Pier Florida (12 results)

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages. paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 7pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated with 2 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume LXXXIII, No. 2, December, 1911. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. F. R. Gruger (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 3pp story, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXIX, No. 1, November, 1904. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. 1979. Paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New. 1979. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Presumed first edition/first printing. x, 306 p. front. (port. ) 21 cm. O. Preface by Sir Bernard Pares. Sophie Gotcharsky was the step-daughter of Dr. harold Williams. She worked on the Russian front as a Red Cross nurse. From Wikipedia: Pier Scott-Maxwell (14 September 1883-6 March 1979) was a playwright, author and psychologist. Florida Pier was born in Orange Park, Florida, and educated at home until the age of ten. She grew up in Pittsburgh, then moved to New York at age 15 to become an actress. In 1910 she married John Scott Maxwell and moved to her husband's native Scotland, where she worked for women's suffrage and as a playwright. The couple divorced in 1929 and she moved to London. In 1933 she studied Jungian psychology under Carl Jung and practised as an analytical psychologist in both England and Scotland. She died in Exeter, England. Her most famous book is The Measure of My Days (1968). Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Part of DJ pasted inside front cover. Bookplate of John Hayes Knowles on fep.…

FIRST EDITION, occasional faint spots, pp. viii, 311, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges slightly spotted, dustjacket price-clipped, a little browned to backstrip panel and borders with some very light soiling, gentle creasing at extremities, very good. An unflinching account of nursing on the Russian Front, the narrative running from the advance into Prussia in October 1914 to the February Revolution of 1917. The author was the daughter of Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, an anti-Bolshevik activist and writer, who took her family to Britain in the wake of the Revolution - Botcharsky dedicates the work to her stepfather, the linguist Harold Williams. Her co-author, the improbably-named Florida Pier, had married a Scot and moved to Britain from the US - establishing herself as a playwright. By the time of this work, she had divorced James Scott-Maxwell, and was about to embark on the next phase of her career - as a Jungian psychoanalyst.…