English Women by Edith Sitwell, collins (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, DJ unclipped but showing its age; no indications of previous ownership. The editors of Britain in Pictures persuaded the Grande Dame Edith Sitwell to write the text that accompanies twenty black and white illustrations and eight in color for this thin but enjoyable volume about prominent British women in politics, the arts and other fields.

Hardcover. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1942-01-01. William Collins. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ; Acceptable, edgewear. 9x6.

Hardcover. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1942. William Collins. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE White titles, blue boards. Edgewear. Ex libris bookplate. Previous owners name. 9x7.

Hardback. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1932. William Collins. Hardback. ACCEPTABLE Blue DJ, White titles, Spine sunned, 10x7.

ill. OPappband. Condition: Akzeptabel. 47 Seiten with 8 Plates in Colour and 27 Illustrations in black & white. (= Britain In Pictures. The British People in Pictures). Virginia Woolf, Christina Rossetti, Florence Nightingale, George Eliot u.a. Rückenkanten berieben, Rücken brüchig. Vorderer fliegender Vorsatz mit leichter Knickspur. Innen gut. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated boards; tight binding, light foxing to preliminary pages. Jacket is frayed at edges, chipped and discoloured along the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Collins, 1942. First impression. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover bound in pictorial paper boards. 8 Colour plates, 27 illustrations in black. Minor age wear. Text bright. Binding tight. Dust jacket condition: Very good. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to dw. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL. DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 24 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) BY ROYAL MAIL. ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY AIR MAIL. WE ALSO ACCEPT PAYMENT IN US DOLLARS OR EURO BY BANK TRANSFER. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Impression. A Fine copy in pale bluish-grey paper covered thin boards, in Very Good or better dustwrapper of identical design, spine slightly toned. 48pp. Figures covered include Virginia Woolf, Ellen Terry, Gertrude Bell, The Brontes, etc. Q14953.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original delphinium blue and creamy white paper covered boards. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. Contains 48 pp with 8 colour plates and 27 monochrome illustrations throughout. Minor spotting to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with small chips to the spine ends, spine age tanned. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRITAIN IN PICTURES.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original blue pictorial boards (slightly rubbed, occ. spotting) in dustwrapper (rubbed & a litle frayed, small chip to tail cap); pp. 48, with illustrations. A very good copy.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Akzeptabel. William Collins - 1. Auf. 1942 : Edith Sitwell - gb + Su 63-W4ID-8J3P Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 499.

Half Morocco. Condition: Very Good. 48; 48 pp., Two publications bound in one. Blue half morocco binding by Truslove & Hanson, with top edge gilt and gilt lettered spine. Spine is sunned to a greenish blue with some marks to the binding. Internally clean with a sweet gift inscription to the front endpaper. Illustrated throughout in both black and white and colour. Part of the Britain in pictures series 8vo. Illustrated.

4to. 6.5 x 8.75 inches. 47 + [1] pp.; 47 + [1] pp. Bound in half blue morocco, gilt, over blue cloth; spine in compartments with raised bands with gilt bands and titles. A little wear to extremities, sunning of boards, and occasional foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Binder's stamp of Truslove and Hanson, Clifford Street on verso of first free endpaper. Illustrated by 20 colour plates and by 57 black and white text figures. Two related volumes of Collins' Britain in Pictures series bound together in a fine binding. The two authors are Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) and Sylvia Lynd, née Dryhurst, (1888-1952), poet, novelist and essayist, born in London of Irish parents and educated at the Slade and RADA. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS WOMEN ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS.