Mitford Nancy Edited By (9 results)

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xxii,538pp, illustrated, owner's name and bookplate on endpaper, otherwise clean and tight, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0340537841.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. Second printing. ppXIX(1)531(9) with monochrome photo sections, chronology, biographical notes, and index. Hardback / hard cover: black boards, backstrip titled in gilt. FINE copy in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket moderately sunned at backstrip panel. (Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Grey boards and white spine, the latter lettered in red. Jacket a little stained and browned, edges chipped and rubbed with 5 cm x 2.5 cm loss to top front edge, a 1 cm x 5 mm hole on front hinge and a 2 cm split on top leading corner. Internally book plate on front paste down and 1 cm spot on top edge of ffep. Contents clean and tight. Osbert Lancaster (illustrator).…

3rd impression, hardback, 8vo, 114pp, owner's inscription on endpaper, light foxing on edges, text clean, binding and hinges sound, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, price-clipped wrapper, edges rubbed, slightly frayed at corners and spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A Common Reader Edition. Small bookplate on front pastedown, else fine without dust jacket as issued. Contributors include: Nancy Mitford, Aland S.C. Ross, Evelyn Waugh, "Strix", Christopher Sykes, and John Betjeman.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. xix + [i] + 531 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Minor wear to extremities, some upper edge foxing and lower edge staining; otherwise a very good copy. Signed by editor on title page. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white photographic plates, including facsimiles. The correspondence of the novelist, Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) and Nancy Mitford (1904-73), novelist and biographer and the eldest of the Mitford sisters, between 1944 and 1966. The editor, Charlotte Mosley, publisher, journalist and writer on the Mitfords, is the daughter in law of Diana Mitford, the third of the sisters, who married Sir Oswald Mosley. ART / LITERATURE LETTERS LIT. NON-FICTION CORRESPONDENCE 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback book.Publisher;s blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.193 pages. 5 X 7.5 inches. The book is rubbed , spine ends, corners edges etc, a few marks to the cloth. Prior owner's name and date on the front free endpaper.Gilt on the spine is quite dulled and fairly illegible. Page edges browned, some cracking to maonly front endpaper laong the hinge, some foxing to rear endpaper, and very occasionaliy to some page margins.Generally sound and all complete.A good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Being the Letters Between Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley of Alderley, and Her Daughter-in-Law Henrietta Maria Stanley MITFORD, Nancy [edited by & with an introduction by] [257] pp. Hamish Hamilton Second Impression 1967 8 3/4" x 5 3/4".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alan Ross, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, 'Strix', Christopher Sykes and John Betjeman [114] pp. Hamish Hamilton 1956 First Edition 8" x 5 1/2" Illustrations by Osbert Lancaster. A collection of writings on the social implications of "U"- and "Non-U" language, terms popularised by Nancy Mitford to identify 'true' members of the Upper Classes. The concept of 'Upper-Class English Usage' in linguistics was introduced by Professor Alan Ross in 1954. Mitford then published an essay on the subject in Encounter, which was followed by reposts and comments by many including Evelyn Waugh, 'Strix' and Christopher Sykes. DESCRIPTION Alan Ross, Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, 'Strix', Christopher Sykes and John Betjeman. Edited by Nancy Mitford. Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. Hamish Hamilton. London. 1956. First edition, first impression. Hardback, octavo; red cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 114 pages. B&w illustrations by Osbert Lancaster. English. 205 x 140mm. 0.25kg Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear, slight spotting to jacket, slight lean to spine, not price-clipped; light offsetting to endpapers, contemporary owner's name to front endpaper, extract from the Letters page of a newspaper pasted to rear flap, presumably one of the letters being written by the book's owner.…