Daisy norman (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: G+. Complete magazine, Well bound, worn edges, small damp stain spots to rear cover, not affecting the interior, one of the puzzles marked with pencil, otherwise clean and unmarked. Wonderfully illustrated, including: Harold Sichel; Bernard Westmacott; Hugh Spencer; Eleanor Curtis; Morgan Dennis; Graceia Fox; Lorraine Balmer; H. L. Drucklieb; Violet Moore Higgisn; Marjorie Hartwell; George Carlson; Katherine M. Howe. Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Reprint. First published in May 1919, this is an umpteenth impression of 1957. Some edge wear, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 64pp. Daisy Ashford (1881-1972), wrote 'The Young Visiters' when she was only nine years old and the book (and title) retains her childish spelling. Its child's view of high society (dukes and earls having 'levies' and residing in the 'Crystall Palace') and its heavily romantic plot make it an engaging and enduring popular work. When published in 1919, it was an immediate success, and several of her other stories were published in 1920. In the same year, she married James Devlin and settled in Norfolk, at one time running the King's Arms Hotel in Reepham. She did not write in later years, although in old age she did begin an autobiography which she later destroyed. She died in 1972. Jacket by Norman Wilkinson of Four Oaks, illustrations by Heather Corlass (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 194 pp ; photographs in black & white and in color ; 25 cm. ; green textured cloth with gold lettering and decorations ; red marker ; slight wear to covers ; several photographs of breeders and techniques, and several color plates of new roses for 1955, including Bacchus, Spartan, Margaret, Poulsen's Supreme, Jiminy Cricket, Bayadere, Danse du Feu, Meg, Queen Elizabeth, Rosemary Rose, Bonnie Maid, Beaute, Sundance, and Prelude ; numerous interesting and important articles on rose growing ; G. Book. …

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First Edition Stated. Octavo (24cm); publisher's two-toned cloth in yellow dust jacket clipped though retaining the $10.00 price; xvii,[3],460pp. Shallow dark dampstaining to bottom margin of rear jacket panel slightly affecting cloth, jacket spine panel a bit toned, else a Very Good, bright and sound example. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "to Gerda Wallacks [?] with the warm wishes of Daisy Newman / Hartford, February 4, 1973.". Signed.…