Katherine Bradley; Edith Cooper (35 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Condition: New. Michael Field was the pseudonym used by Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) - coauthors and lovers - for the poetry and verse drama they published. This book presents their love letters, which contain poems and insights into the dramas and their production and are supplemented by annotation and a biographical introduction. Editor(s): Bickle, Sharon. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBF; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612. . 2008. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. A Good Firm copy of this Limited Edition in quarter green paper and decorative boards. Some rubbing to paper spine label. Most pages are uncut. Small chips to paper at top and bottom spine. 85pp 8vo.

Condition: Fair. Used - acceptable - cover shows extensive use wear with fading to color, soiling, and wear to the cloth at the spine ends - the title panel on the spine shows definite scuffing - a sound useful copy.

hardbound. Condition: Very Good in fair dustwrapper. Numbered limited edition of this selection from the poems of 'Michael Field', published by The Poetry Bookshop, being No. XV of an edition of 50 copies on de Haesbeek watermark paper stock; Michael Field was the pen-name of Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper (an aunt and a niece); their poems were well received, but eventually fell into obscurity - some suggest this was due to the discovery of the gender of the poet(s); the Poetry Bookshop operated in the Bloomsbury district from 1913-1926 and published living poets as well as selling books; cream cloth boards with gilt titling to front and spine, untrimmed pages; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, mild tanning to edges of some pages, bookshop label to front pastedown, minor toning to edges of boards, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper fairly heavily edgeworn to top edge, with some loss, 7 x 1.5 cm loss to rear panel near fold of flap. Dustwrapper. 142pp. 8vo. Very Good in fair dustwrapper.

Collected by Emily C. Fortey. The Preface by Fr. Vincent McNabb. First edition. 8vo, xi, [1], 206pp. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Oxford, Basil Blackwell. Fortey describes the volume as a gathering of ?all that could be called religious poems in the treasured MS. left in my care." Contrary to the claim in the title, Fortey indicates that ?some half-dozen of [the poems in this volume] appeared in Catholic magazines during the life-time of the poets." the Preface is written by McNabb was the poets' confessor. Ink note on verso of half-title explaining the authors' pseudonym; uneven fading to boards. Overall about very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. Re-spined in quarter brown cloth and green paper over boards. Some modest soiling on the boards, else near fine. One of 400 copies.

Printed Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 142pp. Endpapers very slightly foxed, heavier at fore edge, neat name & date of publication & three tiny faded segments of spine corresponding to light wear at scarce dust jacket's head & tail as well as a tiny fragment lost from its mid section (lettering entirely unaffected). Otherwise a bright copy in protective transparent archival acetate. Book.

First edition. 8vo, 147pp. Original green cloth with cover design featuring a stylised tree and lamp by Charles Ricketts stamped in gilt; gilt lettering to spine. London, Eveleigh Nash. n.d. Bookplate and ownership stamp to front pastedown. Library markings at foot of spine and rubber stamps on title-page and in text; five digit number in pen to verso of title-page. Some uneven minor fading to rear board. Ricketts's cover design bright.

First edition. 8vo, vii, [1], 113pp, [1]. Original purple-blue cloth with cover design featuring a stylised altar by Charles Ricketts stamped in blind; gilt lettering to spine. London and Edinburgh, Sands & Co. n.d. Edith Cooper's last work, published the year she died. Katharine Bradley died within 9 months of her. Cloth rather sunned and dulled along spine and along top and fore edges, corners bumped. Gift inscription dated 1929, on front free endpaper. Internally clean.

Condition: Very Good-. Location:436 Decorations designed and cut into wood by Charles Ricketts. Slight tear to crown, and price sticker removed, slightly marring back board. Sunning to both end papers. Fep has "Vale Press" in ink calligraphy, traces of a removed bookplate, and a tiny publisher's bibliographic description pasted in. The next page has a small sheet with handwritten identification of the authors, with a list of their works, initialed P.T.D. 436.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large 8vo; (12), liii, (15) pages; heavy gray paper backstrip, paper title label, buff-colored patterned paper sides, with a repetitive peacock design in dark green. Text block uncut and mostly unopened. Printed in black and red on unbleached Arnold stock, in Vale and Greek type. Ricketts designed woodcut title page, and ornaments. Limited to 240 copies. Usual slight tanning to free endpapers, else a near fine copy. References: Capelleveen Rickets Checklist, A90a. L'Art Ancien S.A., Bulletin 25, Ricketts Collection, 61; Ricketts Bibliography, page xxx.

First edition. 8vo, iv, 312pp. Original parchment covered boards, stamped in red, yellow endpapers. London, George Bell & Sons; Clifton, J. Barker & Son, n.d. Parchment rather marked, red lettering a touch faded, internally in very good condition. .

First separate edition: the play was originally published in 1884 with another play, Callirrhoë. Octavo. pp lxxx. Printed in black and red. Wood-engraved rose border (used twice) and two large ornamental initials all by Charles Ricketts. The only book in which this border design was used. Boards with two different patterned papers; spine label. A play. 210 copies were printed, of which 23 were destroyed in a fire in 1899.Endpapers tanned. Covers rubbed at spine and edges. Spine label darkened. Very good.

First edition. Octavo. pp lxxxv. Prelims printed in black and red. The first page of text has a decorative border by Charles Ricketts. Quarter green paper boards with a decorative leaf design by Ricketts. A play set in ancient Rome.Mottling to spine (possibly from binder's glue?). Spine label rubbed, affecting several letters of the title. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Very good.

Hardback. Decorative title-page. Paper-covered boards with black illustration of crown entwined with branch. This play (if you will) is by the aunt and niece, whose extraordinary literary output was well received under the pseudonym Michael Field. But when Robert Browning revealed the authors' identity they found their audience less enthusiastic. VG- (exterior hinges weak; spine darkened. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Largely uncut pages). Extra spine labels bound at end.

First edition. 8vo, vi, [2], 77pp, [1]. Rebound, without the printed wrappers, in 3/4 leather, red cloth, raised spine bands, gilt embellishment, and gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers. London, George Bell & Sons; Clifton, J. Baker & Son. n.d. Rubbing along joints, and at head and tail of spine, and at corners. Stains to the upper board; foxing to preliminaries.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. Art Nouveau-designed decorated paper over boards, designed by Selwyn Image. Publisher's file copy with their rubberstamp, and with the bookplate of noted collector Mark Samuels Lasner, both on the front pastedown, tiny split at top joint, a handsome, very good or better copy.

Leather Bound. 204p., errata sheet bound-in, preface, dramatis personae, bookplate of Masonic Library in DC (withdrawn) some unopened pages, covers bowed-out, soiling to covers and endpapers, hinges sound, first edition of both titles (both later republished separately) in white vellum boards with red titles and device, top-edge-gilt. Katherine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913) assumed the pen name Michael Field after writing under another set of names, Arran and Isla Leigh. They lived openly as lovers. Bradley was associated with John Ruskin's utopian project, Guild of St. George during her years at Cambridge. The couple died of cancer within eight months of each other. First publication under this pen name.

First Edition. End-papers just a little darkened and covers very slightly bowed, otherwise a exceptionally nice copy in the original plain tissue wrapper, that is darkened and just a little creased and frayed. Loosely inserted are a number of advertising leaflets, including one for Elkin Mathews and John Lane for other books by Field and another for the "Bohn's Libraries" series Original cream parchment, stamped in red.

on Friday October 27th 1893 by Michael Field, Author of ?Stephania a Trialogue'. First edition, limited to 120 copies. 48pp, [2pp ads for Michael Field], 14pp publisher's ads, dated October 1893), [1].Original green cloth covered boards, red lettering to upper board and spine. London, Elkin Mathews & John Lane. Front cover design of a bullrush and two looped rings, used previously as colophon for Stephania, by Selwyn Image. Nelson, BH, 1893.22/16.  Minor rubbing/damp-staining to lower corners of both boards, otherwise in very good condition.

First edition. Tall 8vo, 85pp. Original grey paper spine, white printed label, with green decorated paper covered boards, repeating leaf design. Woodcuts by Ricketts, printed in black and red; London, The Ballantyne Press. One of 280 copies. Van Capelleveen, A56a. Minute splits at head of spine, rubbing to paper spine label, otherwise near fine.