Four-Part Setting: A Novel por Ann Bridge - 1939-01-01

UsedGood. Nice copy in original price-clipped DJ. No marks/writing.

Chatto & Windus, 1939-01-01. Second impression. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Second impression. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Reprint Society, 1941-01-01. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Hardcover. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Chatto & Windus, 1939. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8x6x2. Chatto & Windus edition. Previous owner's ink inscription. Picture pasted to the back endpaper. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Chatto & Windus, 1939. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1939. No edition remarks. 394 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Ex libris plate at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional mild marks and staining. Book has strong forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine.

London.: Chatto & Windus.. First Edition.. 1939.. Red cloth covered boards slightly sunned and creased on the spine, fore-edge foxed and light foxing throughout. 395pp. .

Boston: Chatto and Windus / Little, Brown, 1939. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition. Tiny gift inscription, a little spotting to the boards, and a little mustiness, a good only copy in an attractive, very good dustwrapper illustrated by H. Rossman.

Boston: Little Brown, 1939. Cloth. Fine/Near Good. (Not a first edition) Slightly smaller book, thick, light red cloth with bright gilt design on front, gilt lettering near fine on spine, 447 lightly browned pages. DJ has orange borders to front and spine with color-illustration of woman with a Chinese scene behind her, ad for other Bridge books on back. DJ has slight wear with nicks at tips, tiny nick at both front edges, jagged 1.5" tear at spine top left edge with very slight wear, nick with slight wear at spine top right edge, nick at spine bottom left edge, tiny tear at spine bottom right edge, thin 1/4" tear and microtear at top back edge, two very tiny tears at bottom back edge, back very lightly browned. DJ art by Henry Rossman. Near Good DJ/Very Fine book.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. Fine Binding. Near Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A smartly bound, early edition of Ann Bridge's novel 'Four-Part Setting'. From the library of socialite and patron of the arts, Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Printed a year after the true first edition.Ann Bridge is the pseudonym of Mary Ann Dolling, Lady O'Malley.  She is also known as Cottie Sanders. Her novels are mostly based on her own experiences of living in foreign countries. This novel is set 'in the China of a decade ago; it bears no relation to the conditions existing today' (Note to the start of the book). From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (Audrey Evelyn James Coats, and Audrey Evelyn James Field) at Julian"s Park. Pleydell-Bouverie was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire. Audrey was also alleged to be the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII, although she was also rumoured to be his daugher, or the lover of King Edward VIII.  She bought Julians Park… Ler mais