Michael cape meadows michael weldon champneys (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 287. Original publisher's pale green cloth with small guilt vignette on cover title in guilt and spine on blue spine label. Nickname on endpaper contemporary with the book some minor wear and foxing otherwise VG. Novel of rural middle class life with some vague mystic elements mainly on a yacht called Philo2. "Michael Cape-Meadows" was the literary pseudonym used by Reverend Michael Weldon Champneys (1885 Ð 1958), a British clergyman. Champneys published both Dayspring and his novel The Death Watch (also published by Robert Holden), which incorporates elements of fantasy, horror, and theology He was the brother of the anonymous British novelist Adelaide Mary (A.M.) Champneys. The siblings later collaborated on the 1937 fiction novel Fool's Melody. Born in Hampstead, London, he was the son of the prominent British architect Basil Champneys He was educated at Cambridge and spent much of his later life serving as a reverend in Chichester, Sussex. Rare. Only 6 copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Very curious book by Michael Cape-Meadows, pseudonym of Michael Weldon Champneys, brother of British novelist, Adelaide Mary (A. M.) Champneys. Novel containing elements of fantasy and horror published by Holden in 1927. First edition. Good only in blue buckram with spine and back panel quite stained in white splotches, but retained in a very good, seemingly original dust jacket with no signs of damage other than edge wear and a few tears. Does not seem to be a facsimile as it was clearly printed on a letter press, and is aged/tanned around the edges and on the spine. Presents well, and remains clean and tight internally.…