Bryher Winifred Ellerman (42 results)

Softcover First Printing. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition (stated) hardcover with excellent hinges and unmarked pages, and good exterior (spine and lower corner cloth faded, light handling, slight wear). Without DJ. 316 pages. [1.3 lbs]. Book.

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Black cloth spine over blue handmade paper-covered boards. A few light dings along front edges, neat ownership front free endpaper, near fine in near fine dust jacket toned a shade along spine with some edgewear overall.

Very Good to Fine. Price-clipped dust jacket, 12mo., 118 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1963). 320pp. VG/VG copy; dust jacket lightly edge worn with small closed tear to front top edge, small chipped losses to spine ends, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. Light blue paper covered boards over white cloth spine. 119 pp. Illustrated with photographs of Paestum by Islay de Courcy Lyons. Fine, touch of fiant foxing to the spine cloth. In very good dust jacket. A novel set among the greying ruins of the columned temples of Paestum, an other of the author's series touching significant moments in history when mankind has faced the dissolution of an epoch. The daughter of the wealthiest man in England at the turn of the 20th century, Ellerman adopted the pen name "Bryher" when she entered the famed 1902s literary world of Paris whose epicenter was Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. bookshop. She was a friend of Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittlew and others of that period; openly lesbian in Paris, she entered into a marriage of convenience with Robert McAlmon in order to hide her sexuality from her family in England. They divorced after her father's death in 1927. She used her wealth to suppor many new or struggling authors, artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, the "little magazines" of Montparnasse and beginning around 1930, became interested in filmmaking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. Stated First edition. 190 pages, index. Nice bright copy in a complete dust jacket with original price on inside flap. Jacket has scuff to front cover and some light edjewear. Original price on inside flap, jacket is in a mylar protector. Ships in box. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 8 halftone photographs by Islay de Courcy Lyons. Dust jacket (unclipped; small chips; tears). Very good. 119 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. A short parable of people who try to escape fascism and join a utopia, by the author best known for her historical novels of life in ancient Rome. Bryher was married for a time to Robert McAlmon, and later to Kenneth Macpherson, with whom she published the influential cinema magazine *Close Up*. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. xii, 190 pp. Very good in original red cloth boards and gilt titling to spine, with toning to endpapers and light foxing to head of text block, and very good pictorial dust jacket with sunning to spine. The sequel to Bryher's earlier autobiography, The Heart to Artemis. Features her relationship with the poet H.D. and the hardships of World War 2 in London.…

dj. First Edition. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK Edition. Names inside front cover; dustwrapper has several creases and small tears, and small piece missing from back. Novel about two Greek traders in the Second Punic War. According to Wikipedia, the author "was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lesbian lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Hitler's Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist." 2A2.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, including small tears and chips. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished. Spots of foxing on the half-title and title page. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.…

First edition. Hardcover. Edges and prelims slightly spotted, bookseller's stamp on fly-leaf, o/w very good in good price-clipped dustjacket with a few closed tears and light soiling. Novel set during the Second Punic War. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 119pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Light foxing on the spine and the endleaves, near fine in a lightly toned and foxed, very good dust jacket, with modest wear along the topedge.

Condition: New. The Heart To Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs (Hardback or Cased Book).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1964 reprint, Collins 1st hardback with 256 pages. Hardback without wrapper with boards clean showing gentle signs of use. Pages clean with no folds or creases looking carefully read with a little light natural tanning to edges. Clean, lightly used copy. d1. Nita Sowter (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

First edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers lightly spotted, bookseller's stamp on front paste-down, o/w very good in like dustjacket slightly browned and rubbed and a little worn at edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from black and white photograps by Islay deCourcy Lyons. Near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with slight toning and light edgewear. A novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper.

Condition: Near fine. dj. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Gilt green cloth. First edition, preceding the UK edition by a year. Bryher's powerful historical novel depicts the struggle between an emerging barbarian power and an old culture, it pitted a Roman army of mostly farmers against the highly trained officers of Carthage. Near fine in very good, pictorial dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends with the proceeds of a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist. .…

dj. First Edition. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in lightly foxed and frayed dust jacket. Bryher (1894 - 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, who supported many artists, writers, and friends from a fortune derived from the Ellerman ship enterprises. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, her friends being the usual suspects. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist, as exemplified by this novel that brings to life a ruined city in Italy populated by three ancient Greek temples of the Doric order. "The Gate to the Sea is always the way to freedom." -- quoted from the upper fold-in. .…

First edition. Hardcover. A touch of edge foxing, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket. A historical novel set in Jacobean England. Jacket handsomely illustrated by Dick Hart.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Publisher Collins, London 1964. First edition. 1st ed. Good condition. In blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped, slight wear to ends of spine. Pages tanned and edges foxed. Tight binding, all pages intact, no markings or inscriptions. Original pictorial unclipped d/j in fair condition, tanned and foxed, several small tears.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 316 pp. Very good in original orange cloth boards that have some rubbing along the bottom edges, top edge gilt, and a near fine illustrated dust jacket. This copy bears an Advance Copy insert from early 1962.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in brown cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 192pp. Not library copy, name/date in ink to ffep. (37/5).

FIRST EDITION 8vo. clothbound hardback in dust jacket. 126pp., illustrated with b/w photographs by Islay de Courcy Lyons. Rubber-stampped "62" to ffep. No other markings or inscriptions. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Light toning to endpapers only. Some wear and soiling to dust jacket with a few faint, small red and blue biro scribbles. Overall a VERY GOOD COPY in Sound dust jacket. (Shelf 200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.