Winifred F E C Isaac (4 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 238 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Yellow cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Flat signed by author to half title page. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, previous owner signature to inside page, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by author, including a hand written letter by the author Winifred F.E.C. Isaac on author's headed paper, to 'Dear Mr Eric Walter White'. 238pp. B&W photographs, illustrated with drawings by Grace Golden. Book condition: VG clean, tight copy protected in a clear mylar dust-jacket, presumed to be the original cover. Letter and errata slip loosely inserted. Spine faintly sunned; upper board slightly rippled - please see photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION with 2 signed letters from the Author, one written on the author's headed paper. Octavo, pp. xxii, 238, [2]. Numerous monochrome plates including frontispiece portrait of Greet with facsimile signature below. Original canary yellow cloth with black titles to spine in plain mylar dust-jacket as issued. Letters and errata slip loosely inserted. Spine faintly sunned; upper board slightly rippled. Title page and first leaf of forewords corner-creased with associated small nicks; p. 141 annotated at foot in green ink. Author's signature to half-title in purple ink, dated in year of publication. Jacket a little wrinkled with 2cm split at rear fold, with associated creasing. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Biography of the English Shakespearian actor-manager Ben Greet (1857-1936), with forewords by Sybil Thorndike, Malcolm Morley and Leslie French. The letters from the Author are inscribed in purple ink, and the second in sequence is dated 1965, the year following publication; both letters request payment for the book and one refers to the edition as being limited to only 300 copies. Scarce.