Strachey Lytton Edited (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First US Edition. Edgewear and foxing to DJ. ; 8.50 X 5.60 X 0.80 inches.

Hardcover. vi, 184p., small stains on several pages at fore-margins otherwise a very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj.

Hardcover. vi, 184p., small ownership stamp otherwise a very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj.

Paperback. xiv, 177p., very good first US edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The British first edition is Young 3672.

Hardcover. xii, 274p., introduction, bibliographical note, index, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xii) 274 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The dj features Lytton Strachey Reading in the Garden at Tidmarsh by Dora Carrington. This collection contains: THREE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS AND A CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES PAPER: Lancaster Gate; Ought the Father to Grow a Beard; Monday June 26th 1916; Asquith - The Times - January 1972. WARTIME PIECES: Militarism and Theology - War and Peace May 1918; A Diplomatist: Li Hung-Chang - War and Peace March 1918; Voltaire and Frederick the Great - Edinburgh Review October 1915. SIX ENGLISH HISTORIANS: Hume - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 7 1928; Gibbon - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 14 1928; Macaulay - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 21 1928; Carlyle - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 28 1928; Froude - Life and Letters December 1930; Creighton - Life and Letters June 1929. DRAMA: Shakespeare's Final Period - The Independent Review August 1904; Sarah Bernhardt - The Nation and the Athenaeum May 5 1923; The Last Elizabeth - Beddoes - The New Quarterly November 1907. LITERARY CRITICISM: Pope - Cambridge University Press 1925; A Victorian Critic - Matthew Arnold - The New Statesman August 1 1914; A Russian Humorist - Dostoyevsky - The Spectator April 11 1914. BIOGRAPHY: Mr Creevey - The Athenaeum June 13 1919; James Boswell - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 31 1925; Lady Hester Stanhope - The Athenaeum April 4 1919; Sir John Harrington - The Nation and the Athenaeum November 17 1923; Muggleton - The Nation and the Athenaeum July 26 1924; The Life Illness and Death of Dr North - The Nation and the Athenaeum February 19 1927; Introduction to Warren Hastings. FOUR FRENCH SUBJECTS: Mademoiselle de Lespinasse - The Independent Review September 1906; The Abbe Morellet - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 26 1924; Madame de Lieven - Life and Letters April 1931; and The President de Brosses - The New Statesman and Nation 11 and 18 April 1931; followed by a bibliographical note and an index. Size: 8vo. Dora Carrington; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Both the dust jacket and the book are in Near Fine condition.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, vi,184pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 043434575X.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 177pp., xiv. First published in Great Britain in 1972; this copy, Stated: "First American Edition 1973". Glossy color Frontispiece, a painting by Dora Carrington of Strachey, reclining with blanket over him and book in long hands, reading. Three Sections of Essays: "War and Politics"; "Men, Women, Se and Art"; "Pieces from the Margins of Literature". Afterword, pp. 171-172; Index, pp. 173-177. Black linen with brilliant gilt lettering on spine; top edge stained red. Glossy white dustwrapper not price-clipped ($6.95) with the Carrington portrait of Strachey on lower half front cover; editor name lettering in black over white background, just above the portrait and below title oval. Tiny tips of wear to top dw corners only; light ruffling across spine ends; 3/4" closed tear up from lower edge at rear cover lower left corner (all peccadilloes now backed by Archival tape): NOW in Brodart mylar which generously forgives these peccadilloes. Only flaw to book is thin line of slightly diminished dark blue across foot of spine, else As New: tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO curls or bumps); NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy. Looks little, if ever read.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has a one inch tear at bottom front edge and a 1/2 inch tear at top back edge. 177 pages with index and color frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A firm, clean copy in edgeworn but unclipped dustwrapper.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values. 300 pages. Pages browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0192801589. ISBN/EAN: 9780192801586. Inventory No: 278844.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good hardback copy in good dustjacket. vi, 184pp.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xiv, 176pp. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (some creasing of the rear inner flap). ISBN 0297995546.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SOFTCOVER 1929. Spine has a 1.5cm tear from the bottom end. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref C66.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. Crown 8vo., 118, [1] pp. Full sienna linen cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine. B/w photographic frontispiece of the correspondents. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell featuring silhouettes of the authors (priced 18s net to front flap). Contains almost all their extant correspondence of note from 1906 to 1931. Edited by Leonard Woolf and James Strachey. 1/4,000 copies issued on 14 November, 1956. Superb copy in complete, unfaded dustwrapper, with a miniscule closed tear to upper edge of back panel. Contents clean and fresh. [Kirkpatrick A32a].…