Winifred Bryher (60 results)

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Softcover First Printing. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition (stated) hardcover with excellent hinges and unmarked pages, and good exterior (spine and lower corner cloth faded, light handling, slight wear). Without DJ. 316 pages. [1.3 lbs]. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Paperback: covers a little dusty, name and address label on the back cover, a small loose note inside has 'cover design by Victor Ambrus' amended to Hilary Abrahams, name on half title, page edges browning, some light foxing, else vg. 188pp. Wulf a Saxon boy is made hostage by the Danes and, 8 years later in 1066, he has to make a choice between subjugation in his defeated country or freedom in exile. Introduction by Dame Edith Sitwell.…

Condition: Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining to spine.…

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Black cloth spine over blue handmade paper-covered boards. A few light dings along front edges, neat ownership front free endpaper, near fine in near fine dust jacket toned a shade along spine with some edgewear overall.

Very Good to Fine. Price-clipped dust jacket, 12mo., 118 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1963). 320pp. VG/VG copy; dust jacket lightly edge worn with small closed tear to front top edge, small chipped losses to spine ends, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Light shelfwear to boards, bookstore stamp front free endpaper, near fine in very good edgeworn dust jacket in mylar cover.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. Light blue paper covered boards over white cloth spine. 119 pp. Illustrated with photographs of Paestum by Islay de Courcy Lyons. Fine, touch of fiant foxing to the spine cloth. In very good dust jacket. A novel set among the greying ruins of the columned temples of Paestum, an other of the author's series touching significant moments in history when mankind has faced the dissolution of an epoch. The daughter of the wealthiest man in England at the turn of the 20th century, Ellerman adopted the pen name "Bryher" when she entered the famed 1902s literary world of Paris whose epicenter was Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. bookshop. She was a friend of Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittlew and others of that period; openly lesbian in Paris, she entered into a marriage of convenience with Robert McAlmon in order to hide her sexuality from her family in England. They divorced after her father's death in 1927. She used her wealth to suppor many new or struggling authors, artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, the "little magazines" of Montparnasse and beginning around 1930, became interested in filmmaking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. Stated First edition. 190 pages, index. Nice bright copy in a complete dust jacket with original price on inside flap. Jacket has scuff to front cover and some light edjewear. Original price on inside flap, jacket is in a mylar protector. Ships in box. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 8 halftone photographs by Islay de Courcy Lyons. Dust jacket (unclipped; small chips; tears). Very good. 119 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. A short parable of people who try to escape fascism and join a utopia, by the author best known for her historical novels of life in ancient Rome. Bryher was married for a time to Robert McAlmon, and later to Kenneth Macpherson, with whom she published the influential cinema magazine *Close Up*. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. xii, 190 pp. Very good in original red cloth boards and gilt titling to spine, with toning to endpapers and light foxing to head of text block, and very good pictorial dust jacket with sunning to spine. The sequel to Bryher's earlier autobiography, The Heart to Artemis. Features her relationship with the poet H.D. and the hardships of World War 2 in London.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, light shelf wear. Binding tight. PO's initials on ffep, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; not clipped, a little toned, edges worn with chips. Fic. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers clean, spine sunned, mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Two tape marks on front pastedown. Text unmarked. Fic. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, light shelf wear. Binding tight. PO's initials on ffep, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD ; not clipped, a bit sunned, splits to front spine fold, edges worn and chipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers clean, spine and edges sunned, mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Front pastedown discolored. Text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; mildly rippled, rubbed, mild edge wear. Fic. RGR.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 217 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

dj. First Edition. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK Edition. Names inside front cover; dustwrapper has several creases and small tears, and small piece missing from back. Novel about two Greek traders in the Second Punic War. According to Wikipedia, the author "was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lesbian lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Hitler's Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist." 2A2.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. VG with some spotting to edges of page block, in VG unclipped jacket with some occasional grubbiness.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with clipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, including small tears and chips. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Spine is cocked. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished. Spots of foxing on the half-title and title page. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.…

First edition. Hardcover. Edges and prelims slightly spotted, bookseller's stamp on fly-leaf, o/w very good in good price-clipped dustjacket with a few closed tears and light soiling. Novel set during the Second Punic War. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 119pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Light foxing on the spine and the endleaves, near fine in a lightly toned and foxed, very good dust jacket, with modest wear along the topedge.

Condition: New. The Heart To Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs (Hardback or Cased Book).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1964 reprint, Collins 1st hardback with 256 pages. Hardback without wrapper with boards clean showing gentle signs of use. Pages clean with no folds or creases looking carefully read with a little light natural tanning to edges. Clean, lightly used copy. d1. Nita Sowter (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.