Preface Herford (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Dustjacket. xiv + 319 pages. B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Age-dulled olive-green hardback binding. Wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Some light browning to endpapers and light foxing to occasional pages o/w contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Generally V.good. First Thus. Arranged in chronological order with a preface by C.H.Herford. Grey boards, beige cloth spine. Teg. Other pages uncut, some unopened. Small insc. to ep. A clean and very tidy copy of this edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First of this edition. First printed at the Florence Press in 1918 (limited edition), this edition is printed from those plates by the Florence Press for Chatto & Windus. Paper over boards, linen spine (missing). SIGNED LILLIAN HELLMAN KOBER (neatly printed in ink on a diagonal on the front paste down). She studied for two years at New York University and then took several courses at Columbia University. And at 21 years of age, on December 31, 1925, Hellman married Arthur Kober, a playwright and press agent, although they often lived apart. In 1930 she went to Hollywood to be a reader for Goldwyn Mayer. While there she met and fell in love with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. While there she met and fell in love with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett. She divorced Kober and returned to New York City in 1932. When she met Hammett in a Hollywood restaurant, she was 24 and he was 36. They maintained their relationship off and on until his death in January 1961. No doubt some of these poems carried her through.This copy with tender backstrip missing, and boards loose to webbing, front board nearly detached. The text is in excellent condition, unmarked with some pages unopened. Now in archival acetate jacket which holds all in place.…

Reprinted from 1914 plates. Small 4to. xxvi + 480 + (4)pp. Top edge guilt, other edges untrimmed. Original publisher's grey paper covered boards with brown cloth spine, gilt embossed lettering on front & spine. White eps. Very neat signature & date " 27.1.27 " on ep. Covers : spine edges slightly rubbed, slight scuff + 2cm paper ripple on front, slight rust mark on rear else clean & bright. Contents : eps slight foxing. else clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy. VG+.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 8vo. pp xxvi, 481 Large paper limited Edition. #21/250 copies Numbered on a preliminary leaf, bound in origina lfull white vellum letter stamped in gilt at spine and on corner of front board, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges deckled, Printed letterpress. Contents arranged chronological order with a Preface by C.H. Herford. Some sl toning to vellum, spine very slightly dull; overall sound clean very good with clean text.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Printed in England by the Florence Press for Brentano's New York. Fine binding in full plum morocco with stylized gilt floral decorated covers, gilt ruled and decorated dentelles. Spine has five raised bands with gilt decorated compartments. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Marbled endpapers. No date but circa early 1900's as there is a gift note on the front blank flyleaf dated 1922. A beautiful book, clean and bright. See pictures. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…