Martha Pseudonym (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. First novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding loose but intact. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Octavo, hardcover. First edition. First mystery under this pseudonym. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#84938).

First edition. Octavo, Hardcover. First mystery under this pseudonym. Fine in fine dust jacket. (5794).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Octavo. [8], 506pp., frontispiece and plates. Illustrated by the author. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Near fine with modest wear on spine ends and corners. Only portions of the dustwrapper spine and rear panel present, bottom edge of rear panel dampstained.

Cloth. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). A vanishingly scarce copy and the first cheap edition of the autobiography of a domestic servant, Martha, a narrative recounted and fictionalised by her mistress. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This copy is the first cheap edition of this work, published in June 1934.This is an exceptionally scarce copy of this edition, with no other examples of this printing currently available on the market.The true identity of "Martha," her mistress, and the actual author of this work remains the subject of ongoing debate.A humble, revealing 1934 "cheap edition" autobiography of Martha, a narrative recounted by her mistress, offering a rare, account of servant life and womanhood in early 20thâ'century Britain. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Fading to extremities and spine. The odd handling mark and scratch to boards. Spine discoloured. Rubbing to extremities with slight bumping. Bookplate from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if age toned with the odd spot, heavier to fore edge. Offsetting to half title. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Thick octavo. [8], 506pp., illustrated with plates. Publisher's maroon cloth over boards, lettered in gold on the front board and spine. Modest tarnishing to the gold lettering, near fine in very good original printed dust jacket lettered in black on the front panel and spine, with a few modest chips and tears to the jacket corners and top edge of the back panel. A handsome copy of thi9s uncommon novel about the early histroy of Texas, and very scarce in jacket.

EINE SEELE Verlag Rudolf Geering Basel, 3. Aufl. o.J. (1928), 206 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, rotes Oln. kl. 8° mit Golddruck), gut erhalten - in Tinte eigenhändig gewidmet, Empfehlung, Ort, Datum, Initial-Signatur Frau Berthe Kollbrunner in dankbarer Erinnerung an den schönen Abend vom 9.III.1928 zugeeignet R.W. Zürich, 9.III.28.

1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. 1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. "I do want to state quite emphatically that I believe in as good an education as anybody can get. Personally I find knowledge acquired by study in any field enormously stimulating. For me it serves, if nothing else, as a basis of comparison which I find highly valuable for my work. I also think it sharpens ones critical abilities" To Wesley Hartley, an educator and teacher. Folds, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition. Scarce. Reddish brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 7 3/4 x 5 inches, 351 pp. About good (substantial edgewear, with focal erosion of cloth at tips and spine ends; sunning of spine, extending onto front board; fading of gilt, spine; pages clean and binding still strong). (3214006).

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-279 [280-282: blank], original brown and black patterned cloth. The author's first mystery novel and the first using this pseudonym. ".a well crafted novel about a series of poisonings in a small English village." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, p. 864. [Reference: Hubin, p. 629]. A touch of wear to spine ends and corner tips, a very good to nearly fine copy in a good dust jacket with rubbing and splits to the front flap fold, minor loss at corner tips, chipped and loss along head of spine panel affecting the authors name, wear with shallow loss at base of spine panel. Uncommon, especially in jacket. (24990).