Chisholm Duncan (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Inscription on the first page, typically just a name but may include a dedication or a brief personal message.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A few age spots and slight edgewear. Darroch, Bob (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, booksellers 'Signed Copy' band present, not price clipped (£25.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 402pp, illustrated, illustrated endpapers. Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. She was born in 1900, the daughter of a progressive mother and architect father whose friends included Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, Frances worked in Francis Birrell's and Bunny Garnett's bookshop in London. She soon became part of the Bloomsbury group encountering Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, the Bells, Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge. She and Ralph fell in love and married in 1933. During the Second World War they were committed pacifists and opened their house, Ham Spray to numerous waifs and strays of war. After it was over they enjoyed the happiest times of their lives together, entertaining friends such as E.M. Forster, Robert Kee and Duncan Grant. Frances' life changed abruptly with two sudden and unexpected deaths. Ralph had a heart attack in 1960 and three years later their only son Burgo, died aged 28 from a brain haemorrhage. 'I have utterly lost heart, I want no more of this cruel life,' Frances was to write later. However, she survived, indeed prospered, for another four decades, showing an astonishing appetite for life. Her diaries (which she continued to write until her death in 2004) chronicle her life from the 1930s onwards. Their publication brought her recognition and acclaim, and earned her the right to be seen not as a minor character on the Bloomsbury stage but standing at the centre of her own. Scarce signed. Jacket photos after Frances Partridge, Duncan Grant, Quentin Bell et al (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 189 pages. ex-library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition. Preface by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Drawings by Leonard Penrice. Quarto. 67pp. Gilt-stamped red leather spine with green papercovered boards with red illustration on the front. Leather spine modestly dry and worn, near fine. This is number 57 of 350 copies Signed by both Glen and Penrice on the limitation page.…

Vintage production material from the 1927 silent film, including a 13-page shooting schedule and a 30-page "costume plot" layout. Costume materials with manuscript pencil annotations to several pages, noting deletions and costumes to rent. A broad satire, based on the 1923 musical play by Catherine Chisholm Cushing, which was in turn based on two key figures (the titular Topsy and Eva, played by Rosetta and Vivian Duncan) from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The Duncan Sisters were a popular vaudeville duo in the 1920s, largely known for their long-standing roles in Cushing's play (which they would perform for over two decades) with Vivian as Eva and Rosetta in blackface as Topsy. Shooting schedule: Self wrappers. Title page present, undated, noted as Shooting Schedule and Character Plot, with credits for screenwriter Los Weber. 13 leaves, with last page of text numbered 12. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with a silver prong. "Costume plot": Without wrappers and title page, presumably as issued. 30 leaves, not numbered. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, partially bound with two paper clips.…