Hilda Lessways: First Edition (17 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st US edition 1911.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. spine weak. paper brown in places from age. little grubby.

First Edition. Ownership inscription. Very good plus copy with gilt-stamping to the front cover still bright with some very minor edge wear and sunning to the cloth at the spine without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner name. Cover has minor edge wear with tiny splits at spine.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 533 pages.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vi, 408p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English fiction, 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. First American printing, very good light brown cloth hardcover (no dust jacket) with gilt to cover and spine shows mild rubbing and soil to covers, heavier rubbing at cover edges with touch of rub through at corners, bit of soil at page edges, small spot stains and ownership marks in pencil at front endpaper and some other light trace wear. 533 pages followed by other title adverts. Still a solid and pleasing copy of this novel from the noted British novelist and critic.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: vi, 408p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English fiction, 20th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. First Edition. VG/none, bumping to top and bottom of spine, wear at corners and edges, slight spotting on front board, bookstore sticker on rear pastedown, former owner's name and date on front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. brown publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine and on front cover; hinges tight; previous owner's signature in pencil on front free end paper; 533 pages followed by two pages of publisher's ads; minor shelf rubbing at edges; spine lettering a little faded. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. brown publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine and on front cover; hinges tight; previous owner's signature on front free end paper dated 1911; no shelf wear; spine a little faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1302 pages in this omnibus edition printed on India/thin paper, light green cloth with authors name embossed on cover and gilt titles on the spine, minor wear at spine tips/edges, pages a little handled, no inscriptions, wrapper has clear tape repairs from the back and is still one piece but a poor example. Thick octavo.…

First Edition. HILDA LESSWAYS, Dutton, 1911, first American edition, a vg+ copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition. Limited edition of 200, this be hand numbered 116, 1925. SIGNED by author on copyright page. A Very Good copy. Author signed letter laid in. 8vo., 1302 pp., bound in publishers blue gilt decorated cloth. Spine is sunned along with some uneven fading on front cover. Some light staining to front end papers from laid in newspaper. Text appears unmarked, binding is solid.…

Hardcover. First Canadian edition, variant binding. 8vo., orig. blue cloth stamped in black, 408pp. Spine faded, a good copy.

Hardcover. First Canadian edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth stamped in gold, 408pp. A fine copy.

3 volumes. First Editions and a complete set of The Clayhanger Family. Vol. I is a publisher's presentation copy. 8vo, each volume in original gray or green cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated on the spines and upper covers. vii, 574, (31 ads); vi, 408, (31); vi, 526, (31) pp. A handsome set in pleasing, lightly aged condition with some fading to the spine of the second volume, and light evidence of use. A FIRST EDITION COLLECTION COMPLETE OF THE CLAYHANGER FAMILY, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS BY ARNOLD BENNETT, BRITISH PLAYWRIGHT, CRITIC, ESSAYIST, AND NOVELIST. 'Bennett wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboration with other writers), and a daily journal totaling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information in the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. The sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day. Many of Bennett's novels and short stories are set in a fictionalized version of the Staffordshire Potteries, which he called The Five Towns. He strongly believed that literature should be accessible to ordinary people, and he deplored literary cliques and élites. His books appealed to a wide public and sold in large numbers. These "Five Towns" make their first appearance in Bennett's fiction in Anna of the Five Towns (1902) and are the setting for further novels including Leonora (1903), Whom God Hath Joined (1906), The Old Wives' Tale (1908) and the Clayhanger trilogy Clayhanger (1910), Hilda Lessways (1911) and These Twain (1916) as well as for dozens of short stories. Bennett's fiction portrays the Five Towns with what The Oxford Companion to English Literature calls "an ironic but affectionate detachment, describing provincial life and culture in documentary detail, and creating many memorable characters". Darius Clayhanger's early life is based on that of a family friend and Bennett himself is seen in Edwin in Clayhanger.[88] He has been criticised for making literary use in that novel of the distressing details of his father's decline into senility, but in Pound's view, in committing the details to paper Bennett was unburdening himself of painful memories.'These Twain is Bennett's "last extended study of Five Towns life". Wiki.…

Methuen. 1925. First edition, thus in DW. Endpapers browned and page edges foxed otherwise a remarkably clean copy in dulled wrapper that is sunned to spine and frayed to head of spine and has 10/6 price marked in ink to front panel.