Field Pseudonym Katherine Bradley Edith (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. Re-spined in quarter brown cloth and green paper over boards. Some modest soiling on the boards, else near fine. One of 400 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large 8vo; (12), liii, (15) pages; heavy gray paper backstrip, paper title label, buff-colored patterned paper sides, with a repetitive peacock design in dark green. Text block uncut and mostly unopened. Printed in black and red on unbleached Arnold stock, in Vale and Greek type. Ricketts designed woodcut title page, and ornaments. Limited to 240 copies. Usual slight tanning to free endpapers, else a near fine copy. References: Capelleveen Rickets Checklist, A90a. L'Art Ancien S.A., Bulletin 25, Ricketts Collection, 61; Ricketts Bibliography, page xxx.

Hardback. Decorative title-page. Paper-covered boards with black illustration of crown entwined with branch. This play (if you will) is by the aunt and niece, whose extraordinary literary output was well received under the pseudonym Michael Field. But when Robert Browning revealed the authors' identity they found their audience less enthusiastic. VG- (exterior hinges weak; spine darkened. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Largely uncut pages). Extra spine labels bound at end.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. Art Nouveau-designed decorated paper over boards, designed by Selwyn Image. Publisher's file copy with their rubberstamp, and with the bookplate of noted collector Mark Samuels Lasner, both on the front pastedown, tiny split at top joint, a handsome, very good or better copy.

Leather Bound. 204p., errata sheet bound-in, preface, dramatis personae, bookplate of Masonic Library in DC (withdrawn) some unopened pages, covers bowed-out, soiling to covers and endpapers, hinges sound, first edition of both titles (both later republished separately) in white vellum boards with red titles and device, top-edge-gilt. Katherine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913) assumed the pen name Michael Field after writing under another set of names, Arran and Isla Leigh. They lived openly as lovers. Bradley was associated with John Ruskin's utopian project, Guild of St. George during her years at Cambridge. The couple died of cancer within eight months of each other. First publication under this pen name.