albert e marriott ltd (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with numerous black and white and colour photographic plates (illustrator). Undated, probably published in the 1950's. Signature of the previous owner, dated 1959. Minimal foxing to the end papers. Firmly bound with a little wear and bumping to the corners of the cover.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 319pp.

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. The green board cover has some rubbing and dust stains. Rebound ex Library book with usual stamps and stickers. Pages lightly tanned. A good clear copy.

Hardcover. First Edition. Original beige cloth with red lettering. Spine discoloured, good copy. ; 190 x 125mm; 240 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Name of the previous owner. Publication of 239 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There are minor marks on the block of the book. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Some tanning to the endpapers. Clothbound in beige/red with the title in red to the front cover and spine. Internally clean and bright. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Trade edition. 12mo, 239pp., worn, wrappers; ex libris Albert C. Loring Advance Proof Copy, with wrap facsimile of dj. Powerful antiwar novel about WWI seen thru the eyes of a lady ambulance driver. "I am glad I read it. No war book has appalled me more -Arnold Bennett.".

1st edition / 1st printing orig. cloth Nice Copy small octavo 398pp., Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its furious, indignant power," this story offers a rare, funny, bitter, and feminist look at war. Not So Quiet. (on the Western Front) describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during WWI, surviving shell fire, cold, and their punishing commandant, "Mrs. Bitch." The novel takes the guise of an autobiography by Smith, pseudonym for Evadne Price. The novel's power comes from Smith's outrage at the senselessness of war, at her country's complacent patriotism, and her own daily contact with the suffering and the wounded. Neat ownership signature & some light marks & rubbing to textured boards o/w a nice copy of the scarce first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 239pp. Two-tone red and white cloth, lettered and ruled in red at the spine and upper board. The cloth very lightly marked in places, and with a touch of occasional light marginal soiling. A former owner had pencilled the true identity of the author to an unprinted preliminary leaf. A very good copy in a somewhat handled example of the most uncommon dust wrapper: toned, soiled, nicked, chafed and creased with an area of internal reinforcement and with some loss to the spine panel ends and corner tips. An early feminist Great War novel depicting the experiences of British female ambulance drivers, penned by Evadne Price under her 'Helen Zenna Smith' pseudonym and noted for its early realistic portrait of an often romanticised conflict.

First edition. 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper with a little chipping and a couple of small repaired closed tears, with a little light staining to lower panel, otherwise a very good copy. Written as a response to Erich Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front', the author rejected as tasteless the brief set out by her publisher in his desire to parody the phenomenon, instead producing a harrowing tale of the work of female ambulance drivers. Employing a first-person narrator, the work was based on the account of Winifred Constance Young and was sufficiently successful in its presentation to give the impression of being a factual work - in truth, Price's involvement in the war itself was considerably outweighed by her skill as a writer in relaying the female voice within the conflict, and its value as a narrative account of the latter is enduring.