De Locre Elza (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 4to, cloth and boards, 80pp. Edition of 525, our copy unsigned and unnumbered. Merely Fair: missing most of its spine, loosening at the front joint, mild bumps to the edges of the boards, two small dog-ears, a few later pages slightly finger grubby. Approximately 1/5 of the signatures remain unopened. A presentable copy with warts. …

Hardcover. Burnt orange cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; Unpaginated, approx. 80 pp.; 14 bw illustrations. A collection of letters from Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, to various recipients, including Barbara Villiers (most well known as the mistress of King Charles II), Sir Charles Sedley, John Dryden, Charles Cotton, and others; Includes an essay "A Defence of Barbara Villiers" by Elza de Locre; Hand-numbered, no. 273 of 480 copies in this edition. VG (Very light wear to extremities). Jeanne Bellon (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. #212 of 525cc signed by De Locre. Offsetting to endpapers, boards rubbed with some fraying to the spine ends and a split to the top of the front, else a good example.

8vo. 124pp. B/w frontispiece portrait. Original stiffened wrappers. A fine copy. Edition of 150 copies. This an out of series editor's presentation copy signed and inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. [32]pp. Cloth and patterned paper over boards. Moderate general wear with the corners worn through, spine a bit sunned and top corners of pages with a light crease throughout, very good. Number 74 of 175 Signed copies. The troubled poet's work was not well-received during her life, but seems to be getting some degree of critical reevaluation. A volume of her selected verse was published in 2019.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, printed about 1930. This is Number 291 of 480 copies made "on a dutch mouldmade paper". Rough cut pages. Former owner's name on first page. Very nice brown cloth cover with embossed decorative border, Gold lettering on spine. Corners are lightly rubbed & lightly bumped. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Limited. Hardback, gilt title to red cloth spine, with decorated paper boards. With clear protective cover. 24.5 x 17cm. [32]pp. No. 11 of a limited edition of only 175 copies, signed by Elza de Locre. Extremities slightly rubbed, spine a little marked. Signed by Author.…

FIRST EDITION, 140/150 COPIES (from an edition of 184 copies) signed by the editor, monochrome photographs amongst introductory material, pp. 122, crown 8vo, original white wrappers printed in black, fine. A marginal, enigmatic figure of literary London entre les deux guerres, whose association with Jack Lindsay and his Fanfrolico Press is consolidated by this revival of the imprint; she had formed an earlier association with the family of Edward Gordon Craig, through her first marriage to his son Robert - and for a time lived with the mater familias, Ellen Terry. The intrigue of her life is reflected in the lyrical ellipticisms of her verse. This selection of her work includes uncollected and unpublished poetry.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 79 pp., illustrations. some cover wear to edges, abrasions along spine edge, 1st & last blank pages are discolored, edition page is numbered 31 (of 525) & signed by author, dedication page is signed & dated (1989) by illustrator (Jack Lindsay) 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. Octavo, original gilt cloth. A fine copy. One of 34 numbered, hard-bound copies. We will advise postage costs and delivery times, which may vary from those quoted by ABE.

Record of a lyrical experience. Pp. [32]; med. 8vo; qr. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cream & red floral patterned papered boards, slightly soiled, corners lightly worn, slightly bruised at foot of spine; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, free endpapers faintly offset, occasional slight soiling; Fanfrolico Press, London, 1930. Edition limited to 175 numbered copies, signed by the author. Arnold, 41; Chaplin, p. 70; Ridler, 11. *The author's second book of poetry. A copy we handled some time ago bore this signed inscription from Jack Lindsay, tipped-in after upper free endpaper: 'I still think the two little books of Elza's poems show a genuine originality despite the limitations. Practically all her letters are gone, but I turned up a bit of one the other day and felt it had the same strange quality as her verse'. In his inscription for Harry Chaplin's copy of this book, Jack Lindsay explained that no colophon was included in the book: 'partly because the poems exactly filled out the pages and because this was entirely my own work - setting and printing.'. Signed.…