Rathbone Irene (20 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Following the progress of Joan Seddon and a group of friends from 1915 through to the empty post-war years, this semi-autobiographical novel portrays their work at YMCA camps in France, in munitions factories and as VADs. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. We That Were Young (VMC) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Condition: NEAR FINE. Tight binding. All pages clean without marks or notations. Minimal shelf wear. See images. Synopsis: This fierce anti-war novel by Irene Rathbone (1892-1980) is told from the perspective of a cultured former suffragist and several of her friendsyoung women who work at rest camps just behind the lines in France and as nurses of the severely wounded in hospitals in London. When Joan loses both her brother and lover to the war, in anger at the enemy she volunteers for work in a munitions plant, but by the end, she is a confirmed pacifist. About the Author: Irene Rathbone (1892-1980) is the author of seven other novels. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condition: Good. 1943. First Edition. 46 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed.

Condition: very good. no dustjacket. 8vo pp.498, sunned spine. book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket issued. xxviii+498pp. Paperback, From the collection of Dr Vivien Noakes [1937-2011] who was a leading authority on both Edward Lear and the First World War.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: As New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. boards are worn and marked. light staining. page ends are a bit uneven. limited to 500 copies. 44 pages. sound binding. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Library Binding. Condition: Brand New. 528 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

New edition. Printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author, 'To Meum Stewart from Irene Rathbone who is honoured that some bits of this "summer" have been considered worthy of your anthology. January, 1947'. Wrappers slightly worn, else a very good copy. A long poem written following the end of the author's brief but intense affair with Richard Aldington. Meum Stewart was an actress and the mother of Jacob Epstein's first daughter. The anthology was presumably 'The Distaff Muse: an anthology of poetry written by women', co-edited by Stewart and published in 1949. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Small mark to heel of spine. Inscribed in black pen to ffep: "For dear Irene Rathbone, Kathleen Nott, October 1963," occasional pencil scoring and a few, brief notes in Rathbone's hand. Clipped TLS review laid in: toned, title and date added in Rathbone's hand. In the original black, white and red dust jacket: spine darkened, toned and gently soiled, a few marks to front panel, some creasing and nicking to edges. Very good/ very good A lovely copy of the unusual first edition of Kathleen Nott's "exquisitely intelligent" final novel, in which a retired civil servant looks back on his life, inscribed in the publication year to her friend and fellow British novelist, Irene Rathbone; it also features an affectionate printed dedication, "To Margaret Storm Jameson, in love and admiration". As with most of her books, Rathbone's engagement is evident in her light pencil scoring and occasional notes (a light touch for her). Alongside Rathbone and Jameson (who had been the first female President of its English branch, 1938-1944), Kathleen Nott (1905-1999) was involved in PEN, editing its magazine, Pen International, for 28 years. On her retirement from the organisation, Francis King described her as "a poet sadly underrated by those swept hither and thither on choppy tides of fashion, a prose writer who combines vigour with self-discipline, and a philosopher with a rare gift for exegesis not only of her own ideas but of the ideas of others." Indeed, if known today, it is likely for her lacerating The Emperor's Clothes: An attack on the dogmatic orthodoxy of T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, and others (1953). A Humanist, Nott was President of the Progressive League (19591961).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp ix, 466.2. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered gilt at the spine. Ownership signature of Emilie Estelle Rosemary Pakenham (1907-1932) sister of the fantasy writer Ivo Pakenham. . Cean about VG condition with slight evidence of discreet rebacking. The book was re-issued in the 1980's by the Feminist Press in the USA and by Virago in the UK, the true first edition is rare. Irene Rathbone (1892-1980) an early suffragist, worked at YMCA camps in France during the Great War and as a V. A. D. in London. A lament for the death of an idealistic generation, the book is sometimes compared with Richard Aldington's 'Death of a Hero.' Irene Rathbone writes - "We were the youth of the world, we were on the crest of life, and we were the war.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1932). 466pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. VG copy, binding square and tight, ink name to ffep, no jacket.

FIRST EDITION, a few leaves at close dog-eared at top corner, pp. 483, 8vo, original red cloth, now mostly faded to pink, to varying degrees and most of all to the gilt-lettered backstrip, lean to spine, edges and endpapers a little spotted, dustjacket with a typographic design by Berthold WOlpe, a little chipped and nicked, good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Billie & Rosalind, gratefully. Their sympathy has never failed me over this book - which seemed ill-starred, They believed in it, To them this copy, at last! Irene Rathbone, October 1952'. Her final novel, a complex portrait of a 'much-divided society' (blurb) in the lead-up to the Second World War. The printed dedication is to her friend Storm Jameson, whose advice regarding the novel included trimming some of its political content.…