Maxwell Christabel (13 results)

Hard cover. First edition. Bibliography: p. 247-250. Very good in good dust jacket. S.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 256pp; handful of black and white photographic plates. Blue cloth-covered boards; silver titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends with cloth colour fading. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers foxing and tanning; pages tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has some loss, heavy wear, closed tears with internal repairs in places, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. A double biography of two Victorian children's writers - Margaret Gatty and her daughter Juliana Horatia Ewing, which closely examines their literary partnership as well as their happy and busy lives in the vicarage in Ecclesfield, Yorkshire.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in a very good jacket that has a chip out of the top of the spine, and a few small tears elsewhere. the book is very good++ with no inscriptions. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good. Jacket Condition: Good; a little light edge-wear. Hard Cover Constable 1949 Biography.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Octavo 256pp. Colour frontis plus black and white illustrations in text. Blue cloth. Ends of spine and corners rubbed. Gift inscription on front free endpaper plus neat ownership inscription. White pictorial dustwrapper price clipped. Surface grubby, all edges rubbed with chips and tears.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. First edition, 1949. Light blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Some minor spotting to boards. Else good. With manuscript letter laid in. "Ex-Libris Vivien Greene (1904-2003)" sticker, with note in pencil that the item was purchased from the Waterfield's Greene catalog. Ink note: "Dolls House p. 169" on fep. A study of two sisters, prolific and influential writers of childrens fiction in the late Victorian era. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1949. Original blue cloth lightly rubbed at the edges. Pages a little age-browned, but clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo. Colour dj. 256 pp. Juliaina Horatia Ewing and her mother, Margaret Gatty, revealed in their letters. B/w plates and colour frontispiece. One small inscr. to ffep. VG / VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. silver gilt title to spine. light blue cloth. minor tears/creases to dust jacket. dust jacket somewhat dirtied but remains robust.

1st edition. "Margaret atty and Juliana Horatia Ewing were mother and daughter. Christabel Maxwell is a grand-daughter of Mrs Gatty and a niece of Mrs Ewing. This biography of two remarkable women, based on letters and diaries.stresses the partnership between mother and daughter, the criticism and advice given by the former while she lived, and the extent to which Mrs Ewing - after Mrs Gatty's death - expanded and worked on er mother's ideas." Pp.256, colour frontispiece + 6 sepia plates, spotting to closed page edges occasionally encroaching onto margins, author's name to front free endpaper. Light blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted to spine and edges with small edge tears and chips. G/G.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1949. No D/J, covers grubby knocked & worn to edges, also has old 'Boots Booklovers Library' sticker on front. Pages before title sheet have come half away from binding & can see webbing between some sections but still solid binding. Foxing mostly to first & back few pages & outside edge of closed book which is also grubby. Pages bright with light usage creasing. We endeavour to send orders as quickly as possible & in most cases are sent by first available post 6 days a week. (2,1-400/2).…

1st edition. "Margaret atty and Juliana Horatia Ewing were mother and daughter. Christabel Maxwell is a grand-daughter of Mrs Gatty and a niece of Mrs Ewing. This biography of two remarkable women, based on letters and diaries.stresses the partnership between mother and daughter, the criticism and advice given by the former while she lived, and the extent to which Mrs Ewing - after Mrs Gatty's death - expanded and worked on er mother's ideas." Pp.256, colour frontispiece + 6 sepia plates, inscribed by the author together with a handwritten letter tipped-in to front free endpaper. Light blue cloth, dustwrapper has water-staining to rear and edge tears and chips with loss to top 2.5cms of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G/G-.…