Ashton Winifred (60 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Clean unmarked interior text. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and page block edges. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. This book is from a library and may include stamps, tape, and markings. Dust jacket condition is Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Errata slip tipped in. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-Library. First American edition. First printing. Dane was an English novelist and playwright known for writing the play, "A Bill of Divorcement" made into a movie starring Katherine Hepburn as well as the screenplay for "Anna Karenina" starring Greta Garbo. She also won an Academy Award and she was the inspiration for Noël Coward's play, "Blithe Spirit." Ex-library with usual markings in a worn dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition / Unstated Printing. First edition / unstated printing. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket : Spine slightly faded, slight wear at top of spine. 14.5 x 21. hard cover. 703pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 703 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with vignette. Inscribed by the author. First American edition, first published in Britain in 1931. Dane's 1931 novel Broome Stages followed the fortunes of an acting family from the time of Queen Anne to the present. Broome Stages became a surprise bestseller. Condition: Inscribed on front end paper. Slightly shaken, corners bumped and rubbed, spine gilt dulled, soiled. News clipping glued to back end paper about the performance as a play. About very good. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 116 pp. Stated first edition. Black cloth over boards. Corners and spine ends bumped, rubbed; edge wear, light stains to cloth, spine titles faded, binding secure, spine square, clean interior. Set in 18th century London and in the present about the tragic suicide death of Thomas Chatterton. Book.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages; Physical description: 22 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 -- Great Britain -- History. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages; Physical description: 22 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 -- Great Britain -- History. 1 Kg.…

Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-43 [44-48: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], original yellow wrappers printed in black, sewn. First edition. Limited to 250 copies signed by Ashton. Part of "Benn's Yellow Books" series. Wrappers dusty, else a very good copy. (#160165). Signed.

Octavo, 48 pp., two-part boards. First edition. Short story about the godson of William Shakespeare. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing to spine panel. (#133923).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Signed, numbered limited edition (534/1000). Good condition, medium octavo, patterned boards, black cloth spine, wear to corners and spine extremities, light foxing, viii plus 110 pages. [QP]. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 28pp. Clean copy inside & out. No inscriptions. Also includes separate additional visitor leaflet. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

In-8° pp. VIII-177, leg. in cartone edit. con sovracc. Esemplare in lingua inglese. Prima ediz, Buono stato.

Octavo, original blue cloth. First edition. NCBEL IV 928. Armorial bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#115316).

Condition: Good. FOUR VOLUME SET. 8vo. 378 pp. Very Good+, Black Cloth On Decorative Boards with rubbing, & edge wear; glue remnants from labels on end papers; some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in green on a creamy white paper label on the spine. The covers are slightly stained. 135 pages. A previous owner's note is penned at the top of the front endpaper. Very good. From the library of George R.M. Ewing, Jr., with his pictorial bookplate, designed for him by Rockwell Kent, mounted on the front pastedown. …

Hard cover, 20.5 x 13cm, 22 pages, , no 209, signed by Author, cover showing a little wear, corners & spine slightly bumped, rear cover has two 1.5 x 3cm stains, end pages have foxing, binding fragile in a couple of areas. Clemence Dane is the pseudonymn of Winifred Ashton.A fictionalized account of the execution of Anne Boleyn.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original lilac cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Cloth generally sunned, faint stamp (Joint Fiction Reserve) on verso of title page, poor quality wartime paper lightly browned throughout, good. Dane wrote some 30 novels up to 1965, but probably achieved her greatest success writing screenplays for the cinema. First the Blade was her second novel: uncommon. Book.…

Signed Limited Edition, 129/275 copies: Hardback, quarter-bound in navy cloth, gold titles, blue and buff bds., 130 x 205 mm., 200 g., 22 pp., signed by the author, Clemence Dane on frontis, VG/VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book measures 27x20cm, 133pp. Limited to 250 Signed copies, this being number 119. Bound in original publishers quarter cloth with title label on spine, decorative paper backed boards. Binding with some wear, rubbed corners and edges, Binding in good clean condition. Internally pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very good. London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1924)., (1924). Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is chipped with its spine & extremities darkened & with tears to & pieces out of the top edge, affecting the titling. [vii] & 93 pages with an errata slip bound in. There is a small stain to the front pastedown & some very light staining to the front endpaper. The fore-edge is foxed with occasional light foxing to the front edges of the leaves. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. Clemence Dane is the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton. Signed by the author as Clemence Dane on the half-title. Also initialed by her, "WA", on the dust wrapper. …

Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1964 First Edition, 1 Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace shelfwear. History of London's Covent Garden, referred by Londoners simply as "The Garden", and today's home to the Royal Opera House, itself known as "Covent Garden". Other historical, buildings, theatres & entertainment facilities that occupuy the area include the London Transport Museum & the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Author, British novelist, playwright & artist Clemence Dane (1888 - 1965), pseudonym of Winifred Ashton, resided in Covent Garden for some 30 years. A story of how open fields of the 7th century behind the country house of Queen Elizabeth's Burleigh, evolved from a social center w/markets to a world center of entertainment & arts. Volume concludes w/the sentence: "They say Paradise is a garden" . a complimentary reference to the title, "London has a garden." 211 pgs w/archival maps & photos in 11 chapters. Archival Photos & Maps (illustrator).…

First Edition: Hardback, black bds., gold titles, 140 x 220 mm., 800 g., 689 pp., original pictorial dw., designed by Clemence Dane, unclipped, rubbed at crns. and edges with some chipping, G+/VG copy.

Condition: VG. London 1955 3rd Michael Joseph. 8vo., 689pp., hardcover. **Signed by Dane on titlepage and inscribed and signed again by her on the front end paper. VG in Good DJ (painted by Dane), light wear, a few small closed tears and chips.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO30056761: non daté. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 87 pages. Ouvrage en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

No Binding. Condition: Good. English Novelist and Playwright. [110 x 140 mm. / 4¼ x 5½ ins.] Signed in ink, on thin paper. In good condition. [Within the UK postage is not charged. Outside the UK, shipping is by airmail and at cost.]. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good in the original cloth.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.

19 x 12. Solapas. 175 págs.

Tela con sobrecub. Condition: Bien. Sin Sobrecubierta. Traducción del inglés por E. Toda Valcárcel. -- 285 p.

Papel. Condition: Aceptable. Cub. ilustrada en color. -- Revista Literaria Novelas y Cuentos, año XXXIV, nº 1632, 19 de agosto de 1962.