Brave Spirits. [with h.l.s. laid in from Mary Lascelles to Kathleen Tillotson]
by Sime, Georgina, and Frank Nicholson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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About This Item
no place: Privately Printed (1952). Near Fine. 1952. Hardcover. 165pp.; cloth in printed paper jacket with a few chips to top edges, and a short closed tear top spine corner; faded at extremities, spine tanned. Some offset tanning to endpapers The one page letter, only date 16 December, Somerville College, Oxford begins, "Dear Kathleen, I always feel very timid about choosing a book for you! . ." Mary Madge Lascelles, was a British literary scholar, specialising in Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, and Walter Scott. She was vice-principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1960, and a university lecturer then reader in English literature 1960 from to 1967 at the University of Oxford. Kathleen Tillotson was a British academic and literary critic, professor of English and distinguished Elizabethan and Victorian scholar. From the collection / stock of the late Ian Jackson, with seven lines of his notes in pencil on rear pastedown, i.e. "Kathleen Tillotson's copy from Jarndyce." Very Good , in protective mylar wrap .
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- Bookseller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9811
- Title
- Brave Spirits. [with h.l.s. laid in from Mary Lascelles to Kathleen Tillotson]
- Author
- Sime, Georgina, and Frank Nicholson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- Privately Printed (1952)
- Place of Publication
- no place
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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GRASS VALLEY, California
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