Lilo Stephens (9 results)

Condition: Good. Good; Hardcover, No Jacket; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Covers are moderately shelfworn and edgeworn with a heavy crease/bump to the top of the spine; Library stamps to the endpapers; Heavy 1" crease to either side of pages at the top of the spine where that corner was "bumped", otherwise text pages are clean & unmarked; The binding is good with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Light gray paper-covered boards with title in gold lettering; 1971, Dolmen Publishing; 105 pages; "My Wallet of Photographs, the Collected Photographs of J. M. Synge," by J. M. Synge.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated from one black and white photograph. Small quarto. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. Light foxing and toning, else near fine. A prospectus advertising the thirteenth publication in the Dolmen Editions Series, *My Wallet of Photographs*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth hardcover, xviii + 222pp + 8 pages of glossy b&w photos, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright contents, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Signs of gentle handling wear. In a lightly worn, bright, untorn and unclipped dust jacket. -- This posthumously published biography of the playwright John Millington Synge (1871-1909) was composed over many years by his nephew Edward Millington Stephens (1888-1955), a Dublin solicitor who devoted much of his life to preserving and documenting his uncle's memory. Stephens began the project partly as a corrective to what the family perceived as the inaccuracies of W.B. Yeats's and other early accounts of Synge's life. Stephens died in 1955 with the manuscript unfinished, and the literary scholar Andrew Carpenter edited and prepared the text for publication, working with the family's cooperation nearly two decades later. Carpenter's editorial work involved distilling the vast, multi-volume original draft into this cohesive single-volume biography. The book draws on intimate family knowledge and private papers to reconstruct Synge's life from his Dublin Protestant upbringing through his years of wandering in Paris and on the Aran Islands to his emergence as one of the defining voices of the Irish Literary Revival. As a nephew writing from within the family circle, Stephens offers a perspective unavailable to outside biographers, interweaving his own childhood recollections of "Uncle John" with a scholarly investigation into the domestic, social and religious milieu of the Anglo-Irish Synge household and the tensions between that background and the playwright's radical artistic choices. The account traces Synge's path to the Abbey Theatre, which he co-founded with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, and the creation of works including Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World, whose 1907 premiere provoked riots in Dublin. The familial vantage point gives the work its distinctive character and its limitations: Stephens writes with affection and proprietary knowledge but also with the reticence of a family member conscious of reputation. For scholars of Synge, the Irish Literary Revival and the cultural politics of early 20th-century Ireland, the biography remains a primary source of biographical detail unavailable elsewhere, particularly regarding the playwright's early health struggles and his private relationship with Molly Allgood.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited to 1100 copies, a very good fresh copy in dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ireland: Dolmen Editions, 1971. First edition, 1971, limited to 1100 copies. Gray hardcover with black cloth spine, text printed on moss green paper, photographs on glossy white paper, tipped on frontis with photo of Synge's camera, with dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is also very good with a few very shallow wrinkles to the front panel, no chips or tears. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio, tipped in frontispiece of Synge's camera, xvi, 24 glossy leaves, [7] p. 53 photographs. Original black quarter cloth, marbled boards with gilt Synge monogram, gilt lettered backstrip, black endpapers. Tail of the backstrip slightly bruised otherwise a very fine tight and clean copy in a very good price intact dust jacket lacking tiny pieces from the head and tail of the backstrip. First edition. Dolmen Editions XIII, one of 1050 copies for sale. The text is hand-set 14 point pilgrim type on green, handmade laid paper.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Synge, J. M. (illustrator). Pages clean and bright, boards tidy, dust jacket price clipped, some light shelf wear and light spotting to dust jacket, but otherwise neat. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Limited Edition. Bound in quarter black cloth over paper boards, lettered in gilt. Very light bumps to the corners otherwise a fine copy in a price clipped and lightly nicked dust jacket. Edition limited to 1050 copies.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Slim 4to, 11" x 7 1/2." 72 pp. Gray boards, green cloth spine. 53 photographic illustrations arranged and introduced by Lilo Stephens. Limited to 1050 copies. Text is hand-set 14 point pilgrim type on green, handmade laid paper. Frontispiece of Synge's camera pasted in. The acclaimed playwright and poet J.M. Synge [1871-1909] was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, belonging to the literary circle of W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory at the turn of the 19th/20th century. Synge is best remembered for his writings, but he was a keen photographer too. The present collection of photographs taken in Dublin, Wicklow, Galway, the Aran Islands, and the Blasket Islands speaks to Synge's interest in Irish peasant life and folklore.? Lilo Stephens, the wife of Synge's nephew and biographer Edward M. Stephens, compiled the photographs from unretouched prints of the original negatives left to Stephens. Scarce title. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket which has a few minor creases.