Take Heed Loving, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. First printing. Flat-signed by author. Marbled tan and burgundy boards with blind-embossed cover and black and gilt spine with purple topstain. Exceptionally clean and solid book with NO markings throughout - NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ has some chipping and yellowing. Price intact: ($5.95). Protected in Brodart cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed/1st printing. Signed by author on free front end paper. Marbled tan and burgundy boards with blind-embossed cover and black and gilt spine with purple topstain. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Stated First Edition. First printing. VeryGood copy in Good dust jacket. Signed by Vining on front free endpaper. In beige marbled paper covers and burgundy cloth spine with gilt lettering. Purple stained top edge. Square, intact, and tight binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Light bumping to ends of spine, else light wear. Jacket is intact with price on lower front flap. Very light chipping to ends of spine. Sunning to spine. In protective jacket cover. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. The author signed on the front end page. The covers and spine have moderate wear and there is a short tear at the heel of the spine. The back board has some discoloration along the seam to the spine. The dust jacket has moderate wear, some soiling and is in a clear protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, thick 8vo, maroon spine with black label and gold lettering over parchment simulated boards with blind-stamped seal, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket with decorative Jacobean border (not price-clipped) designed by Frank Wilimczyk, 352 pages. Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining (1902 -1999) was an American professional librarian, educator, and author who received considerable distinction for having tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was Crown Prince. Much honored, Elizabeth Vining was also a celebrated and prolific author and distinguished educator (a VP of Bryn Mawr), whose children's book Adam of the Road (set in 13th century England) received the Newbery Medal in 1943. Overall, she wrote 26 fine books--many for children; fewer--such as this remarkable novel about John Donne and his world--for sophisticated adults. SCARCE title and SIGNED! But for a 1 1/2" thumb-joint shaped barely visible chip from this remarkable novel's first page's upper corner, it would have been graded as Fine/Fine. The book is solid, tight, and square with lightly age-toned pages; plus it has a remarkably clean, complete, and bright unchipped dj. Copyright is 1963 but publication of this First Edition was 1964. TAKE HEED OF LOVING ME is a brilliantly written historical romance about metaphysical--love and erotic--poet John Donne (1572-1631), who, in his young manhood, was a lusty Elizabethan adventurer. After serving in distant wars; Donne became secretary to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Not long after, twenty-four year old John fell in love with teenaged Anne More, tthe well-bred niece of that Lord. This novel centers on the outcomes of the lovers' secret betrothal and marriage which led to that Lord's wrath, Donne and his wife's removal from court, destitution and other surprising developments.for Donne would become a preacher for the Established Church and distinguished, though controversial, poet. This colorful novel includes episodes involving Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Ralegh, Ben Jonson, and King James.