Lady a pseudonym (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good/fine hard cover edition. Reprint of 1783 Edition. Clean. Tight binding. Green cloth with gilt titled front cover and spine. 112, 64 pages. From Early Children's Books. A series of facsimile editions.

Mit Illustr. 287 S. Blauer OLwd. m. reicher Schwarzprägung, Rt. u. goldgeprägt. Deckeltitel. - Engl. Text. - Widm. auf vord. Innenspiegel, sonst sehr gutes Ex. 1.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. NO JACKET. 1st edition 1937. Hardback. 19.5x12.5cm. 397 pages. Clean & tight book. Front end paper has two signatures. No other inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-KWS.…

Leather Binding. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. A delightful near-miniature book (measuring 3.75 x 3 inches), dating from 1839. Illlustrated with woodcuts throughout. Bound in pubisher's black leather stamped in gilt and blind (spine chipped at top, some rubbing to spine and boards; some foxing and offsetting to text). Has an ink gift inscription, dated November 29th, 1838, to Mary Ellen Phelps of New York, from her Mother, Thanksgiving Day. Notes: B/w Illustrations.…

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. On post card with red stamp printed on it, addressed to 'Martin Bretherton Esq. / Wakefield / Mortimer / Berks.' The message reads: 'How brilliant [last word underlined] of you to have found Willow Brook! Please bring it to Whitchall at all costs, & let me see it. I never have. / E. M. D. / 15. 1. 43.'.…

One page, 12mo, good condition.

First Edition in English. 225 x 143 mm. (8 7/8 x 5 5/8"). Two volumes. Very pleasing 19th century green half morocco over marbled boards and endpapers, raised bands, spine panels with flower cluster centerpiece, top edges gilt. âSpines faded evenly to a shade darker than leather on covers, but A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY, the bindings showing virtually no wear, and fine internally, with only trivial defects. This is a surprisingly scarce book--and especially rare in desirable condition--about the intrigues involving the French Court, both leading up to and during the reign of Louis XVIII (1755-1824). In this work, Baron Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) assumes the unusual pose of a female first-person narrator, convincing readers that (s)he is a handsome lady at court. The narration begins with an on-the-scene look at the major political and courtly players during the time of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, just before the French Revolution. Then we are treated to the depictions of further various intrigues, bringing us into the Napoleonic and then the post-Napoleonic period of Louis XVIII, all the while supplying portraits of almost every notable person after the downfall of "the Little Emperor.".…