Glover Dorothy (32 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 160 pp. ; color illustrations ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 1570760357; 9781570760358 ; LCCN: 95-61236 ; OCLC: 34116322 ; LC: SB432.5; Dewey: 635.9/86 ; "An Eddison-Sadd edition" ; red cloth with gold lettering, in color photographic dustjacket ; "Over 100 imaginative ideas for gardening up, or down, for you to copy, each photographed in.full color, includes hanging baskets, window-boxes, raised beds and arches, spectacular effects for banks, balconies and boundaries, all practical details for every display provided"--jacket ; fantastic living arrangements of plants, especially provided with planting plans ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. slight wear to cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Glover (illustrator).

Condition: New. pp. iii + 66, Frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Complimentary slip from publisher laid-in. Shelfwear to jacket, scuffs to spine ends and bump to spine head. Light tanning to endpapers and scores to page block. Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 325 grams. First Fictions Introductions 9. Stories by new writers. Uncorrected advance proof.

Condition: New. pp. iii + 66.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 160 unnumbered pages ; 27 cm ; ISBN 9780747212119, 0747212112 ; OCLC 60282464 ; red cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; 'The Hanging Garden' is full of ideas to help you create stunning displays of flowers in hanging baskets, window boxes, raised beds and arches. ; SUE FISHER is Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University. She is author of In the Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions and co-editor of Negotiating the Margins: The Gendered Discourses of Power and Resistance, both published by Rutgers University Press. ; Contents: The evolution of the hanging garden -- the planting displays -- Baskets and boxes: annuals and bedding plants -- Hearty half-hardies: frost-tender perennials -- Anything goes: annuals and bedders in unusual containers -- Small-scale versatility: perennials, alpines and shrubs -- What goes up.: climbers and trailers -- A cook's delight: vegetables, fruits and herbs -- Elegant foliage, cool contrasts: ferns and grasses --Classic favourites: Roses -- The charm of the wild: wildflowers and natives -- Practical matters -- Further reading -- List of suppliers; FINE/FINEFINE/FINE. Book.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PF. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 6-7 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Foxing to end pages & edges - internally few spots - firm binding. Wea r & tear to jacket edges - small losses - light soiling - good + Name on FFEP 52pp.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Original binding of green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial endpapers. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is number 198. Signed by the authors and John Carter to the limitation page. Page edges browned, otherwise the book is in very good condition in very good condition covers, slightly bumped to corners. Dustjacket present and in good condition but price clipped, spine faded and dust soiled, edgeworn with small loss and with closed tear to and torn with small loss to top edge of upper panel. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. Original publishers blue cloth lettered silver on spine. pp [xii] 221. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout by Dorothy Craigie. VG+ in slightly soiled, chipped, worn and nicked fair only dust jacket with good weird image on front of fighting divers under the water and strange frog like creatures (colour).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Victorian Detective Fiction: A Catalogue of the collection made by Dorothy Glover & Graham Greene Bibliographically Arranged by Eric Osborne and Introduced by John Carter with a Preface by Graham Greene. London: The Bodley Head 1966. Book measures 10.00 x 6.50". 8vo. In good condition. Dust-jacket: minimal scuffing, tanned spine and edges. Cloth bound boards normally scuffed. Gilt lettering on spine, very attractive. Outer edge of text block contains some age-staining. Age-staining throughout text block. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Graham Greene met Dorothy Glover in London in the spring of 1939 on the even of World War Two. Glover was working as a theatre costume designer in the West End. Greene, having just finished Brighton Rock and struggling to write two novels he'd accepted advances for—The Confidential Agent and The Power and the Glory—felt unable to work at his family home due to his rocky marriage and noisy three-year-old son. So he rented a writing studio from Glover in Bloomsbury's Mecklenburg Square, where Glover lived with her mother. Shortly afterwards Greene and Glover began an affair. FORN-SHELF-0635-BB-2605-EF302.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. The first edition of this charming children's science fiction novel, about two young siblings who visit the moon. The first edition, first impression, in the brightly illustrated price unclipped dust wrapper.Written under the pseudonym of Dorothy Glover, and illustrated by the author under a different pseudonym, with a frontispiece and further vignette illustrations.This charming novel follows 'the first boy and girl to visit the moon', onboard the spaceship Luna I. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bump to spine tail, otherwise externally fine. Dust wrapper vibrantly illustrated, with light edgewear to back strip head and tail, and light marks to rear wrap. Light spotting to reverse of dust wrapper back strip. Price sticker to tail of front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. Dorothy Craigie [Dorothy Glover] (illustrator). book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SOME Front INNER FLAP PASTED TO BLANK ENDPAPERS, EX-library book with typical markings and stickers, HBDJ, 1953 ON TITLE & COPYRIGHT PG, STATED 1st PUBLISHED U.S. A , 1st printing, ,GOOD/ GOOD-, AS-IS, Withdrawn EX-library book with typical markings and stickers. Tape removal marks on boards. Poor dust jacket with chips, creases is in clear plastic cover. Book has a number of illustrations by the author,Cloth with silver titling. 221 pg. 12m, Soiling to the front board; cocked and worn around the edges. Mostly fine text block. SOILING & RUB BACK DJ, BACK INNER DJ FLAP MISSING. B/W Frontispiece Tey looked down on scene which would never leave their Minds ,When Professor Frapillion had completed his New Invention, THE OCEANSPHERE, he asked for Volunteers to Descend fathoms Deep with him in exploration undeer the Sea & 16 yr. old Brian Ridley was the 1 to Go. They sank to greater depths than ever done before, They came Upon Atlantis, the Drowned Continent & found it inhabited by Manned Warriors who tried to destroy them,but Frogmen helped them against their enemies.There among the cities of Coral & Gold & forests of waving wood, where No Ray of light ever penetrates from Above. Dorothy Craigie (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine; minor bumping/rubbing to extremities; else Fine. In a Very Good dust jacket; spine faded; small tear to middle of the spine; in an archival clear plastic sleeve. Limited First Edition; number 369 of 500 copies, signed on the limitation page by Dorothy Glover, Graham Greene, and John Carter. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed by Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover. No. 13 of only 500 published. Very nice condition. Full title: "Victorian detective fiction: A catalogue of the collection made by Dorothy Glover & Graham Greene". Hardcover book is in very good condition. Clean text, no markings. Tight binding, light general handling wear. No loose or missing pages. Dust jacket shows some edgewear & some light, small stains. Published in 1966. More photos on request. Tulsa's largest used bookstore. Located on South Mingo Road since 1991. No-hassle return policy if not completely satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Tall 8vo (25.5cm). Limited to 500 copies, of which this is number 311. Signed by Glover, Greene and Carter beneath the limitation statement to rear. In the publisher's dark green cloth, gilt blocked titles to spine. Pale blue stained top edge, somewhat faded. Illustrated endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket, housed within a removable cellophane sleeve, is a very bright example, with no wear, fading or discolouration. The book likewise has no signs of wear, but there is some minor rippling to the pages along the top edges, starting near the spine and extending across for about 3cm, and reaching down by some 8cm, which starts at the front and disappears by pp. 51. There is no sign of any water ingress, so perhaps even a manufacturing flaw. A small mark to leading page edges. Still a very bright, attractive copy. xviii, [2], 149, [3]. With publisher's prospectus laid in, along with a Greene related newspaper clipping which notes that Greene enjoyed a romantic relationship with Glover, a stage designer, for some nine years.…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First edition 1966. Fine copy in a Near Fine Jacket with a closed tear to head of spine and short tear at foot, not clipped no ownership marks. No. 95/500 signed by Graham Greene, Dorothy Glover and John Carter. to limitation page at the rear. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing. Green cloth boards, clean, age toning to edges. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket clean and bright. Book is firm in binding, SIGNED on the rear limitation page by Graham Greene, Dorothy Glover, and John Carter, who wrote the introduction. Also credited is Eric Osborne, who did the bibliographic arranging. This copy # 312 of 500. Printed on Strathmore mold-made paper. Illustrated endpapers reproduce drawings by Millais for a story called "Captain and Detective, " which at the time of the book's publication was mysterious ("A free copy of this catalogue will be given to the first person who identifies the author and publication, " states the rear jacket flap. ) 149 pp. Including an index of detectives, of illustrators, an of titles. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by All Authors. Illustrated by Millais (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A catalogue of the genre compiled by Dorothy Glover and Graham Greene, with an introduction by John Carter. #276/500 copies, SIGNED by Glover, Greene and Carter on the limitation page at the rear of the book. About fine in green boards in a similarly about fine green dw p/c at the bottom of the front flap. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete collection of children's books written by Greene in a series of four books in collaboration with Dorothy Glover, who appeared under the pseudonym "Dorothy Craigie." Greene would later acknowledge authorship of the first of these children s books, "The Little Train," on the title page of The "Little Fire Engine." Greene and Glover became lovers and lived together for much of the war, each working as fire spotters and Dorothy as a bomb shelter warden, while Greene's wife Vivien and their children lived in safety in Oxford. "The Little Train," published 1946, oblong, quarto, pictorial cloths with rust spot on endpaper from binding staples. Previous owner name on top corner of the front endpaper. In price clipped, second state dust wrapper, with reviews to the front flap. Dust jacket has 5 very small edge chips. 10" - 7¼". "The Little Fire Engine," published 1950, very good dust jacket with small closed, edge tears and chips, not price-clipped (6s. net). First edition, first impression, 10" - 7¼". "The Little Horse Bus" published 1952, has a bit of faint foxing to the edges of the dust jacket flaps, in fine condition otherwise. First impression, 7½" - 8¾". "The Little Steamroller" published 1953, is in near fine condition with a bit of edge wear and a closed tear to the back panel. First impression, 7½" - 8¾". Dorothy Craigie [Dorothy Glover] (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Greene, Graham. THE LITTLE TRAIN by [Graham Greene]; credited to Dorothy Craigie, pseudonym of Dorothy Glover. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., [1946]. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to - 7-1/8" x 10". Yellow cloth covered boards decorated with multiple stylized steam locomotives printed in black, green, red and white, and titles printed in black and red to front cover; back cover decorated with a vignette of a railroad lantern printed in black, red and white, with light touches of rubbing to the corners and head and tail of spine, and minor soiling to the back cover for what is a really nice copy of the book. Original publisher's price-clipped second state color pictorial paper dust jacket repeating the design of the book's cover with the addition of titles printed in black to spine, with slight sunning to the edges and spine, extremely minor chipping to the flap fold corners and tail of spine, and one small discolored spot to back flap for what is a really nice copy of the dust jacket. Color pictorial map within a border of locomotives endpapers. Top edge stained yellow as issued. [3], 42, [3] pp. Graham Greene's first children's book, for which he gave writing credit to his then girlfriend, Dorothy Glover (1901-1991), under the pseudonym Dorothy Craigie. Craigie would also illustrate the other three children's books penned by Greene: The Little Fire Engine(1950), The Little Horse Bus (1952) and The Little Steamroller (1953). The Little Train is a cautionary tale about a little locomotive that was bored with its life, running the same short section of track day in and day out. He decides to run away and see the rest of the world. No spoiler here as to how the story ends. The condition of both the book and the dust jacket are VERY GOOD +. SCARCE. Craigie, Dorothy, pseudonym of Dorothy Glover (illustrator).…

Condition: As New. Signed, limited edition. Good boards with minimal wear. Content is clean with light age tone. Light toning to page ends. Good DJ with light wear but some fading.

London, Sydney & Toronto, The Bodlean Head, [1966]. XVIII,149 pp. Orig. hardcover (green cloth, gilt lettering on spine), d./j. 8vo. - Duts jacket sl. discol. on the spine. - Overall a very good copy. Rare first edition, published in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. This is copy nr. 341 of the 475 copies for trade, signed by Dorothy Glover, Graham Greene & John Carter.…

First edition, published at 5 guineas. Royal octavo (25.5 x 16.5cm). No.469/500 copies signed by Greene, Glover & Carter. 'Greene and Glover began the collection after the war when there were fewer competitors for many of the included items. John Carter's introduction puts this collection in its proper bibliographic context and Eric Osborne's notes indicate that Frank Ochs also worked on the collection. Dorothy Glover has annotated the catalogue.'- Wobbe. pp. xviii,[2],149,[3]. An excellent copy in the publisher's green cloth, gilt, and unclipped dustwrapper, which has some light toning to the spine. VG. [Miller 48; Wobbe A49; Dickinson 379].…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.