Bitches Brew Plot Against Bertrand by Buttle Myra (7 results)

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (damp marks on boards - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 87 (a few spots on front prelims; no inscriptions).

8vo, hardback, prelims + 87pp. Good condition in like dustwrapper (price clipped, white background is grubby and stained especially at rear, general light wear, mild creasing). Crimson boards with red upper edge, gilt lettering. Mild wear, page edges are splashed and some marks have crept into the margins on several pages- contents very good, clear and bright. Pictures available on request.…

1st edition. Slim 8vo. Prelims. + 87pp. Slight foxing to edges of pages. Original cloth. Pictorial white d/w. with faded red lettering, rubbed and slightly chipped. US$22.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, red dyed upper edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 87 printed pages of text. Spine ends a little creased, foxing to the closed page edges, tan age spots to a few of the earlier pages. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with tan age spots to the upper panel, a little curling to the upper edges, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. PLAYS (Theatre Performance).…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 87. Original publisher's red cloth with silver lettering at spine. Includes loosely inserted author's compliments slips. Slight shelf mark at covers, light edgewear, else very clean and bright. Very good.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Watts & Co., London, 1960, 1st edition; 8vo, pp [ii], 87; original red cloth, spine text in silver; corners and edges a little rubbed in places but a very good copy. Purcell was a prolific and accomplished writer, a sinologist, colonial civil servant, a lecturer at Cambridge on Far Eastern History, a specialist on Malaya, a poet and, as here, a satirical dramatist sending up British snobbery and the unco'guid. His rebuttal of the distaste of a certain type of snob for Bertrand Russell takes the loose form of "Macbeth", interspered with explanatory comment and brings in not only the three sisters of the title but the likes of the ghosts of Samuel Wilberforce and T H Huxley as well as numerous historic and imaginary figures including bellicose generals ("I have always believed in keeping the warlike spirit alive in peacetime"), prominent Christians such as Hilaire Belloc or others of imagined note such as the Archbishop of Tooting Bec. Russell, although widely acknowledged as the outstanding British philosopher of his time was also widely reviled by those more concerned with propriety than truth and here has a strong defender in Purcell whose other works in the guise of "Myra Buttle" are "The Sweeniad", a parody of T S Eliot and "Toynbee in Elysium".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. TWO HARDBACK VOLUMES IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BOARDS WITH ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS BOTH UNPRICE CLIPPED. SOME MINOR EGDE WEAR TO JACKETS WITH MINOR CHIPS AT TOP OF SPINE ON JACKET OF THE NEW HOPES, FEW LIGHT MARKS TO JACKETS. OVERALL BOTH ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH CLOTH COVERS CLEAN, PAGES CLEAN & BOARDS WELL ATTACHED. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.…