Child of Light a Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Spark Muriel (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. First Edition. No dust jacket. The orange cloth boards are sunned, more so on the spine, light corner rubbing, a little soiling. Clean interior. First edition 1951. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Orange hardback WITHOUT/NO dust cover. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some marks on book cover but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Boards. Mary Shelley (illustrator). 1st edition. Octavo, original cloth boards, frontis portrait plate of Mary Shelley, pp xii 235. Ex-library, good reading copy of the scarce first edition. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is a little chipped to head and tail of spine and price clipped otherwise no damage, internally clean. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. Includes dust jacket. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!!

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. xii, 235 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece of Shelley. Orange cloth hardcover binding with red lettering on spine. Original dustjacket with red lettering wrapped in protective mylar. Dustjacket has small chips and tears. Pencil crayon mark on spine. Small hole in front free endpaper. Some pencil notes, pencil crayon on back free endpaper. While best known today as a novelist, Muriel Spark first published this historical literary criticism. More photos available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 235pp. Orange cloth with red spine lettering. Lightly sunned at the board edges and the spine ends a touch bumped, excellent copy, binding tight and square, the jacket price clipped, edges and spine darkened a little, with a few light creases at the edges. Nice copy.

Tower Bridge Publications, Hadleigh 1951. 235 pages. Frontispiece in b/w. Original orange cloth in dust wrapper. Light edgewear and agetoning to dust wrapper.Spine ends mildly compressed. Small, closed tear to rear pastedown. Wrapper NOT priceclipped. Bookseller's ticket to patedown. * Included in an abridged version is the less known third novel 'The Last Man'.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. In this engrossing biography, acclaimed novelist Muriel Spark recreates Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's turbulent life and career and persuasively defends the enigmatic writer's place among the giants of literary history. Octavo: 235 p. with a frontispiece. Original orange cloth binding, with burgundy titles. Minor crease to the rear flyleaf. In the scarce dust jacket, which is lightly faded along the extremities. Near fine.

First edition. Original orange boards lettered in red to the spine, in the printed buff dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper indeed, with some toning to the spine. Muriel Spark's first published book. A volume of biographical and critical essays on Mary Shelley, which includes as an addendum an abbreviated version of her 'The Last Man'.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 235 pages. First edition (first printing). Orange cloth with red lettering on spine. Spotting to cloth edges, thus a very good copy; in a dust jacket with a bit of edge wear and light fading to spine.

First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; xiv,235,[1]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced 12/6 net), lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned, with a few tiny tears, some dustiness to rear panel, and a faint splash mark to spine panel. Spark's first book published under her own name, a critical work on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley focussing both on her life, as well as her "neglected capacity as a writer" (from front flap).

First edition of the author's first book published under her own name; 8vo, pp. [iii]-xii, [2], 235; slight creasing at the top of the spine of the dust-jacket, back panel of jacket a bit soiled, else fine through.