Stoddart Kids 1990-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. 6x4x0. New and UNREAD paperback from bookstore stock. May contain a price sticker.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Stoddart Kids paperback
Bookseller reference : 121704260037 ISBN : 0773672818 9780773672819
Doylestown: Quixott Press 1976. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. 8vo. 85 pp. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Uncommon item. World Cat lists six holdings at Rutgers the Library of Congress Brown the University of Georgia and the Onondaga Public Library. Quixott Press unknown
Cincinnati Ohio U.S.A.: Betterway Books 2002. Oversized 224pp including glossary and index Colorful photos and illustrations Dust jacket is rubbed otherwise book is AS NEW. First Edition. Glossy Soft Cover. Fine. Betterway Books
Bookseller reference : 60987 ISBN : 1558706275 9781558706279
London: Ernest Benn Limited 1964. Cloth. Good. FIRST UK EDITION INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR. 8vo. Original green cloth spine lettered in silver. Lean to spine extremities bumped top edge foxed. Inscribed in blue pen by Elizabeth Portch to ffep: "To Minie with love from the translator. Christmas 1964." some foodie finger-marks and fox spots musty. Else bright. In the original Margaret Gill-illustrated dust jacket in olive pink and black: price-clipped toned and foxed edgewear and nicking esp. spine ends. Good/ Good A well-handled copy of the first British edition of Merja Otava's best-selling YA novel portraying "the thoughts and dreams" of a young Finish teenage girl as she struggles to grow-up and to write inscribed by its translator Elizabeth Portch best known for her English translations of Tove Jansson's Moomin novels. Ernest Benn Limited hardcover
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1957. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red buckram spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Inscribed in blue ink to title page: "For my very dear Wallace From Tiluace sp formerly Klipso - A.K.a Pamela February 21st '57". Else clean tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: gently soiled and rubbed edgewear. Near fine/ very good A smart copy of Pamela Frankau's own favourite of her novels which interrogated grief and faith affectionately and intriguingly inscribed in the year of publication "For my very dear Wallace". The Bridge is dedicated "To M.W.: 'with ease and affection'" Frankau's lover the celebrated Anglo-American Shakespeare director Margaret Webster. The novel also features a nod to a previous lover and her fellow ATS officer Marjorie Vernon Whitefoord in the masculine Valentine Brooks who "looked like Charles the Second when she laughed; black curls grape-bloom eyes and white teeth" and took "Linda into her arms with a man's embrace; he David the protagonist thought that Linda rather liked it." Known as Vernon Whitefoord sponsored Frankau's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1942; she died only two years later. William Heinemann Ltd hardcover
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