Hagart (14 results)
Published by Blackie and Son
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Condition: Good. 222 pages. Red pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Illustrated by Robert Hodgson. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear wit…h light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd, London, 1957
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Cloth. Condition: Good. . 222 pages, illustrated, a novel about William Tyndale, perhaps aimed at teenagers, this copy given as a prize from a Sunday School in the late 1950s.
Optima: Commemorates the Fiftieth Anniversary of Anglo American Corporation September 25th 1967 (September 1967 Volume seventeen number three)
Oppenheimer, H F ; Hagart, R B ; Wilson, W D ; Whitmore, Francis ; MacConachie, H ; Holloway, J.E (Dr. )
Language: English
Published by Anglo-American Corporation, 1967
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Publication of 148 pages. Frontispiece in color. The boards are in fine condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Optima - September 1967 Volume seventeen number three - Commemorates the Fiftieth Anniversary of Anglo American Corporation September 25th 1967
Oppenheimer, H F ; Hagart, R B ; Wilson, W D ; Whitmore, Francis ; MacConachie, H ; Holloway, Dr, J E
Published by Optima, 1967
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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 148 pages (complete). A special edition of the Anglo American published trade information magazine, Optima, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the giant mining conglomerate. The book has been subjected to damp storage conditions. The bottom edges of the book and contents are w…rinkled and very mildly stained. The cover is benign if worn. The spine is injured at the foot. The spine is healthy and sure. The covers are dignified and sound. The contents are sober, diligent, clear, confident, assured and congratulatory. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Language: English
Published by National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (, 2000
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paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.
More imagesA Room at the Inn: A masque for Christmas
FARJEON, Eleanor and Herbert; FARJEON, Harry (music); [HAGART, Bertha]
Published by Privately published; "Made and printed in Great Britain by the Favil Press Ltd", 1955
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Side-stapled pamphlet (21.6 x 14cm), pp. [12]. Pink card wrappers, lettered in black. Sunned and soiled, faint liquid stain to rear wrapper, corners creased. Gently toned, a few fox spots. Inscribed by Eleanor Farjeon in blue ink to limitation page: "To dear Bertha/ with Ele…anor's love/ for Christmas 1955". Else, clean. Still, a pleasing copy of this Farjeon family collaboration. JiscLHD lists only one copy at the Bodleian, OCLC finds no further copies. Little is known about Farjeon's dedicatee, Bertha Hagart. It seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. This title was subsequently published as a French Acting Edition (no. 87) in 1957. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Faber and Faber, 1932
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 352. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Shaken, binding slack, but holding, spine sunned, joints splitting, especially rear, corners bumped. Some foxing, inscribed by Farjeon in publication year in sepia pen to ffep: "Dear Maggie/ from… Eleanor & Pod/ May 1932" and in another hand below: "Bertha Hagart/ July 1956". Else, clean. Good-only. It seems likely that Bertha Hagart (later Rose) was the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that Hagart and Farjeon met through the author's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Pod was Farjeon's partner and friend, George Earle; Maggie, sadly, remains unidentified. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Collins, 1931
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, extremities bruised, sunned and soiled. Endpapers and half-title browned and spotted, inscribed in year of publication by Farjeon in sepia pen to ffep: "To dear Maggie/ with Eleanor's Lo…ve/ April, 1931" and below in a slighter hand, also in sepia ink: "Bertha Hagart./ July 1956", hinges cracked. Good+ It seems likely that Bertha Hagart (later Rose) was the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that Hagart and Farjeon met through the author's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Maggie, sadly, remains unidentified. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Oxford University Press, 1960
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Substantial 8vo, pp. 534 + b/w portrait frontis and plates. Original green cloth, spine lettered in bronze. Spine cocked, fine bands of sunning to edges and spine ends. Scant foxing to edges. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue ink to ffep: "To dear… Bertha and/ Charles Rose with love/ from Little Ellie/ and old Eleanor Farjeon/ June 9th 1960", a few fox spots, minute booksellser label to rear pastedown. Short note (9 x 8.5cm) laid in between related pages (pp. 532-3), seemingly in the hand of Bertha Rose, about Farjeon's efforts for the Farjeon Foundation in Dunedin, New Zealand. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: sunned, with only a patch of the original pink to rear panel, soiling to rear panel, short closed tear to top edge of front panel. Very good/ good+ Farjeon's childhood memoir was first published by Gollancz in 1935. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, London, 1928
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, viii, 239, [1], incl. pea plant vignette (i.e. 'To Pod') to dedication page and chapter head-pieces. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fore-edge roughly trimmed. Spine slightly cocked, gently rubbed and sunned, pushing and wear to spine ends with sp…lit to head, some scoring to bottom board. Previous bookseller's pencil note to front pastedown, Farjeon's inscription in black pen to ffep: "Denys/ with Eleanor's Love" and at tail of the page: "Property of Denys Blakelock/ 317 Endsleigh Court/ Upper Woburn Place/ W.C.1." plus, in another hand and blue pen: "Bertha Rose/ given to me by Renée/ in memory of Denys./ March 15. 1971." scant foxing to endpapers. 'How came you by this Book?' Collins postcard laid in. Else, clean and tight. A unique association copy of Farjeon's "beautiful and timeless collection of stories". Very good Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (née Hagart) by Blakelock's sister-in-law Renée: "in memory of Denys./ March 15. 1971". Denys Blakelock (1901-1970), actor, RADA teacher and childhood friend and lover of Laurence Olivier, became one of the closest friends of Farjeon's later life. The couple met when Blakelock was cast as King Nollekins of Norfolk in the first run of Farjeon's play The Silver Curlew at The Arts Theatre in 1949/1950 (an event celebrated in her inscription to our copy of Love Affair (ref. 2214), as well as in our inscribed copy of the The Fair Venetian (ref. 2213) the following festive season, when the play was revived at Fortune Theatre, London: "Dearest Denys Nollekins / from Eleanor Nellikins / to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950". Indeed, 1950 proved a hinge year for Farjeon, who had lost her long-time companion, George Earle (Pod) in November 1949 and was grieving deeply; it also saw the beginnings of her conversion to Catholicism. By their meeting, Blakelock "was an established victim of dark moods of depression and anxiety," which were taking a toll both personally and professionally. The friendship offered a new start for them both and very rapidly they became each other's emotional succour. They even dubbed their first trip away together in June 1951 their "honeymoon" holiday, which they commemorated over the 15 years of their friendship. As Blakelock reflected in the closing pages of his memoir of Farjeon, Eleanor: "Eleanor Farjeon's life was so closely bound up with mine for that last long phase, if I were to paint a true picture of her it seemed to become increasingly impracticable to keep myself to any real extent in the background". (Blakelock, 1966). Less is known about Farjeon's friend, Bertha Hagart/ Rose: it seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Whatever the case, Hagart was close enough to them both to be presented with Blakelock's cherished copies of Farjeon's books by his sister-in-law, the actor Renée Blakelock (1897-1973); a posthumous intertwining of their three lives, which would surely have pleased Farjeon, given her own practice of re-gifting books (see our other inscribed Farjeon copies). Denys Blakelock (1966) Eleanor: Portrait of a Farjeon. London: Gollancz Ltd.
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph Limited, 1941
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 271, [1]. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in lilac. Spine slightly cocked with nick to heel, bumped and rubbed, a few marks. Bookseller pencil notes to front pastedown, inscribed by Farjeon in sepia pen to ffep: "Dearest Denys/ with all my… love./ From Eleanor./ June 22nd 1952" and beneath in another hand in blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys/ March 15th 1971." Else, clean and tight. A unique association copy. Good+ Denys Blakelock (1901-1970), actor, RADA teacher and childhood friend and lover of Laurence Olivier, became one of the closest friends of Farjeon's later life. The couple met when Blakelock was cast as King Nollekins of Norfolk in the first run of Farjeon's play The Silver Curlew at The Arts Theatre in 1949/1950 (an event celebrated in her inscription to our copy of Love Affair (ref. 2214), as well as in our inscribed copy of the The Fair Venetian (ref. 2213) the following festive season, when the play was revived at Fortune Theatre, London: "Dearest Denys Nollekins / from Eleanor Nellikins / to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950". Indeed, 1950 proved a hinge year for Farjeon, who had lost her long-time companion, George Earle (Pod) in November 1949 and was grieving deeply; it also saw the beginnings of her conversion to Catholicism. By their meeting, Blakelock "was an established victim of dark moods of depression and anxiety," which were taking a toll both personally and professionally. The friendship offered a new start for them both and very rapidly they became each other's emotional succour. They even dubbed their first trip away together in June 1951 their "honeymoon" holiday, which they commemorated over the 15 years of their friendship. Farjeon's inscription here "Dearest Denys/ with all my love./ From Eleanor./ June 22nd 1952" is likely such a remembrance. As Blakelock reflected in the closing pages of his memoir of Farjeon, Eleanor: "Eleanor Farjeon's life was so closely bound up with mine for that last long phase, if I were to paint a true picture of her it seemed to become increasingly impracticable to keep myself to any real extent in the background". (Blakelock, 1966). Less is known about Farjeon's friend, Bertha Hagart/ Rose: it seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Whatever the case, Hagart was close enough to them both to be presented with Blakelock's cherished copies of Farjeon's books by his sister-in-law, the actor Renée Blakelock (1897-1973); a posthumous intertwining of their three lives, which would surely have pleased Farjeon, given her own practice of re-gifting books (see our other inscribed Farjeon copies). Denys Blakelock (1966) Eleanor: Portrait of a Farjeon. London: Gollancz Ltd. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Michael Joseph Ltd, 1943
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Unevenly sunned and rubbed, pushing to spine ends, edgewear, bottom corners bumped, a few scores to bottom board. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue pen to ffep: "Dearest Denys Nollekins / from Eleanor Nellik…ins / to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950" with another inscription below in blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15. 1971." Closed tear to bottom edge of pp. 211-2, nick to rear hinge, else, clean and tidy, especially given the wartime paper stock. A unique association copy of Farjeon's only crime novel. Good+ Aptly, with a printed dedication to Farjeon's brother, who was a crime novelist by trade: "To Joe from a novice in his craft". Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (née Hagart) by Blakelock's sister-in-law Renée: "in memory of Denys/ March 15th 1971". Denys Blakelock (1901-1970), actor, RADA teacher and childhood friend and lover of Laurence Olivier, became one of the closest friends of Farjeon's later life. The couple met when Blakelock was cast as King Nollekins of Norfolk in the first run of Farjeon's play The Silver Curlew at The Arts Theatre in 1949/1950; an event celebrated in her inscription to our copy of Love Affair (ref. 2214), and, indeed, recalled in Farjeon's inscription here too. Indeed, 1950 proved a hinge year for Farjeon, who had lost her long-time companion, George Earle (Pod) in November 1949 and was grieving deeply; it also saw the beginnings of her conversion to Catholicism. By their meeting, Blakelock "was an established victim of dark moods of depression and anxiety," which were taking a toll both personally and professionally. The friendship offered a new start for them both and very rapidly they became each other's emotional succour. They even dubbed their first trip away together in June 1951 their "honeymoon" holiday, which they commemorated over the 15 years of their friendship. As Blakelock reflected in the closing pages of his memoir of Farjeon, Eleanor: "Eleanor Farjeon's life was so closely bound up with mine for that last long phase, if I were to paint a true picture of her it seemed to become increasingly impracticable to keep myself to any real extent in the background". (Blakelock, 1966). Less is known about Farjeon's friend, Bertha Hagart/ Rose: it seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Whatever the case, Hagart was close enough to them both to be presented with Blakelock's cherished copies of Farjeon's books by his sister-in-law, the actor Renée Blakelock (1897-1973); a posthumous intertwining of their three lives, which would surely have pleased Farjeon, given her own practice of re-gifting books (see our other inscribed Farjeon copies). Denys Blakelock (1966) Eleanor: Portrait of a Farjeon. London: Gollancz Ltd. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesLove Affair: Decorations by Rolf Gérard
FARJEON, Eleanor; GÉRARD, Rolf (decorations); [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
Published by Michael Joseph, 1947
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 223, [1], incl. 3 b/w illustrations and head-pieces by Rolf Gérard. Illustrated endpapers. Original purple cloth, spine letter in silver, silver and red-stamped seagull with letter to upper board. Spine gently sunned, extremities bruised a…nd worn, bottom corners bumped. Gently toned, inscribed by Farjeon in sepia ink to half-title: "Denys/ from/ Eleanor/ Jan. 22nd 1950/ The last of / The Silver Curlew." and in another hand and blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15th 1971." Else, clean and tight. A unique association copy marking the beginnings of Farjeon and Blakelock's own love affair (in/ of friendship). Very good. Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (née Hagart) by Blakelock's sister-in-law Renée: "in memory of Denys/ March 15th 1971". Denys Blakelock (1901-1970), actor, RADA teacher and childhood friend and lover of Laurence Olivier, became one of the closest friends of Farjeon's later life. The couple met when Blakelock was cast as King Nollekins of Norfolk in the first run of Farjeon's play The Silver Curlew at The Arts Theatre in 1949/1950, an event celebrated in her inscription here: "Denys/ from/ Eleanor/ Jan. 22nd 1950/ The last of / The Silver Curlew." as well as in our inscribed copy of the The Fair Venetian (ref. 2213) the following festive season, when the play was revived at Fortune Theatre, London: "Dearest Denys Nollekins / from Eleanor Nellikins / to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950". Indeed, 1950 proved a hinge year for Farjeon, who had lost her long-time companion, George Earle (Pod) in November 1949 and was grieving deeply; it also saw the beginnings of her conversion to Catholicism. By their meeting, Blakelock "was an established victim of dark moods of depression and anxiety," which were taking a toll both personally and professionally. The friendship offered a new start for them both and very rapidly they became each other's emotional succour. They even dubbed their first trip away together in June 1951 their "honeymoon" holiday, which they commemorated over the 15 years of their friendship. As Blakelock reflected in the closing pages of his memoir of Farjeon, Eleanor: "Eleanor Farjeon's life was so closely bound up with mine for that last long phase, if I were to paint a true picture of her it seemed to become increasingly impracticable to keep myself to any real extent in the background" (Blakelock, 1966). Less is known about Farjeon's friend, Bertha Hagart/ Rose: it seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Whatever the case, Hagart was close enough to them both to be presented with Blakelock's cherished copies of Farjeon's books by his sister-in-law, the actor Renée Blakelock (1897-1973); a posthumous intertwining of their three lives, which would surely have pleased Farjeon, given her own practice of re-gifting books (see our other inscribed Farjeon copies). Denys Blakelock (1966) Eleanor: Portrait of a Farjeon. London: Gollancz Ltd. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by P.E.N. Books/ George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1941
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 48. Eggshell blue and yellow patterned paper boards, lettered in black, label to spine. A little soiled and darkened, bruising and light wear to extremities. Inscribed, movingly, by Farjeon in blue ink to half-title: "For Denys who ha…s/ added another magic casement to my mansion / from Eleanor in/ remembrance of this/ week: July 19 26/ 1950" and below, in a different hand: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15th 1971." With Farjeon's marginal corrections and clarifications to pp. 12 & 13. Else, clean and tight. A gorgeous and significant association copy, inscribed to Blakelock in the first year of friendship. Near fine. With Farjeon's own marginal corrections and clarifications regarding misquotations from Cymbeline: ' Should be "lads" of course. This is a slip', but not so for the (mis)citations from Twelfth Night: whose "spinners" and "sitters in the sun" is "how I've always misremembered this lovely line". Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (née Hagart) by Blakelock's sister-in-law Renée: "in memory of Denys/ March 15th 1971". Denys Blakelock (1901-1970), actor, RADA teacher and childhood friend and lover of Laurence Olivier, became one of the closest friends of Farjeon's later life. The couple met when Blakelock was cast as King Nollekins of Norfolk in the first run of Farjeon's play The Silver Curlew at The Arts Theatre in 1949/1950 (an event celebrated in her inscription to our copy of Love Affair (ref. 2214), as well as in our inscribed copy of the The Fair Venetian (ref. 2213) the following festive season, when the play was revived at Fortune Theatre, London: "Dearest Denys Nollekins / from Eleanor Nellikins / to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950". Indeed, 1950 proved a hinge year for Farjeon, who had lost her long-time companion, George Earle (Pod) in November 1949 and was grieving deeply; it also saw the beginnings of her conversion to Catholicism. By their meeting, Blakelock "was an established victim of dark moods of depression and anxiety," which were taking a toll both personally and professionally. The friendship offered a new start for them both and very rapidly they became each other's emotional succour. They even dubbed their first trip away together in June 1951 their "honeymoon" holiday, which they commemorated over the 15 years of their friendship. As Blakelock reflects in the closing pages of Eleanor: "Eleanor Farjeon's life was so closely bound up with mine for that last long phase, if I were to paint a true picture of her it seemed to become increasingly impracticable to keep myself to any real extent in the background". (Blakelock, 1966). Less is known about Farjeon's friend, Bertha Hagart/ Rose: it seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Whatever the case, Hagart was close enough to them both to be presented with Blakelock's cherished copies of Farjeon's books; a posthumous intertwining of their three lives, which would surely have pleased Farjeon, given her own practice of re-gifting books (see our other inscribed Farjeon copies). Denys Blakelock (1966) Eleanor: Portrait of a Farjeon. London: Gollancz Ltd. Inscribed by Author(s).
