Shearing Joseph Pseud (7 results)
The golden violet : the story of a lady novelist / by Joseph Shearing
Shearing, Joseph, pseud. [i.e. Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long.]
Published by London ; Toronto : W. Heinemann, ltd 1936
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked purple cloth. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners slightly bumped. Spine hinges worn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages; Physical desc. : 348 p. 21 cm. Subject: Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. 3 Kg.
The golden violet : the story of a lady novelist / by Joseph Shearing
Shearing, Joseph, pseud. [i.e. Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long.]
Published by London ; Toronto : W. Heinemann, ltd 1936
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked purple cloth. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners slightly bumped. Spine hinges worn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages; Physical desc. : 348 p. 21 cm. Subject: Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. 1 Kg.
The Strange Case of Lucile Cléry
Shearing, Joseph (pseud. for Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell, aka Marjorie Bowen)
Published by Harper & Brothers [1941] (c.1932), New York 1941
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, nice and clean with just a little wear at the extremities, slight scrunching to top edges of several pages in the middle of the book]. A novel of "love, intrigue, horror, and murder," the story of "a brilliant and ruthless woman, [a] governess whose…charm and diabolic cleverness brought destruction in their wake." Reprint of the first novel published by this prolific author under her "Joseph Shearing" pseudonym; it originally appeared in England in 1932 under the title "Forget-Me-Not," and was published in America the same year by Harper & Brothers as "Lucile Cléry: A Woman of Intrigue." (Note that the book itself bears no date other than the 1932 copyright notice, which causes most booksellers to mis-identify this printing as the first American edition. Unfortunately, the clues to the 1941 printing are present only on the dust jacket, which is NOT present on this particular copy.). Illustrated by (dj design) Leo Manso (illustrator).
The Strange Case of Lucile Cléry
Shearing, Joseph (pseud. for Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell, aka Marjorie Bowen)
Published by Harper & Brothers [1941] (c.1932), New York 1941
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good dj. Reprint. (price-clipped) [light wear to cloth at spine ends, light soiling to top page edges; jacket has a couple of tiny chips at bottom edge, a few minor tears at edges and corners]. A novel of "love, intrigue, horror, and murder," the story of "a brilliant and ruthless woman, [a…] governess whose charm and diabolic cleverness brought destruction in their wake." Reprint of the first novel published by this prolific author under her "Joseph Shearing" pseudonym; it originally appeared in England in 1932 under the title "Forget-Me-Not," and was published in America the same year by Harper & Brothers as "Lucile Cléry: A Woman of Intrigue." Paperback editions are common enough, but any hardcover issue is hard to find, especially in decent condition. (This edition bears no date other than the 1932 copyright notice, but the four other titles blurbed on the rear jacket panel were all published in 1941.). Illustrated by (dj design) Leo Manso (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Heinemann, London 1938
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, United KingdomLycanthia Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition. 1½ page autograph letter from the author tipped in at front. 8vo. Original orange-brown cloth lettered in gilt. A superb association copy: Roughead's writings inspired the Shearing novel The Fetch (dedicated to him). The book is notable for containing the…ghost story 'They Found my Grave' not available elsewhere in the reprint collections issued in the author's lifetime. Edward Wagenknecht was exuberant about this ghost story in his essay on Marjorie Bowen (Seven Masters of the Supernatural), praising its 'atmosphere of evil'. A near fine copy. Provenance: Scottish collector, criminologist, writer and editor, William Roughead, with his bookplate and one of the letters he received from the author pasted in. Signed. Book.
More imagesPublished by Heinemann, London 1934
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. No Jacket. First edition. First edition. Autograph letter from the author (as Shearing) tipped in at front endpapers. 8vo. Original pink cloth. A murder mystery, based on the unsolved murder of Harriet Buswell in 1872. The autograph letter from Bowen to the Scottish lawyer and keen amateur crimin…ologist William Roughead is dated December 1939, and mentions a book of his published that same year, Neck or Nothing. Signed. Book.
Published by William Heinemann 1933
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 371, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, publisher device blind-stamped to lower board, touch rubbed at extremities, the leading edge of both boards with a little mottled fading, a handful of spots to textblock edges, laid in a typed letter from the Editor of The Sunday Refere…e presenting a prize (presumably this book), dustjacket by Youngman Carter, a little chipped, nicked and creased at extremities, very good. Scarce in the dustjacket. 'Joseph Shearing' was one of the heteronyms employed by Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell Long, whose primary nom-de-plume was Marjorie Bowen. The different identities that she wrote under, often male, including George R. Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye, represented distinct parts of her oeuvre - a common property being an inclination towards the sinister and supernatural. The Shearing novels explore historical criminal cases, here concerning Lavinia Pierrepoint, a young Englishwoman who becomes embroiled and implicated in the dark intrigues of a French family - an attempted suicide, a triple-murder, all driven by a complex web of lust and avarice. It was published later in the US as 'The Spider in the Cup', referring to its epigraph (drawn from 'The Winter's Tale).
