Search Results: victoria of england by edith sitwell

London: Faber & Faber. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Spine is faded. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. Spine faded. Bottom on page edges soiled. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages .

1936. hardcover. very good(-). Illus. 8vo, blue cloth (spine faded). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1936). A very good(-) copy.<br/><br/>

Faber & Faber Limited, 1947T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. sECOND iMPRESSION fABER EDITION ON PURPLE CLOTH

London: The Right Book Club , 1939. The inscription reads To Helene - may she spend happy hours - John Sitwell..........please e-mail for further details.. Signed By John Sitwell. Special Edition for The Right Book Club . Grey Cloth. Very Good (AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by Black & White Illustrations By Various Artists. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hard Back.

Faber. London. 1949 (Reprint). 8vo, XXIX, 302pp. Hardcover, cloth, prize plate on front fixed ep o/w text in vg cond. Frontis, bibliography, index, intended as a portrait not a political history.

London: Faber and Faber, 1936. 2d Impression. 390 [1]p., b/w illus., t.e.g.,original burgundy cloth.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with moderate foxing to front and spine and lacking dustwrapper.

London, Faber, reprinted 1936.. 392pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, B/w illustrations. Neat name on ffe. A near fine copy.

London: The Right Book Club, 1936 8vo. original grey cloth (spine sunned, a little rubbed, slight spotting, lacks dustwrapper); pp. 392 (last blank), with frontispiece. A very good copy.. Third Impression. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket.

London : Cresset Woman's Voices, 1987. Second Edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 390p,[8]leaves of plates : ill, ports ; 22cm. Notes; Originally published: London : Faber, 1936.Bibliography: p365-367. - Includes index. Subjects; Victoria Queen of Great Britain 1819-1901. Queens — Great Britain — Biography.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1936. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 349pp. Frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly faded. Biography of Victoria--Queen of England. Book about Benjamin Disraeli & William Ewart Gladstone. (History--England, Royalty).

Faber & Faber, 1936. Hardback. First edition, 1936. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; boards clean, wear to spine, slight edgewear, light foxing to endpapers and first pages, pages clean and tightly bound. No dust jacket. Published: Faber & Faber, 1936

Dobson Books, London, 1972. New Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 391 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket is in excellent condition save a small closed tear at the top of the spine.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped from our local warehouse. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.. ?You call me the little Queen,? she told her uncle the King of the Belgians; ?my body is little, but my heart is not.? Edith Sitwell?s endearing portrait of the young Victoria chronicles her unlikely ascension to the throne: spanning the succession crisis of King George III, her enduring love and marriage to Prince Albert, and her strength and power in a male dominated world.… Read More

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good-. 1936. Advance Proof; First Printing. 367 pages; Advance Proof copy in original orange wrappers with dust soiling and spots, front wrapper faintly creased, splitting along front hinge, spine curved from reading, some wear at extremeties; protected with glassine and mylar. Tipped in printed slip with date added in ink -- " With the Sales Manager's Compliments / Advance Proof / Publication Date 'February 13th' / Faber & Faber Ltd." Illustrated titlepage. "An endearing portrait of the young Victoria chronicles her unlikely ascension to the throne: spanning the succession crisis of King George III, her enduring love and marriage to Prince Albert, and her strength and power in a male dominated world. Weaving in Victoria's personal letters and diaries, Sitwell breathes life into the Queen's relationships with her family and her court. A rich exploration of Victoria's reign and a social document of Victorian Britain, Victoria of England vividly illustrates the life of the… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1936. A first edition, first printing published by Faber and Faber in 1936. A near fine book without inscriptions with spotting to the endpapers and pasedowns. In the very good Barnet Freedman-designed unclipped wrapper with a little rubbing to the spine tips and to the corners and general edge wear and light chipping. Browning to the spine. Excessively rare in the fragile dust wrapper. An endearing portrait of the young Victoria chronicles her unlikely ascension to the throne: spanning the succession crisis of King George III, her enduring love and marriage to Prince Albert, and her strength and power in a male dominated world. Weaving in Victoria's personal letters and diaries, Sitwell breathes life into the Queen's relationships with her family and her court. A rich exploration of Victoria's reign and a social document of Victorian Britain, Victoria of England vividly illustrates the life of the iconic monarch with insight and emotion.

London: Faber and Faber, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Illustrated with 16 plates. Original dark red cloth, top edges gilt; printed dust jackets. Two copies: each a dedication copy of the first edition of Sitwell's first prose work. The book is dedicated "To Helen Rootham and Evelyn Weil." Each copy is also identically inscribed (except for the change of names) on the respective front free endpaper: "For darling Helen [Evelyn] with Edith's best love and the dedication, 4 February: 1936" (publication date was February 13). The dust jacket on Helen's copy is frayed at top edge with a chip costing two letters in "Victoria" on front; Evelyn's jacket is defective. The two dedicatees were sisters and important life-long friends of Sitwell's. Helen Rootham took over as Edith's governess in 1903 and "throughout her teens [was] the most important intellectual and artistic ally [she] had" (John Pearson, The Sitwells, NY, 1978, p. 54). Evelyn Weil lived in Paris and Edith stayed with her when… Read More