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réf. BN420537Wiley. Banking on Change: The Development and Future of Financial Services Banking on Change: The Development and Future of Financial Services Ouida Taaffe Wiley unknown
2025réf. BN709124Antigonos Verlag 2025. 2025. Wanda: Vol. II Wanda: Vol. II Ouida Antigonos Verlag unknown
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réf. 1241154376.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1345712561.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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réf. 1172852251.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1918réf. 16025London: T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd 1918. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Descend into the depths of enchantment on a spiral staircase of stories by the Brothers Grimm Hans Christian Andersen Nathaniel Hawthorne Maria Edgeworth Ouida the women's suffragist animal rights activist and socialist Mary de Morgan and more! In this circa 1918 collection bound in cloth the color of pumpkin spice and bearing a witch whisking away a slumbering child on its cover you'll encounter a girl who marries a skull magic candles that summon fairies good or bad based on one's intentions enchanted streams guarded by fearsome dragons and a princess who escapes the unbearable politeness of the court when a witch places an automaton in her stead as well as timeless tales from Celtic Norse Italian West African Russian Japanese Greek and Arthurian folklore. This "staircase of stories" is arranged by ascending complexity for growing readers from ages 4 to 14 and beyond bountifully illustrated in a color frontispiece by Minnie Dibdin Spooner 30 colored plates and 41 black and white plates 4 of which have been colored in rather well by a previous reader by such artists as Cecile Walton Katharine Cameron Olive Allen Evelyn Beale Cecil Aldin and the great Walter Crane. 9 1/4" X 6 3/4". viii iv 521pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in deep orange cloth over boards with color pictorial plate of M. D. Spooner's rendering of the witch and princess from Mary de Morgan's "The Toy Princess" to upper board lettered in black to upper board and spine with small vignettes of owls and staircase stamped in black. Moderate wear to binding with rubbing bumping and small tears to corners and head and tail of spine as well as faint scattered scratching and soiling to cloth. Substantial foxing to edges of text block and preliminaries with scattered foxing to pages throughout and small neat tear to margin of pages 25-26. Bookseller's ticket of J. J. Banks & Son of Imperial Library Cheltenham to front pastedown. Toning to endpapers. Binding is sound. Fully illustrated throughout in 31 color plates and 41 black and white plates with black and white plates facing pages 235 286 509 and 514 colored in rather well by a previous owner. Christmas card signed Maude and drawing of sailboats laid in. T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd hardcover
réf. 41901saying she believes "that Black Beauty has been long ago translated but that kind of thing is no use in Italy. People do not read. I am perplexed why you trouble yourself about us when. Cruelty goes on in your own Country to Dogs & all over England." with a postscript over part of the first page saying she can send a "subscription to the Princess Mele Bourese Castellamare Naples" 4 sides 8vo. no place no date circa 'Ouida' was born at Bury St. Edmunds of an English mother and French father who encouraged her in reading history liberal politics Balzac and Stendhal. She wrote 'Held in Bondage' 1863 'Under Two Flags' 1867 melodramatic tales of love and intrigue and novels such as 'Moths' 1880 and 'A Village Commune' 1881 on social questions. From 1871 she lived in her beloved Florence. The British and American colony there was satirised in her novel Friendship written in 1878. unknown
réf. 39867saying that she is "as you left me. i have good nights but am so weak in morning. The weather is beautiful. the girl is betrothed to Blackmer who is immensely rich through gold mines. I miss your pleasant presence & thank you much for all your kindness." with a postscript on the verso that she should go and "see Comtesse P. but don't speak of affairs to her. She is not that sort of woman" with another letter written on the blank side sending the letter on "as it may amuse you to see O's writing." 3 sides 8vo. no place no date 'Ouida' was born at Bury St. Edmunds of an English mother and French father who encouraged her in reading history liberal politics Balzac and Stendhal. She wrote 'Held in Bondage' 1863 'Under Two Flags' 1867 melodramatic tales of love and intrigue and novels such as 'Moths' 1880 and 'A Village Commune' 1881 on social questions. From 1871 she lived in her beloved Florence. unknown
réf. 39866saying that she has seen that "General Hamley is in Rome & I make no doubt you know him well enough to give him a message from me i.e. that my mother & I should both much like to see him again & that we trust he will let us do so on his way through Florence. Have you yet received your copy of Friendship I hear your daughter is now with you. Kent's tablet has come late but better than never. As for me I hope they will let my dog's tomb stand for myself I shd not care so that I were laid in green grass and leafy shades." 4 sides 8vo. no place no date but circa 'Ouida' was born at Bury St. Edmunds of an English mother and French father who encouraged her in reading history liberal politics Balzac and Stendhal. She wrote 'Held in Bondage' 1863 'Under Two Flags' 1867 melodramatic tales of love and intrigue and novels such as 'Moths' 1880 and 'A Village Commune' 1881 on social questions. From 1871 she lived in her beloved Florence. The British and American colony there was satirised in her novel Friendship 1878 which she mentions in this letter. Her recipient is almost certainly Emelyn Story wife of the great sculptor William Wetmore STORY 1819-1895 whose sculpture commemorating her death is his heart-breakingly beautiful masterwork Angel of Grief. Ouida and the Storys were Anglophone expats living in Italy. unknown
1891réf. 003892LONDON: CHATTO AND WINDUS 1891. Hardcover. Used/No Jacket. Attractive pictorial boards with some rubbing and wear to extremities joints starting and webbing showing. Nevertheless bright and clean boards with mellowed pages throughout. CHATTO AND WINDUS hardcover
1906réf. 019979East Aurora NY: Roycroft Shop Roycrofters. Original attractive three-quarters brown levant morocco leather with five raised bands on the spine and title and author in gilt in two compartments and four elegant designs in gilt in the rest and date in gilt at the bottom. Binding probably by Louis Herman Kinder. Internals printed on Japan Vellum. Limited Edition: No. 8 of only 110 copies. Signed by Elbert Hubbard. Printed in red and black. Near Fine. Really nice copy. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1906. Roycroft Shop [Roycrofters] hardcover
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1889réf. 02OUI036Volumes 1 2 2 3 5 6 8 9 10. Not sure why there are two Vol IIs but they are different stories in each volume. Book boards on each volume in GUC. Spines in GUC some fading for each edition except Vol 1. which is loose with more fading. Tissue guards still present for each volume's frontpiece illustration. P.F. Collier hardcover
réf. 0316779350.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
