Ellen Thorp (18 results)
Published by Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969., 1969
- Hardcover
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerEx-library copy. Reprint (first published 1964). xii, 191 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Blue cloth rubbed with light spotting, library shelf sticker affixed near spine heel. Foxing and toning to edges; library stamp on bottom edge. Library stamp upon title page; pencil notation on copyright page; to…p corner of pages 189-190 creased from past fold-down; library pocket on rear free endpaper. No other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal. Three ink check marks on Table of Contents page; foxing at top corners of pages 187-191. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Features the following: Foreword by R.C. Simonini, Jr.; THE WRITER AS PARIAH IN THE OLD SOUTH by Willard Thorp; POE IN RICHMOND; THE DOUBLE IMAGE by Robert D. Jacobs; THE IMAGE OF AN ARMY; THE CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHERN FICTION, by Lewis D. Rubin, Jr; MARY JOHNSTON AND THE HISTORIC IMAGINATION by Lawrence G. Nelson; ELLEN GLASGOW AND THE SOUTHERN LITERARY TRADITION by C. Hugh Holman; JAMES BRANCH CABELL AND SOUTHERN ROMANTICISM by Dorothy B. Schlegel; FAULKNER AND THE SOUTH by James B. Meriwether; THE YOUNGEST GENERATION OF SOUTHERN FICTION WRITERS by Richard K. Meeker.
More imagesPublished by 0
- Softcover
Seller: Librairie du Levant, Bayonne, FranceLibrairie du Levant
Contact seller1-star sellerChez l'auteur, imprimé en Rome. In-8° broché de 373pp. Avec un cahier de photographies et cartes en couleur et N&B. Français Très bon état général. Intérieur frais et agréable, comme neuf.
Published by London : Lutterworth, 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 281 p. ; 21 cm. Notes: Fictionalized biography. Bibliography: p. 280-281. Subjects: Hinderer, Anna Martin 1827-1870; Hinde…rer, David; Church Missionary Society; Yoruba (African people) Missions. 3 Kg.
More imagesPublished by Fontana Books
- Softcover
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear consistent with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Creasing visible across spine strip and exterior hinges. Light curling and bending to covers…. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Published by London : Lutterworth, 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
£ 9.61
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First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 281 p. ; 21 cm. Notes: Fictionalized biography. Bibliography: p. 280-281. Subjects: Hinderer, Anna Martin 1827-1870; Hinde…rer, David; Church Missionary Society; Yoruba (African people) Missions. 1 Kg.
- Hardcover
Seller: Christian Value Books, Papanui, New ZealandChristian Value Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Fair
£ 2.21
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair.
Published by Lutterworth Press, Uk, 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, New ZealandBook Express (NZ)
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 6.64
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 281 pages. book sellers stamp front fly.
Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1945
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Your Book Soon, Stroud, GLOS, United KingdomYour Book Soon
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 35.85
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 175 pp blue cloth with silver titles, blue top. Top corners bumped, inscription to ffep, minor reading wear, dust wrapper faded and rubbed.
Published by Rome, Società Tipografica Italia 1970, 1970
- Softcover
Seller: Antiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar), Hasselt, BelgiumAntiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar)
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ILAB
Condition: Used
£ 22.20
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274pp.+ portrait, softcover, 18cm., VG.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 320 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine pictorial red and black with off-white and yellow lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including slight sunning, some scuffs, several chips to the head/tail edges and slight soiling. Age toning, minor offsetting and tape men…ds interiorly. Protective cellophane adhered to the exterior, clipped flap corners. Previous bookshop's small price sticker to the front flap. Boards have slight wear including faint sunning and slight edge wear. Text block has modest wear wear including age toning to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored black. Few, slight marks the front end paper. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column U, ND-U. 1404176. FP New Rockville Stock.
More imagesFor This Cause: The Life of Melchior de Marion Brésillac
Patrick Gantly; Ellen Thorp; Patrick J. Harrington (preface)
Published by SMA Publication, 1992
- Softcover
Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Irelandkillarneybooks
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 19.84
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Scarce paperback, 267 pages, b&w photos and maps in text, NOT ex-library. No ISBN. A good copy with signs of wear (creased lower outer corner of the rear cover, leaned spine, some small grubby handling marks inside covers, shelfwear; faint grubby marks on a few text pages). Unmarked text, free of ins…criptions and stamps. --- A reprint with minor amendments & new cover, preface and illustrations. Melchior-Marie-Joseph de Marion-Brésillac, S.M.A. (1813 - 1859) was a Catholic prelate and the founder of the Society of African Missions.
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1945
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Wordlife books, Earlwood, NSW, AustraliaWordlife books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With dustjacket. Scarce in dust jacket. First edition, 1945. Sunned spine to dust jacket with 10mm losss to head and foot of d/j spine and a few small tears to head of d/j. Uncommon autobiography describing the author`s childhood and youth in Taunggy…i/Burma, which is about 400 miles north of Rangoon and 200 miles west of the border with China before the Japanese conquest of Burma. In this book is a picture of life with the Shan people 30 years before 1945, their way of living under their cheiftains, the Sawbwas, their craftsmanship, their religion, their villages amongst the mountains. No foxing, no toning to text block, quite unusual for a book of this age. Neat original owner's signature inside endpaper pastedown. 176pp. Printed on Wartime Economy Standard paper, which has held up remarkably well.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United KingdomQuair Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 35.00
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, incl. b/w plates. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver, black-stamped design of a snake manilla to upper board. Top edge black. Bottom edges bumped, a trifle rubbed, else, clean and tight. In the striking illustrated dust jacket, featuring the Manchester cotton 'Mammy Clot…h' design: price-clipped, toned, edgewear, nick to centre of spine. Near fine/ very good A lovely copy of Ellen Thorp's sharply-titled account "of a century's work by Britain in teaching Nigeria 'how to live'" (1853-1953), in the striking original dust jacket, with a design based on Manchester cotton 'Mammy Cloth,' produced for export to West Africa.
Language: English
Published by London, Jonathan Cape,, 1945
- First Edition
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, GermanyBooks and Beaches, Anna Bechteler
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
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Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding with unclipped dust jacket, 175 pages, dust jacket a bitt rubbed and sunned on spine, otherwise very good condition. Uncommon autobiography describing the author`s childhood and youth in Taunggyi / Burma, which is about 400 miles north of Rangoon and 200 miles west of the border to Chi…na, where the parrents of the author started to work in 1906. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1956
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Clitheroe, LANCA, United KingdomRichard Thornton Books PBFA
Contact seller4-star sellerAssociation member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 135.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in the rare Dust-Jacket graded Very Good with a couple of tiny nicks to the head of spine.There is one previous name to the front endpaper and one to the half title page with small Nigeria bookshop label to the… same page.Not Price clipped.The dust-jacket design comes from a Manchester cotton design of 'Mammy Cloth' complete with 13 black and white plates.Scarce title on previous slavery in Nigeria and it's growth into becoming a prosperous self sufficient Country.8vo 320pp First Edition 1st Impression [1956].
Published by Cape, c.1956,, 1956
- Hardcover
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.Harry Alter
Contact seller5-star sellerhardcover. Condition: poor. Cape, London, c.1956, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 320pp., water-stained covers, slightly affecting contents, bttom of spine frayed, much foxing, poor $.
Published by White Lotus Press, London, 1945
- Softcover
Seller: SEATE BOOKS, APO, AP, U.S.A.SEATE BOOKS
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Good. no dj. Quiet Skies on Salween. Book.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1956
- Hardcover
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United KingdomBookcase
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 60.00
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Hard. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Very lightly rubbed and bumped, spine sunned, creased and foxed. Foxing to closed edges with the odd small patch throughout, else pp clean and tidy, text and plates bright. Size: 8vo.
