Meynell Violet (4 results)

Condition: Good. 1956. No Edition Stated. 308 pages. Blue jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped dust jacket in protective plastic cover. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners, with staining and soiling to DJ. Heavy tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1956 first edition hardback lacks dustjacket. Former property of Iain Bain, publisher whose signature is dated 1958 to first end page. This copy also contains a letter to Bain (by an unknown author), that gives directions to Bain to find his house in Sandycombe Road, Kew and is dated March 1964. Also contains a typewritten obituary to Sir Sydney Cockerell loose inside the covers. Book is in very clean condition with no further writing, marks or tears and all pages tight in binding.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.78. Publisher's plain card wraps with integral dust-jacket with printed price of one shilling net to upper. Signed by the editor and contributor Gertrude Ford to the half title. Annotation to title page and to some poem titles. Dust-jacket a little worn to spine with some loss at the ends and the titles mostly faded, some marking and toning. Near fine. A scarce collection of patriotic verse, later expanded and republished in 1917, only eight copies listed as held by British institutions and not traced by Reilly. Contains Poems by Binyon and Plowman amongst others. Catherine W. Reilly: English Poetry of the First World War 63 p.20. Signed by Author.…

Letter. Condition: Very Good. 1 page ALs on her addressed stationary (measuring 12.5 x 17.5 cm) together with the original addressed mailing envelop, with cancelled stamps. Letter is addressed to one Ashley Gibson, Esquire: '. I expect to be in town on August 15th. I will write to you again when I am there . But I am afraid I am a very unsuitable subject for a Bookman Gallery article, and I hope you will forgive me if I am not of much assistance to you .' Slight horizontal crease to midsection; slight browning to edges; slight stains and rubbing to envelope; else a very legible specimen. Meynell, daughter of poet-essayist Alice Meynell and author-journalist Wilfred Meynell; notable for her 1929 memoir of her mother.…