Letters by Luxmoore H E (3 results)
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Published by Cambridge University Press, 1929
- Hardcover
Seller: Oakholm Books, Aberfeldy, United KingdomOakholm Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No markings or inscriptions. Tissue-guarded portrait frontis. Dark blue cloth binding with paper printed spine label. Binding sound; hinges firm. Impressions of old paperclips on the first couple of pages, otherwise unmarked. Light wear to bards, a very good copy.
Published by Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1929., 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Keel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA., Whitley Bay, United KingdomKeel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA.
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Add to basketHard Cover. FIRST EDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY. From the library of both E. S. P. Haynes and Roger Senhouse. Octavo, pp. xvi, 367, [1]. 3 plates comprising frontispiece portrait of Luxmoore from a photograph by Hills & Saunders of Eton with tissue guard; Sketch by A.C. James in colour and a page of Luxmoore's inscribed verse in fac…simile. Publishers' blue cloth with printed paper title label to spine. Spare label tipped in to rear. Typed Index of the letters to 5 sheets, folded and loosely inserted. Cover cloth lightly scuffed and soiled with minor bruising to boards; spine and label toned. From the libraries if E.S.P. Haynes and Roger Senhouse, with their ownership signatures to front paste-down, Haynes' dated in year of publication and Senhouse's in year of purchase (1949). A little marginal annotation in pencil in the hand of Haynes (also to Index sheets), and a few marks to leaves from historic use of paper-clips. A Very Good copy overall. Letters of the House Master at Eton, with Introduction by master of the macabre Montgomery Rhodes James, once one of Luxmoore's pupils and the recipient of several letters in the collection. Edmund Stanley Pollock Haynes (1877-1949), the original owner of the volume, was Kings Scholar at Eton; as a prolific author and man-about-town, he was well known in literary circles in London in the early 20th century and almost certainly acquainted with Roger Senhouse, whose inscription includes the note " March 1949 E.S.P.H. sale " indicating that he obtained the volume from Haynes' estate. Senhouse (1899-1970) was a peripheral member of the Bloomsbury group and co-owner of publishing house Secker and Warburg who printed the works of major authors such as George Orwell, Gunter Grass and Melvyn Bragg; Senhouse is also known for his secret 1930s sado-masochistic relationship with Lytton Strachey.
More imagesPublished by University Press, Cambridge, 1929
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Edited by M.R. James and A. B. Ramsay. The Spectator, 20 Nov. 1926 "In Mr. Luxmoore, Eton has lost the figure which had become there for the time the best loved and revered. To a great age his clear-cut features continued to remind one of the best Italian medal- portraits.…His generosity to the School was great in many directions. His knowledge and sense of art and architecture made him an arbiter of taste. But his most abiding mark will be on the characters of innumerable boys and, we venture to say, of masters too. He inspired high motives and principles by expecting them. No one with a mean thought in his heart could come before Mr. Luxmoore's eye and not feel ashamed." E.W. Stone was a master at Eton as was his father before him. Reynolds Stone (1909-1979) was born at Eton and educated there. With a loosely inserted autograph letter to "Ned" from Constance. Rogers 335 Blue cloth. Inscribed from Reynolds Stone to his father on front pastedown "E.W. Stone/ from his son Christmas 1929." Reynolds Stone bookplate of Stuart Schimmel. Signed.
