Ritchie Hester Anne Thackeray Ritchie (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: good. With a few b/w illustrations. viii, 318pp. 8vo, worn grey cloth-backed boards. London: John Murray, 1924. Worn and with damp stain on exterior of spine; still a good copy.

Hard Cover. Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green H/B with pink patterned unclipped dustwrapper. Very minor foxing to endpaers and edges o/w very good. D/W is a little scuffed with light grubbiness to back cover. B/W frontis of Anny. The letters of Anny thackeray as compiled by her daughter and first published by John Murray in 1924. An additional lettter - "The Robert Browning Letter" is also included as well as quotes from Virginia Woolfe and Edward Gosse. Book.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. viii, [ii], 314. 4pp. undated advertisements. Portrait frontispiece of Anne Thackeray Ritchie from a drawing by John Singer Sargent and four full-page illustrations. Further illustrations in the text. Original publisher's grey cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine. Preface by Hester Ritchie. Signed presentation copy: 'For my mother's dearest E. P. from Hester Ritchie March 5th 1924'. E. P. refers to Elizabeth Merivale née Pittman. Her husband, the poet and dramatist, Herman Merivale (1839 1906), moved in literary circles, and was friends with William Makepeace Thackeray. Loosely inserted 'The Cornhill Magazine. November 1919'. pp. 359-468. An article concerning Anne Isabella Thackeray (Lady Ritchie) by Howard Overing Sturgis. Slightly nicked at head and foot of spine, light wear to boards. VG. Light wear and slight rubbing otherwise very good.…