Gordon Glennon (7 results)

Condition: Good. 1945. No edition remarks. 121 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in clipped dust jacket. Minor wear to clipped dust jacket. Minor tears & soiling to dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. No DW. 1st Edition. Owners inscription on front endpaper.Some spotting.

Hardback, 7.75 x 5 inches. Yellow/cream cloth with purple lettering to front and spine. With theatre leaflet loose in front. In good condition. Some minor handling marks, some rubbing to corners and spine ends. Some minor foxing to endpapers. Some penned notes/annotations to text. Else clean and tight. 122pp.…

Condition: Very Good. USED Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. no dustjacket. yellow cloth.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Lovely collection of critical and biographical works on Jane Austen and the times she lived in, featuring eight first editions and a number of illustrations. Interesting collection of works on Jane Austen and the times she lived in. Eight out of ten texts are first editions.Collection comprised of:(1917) Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. Mitton;(1932) Jane Austen: Her Life and Art by David Rhydderch - first edition;(1937) Jane Austen: Study for a Portrait by Beatrice Kean Seymour - first edition;(1943) Talking of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern - first edition;(1945) Emma by Gordon Glennon - first edition;(1949) Jane Austen and Southampton by R. A. Austen-Leigh - first edition;(1950) More Talk of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern - first edition;(1955) Jane Austen: A Critical Bibliography by R. W. Chapman;(1956) T'Other Miss Austen by Kathleen Freeman - first edition;(1970) Women in Profile: A Study in Silhouette by F. Gordon Roe - first edition.In publisher's original cloth bindings. Jane Austen and Southampton is the publisher's original cloth paperback edition.Jane Austen: Her Life and Art contains a frontispiece portrait of Jane Austen. Jane Austen and Southampton contains a frontispiece, maps to each endpapers and three further monochrome plates. T'Other Miss Austen contains six double-sided plates. Women in Profile contains sixteen double-sided plates, with an additional tipped-in postcard. Collated, complete.The majority of the included works shed light on the life and writings of the popular English novelist. This is excepting Emma, which is Gordon Glennon's stage adaptation of Austen's novel, and Women in Profile, a lovely investigation into the artistry of silhouettes, popular in Austen's time, complimentary to the collection in its visuals of the everyday heroines Austen's novels depict. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Jane Austen and Southampton is the publisher's original cloth paperback edition. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper of Talking of Jane Austen, dated Xmas 1943, and signatures of previous owners to Emma and More Talk of Jane Austen. Previous bookseller's insert tipped in to the rear of Jane Austen: Study for a Portrait. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and the odd mark. Women in Profile encased in protective binding. Internally, generally firmly bound. Binding of Jane Austen and Her Times a little fragile to the first page. Page 13 to Jane Austen: Her Life and Art loose and binding delicate between pages 96 and 97. The occasional delicate page also to Jane Austen and Southampton, especially to pages 6-7, 24 and towards rear. Modern penmanship to the penultimate page of More Talk of Jane Austen. More spotting to Jane Austen and Her Times, otherwise reasonably bright and clean collection with the odd spot throughout, heavier to first and last few pages to each volume. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…