Vera Fraser (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. ex libris.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ: Good. 1st ed. 352 pp. 6 3/8 x 9 1/2. Dark blue cloth covered boards, blind embossed on front and stamped in gold on spine. Blue dj, lightly edgeworn. Ownership markings; pages a bit darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Hardback. No dust jacket. Previous owner's handwritten notes on frontispiece. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards with silver blocked titles to spine, top edge stained red, 225 x 155 mm approx. 360 pp, Portrait frontis + 3 further b/e plates and fold out Genealogical Tree all as called for. First UK Edition 1938 of this biography of the French Poet, Statesman and Lover translated from the French by Vera Fraser. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/ Good (Book- Mild general shelf wear to cloth, previous owner ink rubber stamp Ex Libris + Name and address to free front end paper, binding sound with no other defects. Dust Jacket - colour rubbed mainly to spine edges with small chip to head of 5 mm approx in depth, price clipped. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition. The definitive biography of the French poet, by a member of the Legion of Honor. original blue embossed gilt buckram. A clean, unmarked, tight copy.

Condition: fair to good. First Edition. 25 cm, 352, illus., index, some page discoloration, corners bumped, ink note on front endpaper.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No dust jacket. EB 10.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. red cloth, silver lettering, no dust jacket, 360 pp, signature of previous owner on front endpaper, wearing about the edges of boards.

Final script for the 1944 British film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, here under the working title "Music in the Night," with a single manuscript ink annotation of the year "1944" on the title page. Also released under the title "You Can't Do Without Love." Provenance available upon request. Not to be confused with the 1922 silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. Vera Lynn stars as an aspiring singer desperate to influence a producer played by Donald Stewart, who's a victim of an attempted kidnapping plot by a group of gangsters who assume Lynn is his girlfriend. Shot on location in Surrey and London. Tall blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, noted as FINAL SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriters Peter Fraser and Howard Irving Young. 142 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with a prong binding.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first English translation of this biography of French author François-René de Chateaubriand, in an exquisite Bayntun full calf binding. The first edition of this biographical sketch of François-René de Chateaubriand, important French author and politician who had a great influence on French literature of the nineteenth century, dominating the literary scene of the time. The first English edition, translated from the French of André Maurois by Vera Fraser. Recounting from his childhood and youth, his time as a soldier and voyager, his exile in England, and much more. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three full page plates, as well as a folding plate illustrating his genealogical tree. Collated, complete.In a beautiful fine full calf binding, signed Bayntun. In a lovely full calf binding signed Bayntun, with five raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine, pictorial endpapers, and gilt to the edges. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only and some sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the first few leaves, otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three full page plates, as well as a folding plate illustrating his genealogical tree. Collated, complete. Near Fine. book.