Edité par The Hogarth Press, London, 1986
Vendeur : Classic Book Shop, Royal Oak, MI, Etats-Unis
Trade Paperback. Etat : Fine. Pile, Stephen -- New Introduction (illustrateur). Fifth Impression. spine is square and uncreased, clean.
Edité par Hogarth Press June 1989, London, 1989
ISBN 10 : 0701219033 ISBN 13 : 9780701219031
Vendeur : A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, Etats-Unis
Paper Back. Etat : Very Good. Clean, solid, without markings. 6th Hogarth paperback printing.
Edité par Prion Books Ltd, London, 2003
ISBN 10 : 1853753904 ISBN 13 : 9781853753909
Vendeur : Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, Royaume-Uni
Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. New Edition. New edition, third printing hardback 332 pages iFine condition in Fine unclipped dust jacket Gift inscription on front end paper.
Edité par Hogarth Press, London, UK, 1984
ISBN 10 : 0701219033 ISBN 13 : 9780701219031
Vendeur : 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF; showing trace shelfwear. First published in 1912; this is a 1984 re-issue. Humorous tale beset w/vanity, delusions & passage of time from English novelist Edward Frederic Benson OBE (1867 ? 1940, known for his 'Mapp and Lucia' series. Mrs. Ames has long reigned in a world of afternoon teas, cucumber sandwiches & tit-bits of gossip unchallenged in the town of Riseholme. But now her tiara crowns graying locks. And her previously devoted to their garden flowers husband, Major Lyndhurst Percy Ames (a full 10 years her junior) interests have strayed over the fence to Millie's next door! Mrs Ames sets out to re-woo the Major. Her success is both exquisite, inevitable, and a delight to read!.
Edité par Prion Books Ltd, London, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1853753904 ISBN 13 : 9781853753909
Vendeur : The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Jacket by David Hitch (illustrateur). First published in 1931, and as a new edition in 2000, this is a second impression of the new edition of 2001. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, very slight lean, not price clipped (£9.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy. 322pp. The centrepiece of E.F. Benson's (1867-1940), series of Mapp & Lucia novels, bringing together for the first time the eponymous middle aged doyennes of polite 1930s society Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Emmeline Luca (Lucas to her friends). Lucia, recently widowed, is the newcomer to the village of Tilling and eager to wrest the reins of social supremacy from Miss Mapp and install herself as its benevolent dictator. In their polite acts of sabotage and ruthless jockeying for the position of cultural arbiter Mapp and Lucia tear up the conventions of drawing-room bridge evenings as their deadly weapons. Things finally come to a head with Miss Mapp's audacious attempt to steal her rival's celebrated Lobster a la Riseholme. E.F. Benson's charming satrical bent turns the pretensions and snobberies of English village life into a vicious comedy.Quite scarce, even in this later edition.