Marton Francesca (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Tatty DJ with some edge wear, tears, areas of loss and creasing.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with some edge wear, some tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. 3 sides of stapled foolscap folio paper sheets A good copy Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First American Edition 1955. The hardcover binding of this First American Edition is in good condition, with some wear visible on the spine and edges. There is no dust jacket present, but the text block remains intact and clean. The pages show typical age-related toning but are free from inscriptions or library markings.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 448pp, edges browned, text clean and sound, owner's name on endpaper, blue cloth, spine faded, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 422 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Book has been rebound. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Dent to top edge of spine. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. A very slightly cocked spine else fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First published in July 1948, this is a second impression of November 1948. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN DARK BLUE PEN, ON PASTED IN PAPER SLIP, ON FFEP 'With all good wishes to a fellow Scribbler - 'Francesca Marton'. Scribbler jubilee. Oxford. April 1950'. Some edge wear, chipping and short closed tears to top and bottom of largely pink jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, small scratch to bottom front jacket, some slight yellowing to spine and back jacket, price clipped, no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 422pp. 'Francesca Marton' was the pen name of author and Wolverton (Milton Keynes) resident Margaret Bellasis(1884-1961). She was also a cousin of poet Robert Graves. Apparently Margaret took Sir Francis Bond Head's description of the Wolverton Railway Refreshment Rooms and the seven very young ladies who waited upon the passengers and gave one of the girls the name Hannah Mary Christmas and used this character as the basis of this novel. Exceptionally scarce signed. Jacket by Lynton Lamb (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

2pp., 12mo. 36 lines. She begins by accepting an invitation to give a talk to Wiener's 'Society', about which she has 'hears so much'. She is 'honoured to add my name to such a distinguished roll of speakers'. She next explains why she believes radio to be 'infinitely superior to TV'. She next turns to 'Mr. Sieveking's adaptation', which she considers 'very clever, as he had to leave out the descriptions which formed such an important part of the book. He allowed me to see and criticise all his scripts, too. I'm so glad you are liking the result. Isn't the signature-tune pleasing? Something by Dvorak.' She suggests the title 'Writing About the Past' for her talk: 'I have spoken on this before; and as, in addition to four novels set in the past, I hahve published two serious historical studies under my own name, I have some material.'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth, 448pp. Review copy with publishers slip laid-in. A small bump to top right corner of front cover, spine a bit rubbed o/w very good in lightly worn d/w.