Arbiter Elegance by Howe Bea (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1967. No edition remarks. 320 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild foxing. Mild sunning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 320 pages. No dusrtjacket. Hardback book covers have attractive decoratio to boards and spine, picture to front, wear/rubs to spine-ends, light wear to corners. page-edges are lightly foxwed, Pages a little musty but clean and sound.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Fair. Yes (illustrator). 1st Edition. Spotting in and around the book.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 320 pages frontispiece, illustrations, 14 plates (including portraits, facsimiles) ; 22cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-315). Subjects: Haweis, Mary Eliza (1848-1898), writer and illustrator. Great Britain ; Politics and government (1837-1901). Interior architecture. 3 Kg.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 320pp. Illus. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, Dust Jacket, Inscription by the author to front endpaper. Some light general wear to jacket, Front hinge cocked very slightly forward, Overall a very good copy. overseas orders may require extra postage costs. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 320 pages frontispiece, illustrations, 14 plates (including portraits, facsimiles) ; 22cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-315). Subjects: Haweis, Mary Eliza (1848-1898), writer and illustrator. Great Britain ; Politics and government (1837-1901). Interior architecture. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial boards, in a matching dustwrapper, very light sunning to spine and shelf-wear, otherwise a superb copy, includes the publisher's promotional description loosely inserted. Mary Eliza Haweis was a woman of many talents, who wrote books especially directed towards women and children. She was also an artist and a specialist on Chaucer, which she translated and produced for children.

Hardcover. CLOTH BOUND BOARDS (PICTORIAL). Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo Thick. FRONTISPIECE. pp320, index, illustrated with b/w plates. The biography of Mary Elizabethe Haweis, nee Joy, who lived from 1848 to 1898. Victorian lady who established the standards of taste and elegance of her era.; 60501.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Arbiter of Elegance. Couple of numbers written to inside cover. Corners very slightly bumped. Blue cloth with white lettering. For centuries complete male domination prevailed in the English home on all matters concerning domestic architecture and decor although, from time to time, a few outstanding women have left the mark of their personality and taste on their surroundings. Ilolustrated. 320 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).