Trefusis Violet Philippe Jullian (8 results)

Hardcover. xii, 256p. + 12p. photos, very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. xii, 256p. + 12p. photos, very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Impression. Small pink line on bottom edge, dust jacket has light shelf wear. 5.5 X 9" 119 pages. Dedicated to and with a tribute by Frank Ashton-Gwatkin. Illustrated with a series of amusing drawings by Philippe Jullian. Set in the years that followed WWII in a neglected and ill-kept Gothic Castle, surrounded by an eccentric and colourful collection of relatives. The Dusk family play life by their own rules with Lord Peregrine, heir presumptive, boasting three (ex) wives, all living together with their offspring at a cottage on the estate. **Bundle Up * Save On Postage**. Philippe Jullian (illustrator).…

8vo, red buckram boards, black lettering & double rules to spine, stamp to front board, frontis., illus tp, 240 pp., illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate fading to spine, light wear to joints, light tanning/soiling & foxing to pg edges, prev bookseller's sm green pricing sticker to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sporadic light foxing throughout), lacking d/w.…

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London 1979. 244 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Orig. boards in dust wrapper. Near fine/Near fine-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 240. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Neat gift inscription on verso front endpaper with slight dulling to lettering at spine, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and small fleur-de-lis on front. First Edition, 1952. Moderate wear, bumped corners. Light scuffing at corners, edges and ends of spine. Small stains on front board, spine gilt faded. Solid binding. Previous owner's name on ffep. Gift inscription on half title page, names blacked out with pressure marks to following page. Otherwise clean, unmarked interior. A very nice reading copy of the 1st Edition in Good condition. Jullian, Philippe (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Printing published by Hutchinson & Co., London in 1952. Large 8vo., brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine; with small device gilt to head, as well as upper board; in the unclipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Philippe Jullian (16s net); as well as decorative endpapers, title, and numerous line drawings in text; frontis photograph of the author with her mother; including author s family tree and facsimile signature beneath preface; THE BOOK an excellent near Fine copy, lightly bumped to spine ends, with previous ownership signature in blue ink to half-title; in the Very Good++ WRAPPER which has a couple of corner creases, nicks, and small closed tears to extremities; rubbed with minor losses to the edges. Scarce, nonetheless, in such condition, with the striking wrapper artwork retaining its brightness. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First edition of Violet Trefusis autobiography, in which she covers a life from the first thing I remember , through her Edwardian upbringing as the daughter of Alice Keppel (mistress of King Edward VII), her entry into Parisian aristocratic and literary circles, her interactions with Cocteau and Proust, her return to England during the war, and ending with her mother s death in 1947, though it omits entirely her relationship with Vita Sackville-West - despite being read and edited by Vita in Florence prior to publication. In the introduction, Trefusis writes: 'I have not lied, I have merely omitted, by-passed the truth, whenever unpalatable'. Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, and in the vacuum of both her parent s deaths, the work remains an insightful literary and social portrait of Europe between the wars, and is wonderfully offset by Jullian's charming illustrations. Scarce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.…