Re-Backed In Gray Cloth, Original Covers Worn And Damp-Stained, Contents Clean, And No Marks. Multiple Articles By Many Authors, As There Were Not That Many Liberal And Deep-Thinking And Thought-Provoking Writers Of The Early Twentieth Century. Still, Dedicated By The Editors To Dorothy Whitney Straight, Patroness; According To Wikipedia, Dorothy Payne Elmhirst (Née Whitney, Previously Straight; 1887 - 1968) Was An American-Born Social Activist, Philanthropist, Publisher And A Member Of The Prominent Whitney Family. Whitney Was Born In Washington, D.C., The Daughter Of Flora (Née Payne) And William Collins Whitney, The United States Secretary Of The Navy During The First Cleveland Administration From 1885 Through 1889. Flora Was The Daughter Of Senator Henry B. Payne Of Ohio] And Sister Of Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne, Later Treasurer Of The Standard Oil Company. She Attended The Chapin School. At Age 17, She Came Into A Major Inheritance, Approximately $15,000,000 (The Modern Equivalent Underestimates The Wealth Vs. Her Contemporaries). One Of The Wealthiest Women In America In The Early 20Th Century, Dorothy Whitney Straight Was A Philanthropist And Social Activist Who Supported Women's Trade Unions And Educational And Charitable Organizations Such As The Junior League Of New York. She Became The First President Of The Association Of Junior Leagues International In 1921. Together With Her Husband, She Founded The Weekly Magazine The New Republic And The New School For Social Research In New York City. Records Of Dorothy Payne Whitney In New York City Reveal The Extent Of Her Philanthropic Work. She Was A Benefactor Of The Arts, Feminist, And Pacifist Causes, As Well As Social And Labour Reform. She Lent Financial Support To Progressive Alternative Education Plus Scholarly Research. In 1937, She Created The William C. Whitney Foundation In Her Father's Name.

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See 'Death of a Bookman' by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of 'Books and Bookmen' at the time of Dosse's suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. The present item is 1p, small 4to. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. Folded. Signed 'Marghanita Laski'. She had no fears about the cheque for £50 he has sent: 'I knew it would turn up.' She thanks him for offering her 'some reviewing. I may well take you up on this, but not just at the moment as I'm determined to take on no new work till I've finished a largish job that's been pending for too long. May I ask you later?' She ends with seasonal greetings, and her 'continuing gratitude for the Encyclopaedia Judaica, which I use constantly'.

Gr.8°, 24 S. mit 4 s/w Abbildungen, illustrierter Orig.-Karton. Erste Ausgabe.- Einband minimal gebräunt.- Gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 222. Biography. Frontispiece shows a miniature portrait of Madame du Barry by Richard Conway, R.A. Includes nine illustrations; References; and a Bibliography Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 Ð 8 December 1793) was the last Ma"tresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution: "The final years of her life show she was no rapacious, power-seeking courtesan, but a woman of great kindness and charm who had overcome much jealousy,fear,and resentment at Versailles." Very good indeed in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly worn at edges.

hardcover. Condition: Befriedigend. Seiten; Constable - 1. Auf. 1969 : Philip M. Laski - gb + Su - Stockflecken - 9-46-5-L2 Z3-YXGQ-R0AK Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Obelisk Gallery, London, 1961. In-12 format à l'italienne, broché sous couverture illustrée en noir et blanc, 44 pp. Bon exemplaire. Avec 8 planches en noir et blanc. Envoi autographe signé de Philippe M. Laski. Livres.

Exemplaire en très bon état - couverture et intérieur très propres - envoi rapide et très soigné en lettre suivie - réf n° SUR-140223.