Magic Casements, First Edition (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Patterned blue papered wrappers, published for P. E. N. , an international association of writers and artists dedicated to freedom of expression and international goodwill, small wear at base of spine, po dedication on ffep, 48 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No dustjacket, bound in semi-flexible blue cloth with embossed gold gilt lettering on front cover, no lettering on spine, 5x7-1/2 inches, 32 pages. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers, dime sized white paint spot on top edge of front cover, some browning to edges of interior pages. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No dustjacket, bound in semi-flexible blue cloth with embossed gold gilt lettering on front cover, no lettering on spine, 5x7-1/2 inches, 32 pages. Good Condition, with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers, some browning to edges of interior pages, some creasing to cloth covers. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for previous owner's inscription written on inside front cover. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edna M Reindel (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1930, Book, binding and text in very good condition, no DJ, purple cloth binding with silver decorated title on front panel and spine cover, binding tight and square, light rubbing on spine extremes and corners, Text clean and unmarked, givers dedication with date 1931 in pencil on paste down fep B/W illustration by Edna M Reindel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fair condition hardback beige boards showing title etc clearly on front board and on spine, no DJ. The bottom half of front and back boards show damp stains. 112 pages good and clean with clear print. Minor foxing on edge of pages, previous owner written name on fly sheet.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quote written on endpaper otherwise an unmarked copy, DJ with some light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Slim volume, 48pp. VG with light wear only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Former owner markings on free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Series: P.E.N. Books 48p booklet, pale blue printed paper-covered boards, foxing to endpapers and edges, otherwise clean and fresh, first edition Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition with Appleton's (I) at the end. Blueish purple cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Cloth is begining to fray at the ends of the spine. Spine is a bit darkened with age. Square and tight. Hinges and pages are fine with no marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slight toning on endpapers, tiny tear on front board, very good in a very good dust jacket with tiny tears, a toned spine, and soiling on the front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (ix) 186pp. Textured green cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Teg. Faded neat ownership inscription in pencil to ffep. Boards rubbed and bumped at extremities. Eps foxed. Textblock clean bright and tight. Overall a pleasingly worn copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in black cloth with silver-gilt titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. 200 pages, foreword by Clifford Bax, preface by Algernon Blackwood, 10 plates & chapter headings by Angela Ogden.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, Second printing. Published March,1926. Reprinted October, 1926. This book is very good plus. Boards are beautiful with a touch of perimeter wear. Very very good inside with name on front end flap. Very little dirt spotting to page block edges. See pictures for further details, description.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: NVG. No Jacket. First Edition. Book has slightly bumped corners, modest cover wear. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 112pp. 1st edition 1934. D/w spine darkened. A little chipping to edges of d/w. Previous owner's name to front free end-paper. A decent copy. (q18).

Condition: Good+. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo, pp. 48. Eggshell blue and yellow patterned paper boards, spine and upper board lettered in black. A little soiled and darkened, bruising and light wear to extremities, arcing closed tear to spine. Spine cracked at p.16-7, still, binding firm. Else, clean. Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Angela Ogden (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Hardback in dustwrapper; vg/g; First Edition. Hardback bound in black cloth with silver-gilt titles, no handwriting inside; 200 pages, foreword by Clifford Bax, preface by Algernon Blackwood, 10 plates & chapter headings by Angela Ogden; minor foxing to blocked page edges; attractive price clipped dustwrapper has a repair to closed tear, a little chipping and a little loss to top left hand corner - see picture on our own site or abe; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. A SIGNED UK first edition, first impression. Original decorated boards - no wrapper as issued. The book is solid and sound. The boards are slightly soiled. The spine is gently scuffed and is lightly rubbed at the ends. The text block is generally clean - the endpapers are little flecked. The closed page edges are a little dulled with age. The binding is tight, the hinges are solid. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author : To dear Lisette Pyett with Eleanor's love. Christmas 1941. A nice copy. Paypal accepted. Signed by Author(s).

Blamire Young (illustrator). First edition. First deluxe edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. The three tipped colour plates are by William Blamire Young, the Cambridge graduate and mathematics teacher from the Blue Mountains who became noted for his watercolours: 'poster-like, romantic, poetic and remarkable otherwise for the complexity and their techniques" (McCulloch). Small quarto, vivid tipped plates, top-edge gilt; original gilt lettered cloth; an immaculate copy in a fine dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 48. Eggshell blue and yellow patterned paper boards, lettered in black, label to spine. A little soiled and darkened, bruising and light wear to extremities. Inscribed, movingly, by Farjeon in blue ink to half-title: "For Denys who has/ added another magic casement to my mansion / from Eleanor in/ remembrance of this/ week: July 19 26/ 1950" and below, in a different hand: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15th 1971." With Farjeon's marginal corrections and clarifications to pp. 12 & 13. Else, clean and tight. A gorgeous and significant association copy, inscribed to Blakelock in the first year of friendship. Near fine. With Farjeon's own marginal corrections and clarifications regarding misquotations from Cymbeline: ' Should be "lads" of course. This is a slip', but not so for the (mis)citations from Twelfth Night: whose "spinners" and "sitters in the sun" is "how I've always misremembered this lovely line". Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (née Hagart) by Blakelock's sister-in-law Renée: "in memory of Denys/ March 15th 1971". Denys Blakelock (1901-1970), actor, RADA teacher and childhood friend and lover of Laurence Olivier, became one of the closest friends of Farjeon's later life. The couple met when Blakelock was cast as King Nollekins of Norfolk in the first run of Farjeon's play The Silver Curlew at The Arts Theatre in 1949/1950 (an event celebrated in her inscription to our copy of Love Affair (ref. 2214), as well as in our inscribed copy of the The Fair Venetian (ref. 2213) the following festive season, when the play was revived at Fortune Theatre, London: "Dearest Denys Nollekins / from Eleanor Nellikins / to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950". Indeed, 1950 proved a hinge year for Farjeon, who had lost her long-time companion, George Earle (Pod) in November 1949 and was grieving deeply; it also saw the beginnings of her conversion to Catholicism. By their meeting, Blakelock "was an established victim of dark moods of depression and anxiety," which were taking a toll both personally and professionally. The friendship offered a new start for them both and very rapidly they became each other's emotional succour. They even dubbed their first trip away together in June 1951 their "honeymoon" holiday, which they commemorated over the 15 years of their friendship. As Blakelock reflects in the closing pages of Eleanor: "Eleanor Farjeon's life was so closely bound up with mine for that last long phase, if I were to paint a true picture of her it seemed to become increasingly impracticable to keep myself to any real extent in the background". (Blakelock, 1966). Less is known about Farjeon's friend, Bertha Hagart/ Rose: it seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Whatever the case, Hagart was close enough to them both to be presented with Blakelock's cherished copies of Farjeon's books; a posthumous intertwining of their three lives, which would surely have pleased Farjeon, given her own practice of re-gifting books (see our other inscribed Farjeon copies). Denys Blakelock (1966) Eleanor: Portrait of a Farjeon. London: Gollancz Ltd. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Pp. 48; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little light foxing; patterned card with printed paper title label on backstrip, faintly soiled and a trifle sprung, the backstrip slightly creased and chipped, edges a trifle bruised; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a little faint foxing; George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1941. First edition. P.E.N. Books series.