Terry Ellen St John Christopher Editor (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : A Correspondence Shaw, Bernard; Terry, Ellen; St. John, Christopher [editor] limited edition, numbered 2090/3000. green cloth with gilt. Published by The Fountain Press; Constable & Co., New York & London, 1931. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence is a 1931 collection of letters between the famous English actress Ellen Terry and the playwright George Bernard Shaw, edited under the pen name Christopher St. John by the suffragette, writer, and Terry's former secretary, Christabel Marshal. "some cloth wear, edge and spine sunning, corner stubs, inside clean and tight and very good". …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. Limited, Numbered, First edition; green c w/gilt titles/decorations; #2010 or 3,000 copies; 370 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition - Nap (No Additional Printing Stated, Thus First). The Book Is Bound In Burgundy Cloth With Gilt Lettering On The Front And Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Red. The Spine Has Faded. The Cover Is Worn. Lower Corners Bumped. Ownership Information Written Near The Upper Corner Of The Front Pastedown. The First Four Pages Are Torn At The Upper Part Of The Gutter. Hinges Are Sound And The Text Appears To Be Free Of Notation.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited, numbered printing of 3,000 copies (this is #1174). Top edge of text-block is gilt. Foxing to some pages. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Otherwise, clean and solid. ; 8vo; 370 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. No. 188 of 3,000 numbered copies produced by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press; 370 pp.; green cloth with gilt decoration, T. E. G., deckle edges, 26 cm.: Sound binding and hinges, one contemporary bookshop sticker to front paste-down else unmarked, touch of sunning to spine. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Octavo. B&W photographs. Condition: lower corners bumped; else very good. Pages: xxxviii, 434.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Limited Edition of 3,000. No. 398. Spine is sunned. Book plate inside cover. Light wear. Clean text. D14.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1932. First (1st) Printing of the First (American) Edition, as no further printings are listed, per the publisher's 1928 statement of policy. Near Fine condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white laid paper, tight, straight and square, with light red topstain and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full red cloth, color faded on the spine and partially on the rear board, with gilt title to the front board, faded gilt title, etc., to the spine, white endpapers unmarked but for a prior owner's name at the top of the front free endpaper, all corners square with light wear at the tips, and light wear to the head and heel of the spine. No Jacket. See the photos. xxx, 334 pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Ellen Terry was perhaps that most famous actress in the UK during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, performing various Shakespeare plays with Henry Irving for a substantial period of time. The famous actress and Shaw, the famous playwright, maintained a correspondence from 1892 to 1920. The letters, gathered after Ms. Terry's death, follow a lengthy Preface by Shaw and a short Introductory Note by the editor, Christopher St. John. Shaw concludes the Preface with the following comment: "Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 871 grams / 30.6 ounces, and, when packaged, will require extra postage for international shipment.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Preface by George Bernard Shaw. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth White Lowry on the front free endpaper, with reference to the previous owner, Hemingway bibliographer Captain Louis Henry Cohn: "Dear Ruth: - This is really a 2nd hand book because it was the gift of Captain Louis Henry Cohn the great bibliographer - Pauline didn't like it but Shaw and Terry and Capt. Cohn and Lawrence Stallings all did so you may find something in it - I have not read it - They must have been very sure how great they were or very careful to have kept all the letters and been able to find them - Ernest." Publisher's red cloth, with front board and spine lettered in gilt, red topstain; lacking dust jacket. Very good, with toning to spine and board edges, heavy dimming to spine gilt, some very light scratches to rear board, small House of Books ticket (Captain Cohn's bookshop) to rear pastedown. Overall, a uniquely inscribed copy, with exceptional provenance. From the personal library of Hemingway's cousin, Ruth White Lowry. This book is a collection of correspondence between the great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and leading English actress Ellen Terry (1847 - 1928). In 1892, Ellen reached out to Shaw, then a 36-year-old music critic, to get his opinion on the career prospects of a musical protégé of hers. This began a roughly 30-year correspondence between the two, which was marked by flirtation, genuine affection, and Shaw's repeated attempts to lure Ellen away from Henry Irving's productions at Lyceum Theatre to star in theatrical productions of his own work. With praise from its New York Times review: "It represents the very flower of the minds and hearts-the select harvest of sentiment and wit-of two of the most remarkable personages of our generation." Captain Louis Henry Cohn (1889- 1953), born in Brooklyn, New York, earned his military rank by fighting in the French Army during World War I. In 1930, Cohn wrote a letter to Hemingway, asking him for permission to compile a bibliography of his works. Hemingway begrudgingly agreed, and in 1931 the book, A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway, was published: in a note from Hemingway to Cohn, which was later included as the frontispiece of the bibliography, Hemingway wrote, "I think it all balls to publish bibliographies of living writers". Later, Cohn and his wife, Marguerite, opened House of Books, a successful bookshop specializing in modern first editions. Under the House of Books imprint, Cohn published an edition of Hemingway's short story "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" (1933) limited to 300 numbered copies, and a facsimile of Hemingway's "Bastard Note"-a legal disclaimer page included in the second printing of A Farewell to Arms, with a humorous note to the printer in Hemingway's hand-limited to 93 numbered copies. Signed.…