Mary Stopes (10 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.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pre-Loved Sun Damage to Cover. Vintage Copy Writing on the first inside page. Appears unread, may have minor damage from transit/storage. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Jacket has some superficial scuffing and scoring. Spine is slightly sunned. Front lower edge has slight crease on jacket. Page block head and foot have a few minor marks. Book is slightly cocked. Name of previous owner (linguistics professor) penned on the front pastedown. Binding is tight. Pages are in excellent condition. BW. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback; very good in red card slipcase. Second printing.; First published 1951, this edition follows the text of the 2009 reprint. With new Introduction. Illustrated; +xxivpp.; 256 pages.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine to Fine. All 3 are first editions. Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis. The Möhne and Edersee dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley; the Sorpe Dam sustained only minor damage. Two hydroelectric power stations were destroyed and several more damaged. Factories and mines were also damaged and destroyed. An estimated 1,600 civilians - about 600 Germans and 1,000 enslaved labourers, mainly Soviet - were killed by the flooding. Despite rapid repairs by the Germans, production did not return to normal until September. The RAF lost 56 aircrew, with 53 dead and 3 captured, amid losses of 8 aircraft. This group includes three key works on Barnes Wallis and the operation that used his creative bombing method. 1. Mathematics with Love, The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb, by Mary Stopes-Roe, the daughter of Barnes Wallis, Macmillan, London, 2005. 363 pp. Black cloth with silver titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ is also excellent. It is inscribed by the author on the title page "Best Wishes, Mary Stopes-Roe" Fine/Fine. Quite scarce signed. 2. Dam Buster, Barnes Wallis: An Engineer's Life, by Richard Morris, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2023, 520 pp. Black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ is also excellent. Fine/Fine 3. Barnes Wallis, A Biography, by J. E. Morpurgo, Longman, London, 1972, 400 pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ has slight fading on the jacket spine, but otherwise undamaged. Fine/Near Fine. Signed.…

Pp. xiv, 280. With eight photographic plates and a few textual illustrations. Original cream cloth. First edition. Mary Stopes (1880-1958) was a British author and paleobotanist, known for her works on women's rights. She was elected a member of the Linnean Society of London. In 1907 she went to Japan on a scientific mission. Robinson p. 150.…

Condition: Very Good. One-page TLS (16th February, 1954) on white paper: nine lines in black type, featuring Stopes' Norbury Park, Dorking letter head and signed in blue pen. Toned, folded, with brief pen and pencil notes by Margaret Crosland and, presumably, Neville Armstrong (or an associate at Neville Armstrong Esq.), small stain, a little creased. Very good A wonderfully tart one-page TLS from Marie Stopes to the British publisher Neville Armstrong (1913-2008), expressing, in no uncertain terms and following advice, that she will "not go any further with the matter with you": it seems Margaret Crosland had suggested a biography of the pioneering English birth control advocate, paleobotanist and eugenicist, but, as Crosland notes, "she was writing her own story" and, indeed, feared that, "Miss Crosland's book would embarrass me". Stopes would die four years later, without publishing a memoir; Crosland doesn't appear to have returned to the subject. From Margaret Crosland's archive. Crosland (1920-2017) was an important and prolific British literary biographer and translator of French and Italian authors, "who pioneered Cocteau" in Britain (Owen, 2009). She was the French literature consultant for the British publisher Peter Owen, who issued many of her biographies and translations, and thus she played a crucial role in introducing French authors, such as Jean Cocteau and Colette, as well as the Marquis de Sade, Apollinaire and Anaïs Nin, to mid-century British audiences. Owen observed that Crosland was "very important in advising us on books to publish. It was Margaret who pioneered Cocteau [. and] led us to Dalí, as she knew his novel Hidden Faces" (ibid). Her biographical subjects included both Colette and Jean Cocteau (titles much under discussion in her archive), Simone de Beauvoir, Raymond Radiguet and Edith Piaf, and she translated works by writers including Sade (for Neville Spearman and Peter Owen), Emile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt and Cesare Pavese, as well as Colette and Cocteau. She was also a voluminous correspondent, literary broker and networker, as her letters evidence in rich and fascinating detail. Margaret Crosland's traunch of correspondence with Peter Owen and associates (1955-1969) is held by Special Collections at the University of Tulsa. Peter Owen (2009) Interview with Steven Fowler, Vice Magazine.…

Inscribed by the philosopher Harry Stopes-Roe (son of Marie Stopes) to his wife 'Another Tuesday present To combine her old and new interests/ To encourage her to think about great thoughts and great problems with love From Harry Stopes Roe. 4.5.76.' Brown cloth, a near fine copy in a good jacket, a little collection of ephemera relating to Galton publications laid in. The chapter on 'Hereditary genius' may have chimed for both husband and wife: he was the son of the birth control campaigner Marie Stopes; she was the daughter of the inventor of the bouncing bomb: Barnes Wallis. This pamphlet comes from the collection of Harry Stopes Roe (1924-1914) and his wife Mary which was sold following the death of Mary Stopes Roe in May last year. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…