Doris Langley Moore, Signed (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth covered boards. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning.

Paperback. Printed pages: 216. Condition: Very Good Plus. New Edition. New edition issued to commemorate the bicentenary of Byron's birth. Includes a new foreword by Michael Foot, MP and former leader of the Labour Party. Unread copy. Some shelf wear to covers, slight fading to spine, very clean text throughout. Inscribed and signed by Michael Foot to half title page: 'Godfrey, best wishes, Michael Foot'. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £12.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £16.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 5.25 x 8 inches (12.5 x 20 cm). Signed by Author.

12mo. [ii], 216. Original publisher's cream wraps with black lettering at the spine and front cover. Title page signed by politician Michael Foot, who wrote the foreword. ISBN: 090669132X Some very light shelfwear at the corners and edges of covers. Very slight tanning at the edges of covers. Otherwise a very good, clean second hand copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. While forging a copy of Byron's burned memoirs, a second hand bookdealer's girlfriend becomes overly interested in the poet, causing an obsessive jealousy. For Byron lovers, and a crime story with a monstrous ending. First printing of the reprint edition. Spine cocked with handling creases. Previous owner's information on the half title page, along with the signature of the British political leader: "Best wishes Michael Foot.". Signed by the Foreword Author.

Paperback. Condition: F/ F/ND. y First Thus Revised & reprinted, 1988. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1988 (1959)* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Textual cover in black on creamy white cover within a red frame, soft card covers. Very slight damp stain to top edge of back cover. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Signed to the half title page by The Right Hon. Michael Foot MP. who provided the new foreword. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. A few very light marks to top edge. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 216 pp. text.* Product Description:- Reprinted on the occasion of the Byron Bicentenary from the edition first published in 1959, This book has a new foreword by the Rt.Hon Michael Foot, M.P. who says of the reprint??Byron-lovers ? many of them Mrs Moore?s own creations ? will be eager to have copies. Byron haters, if there are any of the species left, could start their re-education here. However, the novel itself can be read as an exciting and immaculately written detective story, with a monstrous ending. The story revolves around an out of work author, Quentin Williams, working in a second hand book shop who decides to forge a Byron manuscript and to pass it on to an American anitquarian manuscript dealer. Whilst he works on it he encourages his girlfriend, Jocasta, to research Byron?s works and she falls under the spell of the words she uncovers. The shadow of the world famous writer becomes Quentin?s adversary although he himself becomes a master of the ?Byronic? style.* This is a FINE copy of the reprint, 1st.thus,with absolutely minimal shelf wear.* 1988-01-01. y.

Large 8vo. pp 511. Original publisher's olive green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, 'To John Curtis, with regards from Doris Langley Moore - Nov. 1974'. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Revised Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed by Seaver and with two letters to Seaver loosely inserted. From George Seaver's own library through the Zozimus (Wyse Jackson) sale 2021. Geroge Seaver was an English biographer and polar enthusiast. In 1946, Seaver was appointed bishop's vicar of Kilkenny Cathedral in Ireland, but even after his retirement his interest in polar affairs and writing biographies remained until his death in 1976. Physical description: 335 pages frontispiece, plates (including portraits), facsimiles 23 cm. Subjects: Nesbit, E. (Edith) 1858-1924. Nesbit, E. (Edith) 1858-1924; Biography. English writers; biography. 1 Kg.

Revised Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed by Seaver and with two letters to Seaver loosely inserted. From George Seaver's own library through the Zozimus (Wyse Jackson) sale 2021. Geroge Seaver was an English biographer and polar enthusiast. In 1946, Seaver was appointed bishop's vicar of Kilkenny Cathedral in Ireland, but even after his retirement his interest in polar affairs and writing biographies remained until his death in 1976. Physical description: 335 pages frontispiece, plates (including portraits), facsimiles 23 cm. Subjects: Nesbit, E. (Edith) 1858-1924. Nesbit, E. (Edith) 1858-1924; Biography. English writers; biography. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Georgiana Frost (illustrator). First edition. A signed limited edition work by Doris Langley Moore, advising the reader on how to lead a fashionable life. A limited edition of two hundred copies bound in parchment, this being numbered ninety two.Signed by the author to the limitation leaf.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A charming discussion on how to lead a fashionable life, by one of the first and most important female fashion historians, Doris Langley Moore.Moore also wrote biographies on Lord Byron and his daughter Ada Lovelace, and founded the Fashion Museum in Bath.With in-text illustrations by Georgiana Frost. In the original publisher's paper covered boards, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, generally smart. Spine and extremities are a little sunned. Light spots to the boards and spine. Boards are bowed. Scattered spots to the endpapers. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with loss to the head and tail of the spine, and tears to the spine. Spine is a little age-toned, only a few small marks to the wraps, including some spots to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. signed by author. book.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original faded aubergine parchment covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt tulip flower vase and wine glass to the upper panel, top edge gilt. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [iv] 296 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. As mentioned the boards are faded, touch of foxing to the end papers, boards slightly sprung and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. No. 20 of 200 Limited Edition copies bound in parchment and SIGNED by the author. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.25 x 7.5 in. vii + [i], 296 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white drawings by Georgiana Frost. Near fine in original lavender-colored parchment, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, with lavender ribbon marker, boards splayed. Very good dust jacket, small chip from front spine panel, spine-faded. Limited issue, numbered 96 of 200 copies and signed by Doris Langley Moore.