Mary Corringham (20 results)

Condition: Good. 1st Ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and creasing - one small tape repair to upper spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Routledge & Kegan Paul, c1971. 84pp. 8vo. Black cloth with gold titles on front cover and spine, minor rubbing on covers, near fine hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Gift inscription on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition in edge-worn dust jacket. ]. 84p.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine hardcover with very good unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Dust jacket has creases on head and heel of dust jacket.

Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 81p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Austen, Jane (1775-1817) ; Poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Some shelf wear and scuffing to price clipped DJ. ; Black cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, green endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 84 pages; This remarkable poem, written as though by Jane Austen herself, draws upon the six great novels, the published letters, the minor works, the juvenilia, the unfinished fragments, the reminiscences of relatives and friendsm, and the comments of distinguished literary critics. From these sources, Mary Corringham has built up the rounded picture of Jane Austen, illustrating the many attrative facets of her personality, as she reflects upon her life, the Austen family, her novels, her friends and neighbours, her dresses and dances, her reading - even her cooking! The author has succeeded brilliantly in capturing Jane Austen's own felicitous phrasing and the rhythm of her prose, and the substance of many lines and stanzas is direct or virtually direct quotation from Jane Austen's own writing.…

Condition: Good. 1971. First Edition. 84 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: [11], 84 p. 24 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 83-84. Subjects: Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Poetry; Austen, Jane 1775-1817; Women novelists, English Poetry; Fiction in English Austen, Jane Biographies Poems. 1 Kg.…

Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 81p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Austen, Jane (1775-1817) ; Poetry. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; 84 pages.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: [11], 84 p. 24 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 83-84. Subjects: Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Poetry; Austen, Jane 1775-1817; Women novelists, English Poetry; Fiction in English Austen, Jane Biographies Poems. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. A 1979 edition of I, Jane Austen by Mary Corringham. A re-creation in rime royal based on the letters of Jane Austen, her novels and the comments of her biographers. A wonderful read for any poetry and Jane Austen fan. Title: I, Jane Austen Author: Mary Corringham Publisher: Routlegde Publication Date: 1979 Format: Hardcover, English Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear.…

First Edition. Large 8vo, pages not numbered. A nice copy in somewhat chipped and scuffed dj. Rime royal is a seven-lined stanza of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare chose it for The Rape of Lucrece.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. foreword by B C Southam, near fine in dust jacket; 84 pages including background.

8vo. xii+ 84pp. Origianl baords with slightly worn dustwrapper. Coloured ink used for freureons to decorate text. A near-fine copy. First Edition.

8vo., First Edition, text in green and black; black cloth, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green endpapers, a fine copy. The work is dedicated to Robert William Chapman, Austen scholar and editor, 'the greatest Janeite of them all'.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. VG DW. 1st Edition. Size: Tall 8vo.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A charming set of biographies on the life and legacy of Jane Austen, all in original dust wrappers. A 4 volume set of biographical texts, including the very scarce 'Jane Austen and Her World', in original, unclipped dust wrapper.Volume 1 features a double-sided colour frontispiece, vignette illustrations, and 7 unlisted double-sided colour plates. No other collation record available.Volume 4 also features frequent monochrome vignette illustrations.Volume 1, volume 2 and volume 4 dust wrappers unclipped.Features two titles which experiment with the form of letters: 'I, Jane Austen', which constructs and reimagines Austen's own correspondence, and 'Letters to Alice', which documents an inter-generational exchange through fictional letters, exploring the appreciation for Austen's timeless writings, beyond personal barriers.Volume 2 also features a newspaper clipping review of the title by Hilma Wolitzer. Bound in original cloth. Externally, very smart. Forward curve to vol4 front board. Mild bumping to vol1 and vol4 head and tail. Ink notations to vol2 front free endpaper. In original dust wrappers, all but vol3 unclipped. Price sticker to vol1 dust wrapper rear cover. Sunning to vol1 dust wrapper spine. Light shelf wear to vol1 dust wrapper. Sunning and chipping to vol2 dust wrapper. Spotting to vol2 dust wrapper reverse. Rubbing to vol3 dust wrapper head. Light cockling to vol4 dust wrapper front cover. Small closed tear to vol4 front dust wrapper cover. Mild age toning to vol4 dust wrapper fly leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Spotting to vol1 text block top edge. Ink notations to pp.32-33, p.57, p.98. Mild handling marks to vol2 pp.32-33 p.52, pp.94-95, p.117. Very Good Indeed. Various (illustrator). book.…