Tennant, Stephen & Grey, Pamela (8 results)

Stephen Tennant (illustrator). First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 249. Bound in cloth backed boards, spine label worn. Hinge tender, decorations by Stephen Tennant, frontis portrait, decorated cover,o/w VG. A collection of poems and short tales.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stephen Tennant (illustrator). Second impression. A tight and sound copy. Spine has a slight lean. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is complete, not price clipped, chipped at head of spine but with little loss, lightly dust soiled. x + 263 pages, frontispiece, illus. in text, index of first lines. Illustrator: Stephen Tennant. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28276.

Quarter Bound Cream Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Stephen Tennant (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Anthology of verse and prose edited by Pamela Adelaide Genevieve Grey, Viscountess of Fallodon, born Wyndham and formerly Pamela Tennant, Baroness Glenconner (1871-1928). Illustrated by her youngest son from her first marriage, Stephen Tennant, who was called 'the brightest of the Bright Young Things'. 249pp with index, illustrated with black and white drawings. Top edges tinted. Spare title label taped inside back cover.Copy gifted to one of the contributors, Frank R Seymour, with the inscription 'FS from Lady Grey' to the pastedown, and a further note in pencil to the endpaper (unattributed). Left hinge pulling, forward lean to spine and some marking to edges, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ is edgeworn with some soiling and only fair. Scarce signed copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

First edition. Octavo. pp xii, 249. Frontispiece portrait photogravure. Illustrated with drawings by Stephen Tennant. A verse and prose anthology largely of an improving nature. Cloth-backed patterned boards with spine label; spare label at rear.Ownership signature on first blank. Minuscule rubbing to tail of spine. Pastedowns a little spotted. Very good in very good dustwrapper slightly nicked and creased at top edge and a bit darkened at the spine.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. 4to. 1st ed. L.(Philip Allan) 1925. Printed on one side only of heavy card stock, with plates tipped in opposite. Small library stamp, with spare labels. Corners worn else a very good copy of a scarce title.

Condition: Very Good. 1925. First edition, sole impression. Philip Allan & Company. London. 1925. First edition, sole impression. Hardback, small 4to; blue buckram-backed paper-covered boards, with title label pasted to front board and to spine; spare title labels tipped-in at rear. [8], 64 pages. Decorative endpapers, decorated contents page, 32 tipped-in black-and-white plates reproducing pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours by Stephen Tennant, decorative endpiece. English. 250x195mm. 0.85kg. Very good; slight wear to binding, small 2cm split along outer hinge at head of spine, slight splitting to inner hinges and between pages as is usual with this binding, although much better than other copies we have seen; slight browning to pages. The Vein in the Marble is a book of verse, tales and illustrations formed through a collaboration between Stephen Tennant and his mother Pamela Grey. Pamela provided a series of short poems and morality tales for modern life. Stephen contributed the accompanying illustrations, peopled with a mix of Regency courtiers, nymphs and fairy tale characters. Tennant's biographer Philip Hoare aptly describes the book as 'pure period whimsy'. The whole has a tendency towards sentimentality but Stephen's drawings and watercolours have a decorative, ethereal quality reminiscent of Beardsley. Stephen dedicated the book to his mother - 'To the most perfect of collaborators in great as in little things - my Mother.' On receiving their first copies of the book Pamela and Stephen were filled with joy. "We almost wept with excitement as we each finished our book! The child of our endeavours at last launched upon literature's perilous seas!" (letter from Stephen Tennant to Elizabeth Lowndes, December 1925). Despite positive reviews of the book, sales proved disappointing. Copies are now scarce.   [Hoare, Philip. Serious Pleasures. p.52-4] Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. First Edition. First (and only) Printing of this scarce book of verse, tales, and illustration, a collaboration between Tennant, "brightest" of the "Bright Young People," and Pamela Grey, Lady Glenconner (famously painted by John Singer Sargent) and Tennant's mother. Blue buckram-backed paper-covered boards, paper title labels printed in black to front board and spine, decorative end papers. Wanting the rare dust wrapper. Royal 8vo (244 x 185mm): [8],64pp, with 32 tipped-in black-and-white plates reproducing pen-and-ink drawings and watercolors by Tennant and decorative end piece. Trivial wear to binding, else about Fine. Pamela Grey contributed the short poems and morality tales for modern life, Tennant, the accompanying illustrations, peopled with a mix of Regency courtiers, nymphs, and fairy tale characters reminiscent of Beardsley. Despite positive reviews, sales were disappointing, and copies are now scarce. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 64p quarto, illustrated with black and white tipped in plates. A very good tight copy in blue boards and cloth. Dinged at the crown reflecting the top of the spine but nothing affecting text or illustrations all of which are accounted for. Tiny bit of wear at 2 corners. Paper labels.