Lynd Sylvia Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1943. Hardcover. First edition thus reprint. The Scholar's Library first edition, sixth impression. Waxed green cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece map of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. No dustjacket. From the private library of poet, translator, academic and illustrator, Charles Tomlinson CBE. Charles Tomlinson's pencil annotations to pastedowns and to front and rear free endpapers and his occasional pencil highlighting throughout. Boards slightly rubbed and slightly soiled. Corners of fore edges of boards lightly bumped. Gilt lettering dulled. Front hinge cracked. Top corner of fore edge of page preceding title page missing (whereabouts unknown). Overall, the book is in a good condition.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1968 Scholars library india paper edition green cloth boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Thus. First (and likely only) thus. xvi, 1016pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth rounded on corners and spine ends, spine sunned obscuring titles, a little faded. Text block edges dull and spotted. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. An impressive collection of classic stories for children, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Black Beauty, from Matilda Who Told Lies to The Jumbles and the Jackdaw of Rhiems - 32 stories, complete unabridged, except The Travels of Baron Munchausen and Aesop's Fables, both of which have been lightly abridged.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. He thanks her 'for the Daily News review. Such touching appreciation, and from you, repays us for the anxiety attending the publication of the Memoir [.] This part of Sussex seems very forsaken since you & your husband left it. If you are ever near, what a pleasure a call from you would be - or a visit, if your freedom allowed it. To be with you in The Press is a great deal, but is also tantalizing.' Autograph Note by Lynd's daughter Maire Gaister at head of first page, stating 'We did visit them when we lived at Steyning, Sussex, 1918-22'.

First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original light red cloth, gilt lettering on spine panel. 1016 pp. Faint tanning to spine, a lovely copy of this thick, oversized omnibus volume, in the original printed dust jacket which has a few very small chips and minor tears to the edges, slight rubbing and creasing but is overall a Very good, bright example. Rare in the jacket. Collects 32 novels and stories, including the complete text of Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND, Anna Sewell's BLACK BEAUTY, along with selections from Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, Hilaire Belloc and others. "Everything in this book is complete and unabridged except 'The Travels of Baron Munchausen' and 'Aesop's Fables'. The story from 'The Arabian Nights' and 'A Misummer Night's Dream' have been slightly adapted.

42pp., 12mo. In cream printed illustrated wraps printed in green. The body of the magazine is paginated 53-85, with additional pages of advertisements at the front and back, and on the inside and back of the wraps. Aged, and with a little damp damage and rust to staples. From the Lynd archive, and with a full-page photographic portrait of 'Mrs. ROBERT LYND' on p.66. For the purposes of reproduction her daughter Maire Gaster has altered 'Mrs. ROBERT' to 'Sylvia' in pencil, and written 'Courtesy of MAIRE GASTER' at the head of the page. The conjugate leaf (carrying pp.71-72) is lacking, and the bifolium carrying pp.67-70 is loose. Editorial on 'The Record Breaking Banquet', with articles on 'The Irish National Banquet' (lacking the last two pages on the missing leaf described above) and ' The Banquet from a Woman's Point of View' by 'Una'. On p.61 'Mr. Robert Lynd and Mrs. Lynd' are reported to have dined 'at the principal table', and on p.74 'Una' writes: 'Mrs. Robert Lynd's dress I am unable to describe as my fleeting glimpse of her only left with me the impression of her expressive face, its individual charm heightened by seed-pearl ear-rings of quaint and beautiful design.' No other copy traced.

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. A weighty omnibus of literary delights, featuring works by Henry James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rose Macauley and Jane Austen, to name but a few. A solid copy; jacket browned, rubbed and frayed somewhat at spine. A weighty omnibus of literary delights, featuring works by Henry James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rose Macauley and Jane Austen, to name but a few. Book.