Ellen Terry, First Edition (181 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Former library book with minimal markings. Small stain on side edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, x + 390 pages, black cloth; b&w photographs. A near fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket, and with original price.

Paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Printing. Pap. Minor shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In pictorial jacket, 8vo, 64pp. (jacket price clipped).

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Limelight edition. Good condition paperback with minimal wear. Contents are clean and bright with spotting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing (full numberline). While the jacket shows moderate wear, the book itself has very minimal shelfwear. First edition. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First Printing. 236 pp, b/w photos and illustration, the book and contents are clean and tight, dust jacket has a browned spine and some scattered soil with light edge wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 63 plates plus text Illustrations (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 324 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good+. First Edition.

hardcover. First Edition. g, g dj; B022652; 236, illus with photos.

First Edition. 12mo, pp. 64. Edited by Jack Werner. Facsimiles of manuscript, with the poems given in typescript in back of volume. Ilustrated with portraits of Terry. Fine in little scuffed dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 63 plates plus text Illustrations (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 324 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf-wear to dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition by number code. Dust jacket has shelf wear. Personal message to previous owner inside cover. Black mark inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Holroyd, Michael. A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families. Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, NY, 2008. Hardcover with jacket. Condition: fine/fine. Cover has minor shelf wear head and tail of spine; one corner softened. Jacket is not price-clipped; minor creasing head of spine. Octavo; 620 pp. First printing, stated. Light blue quarter-binding with silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with three quires of color and b/w plates; other b/w illustrations in text. Select bibliography and index. Binding sound; bright copy; no markings. ISBN-13: 9780374270803; ISBN-10: 0374270805.

First edition. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering, 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches, 334 pp. Good+ (fading, spine; minor edge wear; previous owner's name in ink, dated July 22, 1932, front free endpaper). No dustcover (front flap of dustcover laid in). A nice, clean, tight reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CAPTIVATING: EPIC: BEWITCHING: INCISIVE: CLASSIC: FABULOUS: DELIGHTFUL: NEW Stated First Am. Ed. (2009) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at top-right inside-font flyleaf, EXCELLENT black paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT paper * 6.24" x 9.24" x 1.96", 1.00 kg, xx+620 (640) pp * 3 inserts (8-pp ea) of choice b-w photos & b-w & color illus. presented on gloss-laminated paper (between pp. 172 & 173, 300 & 301, 460 & 461) * CONTENTS: Outline of Sources, Select Bibliography, Index * ABOUT THE BOOK: Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The NYTBR, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight & epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face & spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry & Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, w/ Bram Stoker (who would go on to write 'Dracula') as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by storm in wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater & a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts & the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated w/ the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of "Hamlet" that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm & fathered 13 children by 8 women, including a daughter w/ the dancer Isadora Duncan. An EPIC story spanning a century of cultural change, "A Strange Eventful History" finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the BEWITICHING fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting w/ charismatic life, it is an INCISIVE portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a CLASSIC. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A FABULOUS cavalcade of a book, written w/ infectious verve & deep imaginative sympathy." -John Carey, The Sunday Times (London) "DELIGHTFUL . . . CAPTIVATING." -The Economist * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Knighted for his services to literature, MICHAEL HOLROYD is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, and Lytton Strachey, as well as two memoirs. President of the Royal Society of Literature & the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize, He lives in London w/ his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap & label & securely package this SUPERB book for FREE shipment within the United States via USPS Media MaiL (or via USPS Priority Mail for a nominal $10.00 charge) and at our posted rates to international destinations via USPS First Class Airmail.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 334pp, slight soiling to pg edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Internally clean, unmarked, firm hinges, sharp corners & DJ in VG+ condition. BP/Bios.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Front inner hinge beginning to crack. Spine slightly faded. Name written on the fly leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CAPTIVATING: EPIC: BEWITCHING: INCISIVE: CLASSIC: FABULOUS: DELIGHTFUL: NEW Stated First Am. Ed. (2009) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at top-right inside-font flyleaf, EXCELLENT black paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT paper * 6.24" x 9.24" x 1.96", 1.00 kg, xx+620 (640) pp * 3 inserts (8-pp ea) of choice b-w photos & b-w & color illus. presented on gloss-laminated paper (between pp. 172 & 173, 300 & 301, 460 & 461) * CONTENTS: Outline of Sources, Select Bibliography, Index * ABOUT THE BOOK: Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The NYTBR, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight & epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face & spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry & Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, w/ Bram Stoker (who would go on to write 'Dracula') as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by storm in wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater & a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts & the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated w/ the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of "Hamlet" that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm & fathered 13 children by 8 women, including a daughter w/ the dancer Isadora Duncan. An EPIC story spanning a century of cultural change, "A Strange Eventful History" finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the BEWITICHING fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting w/ charismatic life, it is an INCISIVE portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a CLASSIC. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A FABULOUS cavalcade of a book, written w/ infectious verve & deep imaginative sympathy." -John Carey, The Sunday Times (London) "DELIGHTFUL . . . CAPTIVATING." -The Economist * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MICHAEL HOLROYD, knighted for his services to literature, is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, and Lytton Strachey, as well as two memoirs. President of the Royal Society of Literature & the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize, he lives in London w/ his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap, label, & securely package this excellent book for FREE shipment within the United States via USPS Media MaiL or via USPS Priority Mail for a below cost $14.00 fee, & internationally via USPS First Class Airmail at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. Limited, Numbered, First edition; green c w/gilt titles/decorations; #2010 or 3,000 copies; 370 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition - Nap (No Additional Printing Stated, Thus First). The Book Is Bound In Burgundy Cloth With Gilt Lettering On The Front And Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Red. The Spine Has Faded. The Cover Is Worn. Lower Corners Bumped. Ownership Information Written Near The Upper Corner Of The Front Pastedown. The First Four Pages Are Torn At The Upper Part Of The Gutter. Hinges Are Sound And The Text Appears To Be Free Of Notation.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. first edition Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very Good, no DJ. No markings to text block. No marks of personal identification. Pages 133-143 have bump/slight tear on bottom edge near spine.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

GD. 1ST. XLIB.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Biography. Covers rubbed and sunned, faded on the spine and around the edges, spine ends bumped. Interior clean and tight, pages toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 43 B/w Illustrations (chiefly Portraits) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unclipped dust jacket protected by archival mylar.

Cloth. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Dark rust cloth, lettered in gilt. Light shelf wear, with a few light surface marks to cloth, mildly sunned spine panel. Small private book plate of Ray McCully mounted on front pastedown. Firm binding, clean interior. First edition, with matching dates. xxx,334 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.