WYLIE, I DA A LEXA R OSS (4 résultats)

Octavo, original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. A collection of eight stories, four reprinted from SIDE SHOWS (London: Cassell, 1923) and four added here for the first time. The new stories are: "Second Vision," "Pas de Quatre," "Little Fraulein and the Big World" and "The Perfect Marriage." Popular, somewhat sentimental fiction. The title story and "Little Fraulein" have borderline fantasy content, showing the way a middle-aged man and a young girl, respectively, imagine inanimate objects as living. Wylie lived a colorful life, born in Australia, growing up in England (without a mother or much supervision, teaching herself from her father's library), traveling freely in Europe -- as a child! -- studying in Belgium and Germany, and finally moving to America after World War I. She began writing -- and publishing -- stories when she was a teenager, and became a militant suffragette in the 1910s. A bright, clean, near fine copy. (#117784).

Octavo, original olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. A collection of six short stories. Published later in the U.S. as THE MAD BUSMAN AND OTHER STORIES (1926), with different contents (four of the present stories were reprinted, two dropped, and four new stories added). The two stories unique to the present collection are "The Inheritors" and "Lord Bolshevik and Lady Circumstance," the latter a biting satire against what might now be called limousine liberals. Wylie lived a colorful life, born in Australia, growing up in England (without a mother or much supervision, teaching herself from her father's library), traveling freely in Europe -- as a child! -- studying in Belgium and Germany, and finally moving to America after World War I. She began writing, and publishing, stories when she was a teenager, and became a militant suffragette in the 1910s. Owner's inked signature on front paste-down. Spine lean, cloth rubbed at edges, endpapers foxed, a sound, good copy. (#117428).

Octavo, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. A collection of eight short stories. Wylie lived a colorful life, born in Australia, growing up in England (without a mother or much supervision, teaching herself from her father's library), traveling freely in Europe -- as a child! -- studying in Belgium and Germany, and finally moving to America after World War I. She began writing, and publishing, stories when she was a teenager, and became a militant suffragette in the 1910s. Touch of foxing to fore-edge of text block, a tight, clean, nearly fine copy. (#116566).

Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-320 [321-328: ads], original purple cloth, spine panel stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects a short novel and five short stories, some criminous. Wylie lived a colorful life, born in Australia, growing up in England (without a mother or much supervision, teaching herself from her father's library), traveling freely in Europe -- as a child! -- studying in Belgium and Germany, and finally moving to America after World War I. She began writing, and publishing, stories when she was a teenager, and became a militant suffragette in the 1910s. Hubin (1994), p. 882. Top edge of text block dusty, else a clean, tight, very good copy. (#116564).