Patch Blanche (132 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. G++ book in chipped and edge worn d/j but still a good solid reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. No Jacket.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G. 256pp, b/w frontis, index, dustjacket chipped and torn with loss, a fair reading copy. George Bernard Shaw's secretary, tells of life with the playwright in the last thirty years of his life. 350 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Binding Tight Pages Clean Boards Worn At Edges Previous Owner's Name On First Page. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: with no dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Fair; Reading copy, grey cloth over boards, covers soiled and edge wear, typical library marks and labels, ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lt. blue cl., silver lettering on navy backstr., backstr. sl. faded, ink call letters to backstr. cover edges faded. Sm. library stamp on free endpapers. Frontis. 316pp. Clean ex-lib.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good for year, hardcover. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in good condition. Foxing to opening and end pages. Ends of spine and corners rubbed. No dustjacket, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine.

Condition: Fair. 1951. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over tan cloth and black lettering. Front free end paper is missing. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Loss to jacket's spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Condition: Good. 1951. Third Impression. 256 pages. Black and white photographic dust jacket over green cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Black and white frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking to front hinge, mild tanning and occasional foxing. Boards have mild edge wear with light rubbing and crushing. Some light marking and tanning. Lettering is bright and clear. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Printing. Dustjacket is good minus. DJ has an approx. 3" tear on the front which has been taped on the inside. DJ also has chipping to the spine ends and light rubbing to the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Condition: G. Dust Jacket Condition: FA. FIRST. A portion of the bottom edge of the front panel is missing. Still, most of the scarce jacket is still present. G / FA.

Hardcover. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Clean book & DJ. DJ w light edgewear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Both volumes: Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears, jacket lightly soiled. 1986 Hard Cover. 682; 684-1241 pp. Two volume set. Edited and annotated by Stanley Weintraub. Transliterated by Stanley Rypins, with additional transliterations and transcriptions by Blanche Patch, Barbara Smoker, Louise Goldschmidt, John Wardrop, Ray Weintraub, and Suzanne Wills. With early autobiographical notebooks and diaries, and an abortive 1917 diary. Publication of the Bernard Shaw diaries is a major literary event. The 1885?1897 diaries, originally written in old-fashioned Pitman shorthand, detailed the day-to-day life of Bernard Shaw from his twenty-ninth year, when he was still a nobody, to his forty-second, when he was one of the best-known men in England. Lost during much of Shaw's lifetime, the diaries surfaced after the war in a bombed warehouse, and were partially transcribed by his long-time secretary, Blanche Patch, in the years before Shaw's death at 94 in 1950. After that, New York scholar Stanley Rypins, self-taught in shorthand, attempted a fuller version, and the first annotations. Now Stanley Weintraub, one of the leading scholars on G.B.S. and his times, has completed, with the aid of a team of shorthand specialists, the definitive transcription of the Shavian shorthand, complete to the last ha'penny noted. The G.B.S. diaries, as now annotated, are a lens with which to examine "radical" intellectual life in the London of the 1880s and 1890s. We not only meet Shaw striving daily to make something of himself; we also encounter the people on the fringes as well as within the vortex of radical politics in late- Victorian England. Through Shaw the journalist and critic, successively, of books, arts, music, and theater, we confront the writers and books; artists and art; composers, instrumentalists, singers, and conductors, and their music; plays, players, and playwrights of his time?a cross-section of late-Victorian culture. We also learn what it costs to buy a newspaper, get a haircut, ride the Underground, secure a cheap dinner, express a letter, go to the opera, take a lady to tea, rent ice skates, attend a music hall, tip a lavatory attendant or a crossing sweeper, indulge a beggar, replace a typewriter ribbon, visit Madame Tussaud's, use a coin machine for chocolates, black a pair of boots, mail a postcard, cross the Channel, ascertain one's weight, move a piano, give a Christmas present to one's mistress's maid, join the Fabian Society, subscribe to a magazine, reward the loser at a boxing match, lunch on bread and cheese, repair an umbrella, sit in the pit at Drury Lane, drink a shandygaff, and purchase an alarm clock. We also learn about Shaw's bedtimes (accompanied and unaccompanied), mealtimes (hasty and vegetarian, with only breakfasts at home), and his crowded life of conflicting appointments and activities, often so overlapping as to cause him to miss many of them. He needed a wife only to manage his life, and as the diary fades out he has become a compulsively active playwright and has begun to be interested in the woman soon to be Mrs. Bernard Shaw. Other diary and notebook fragments include Shaw's earliest family memories as well as an abortive attempt to begin a mid-war diary in 1917.

hardcover. Condition: Good. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Condition: Very Good. 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. 256pp. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes index. Commissioning organisation: by Blanche Patch. 256 p. group port. 23 cm. Original cloth. A good copy. Slightly dulled. Keywords: "Shaw, Bernard, , Dramatists, Irish". Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 256pp. Orange cloth. no d.j. A good reading copy.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition first edition hardback without dust jacket. Light wear to boards with foxing to pages. Main text in good clean condition.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. sunning to spine; mild age spotting to FEP. Clean Copy.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some tearing of back inside jacket. A newspaper cutting of the Times Literary Supplement review of the book is appended to back page, dated 26th Jan, 1951. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clean Copy.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Irish Dramatists, 20th century, Biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes index. Commissioning organisation: by Blanche Patch. 256 p. group port. 23 cm. Original cloth. A good copy. Slightly dulled. Keywords: "Shaw, Bernard, , Dramatists, Irish". Not a first edition copy. . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. 256pp. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 256pp, frontis, long owners inscription on the front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is price clipped, with dust marks and some handling wear including small tear and creasing on the top back edge. The author was the private secretary of George Bernard Shaw for the last 30 years of his life.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Binding is hinged in the front. Text is toned. Minor stain on front of orange cloth board.