Ann Lees (21 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: GOOD. First US printing. Includes 25 stories - all those which appeared in her first two collections: "Encounters" published in 1923, and "Ann Lee's and Other Stories" in 1926 - with a new preface by Bowen for this combined edition. xx, 364 pp. Good in mauve cloth with silver lettering on spine (toning to pages) in a fair only dust jacket with several small chips, rubbing and spotting to back cover, price-clipped.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The Purple boards have EB embossed on the front and the title in silver on the spine. The color of the cover is slightly faded and the spine is sun struck, the corners are very lightly bumped; the top edge is a faded blue and the fore edge is rough cut. The endpapers are very clean and bright as is the interior. .

xx. + 364pp. small 8vo Red-violet cloth. First edition so stated. Ex-library, spine heavily sunned, covers fading, owner's signature: VG-/no dj. Interior clean/tight.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 96 pages. Some foxing along page edges. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Good first edition hardcover without dust jacket. The book has light wear of spine ends. The spine and covers are faded. The text is nice and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st American editioin; dj w/some chipping & rubbing, clipped prie, in mylar; redish c w/shelf rubbing, gilt spine titles; lite toning of end papers; 364 clean, unmarked pages. Includes 25 stories - all those which appeared in her first two collections: "Encounters" published in 1923, and "Ann Lee's and Other Stories" in 1926 - with a new preface by Bowen for this combined edition.

Hardback. Condition: Fine Condition. First Edition 1st Edition.

Condition: New.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. xx, 364. Orchid cloth. Owners' bookplate on pastedown, cover faded, o/w a VG tight copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a good copy in the publisher's cloth, previous owner's name on the front end paper, the front inner hinge is a bit tender, scarce early work.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Light brown boards have just mild wear and light discoloration in parts. Name, place and date (1926) written in pencil on front free endpaper. Pages of text are clean, lightly age toned and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Scarce older title. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing. Scarce now. This copy belonged to C H S Fifoot, the legal scholar and author of the standard text book on the English law of contract and has his pencil ownership inscription to the front pastedown. This printing has the titles in gold to spine and blind stamped to front cover. There is also a variant with black titles to the spine and cover. The precedence is unknown. The book is in near Very Good plus condition (there is minor bumping to the top and tail of the spine and the rear endpaper is missing).

1st US edition. Twenty-five stories by the author of 'The Death of the Heart', 'The Heat of the Day', 'Ivy Gripped the Steps', etc. With a preface written especially for this volume by the author. Pp.xx/364,owner's name to inside front board. Purple cloth has uneven fading, dustwrapper rubbed with wear to spine and chipped tears to top and tail of spine. G+/Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 364pp.; HB violet emboss w/silver; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ orange&blk.w/white; some rub w/wear on edges&corners; sun on spine&edges; sml.chips&tears; corner-cut. "This volume contains the twenty-five stories which were her earliest work; they were originally published in two books (Encounters and Ann Lee's) that have long been out of print and all but impossible to obtain." signed by Bowen. Signed & Inscribed By Author.

First edition, first printing. Original dark brown cloth lettered in black to spine and front panel, in the dustwrapper illustrated with a design from woodcuts by Celia M. Fiennes (the hat shop pictured is the titular 'Ann Lee's' of the opening story). A strikingly fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and black lettering clean and sharp, the contents bright and clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The merest spotting to the page block edges and very light offsetting to free endpapers. Complete with the remarkably well-preserved original dustwrapper, showing just a few minor nicks and a touch of dustiness, the cover illustration still sharp and bright. The green lettering to the spine is a little faded but still easy to decipher. Unclipped and correctly priced 7s. 6d. net to the spine. A beautiful copy of the author's second book. Incredibly hard to find with the dustwrapper in any state; indeed Sellery and Harris, Bowen's bibliographer's, note in their entry for the volume that they have never seen the wrapper. If the pervading image of Elizabeth Bowen is of the formidable Anglo-Irish grande dame of later years, dividing her time between Bowen's Court, the family home in north Cork, and Clarence Terrace in London, much of her finest writing was done when she was a young woman finding her feet in the literary world. 'Ann Lee's and Other Stories', published when she was twenty-five, was Bowen's second book and second collection of short stories. Three years earlier the same year that Encounters, her first book, was published Bowen married Alan Cameron (at the time Assistant Secretary for Education for Northamptonshire, he later worked for the BBC), to whom this collection is dedicated. The couple had moved into 73 Knights Lane, Kingsthorpe, in Northampton, described by Bowen's aunt as "a horrid little house". It was there, however, that she wrote the stories collected in 'Ann Lee's', as well as her first novel, 'The Hotel', both books revealing a new maturity of voice. "I was now located, the mistress of a house", she later wrote, "and the sensation of living anywhere, as apart from paying a succession of visits, was new to me." Writing about these stories, the novelist Tessa Hadley notes that the "contained form and the mannered stylishness [of Encounters] persists, along with the author's all-seeing irony [.]; yet the work grows stranger, and more sympathetic. [.] Bowen's stories don't break the genre frame; rather, they swell it from the inside and make it strange." The first edition was published on 14 April 1926 in an edition of 2,000 copies. (Victoria Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography [London: 1977]; Tessa Hadley, Hats One Dreamed about, London Review of Books, 20 February 2020; Sellery and Harris A2a.). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First Edition. Unsympathetic account of the Shakers, founded by Ann Lee, considered essentially a cult by the author.Stamp of David Gould on the first page of the History (page 13); additional pencil marks by David Gould on the front flyleaf. 300 pp. Duodecimo. Sabin 30803; Howes H279. Binding dry and moderately rubbed; spine label nearly detached (may fall off with handling). Text thoroughly foxed but completely legible; the leaves are also noticeably wrinkled, possibly from moisture; some loss to rear free endpaper. Good. Period mottled sheep, black lettering piece.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing of the Irish author's second collection of short stories. Scottish author Fred Urquhart's copy, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Urquhart is considered one the greatest Scottish short stories writers of the 20th century and was praised by George Orwell. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with variant dark brown lettering, (62) per Sellery & Harris. Near Fine with light wear at extremities, foxing to textblock edges. Light offsetting at endsheets with foxing to early and later gatherings. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light fading to green lettering at spine, light toning and edge wear, faint creasing to front cover, foxing. A striking copy of this scarce collection of short stories, mostly set in Ireland, that includes "The Parrot", "Charity", and "Recent Photograph." Quite uncommon in the trade, especially so in the jacket. Sellery & Harris A2a.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.