Jean Chitty (12 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First edition British edition. Fine and bright blue boards with gilt titles in near fine pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Profusely illustrated.

First Edition. 1983 1st edition with B&W illustrations; tightly bound in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped; minor wear to top edge. Very faint foxing/yellowing to top page edges; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1983. First Published. 250 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Flat signed by author to title page with colour photo of author stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white photographs throughout. 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 light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Gift inscription on front end-paper. Pp.vi,250. Illustrated. Lymington's maritime history from pre-Roman times to the 1980's.

Soft cover. Condition: VG++/VG+/ND. No Jacket. 1st. Edn, Thus, 1st. Imp. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st * Date of Publication: 1988 * Publisher: Belhaven.* Binding and cover condition: Stiff card covers with a mono photo of the subject as a young lady. Some minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, no creases to spine or hinge. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no other visible faults. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG++ * Illustrations: B/w photos and a few b/w line within text.* Pages: 104pp. text. 0 pp. additional at rear. * Product Description:- Jean Chitty, the editor, was born on the 21st. October 1924 in Rawlpindi, Pakistan. She was educated at the convent of the Sacred Heart, Maidstone and St. Leonard's School St. Andrews, Scotland. She joined the WRNS in 1943 and worked for naval intelligence in Stanmore and Colombo. After the war she served in the Foreign Office in London, Tehran and Stockholm and then lived in Geneva, where she worked for the Quaker International Centre, The World Council of Churches and the International Labour Organisation. Here she edits the details her mother's life in Pakistan between 1921 and 1923 the year before she herself was born. * This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal age & shelf wear reducing it to VG++.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Cicely Paget-Bowman, the actress who died on May 23 aged 97, enjoyed a career that spanned five decades; she was mainly a stage actress - one of theatreland's brightest - but was probably best known for her film role as Lady Queensberry in The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960). Erik Chitty was Mr Smnith in Please Sir. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, Signed Hardback d/j has very light bumping to spine, small previous owners sticker, o/w v/g, v/g. A Maritime history of Lymington. Signed by Author(s).

4to. vi, 250pp, text illustrations, text maps, printed in double columns. Original navy cloth gilt, d/w.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Internally in very good condition, cover has some light wear and a little corner curl. Mimeographed, stapled and taped spine, 72pp, illustrated. History of paper manufacture in Devon.

237 pp.; 26.5 x 21.5 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Catalogue published in conjunction with a conference entitled "Multidisciplinary Aspects of Performance : Postmodernism" held in Montreal, Canada, October 9 -11, 1980. Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Texts by Thierry de Duve, Birgit Pelzer, Bruce Barber, Craig Owens, Régis Durand, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean-François Lyotard, Douglas Crimp, Regina Cornwell, Germano Celant, Peggy Gale, John Howell, Helga Finter, Daniel Charles, Ivanka Stoianova, René Payant, Guy Scarpetta, Philip Monk, and Georges Roque. Artists include Laurie Anderson, Michael Asher, Stuart Brisley, Daniel Buren, Colin Campbell, Marc C. Chaimowicz, Elizabeth Chitty, Max Dean, Richard Foreman, Dan Graham, Jana Haimsohn, Joan La Barbara, Yvonne Rainer, Tom Sherman, and Robert Wilson. Includes biographies and filmographies. Texts in English and French. Fair / Good. Moderate rubbing to covers and cover edges. 3.5 cm. and two 2 mm. tears to spine with bumping to cover corners including 4 cm. and 1.4 cm. dog-ears to recto corners. Contents are clean and unmarked.…

Belhaven UK 1988. First edition. Card covers, photographs, map, 104pp. Very good. Signed by Anna Chitty title page.