Edith Ruddick (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Life story of the Scottish actress. She appeared in the first revival of A Satire of the Three Estates at the Edinburgh Festival in 1948 and in the film Local Hero. Fine with no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Fair ++. Third Edition. 388 pages incl index & appendices. Mauve-background dustjacket has chipping to spine-ends, splits to hinge-ends, chipping to corners, light white stain to top front, light wear to edges, light surface wear. Hardback binding has moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners,slight white mark to top front edge. Foxing to end-papers & page-edges which are slightly darkened. Ink names to flyleaf, page-edges and preliminary pages foxed and lightly browned o/w pages clean. B&W diagrams. Ruddick, Miss. M. (Illustrator) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Second Edition. Copy in orage cloth on boards with black title on spine. Spine is sunned with some carry over to top edge of upper cover. Boards a little grubby along edges and lower edges has a couple of small knocks. Blue ink crossout on FFE. Clean text with b/w line illustrations. Ruddick, M (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1995. x,130pp. B&W illustrations. "An account of the life and career of the Scottish actress Edith Ruddick, (Brill) whose Jewish family came to live in Dunfermline from Latvia in 1901.From her early childhood memories in Scotland, the author describes how war and marriage shaped her career, a career that has encompassed BBC Radio's Children's Hour and Drama alongside Stanley Baxter, Duncan Macrae, and Fay Compton, to working with Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster in Local Hero in 1986. Interlacing episodes with the famous and not so famous, there are tantalizing and charming glimpses of theater, early radio, television, and cinema." Both book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no inscriptions.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. 388pp, index, bw diagrams throughout. Or tan cloth lacking jacket. Spine and board edges toned, page edges evenly toned, endpapers foxed, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Size: 8vo. Ruddick, Miss M. (illustrator).