ellen terry secret de terry ellen craig edward gordon (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. First American edition. Owner name in pencil on flyfleaf. Very good in a fair dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Etat : Good. - Octavo, yellow cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a circular vignette stamped in gilt on the front cover. The binding is soiled with some light staining & the spine is faded. xi, [1] leaf & 205 pages with an "Annex", a 29-page pamphlet, laid into a pocket mounted on the rear pastedown. The rear hinge is cracked. Illustrated with a color frontispiece & 7 black-and-white plates with an additional facsimile frontispiece in the Annex. Good. First edition.The "Annex", entitled "A Plea For G.B.S.", concerns the relationship between George Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry and the controversy over the publication of their correspondence after Terry's death.

Pp. xiv+206(last blank), coloured frontispiece, plus 7 black & white plates, 1 page of printed music, index; med. 8vo; yellow buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly soiled and worn, bottom edge of boards slightly bruised; bookseller's sticker and glue marks from removal of bookplate on upper pastedown, a little light foxing and offsetting; SampsonLow, Marston, London, n.d.[1931]. First edition. *The frontispiece reproduces a bookplate designed by the author, who was Ellen Terry's son, for his mother. Housed in a pocket on the lower pastedown is the Annex, a 30 page booklet (with frontispiece), subtitled A plea for G.B.S., in which Craig details his reaction to the publication of the correspondence between Ellen Terry and George Bernard Shaw.