Search Results: Nursery Rhymes by V Sackville-West

Michael Joseph, 1950. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:

Michael Joseph, 1950. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:

Michael Joseph 1947. First edition thus, Ex library, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

Michael Joseph, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1950. This Edition. 69 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Colour illustrations by Philippe Jullian. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some page corners folded. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.

Nursery Rhymes by V. Sackville-West. Illustrated by Philippe Jullian. 1950 Michael Joseph, first trade edition, 70 pages. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight in The Paris Review starts a wonderful biographical essay on Sackville-West thusly: "How preposterous is it that Vita Sackville-West, the best-selling bisexual baroness who wrote over thirty-five books that made an ingenious mockery of twenties societal norms, should be remembered today merely as a smoocher of Virginia Woolf? The reductive canonization of her affair with Woolf has elbowed out a more luxurious, strange story: Vita loved several women with exceptional ardor; simultaneously adored her also-bisexual husband, Harold; ultimately came to prefer the company of flora over fauna of any gender; and committed herself to a life of prolific creation (written and planted) that redefined passion itself." In Nursery Rhymes she writes nostalgic essays about our favorite childhood songs. Jullian's decorations throughout lend the book a sweet and magical… Read More

Nursery Rhymes: An Essay by V. Sackville-WesthardcoverPublisher:Michael Joseph, London, 1950Condition: book - Very Gooddust jacket - Very Good-

London, England: Michael Joseph, 1950. First, Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Jullian, Philippe. An extended essay on children's nursery rhymes & their historical relevance, especially as a way of teaching children. In 70 pages, with charming illustrations throughout by Philippe Jullian. Orig. published in a 500-copy limited edition in 1947, this is the First Edition from Michael Joseph Ltd in Bloomsbury, London (First, thus), set & printed at the Gresham Press, Woking, in Plantin type, 11-point leaded, on paper made by John Dickinson at Croxley & bound by James Burn at Esher. Dedicated "For Anna.'' Small octavo bound in light mustard-colored cloth lettered in red to front & spine is in VG+ condition: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & completely unmarked save for 1 couplet of verse circled in pen on page 67. Mild rubbing to extremities & light exterior soil, darkening & fading to spine. Mild offsetting to all endpapers. No DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First trade edition, preceded by a limited edition in 1947. Illustrated by Phillippe Jullian. Octavo. Faint toning on endpapers, else fine in slightly spine-toned and price-clipped else near fine dustwrapper.

London: The Dropmore Press. VG+. 1947. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 66 pages. Copy no. 246 of 550 numbered copies. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

London: Michael Joseph, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First trade edition, preceded by a 1947 limited edition. Illustrated by Philippe Jullian. Just about fine in a very slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper.

London:: The Dropmore Press,, 1947.. First edition; No. 465 of 550 copies... publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A fine copy in a jacket with a few tiny droplet marks on the spine.. Large 8vo,.

The Dropmore Press, 'Dropmore Essays' series, London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, this being #69. 4to. 66pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. Gilt-decorated inner dentelles. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. A tiny crease to the head of the backstrip and the merest hint of wear to the tips of two corners. Very good indeed in slightly rubbed and darkened dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel and with a little light wear to two or three extremities. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A45..

The Dropmore Press, London., 1947. First edition. Quarto. A 66-page study, the fourth in the series of Dropmore Essays. One of 550 numbered copies. Blue cloth, inner dentelles gilt, with gilt device on upper cover.Head and tail of spine and two corners slightly bumped. Near fine in very good dustwrapper darkened and nicked at the spine and a little rubbed at edge. Preserved in the card slipcase which, as so often, is missing the backstrip and rubbed at the edges.

London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. (6), 66, (4) pages. 4to. First printing. This was the fourth in a series called "The Dropmore Essays." Number 420 of an edition limited to 550 copies. Letterpress printed on paper that was hand made by Portals of Whitchurch. Fine binding by Evans of Croydon: blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt; gilt dentelles; housed in a custom cardboard slipcase. Sackville-West's essay on nursery rhymes is equally serious and fun. She saw the writer of nursery rhymes as a poet-novelist, who as a "creator of characters, creator of situations, had a fine jugglery to play with. A vast population of Old Women and Little Men crept out of corners, sought in their cupboards, fired their little guns, wore cork legs which surprisingly sank in water, and found themselves in a variety of predicaments seldom equalled in life." The book is virtually as new in a clean bright dust jacket that has just a hint of tanning along the spine and a 1/8" closed… Read More