Edited by Barbara Strachey (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st US Printing. DJ is in a mylar protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. very good +. First American edition. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. Red cloth spine with tan paper boards. Condition is NEAR FINE ; like new on all points. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; not clipped, no edge wear, like new. Letters. Stax.

First edition Very close to fine and bright in like illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Nicely illustrated with photographs.

First British 8vo, cloth. 319 pp, 49 b/w illustrations, index. 0575032278 Very good in dj.

Cloth & Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Mary Berenson. Slight foxing to top edge. Shelf wear and a couple of small tears to edge of D/J. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. In 1891 Mary Smith Costelloe - born in Philadelphia of wealthy Quaker parents and married to a London barrister - left her Catholic husband and two small daughters for love of Bernard Berenson and the Italian Renaissance art of which he was to become the foremost expert of his time. Mary loved Bernard, learned from him, quarreled with him, and persuaded him to write. Nine years later, when her first husband died, she married him. This book tells the story of her life, revealing her complex personality through excerpts selected from her letters and diaries. Mary Berenson was a talented letter writer, frank, witty and possessed of a fine sense of detail. Writing literally thousands of letters and keeping a diary, she described this rich life and and herself. What emerges is the portrait of a fascinating age and an amazing woman, modern, independent, intelligent, irascible, and, in her fashion, faithful to B.B. 319 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavier fading to the spine. A little age-toning and spotting to the edges of the text block. Text complete, clean and tight other than a little spotting to the blanks and endpapers; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over quarter-bound red on grey boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1 kg); pp 319; Index; Contains: Black & white photographs; Appendices (2); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #190229 ||.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. 20x12.5cm. 319 pages with index plus an 8 page section of black & white photos. Flat spine has a light crease. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref XE-EL.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large octavo 319pp. Black and white illustrations. Navy blue cloth, gilt. Very light shelf rubbing to tail of spine, else a clean tight copy. Pink pictorial and printed dustwrapper not price clipped.