Spence Doris (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No date. Circa 1947/1948. Depicts Bobby Bear and friends at the seaside in the water playing. Blue linen spine faded otherwise boards are in good condition. Lovely colour frontis. The first story is "The Flower Show". A children's annual with lots of stories, poems games and puzzles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Paintings by Kelly Fearing, Drawings by John Guerin (illustrator). Pictorial hard boards: 25x19cm. Spine is intact but has minor wear at the top end. Inscription on the half-title page: "To Helen from Uncle Ray + Aunty Vera XMAS 1951 ". Clean & tight. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref A13. Monster Book for Girls. Contributions by Betty Spence, Daphne Dublane, Doris M.Lee, Aubrey Reynolds, Charlotte M. Kelly, Mabel E. Allan, Barbara Hector, Edgar Garrett, Winifred Norling.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Important reference wirk.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition, limited to 200 hand-numbered copies signed by the contributors, this being #175. Green silk cloth boards, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, in publisher's cloth slipcase, no dust jacket, as issued. Published on the occasion of Welty's 90th birthday. Signed by the editor and each of the 22 contributors on 6 specially inserted leaves in the back (before the colophon): Richard Bausch, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Tony Early, Clyde Edgerton, George Garrett, Ellen Gilchrist, Anthony Grooms, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Greg Johnson, William Maxwell, Willie Morris, Alice Munro, Daniele Pitavy-Souques, Reynolds Price, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Lee Smith, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, and Richard Wilbur. Faint toning to spine, else fine in fine slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto measuring 9" x 11.5". Blue cloth over stiff paper boards with gilt decorations. Contains 226 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 5" x 7" with captions. Very good album with worn edges and some rubbing with very good photographs with a few tears and curling. A photo album kept by a New Jersey socialite, Doris Paterson Spence in the 1930s. Spence documents her family between 1933 through 1936. She fills her scrapbook with photographs from social gatherings, travels, and leisure time spent sunbathing, swimming, and fishing. The opening page begins with a newspaper clipping about Doris' schooling at Miss Beard's School where she was head of the class. Other images are portraits of friends and family members, some with captions mentioning the photo's use such as "Russian visa picture." They go to garden parties, play tennis, and visits to the beach. One section of photographs from a tennis match includes tongue-in-cheek captions such as "the tennis champion." Many of the photos are from the family's world travels with numerous photos taken on board ships to Europe. One section shows a 1935 trip that began in Iceland with images of the midnight sun and boating passed fjords. From there they sail to Norway, Jordan, Leningrad, Copenhagen, and Scotland. Another cruise that year shows the travelers on the S.S. Berengaria out of San Francisco. Here they are photographed posed with the life saver, playing tennis on board the ship, and smiling for the camera. Some of the family attended Princeton University and many of the newspaper clippings have to do with events at the college. Towards the end of the album the graduation ceremony for her brother Alexander P. Spence is photographed. Shortly after compiling this album, Doris married investment banker, Norman Kennedy, Princeton class of '34. They married in 1938 and Norman joined the Army during World War II. After the war they settled in Montclair and had two children. An interesting collection of images detailing a young woman's family in the years leading up to World War II.