Soldier Gentlewoman by Vaughan Hilda (20 results)

Condition: Used - Very Good. 2015. Paperback. Pap. Minor shelf wear. Very Good.

Condition: Fair. 1932. No Edition Remarks. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Front free endpaper is removed. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 278 page novel. Clean and sound with book plate inside front board. No dust wrapper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. 5"x7.5".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A bright copy.

OLWd., 278 Seiten, 8°, mit Rückenvergoldung. Einband in gutem Zustand. beide Deckel leicht beschmutzt, sonst guter Zustand. Book Language/s: German.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pinkish/rose colored cloth with blue band and line decoration stamped, elevating author and title printing. 1932. Scribner's "A" edition. 287p. Eps little age discolored with light fox to fore and bottom edge; else contents VG, clean and tight. Cloth covers VG, clean and bright under unclipped jacket in protective mylar. There is light cover soil to jacket; especially noticeable on white part of jacket illustrations. Jacket soiling is uniform.Slightest of wear to jacket at head/tail spine. Further details/scan available upon request.

1st ed. 1st edition, 1932. A little scattered foxing to prelims; tape reinforcement in gutters; dust jacket spine browned, with small loss at head and foot Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Fair dustjacket.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60071938: 1932. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Quelques rousseurs. 287 pages. Couverture se détachant. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Charles Scribner, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing, with "A" on copyright page, in original dustjacket. Clean unfaded rose colored cloth boards with dark blue title box on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with slight browning to edges of endpapers; no previous owner names, writing or marks. 287 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, small chips around top spine edge. Glamourous photo of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of a man who comes back from World War I to an estate in Wales he has inherited ifrom a soldier friend. Here he discovers a woman whose most passionate love is for the land on which she and her ancestors were born, and she will stop at nothing to keep it.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Type: Book N.B. Reading crease to spine. Foxing to spine and covers. Lacks ffep. Previous owners inscription to title page. (LITERATURE).

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60008024: 1934. In-16. Broché. Bon état, Couv. défraîchie, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur bon état. 287 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Pencil owner's name else fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the crown and a little age-toning. Dustjacket art by R. W. Novel of a woman who would do anything for a passionate love, even murder.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. 1st Edition. A UK First Edition, first impression. Unusual in its jacket. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, complete and unclipped. The front and back panels show gentle wear to the edges and tiny nicks out of the corners. There is a small scratch on the front panel. The spine is gently toned and is lightly rubbed and scuffed at the top and the bottom. Looks sharp in protective plastic. THE BOOK : The book is tight. The black boards are clean and are unfaded. The corners are sharp. The spine ends are gently bruised. The text block is clean. The closed page edges are a little dusty and lightly flecked. There are no loose or dog-eared pages. The binding is tight, the hinges are solid. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. A very nice copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this thrilling novel by Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan, presented to literary editor Edward Garnett. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Flat signed by the author to the title page.Inscribed by the author 'Edward Garnett, with the gratitude and homage of the writer, May 1932' to the front free endpaper. Garnett was English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in the publication of D. H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers', although he rejected publishing Joyce's 'A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man' in 1915. He was married to Constance Garnett, the famed translator of nineteenth century Russian literature.Loosely inserted is a letter from Garnett, dated November 1936, only three months before his death. In his letter, Garnett discusses 'Harvest Home', a novel by Vaughan published in 1936, which he describes as his favourite 'of your books I have read'.This thrilling first edition from Welsh novelist and short story writer Hilda Vaughan presents a tale in which a 'woman of breeding' murders her husband, in a work the publisher claims 'has the power and terrible veracity of a document of the soul'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with wrap perimeters age toned. Significant loss to head of front wrap. Minor loss to back strip tail, with significant chipping to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

A first edition, first printing of 'The Soldier and the Gentlewoman' published by Gollancz in 1932. A near fine book without inscriptions in a near fine unclipped wrapper with a little browning to the spine. Amazing condition given its age.