Lois Coleman (45 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Son of Blue Feather. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 30 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This hardcover novel is a rare book with a dustjacket and this copy is in good condition. The book was a Seward Nebraska public library book and has a clear mylar dustjacket cover, a pocket inside the front cover and several stamps. The mylar and dustjacket are in good condition with little wear. The yellow and brown hardcovers have been well protected and have only minor edge wear. The spine is tight. The pages are mostly white with little wear and few marks besides the library stuff. 185 pages. CHEAP SHIPPING MEDIA MAIL.…

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition. 244 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing.…

PF. Condition: New.

hardcover. Illustrated. 244pp. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. London: Hutchinson, (1966). Very good.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition. 244 pages. Illustrated jacket over blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With photographic frontispiece. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Price in pencil to front endpaper. Text block edges highly foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Slight tanning. Boards are mildly bowed. Gilt is bright. Clipped jacket has some edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is slightly rubbed and marked overall. Jacket moderately foxed to flaps. …

8vo; original blue cloth with gilt-on-black lettering to spine; dustwrapper; pp. 244, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper price-clipped, torn and somewhat rubbed; trace of damp-stain to cloth adjacent to joints; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; a little foxing to endpapers and edges. Good. "No important discovery about a leading literary figure ever came about in a more haphazard fashion. Whilst visiting the Rhineland with a group of West Country Quakers, one of Lois Deacon's friends casually remarked that her grandmother was once engaged to Thomas Hardy. So began some years of patient investigation and literary detection. The girl to whom Hardy was engaged was Tryphena Sparks who lived with her family in Puddletown and bore Hardy a son - his only child. For some reason they never married; Tryphena became a schoolmistress in Plymouth and married a Devon man, Charles Gale.". …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. good ex lib , The authors have discovered that Hardy was engaged to a woman,Tryphena Sparks, and had a son by her before his first marriage.

4To Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. 396pp. Text and photography is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, spine is unbroken, textblock is square with pointed corners. Slightest if any overall shelf/timewear.

1st edition. 8vo. 244pp. B/w. illustrations. Original pale blue cloth, d/w. rubbed to edges. US$10.

Hardback. Good and solid in slightly soiled and edgeworn dustwrapper. 244pp.

Size 8.5 x 5.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to black label on spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Grey endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Rubbed along edges with chips from corners and ends of spine. Tear to top end of front cover. Price clipped. In protective cellophane wrapper.). Ends of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Inscription to front endpaper. A very clean and tight copy. 244pp. With b/w photographs. Thomas Hardy?s early life and social background, and his liaison with Tryphena Sparks who may have borne him a son. The authors have established the background of Hardy?s early life, the society in which he was brought up and the values that governed it, in such a way that the book is a valuable contribution to 19th century social history.…

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Blue cloth, gilt on brown cloth to spine. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY DEACON on title page. Hutchinson, 1966. very good in d/w.

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 410 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.97 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Pp. 244, frontispiece, plus 4 plates, sources, appendices, index; blue cloth, spine blocked in brown and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly soiled; Hutchinson, London, 1966. First edition. *The story of Hardy's relationship with Tryphena Sparks, a young relative of his (probably a cousin) with whom the authors suggest he had a son.…

Condition: New. pp. 168.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 410 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.97 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 244p.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 260 4:B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 244 pages, Blue binding Good, spine rubbed, boards very good. Contents Very Good, clean & tight, inside front cover is signed Boothby 1966. This book by Terry Coleman & Lois Deacon is mostly about Hardy's love affair with his second cousin, Tryphena Sparks (they had an illegitimate boy). This would resonate very well with Lord Boothby M.P who had very many affairs and had a number of illegitimate children including with the wives of fellow M.P's. Size: 14 x 21.5cm Approx.…

Paperback. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 260.