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1925réf. 895New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press 1925. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. Navy blue cloth spine with printed paper label blue and gold patterned paper boards. Decorated endpapers. 81031 pp. Boards edgeworn bumped and handsoiled; internally remarkably near fine. First US edition from British leaves of the poet and novelist's first book. Lolly Willowes followed in 1926 and Mr. Fortune's Maggot in 1927. Her nearly forty year relationship with the poet Valentine Ackland produced a collaboration Whether a Dove or a Seagull published in 1933. This book of poems is very playful and includes bum-pinching and this jolly poem entitled "Epitaphs" Here lies Melissa Mary Thorn / Together with her son still-born; / Whose loss her husband doth lament. / He has a large estate in Kent. Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press hardcover
1925réf. 2873London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth. Good. FIRST UK EDITION BO FOSTER'S COPY. 8vo. Original blue and black mottled cloth green paper title label to spine. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Head cap frayed uneven fading to boards paper label rubbed blank. Edges tobacco-toned. "EHMF"oster = Bo" added in pencil London 36" in blue ink and a bold hand to ffep fawn book label of "Roger Neville Russ Peers" to front pastedown. Heavy foxing to front and rear lighter throughout strong pencil lines marking a number of poems especially 'Nelly Trim' spine cracked inconsequentially at gathering D. One-page hand-written list of book titles titled 'Roger Peers' mostly relating to Dorset laid in. Good An unusual double association copy of STW's first poetry collection owned first by Bo Foster an important early lover of Valentine Ackland's and later by Roger Peers Curator of the Dorset County Museum 1959-1992 late friend of STW and saviour of her personal library and papers many of which were transferred to the Museum; in establishing its STW and VA collections he played a crucial role in ensuring both women's cultural legacies. Valentine Ackland met Eleanor 'Bo' Foster when she was 17; the older woman "completed the younger's education both culturally and sexually and encouraged her poetic ambitions". Foster was VA's most significant lover before STW featuring as 'X' in her posthumously published memoir For Sylvia 1985. Intriguingly Foster initialled and dated this copy of STW's first book five years after her painful break-up with Ackland shortly after the younger poet began her lifelong relationship with STW. Fleeing the Blitz a few years later Foster elected to move to Dorset with her brother buying a house just two miles away from Frome Vauchurch where VA and STW lived. The former lovers became reacquainted during the 1950s and by Ackland's death Foster was able to send such frank commiserations to STW as: "What can I say Nothing adequate — I loved V.A. and bless you for giving her 40 years of peace & happiness" Stinton 2008. A prominent curator Roger Peers 1932-2023 was also Secretary of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society DNHAS through which he met STW. The elderly author granted Peers "the chance to choose for the collection of DNHAS which owns the Dorset County Museum any books from the library in her house at Frome Vauchurch and also for myself" Peers 2017. In 1986 with the house needing to be cleared Peers worked with bookseller John Ruston to "put aside all the copies of STW's and VA's books all the presentation copies of other authors and a great many books of significance and reference as well as shopping lists and drafts of poems". Peers also retrieved manuscripts of STW's musical compositions from rubbish bags. As the laid-in list suggests alongside titles by STW and Valentine Ackland Peers' own book collection with its distinctive Dorset flavour boasted a large number of Ackland's copies of Thomas Hardy titles a number inscribed to her from STW. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 1a; Judith Stinton 2008 'A Life-long Love: Bo Foster and Valentine Ackland' The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society; Roger Peers 2017. 'A Dilemma and a Narrow Escape.' The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 172. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1925réf. 2135London: Chatto & Windus 1925. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original blue and black mottled cloth faded green paper title label to spine. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Wear and fine bands of fading to spine ends bottom corners bruised. Some foxing heaviest at endpapers and prelims spare title label tipped in to rear. Else clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: browned and creased extremities chipped joints tender a number of closed tears. Still a nice copy of STW's first book a poetry collection praised by Arthur Quiller-Couch and A E Housman. Very good/ good With printed dedication to "P. C. Buck" STW's long-time married lover and music teacher of piano and organ and Director of Music at Harrow Dr. later Sir Percy Buck. They both edited Tudor Church Music. 1000 copies of The Espalier were printed. Of her title STW wrote: "it seems to me expressive — a naturally rather straggling plant as the mind is — mine at any rate straggles — deprived and formalised into producing fruit." Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 1a; Claire Harmon 1991 Sylvia Townsend Warner: A biography London: Minerva. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1954réf. 3680London: Chatto & Windus 1954. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo pp. 287 1. Variant binding of turquoise cloth spine lettered in gilt inside gilt-stamped oval frame. Gentle pushing to spine ends a few dints and marks to bottom board. Toned Mark Owen Cawthron's striking corvid-themed ex libris designed by R. J. Lloyd to front pastedown. Else pleasingly clean and tight. In the muted Lynton Lamb-designed dust jacket: price-clipped gentle edgewear two short closed tears. Near fine/ near fine A really lovely copy of the less common British first edition of STW's final novel a complex family saga set in a Norfolk fishing town in the 1840s in the variant turquoise cloth binding and dressed in Lynton Lamb's illustrated dust jacket; from the collection of Mark Owen Cawthron and featuring his 'Old Corbie' illustrated ex libris 1986 designed by the Devon-based semi-surrealist artist R. J. Lloyd. Self-taught Lloyd worked across various mediums and also collaborated with his friend Ted Hughes illustrating a number of children's poetry books as well as aptly for us a series of silkscreen prints of Hughes' Crow poems. With printed dedication to the American novelist Anne Parrish who STW first met in 1929 on a visit to the US. Of the variant binding Russell writes: "No priority established but probably a later binding." Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 24b Chatto & Windus hardcover
1971réf. 3254New York: The Viking Press 1971. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST US EDITION INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Half oatmeal cloth spine lettered in blue upper board decorated in red red paper boards. Top edge red. Spine and tops of boards darkened. Inscribed in blue ink and a jerky hand to ffep: "Keith and Helen with love from Sylvia. 1971" amended copyright details pasted to limitation page not called for. Else clean and tight. Very good. A fondly inscribed copy of the first US edition of Warner's final collection of non-Elfin short stories gifted in the year of publication to: "Keith and Helen with love from Sylvia". A bittersweet collection for the author who had received the proofs a few days after the first anniversary of VA's death writing in her diary: "I sat at them increasingly aware that I was alone that she would never hold the book – and remembering the circumstances when they were written more carefree for all are of that decade; some like the Green Torso embodying our sad lot. And the Norfolk Children began long ago finished after her death" Harmon 1994. Keith and Helen remain unidentified. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 33b; HARMON Claire ed.; 1994 The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner London: Chatto & Windus The Viking Press hardcover
1971réf. 2872London: Chatto & Windus 1971. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION ROGER PEERS' COPY. 8vo. Original salmon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Dints to bottom board edges faint spotting to edges. Fawn book label of "Roger Neville Russ Peers" to front pastedown inscribed in the curator's elegant hand in brown ink to ffep: "Roger Peers September 1974 Norfolk Broads." Else clean tight and tidy. In the original chartreuse typographical dust jacket: faint sunning to spine edgewear and related fine bands of darkening. Very good/ very good A rather lovely association copy of Warner's final collection of non-Elfin short stories written during the years preceding her partner Valentine Ackland's death in November 1969 from the collection of Roger Peers Curator of the Dorset County Museum 1959-1992 late friend of STW and saviour of her personal library and papers many items of which were transferred to the Museum; in establishing its STW collection he played a crucial role in ensuring her cultural legacy. A prominent curator Roger Peers 1932-2023 was also Secretary of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society DNHAS through which he met STW. The elderly author granted Peers "the chance to choose for the collection of DNHAS which owns the Dorset County Museum any books from the library in her house at Frome Vauchurch and also for myself" Peers 2017. In 1986 with the house needing to be cleared Peers worked with bookseller John Ruston to "put aside all the copies of STW's and VA's books all the presentation copies of other authors and a great many books of significance and reference as well as shopping lists and drafts of poems". Peers also retrieved manuscripts of STW's musical compositions from rubbish bags. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 33a; Roger Peers 2017 'A Dilemma and a Narrow Escape.' The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 172. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1932réf. 894London: Chatto & Windus 1932. First edition. Very good. Octavo. Publisher's original patterned blue cloth spine lettered in gilt bottom edge untrimmed. 8 303 5 pp. A four-page publisher's catalogue concludes the text. Spine panel lightly faded and dulled with minor bumping to spine ends preserved in a mylar dust jacket in lieu of publisher's original dust jacket; early New York bookseller's ticket on rear paste down. Very good. First edition first impression. Townsend Warner's second short-fiction collection comprising fifteen stories and novellas. The title novella serves as an atmospheric addition to her celebrated 1927 novel Mr. Fortune's Maggot following eponymic Timothy Fortune as he wanders through the Argentine pampas and finds sanctuary at "The House of the Salutation." Townsend Warner privately regarded the piece as "the purest the least time-serving story I ever wrote." Also includes the tragic novella Elinor Barley alongside several supernatural tales previously published only in limited private press editions. . Chatto & Windus unknown
2000réf. 008047Horam East Sussex: Tartarus Press 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is the Tartarus Press edition publised in 2000 first published by Chatto & Windus in 1932. Blue hardcover with title in pale mauve colour gilt on spine. Condition: Very good with very light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Small neat spelling correction to the word "feeling" on p.159 which should read "feeding". The previous owner has crossed out the l and put a d in the margin. Dustjacket condition: Good with light shelfwear and some smudging and small marks. One of a limited edition of 250 this is number 88. Tartarus Press Hardcover
1929réf. 3497New York: Chatto & Windus 1929. Quarter cloth paper boards. Near Fine. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo title page printed in pink and black. Original quarter cream buckram spine stamped in silver dusky rose paper boards silver-stamped bouquet motif to upper board. Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Patterned endpapers. Pushing and gentle wear to extremities. Front endpapers a little grubby else clean and bright. In the original illustrated dust jacket: spine lightly sunned. Near fine/ near fine A splendid copy of the rather glorious first US edition of STW's third novel a re-telling of the Psyche and Cupid myth through the genre of historical romance. With a printed dedication "To my mother who first told me a story". Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 6b; Chatto & Windus hardcover
réf. GOR001390850Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1928réf. 3556New York: Viking 1928. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Original quarter black cloth spine lettered in gilt faded pale blue paper boards upper board lettered in gilt. Bottom edge untrimmed. Pale blue endpapers. Bands of tanning to edges pushing to spine ends gentle edgewear. Edges toned and foxed. PO in black ink to front pastedown: "Edith R. Erwin" plus Ray Russell's discrete book label below. Some foxing else clean and tight. In the original blue patterned dust jacket featuring swallows and butterflies: spine sunned and frayed with large loss to head nicked and chipped incl. to centre of rear panel with faint pathc of matching sunning to rear board. Very good/ good. A pleasing jacketed copy of the handsome first US edition of STW's second poetry collection from the library of the co-founder of both Tartarus Press and the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society Ray Russell. Reading the proofs of Time Importuned with STW Percy Buck then her lover and dedicatee of her first poetry collection The Espalier had thought the new poems "better-oiled" while the poet herself "felt that a truer judgement would be that they were 'more-vinegared'" Harmon 1991. Likely first owned by Georgia state-born Edith Rosetta Erwin later Wood; 1894-1954. Importantly Russell also compiled Sylvia Townsend Warner: A bibliography 2020 Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 4b; Claire Harmon 1991 Sylvia Townsend Warner: A biography. London: Minerva; Viking hardcover
réf. 91364London Chatto & Windus 1928 1st edition. Hardback 8 x 6 inches. Patterned/marbled blue/black cloth cover with paper title label to spine. In dustwrapper with black lettering and decorative border. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. DW Spine and edges darkened and rubbed small nicks to corners and top end of spine. Not price clipped. In protective sleeve. Cloth with some minor fading to ends of spine else cover clean and smart. Some minor light tanning to free sides of endpapers. No penned inscriptions. One or two occasional minor handling marks and some areas of minor light foxing one darker patch o contents page. Pages edges uncut/rough with some dark spots to outer edges. Binding tight and sound. Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 88pp. London, Chatto & Windus, 1928 1st edition hardcover
1933réf. 4445144153pp first American edition 1933 unmarked price-clipped dustjacket is edgeworn faded about edges and spine whoch has loss at head and tail. The Viking Press hardcover
1988réf. BN459742PHILIPPE PICQUIER 1988. 1988. Softcover. Une Lubie de Monsieur Fortune Une Lubie de Monsieur Fortune TOWNSEN WARNER SYLVIA PHILIPPE PICQUIER paperback
réf. 0943549507.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0804692327.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2025réf. 2-1292737425Pearson 2025. Paperback. New. 960 pages. 9.65x1.38x10.83 inches. Pearson paperback
2020réf. 1-1292276266Pearson 2020. Paperback. New. 13 edition. 960 pages. 10.83x9.65x1.42 inches. Pearson paperback
2023réf. 261027119Pearson 2023-04-07. paperback. Very Good. 1x10x11. Ships Out Tomorrow! Pearson paperback
réf. 1292276266-11-1Pearson. 13. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Pearson unknown
2006réf. 221610Pearson 2020-06-08. paperback. Good condition. 9x1x11. In good condition and ships quickly. Pearson paperback
2025réf. __1292737425Pearson 2025. Paperback. New. 960 pages. 9.65x1.38x10.83 inches. Pearson paperback
2018réf. 1-0134707311Pearson College Div 2018. Hardcover. New. 13 psc edition. 960 pages. 10.71x8.43x0.63 inches. Pearson College Div hardcover
réf. SKU0057636Pearson 2018-01-19. Hardcover. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Pearson hardcover
réf. Umay-134605187-491Pearson 2018-01-18. Hardcover. Good. US Edition Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Emailed Tracking from USA Pearson hardcover
