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London: Hutchinson, 1980. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 141, (1) + b/w illustration by Leonard Baskin. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver. Pushing to spine ends. Uneven tanning to edges, top edge spotted. Signed by Fainlight in black pen to title page, musty. Else, clean and tight. In Gerald Rogers-designed green typographic dust jacket: edgewear and creasing, especially at spine ends, a few nicks at extremities. Still, a pleasing copy of Fainlight's poetry collection, originally published by the Gehenna Press in the US. Very good/ very good The US-born UK-based poet, translator and librettist (1931-) won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry in 1994. A new edition of Sybils was published by the Poetry Society in 2007, the year Fainlight was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Sibyls: And others.
by FAINLIGHT, Ruth; BASKIN, Leonard (illustrator)
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Live As Family: A novel [Jane Eyre interest]
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London: Macmillan, 1968. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in silver. Slight cocking to spine, extremities bruised, toned. Else, clean and tidy. In the original monochrome and red-lettered photographic dust jacket: spine sunned, chipping to spine ends and corners, creasing and wear to edges, staining and toning to reverse. Nevertheless a striking edition of Fairbairn's first novel. Scarce in the trade, especially in the dust jacket, which features photographs and details of 'Recent First Novelists' to its rear panel, including Christina Hobhouse. VG/ good-only The British author, poet, feminist and Spare Rib's poetry editor published Live As Family at 19, while in her first year at St Andrew's University. Her bildungsroman, which satirised the governess-turned-love trope, was critically well-received: "I was reviewed, interviewed, photographed, autograph-hunted, wined, dined, flirted-with and flattered. [Fairbairns tells us] One male journalist was kind…
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Stiffed: The betrayal of the modern man
by FALUDI, Susan
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1999. Good. First UK paperback edition. Trade paperback. Creased, sunned and lightly soiled wrappers. Tanned edges and margins. Else, clean. A good reading copy.
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Kaleidoscope
by FARGEON, Eleanor; [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1928. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, viii, 239, [1], incl. pea plant vignette (i.e. 'To Pod') to dedication page and chapter head-pieces. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fore-edge roughly trimmed. Spine slightly cocked, gently rubbed and sunned, pushing and wear to spine ends with split to head, some scoring to bottom board. Previous bookseller's pencil note to front pastedown, Farjeon's inscription in black pen to ffep: "Denys/ with Eleanor's Love" and at tail of the page: "Property of Denys Blakelock/ 317 Endsleigh Court/ Upper Woburn Place/ W.C.1." plus, in another hand and blue pen: "Bertha Rose/ given to me by Renée/ in memory of Denys./ March 15. 1971." scant foxing to endpapers. 'How came you by this Book?' Collins postcard laid in. Else, clean and tight. A unique association copy of Farjeon's "beautiful and timeless collection of stories". Very good Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and…
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Elizabeth Myers. With a sonnet by Sara Jackson
by FARJEON, Eleanor; JACKSON, Sara
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Aylesford: St Albert's Press, 1957. FIRST EDITION, 1 of 1000 copies. Side-stitched pamphlet, pp. 23, [1], incl. wood engraving by Edward Walters. Pale blue wrappers, lettered and decorated in blue and black. Spine ends bruised, toned and gently rubbed. Else, clean. Very good. A further 100 copies were signed by Farjeon, Jackson and Walters and printed by hand on handmade paper.
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Repurposed Christmas Card, featuring 'Collins' snowscape of New York
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1951. One-leaf card (14 cm x 17.7cm), colour print by 'Collins' tipped to navy front panel, featuring the Brooklyn Bridge and a New York snowscape (see title page). Edgewear, rubbing and creasing, cut along top edge. Inscribed by Farjeon in black ink to reverse, below her handwritten address: "For Christmas 1951/ Scottie dear, wherever this finds you it brings you my/ love./ Eleanor." A lovely, and loving,repurposed Christmas card from Farjeon to a friend. Good+
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Magic Casements
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: P.E.N. Books/ George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1941. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 48. Eggshell blue and yellow patterned paper boards, lettered in black, label to spine. A little soiled and darkened, bruising and light wear to extremities. Inscribed, movingly, by Farjeon in blue ink to half-title: "For Denys – who has/ added another magic casement to my mansion –/ from Eleanor in/ remembrance of this/ week: July 19–26/ 1950" and below, in a different hand: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15th 1971." With Farjeon's marginal corrections and clarifications to pp. 12 & 13. Else, clean and tight. A gorgeous and significant association copy, inscribed to Blakelock in the first year of friendship. Near fine. With Farjeon's own marginal corrections and clarifications regarding misquotations from Cymbeline: '–Should be "lads" of course. This is a slip', but not so for the (mis)citations from Twelfth Night: whose "spinners" and "sitters in…
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A Nursery in the Nineties
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: Oxford University Press, 1960. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Substantial 8vo, pp. 534 + b/w portrait frontis and plates. Original green cloth, spine lettered in bronze. Spine cocked, fine bands of sunning to edges and spine ends. Scant foxing to edges. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue ink to ffep: "To dear Bertha and/ Charles Rose with love/ from Little Ellie/ and old Eleanor Farjeon/ June 9th 1960", a few fox spots, minute booksellser label to rear pastedown. Short note (9 x 8.5cm) laid in between related pages (pp. 532-3), seemingly in the hand of Bertha Rose, about Farjeon's efforts for the Farjeon Foundation in Dunedin, New Zealand. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: sunned, with only a patch of the original pink to rear panel, soiling to rear panel, short closed tear to top edge of front panel. Very good/ good+ Farjeon's childhood memoir was first published by Gollancz in 1935.
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The Fair Venetian
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1943. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Unevenly sunned and rubbed, pushing to spine ends, edgewear, bottom corners bumped, a few scores to bottom board. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue pen to ffep: "Dearest Denys – Nollekins –/ from Eleanor – Nellikins –/ to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950" with another inscription below in blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15. 1971." Closed tear to bottom edge of pp. 211-2, nick to rear hinge, else, clean and tidy, especially given the wartime paper stock. A unique association copy of Farjeon's only crime novel. Good+ Aptly, with a printed dedication to Farjeon's brother, who was a crime novelist by trade: "To Joe from a novice in his craft". Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (née Hagart) by…
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Eleanor Farjeon's Book: Stories – Verses – Plays. Chosen by Eleanor Graham and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
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Harmondsworth: Puffin Books/ Penguin Books, 1960. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. MMP, incl. b/w illustrations by Ardizzone. Edgewear and a little creasing, wrappers spotted and gently rubbed. Browned, some creasing. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue biro to verso of biog. page: "To Bertha and Charles/ with love from/ Eleanor/ Christmas 1960". Else, pleasingly clean and tight. Very good Inscribed in year of publication. Little is known about Farjeon's dedicatees, Charles and Bertha Rose. It seems likely that Bertha (née Hagart) is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years.
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Ladybrook
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: Collins, 1931. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, extremities bruised, sunned and soiled. Endpapers and half-title browned and spotted, inscribed in year of publication by Farjeon in sepia pen to ffep: "To dear Maggie/ with Eleanor's Love/ April, 1931" and below in a slighter hand, also in sepia ink: "Bertha Hagart./ July 1956", hinges cracked. Good+ It seems likely that Bertha Hagart (later Rose) was the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that Hagart and Farjeon met through the author's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Maggie, sadly, remains unidentified.
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A Nursery in the Nineties With many illustrations
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Substantial 8vo + colour portrait frontis and b/w plates. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine end. Edges foxed. Printing glitches – over-printing to bottom corner of text block – to pp. 191 & 192, The Times Book Club label to rear pastedown. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: soiled, creased, a number of losses and short closed tears. Very good/ good Farjeon's childhood memoir was reissued by Oxford University Press in 1960.
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Two Christmas Cards, with the addition of Farjeon's love to each
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1951. Two Christmas cards: 'Two poems for Christmas,' cream folded card lettered in red and black, with Farjeon's amendment in blue pen to front panel; 'To wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas', cream folded card, lettered in green and black, with Farjeon's addition in blue pen and featuring one poem. Foxing to front panel of second card. Near fine and very good
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A Room at the Inn: A masque for Christmas
by FARJEON, Eleanor and Herbert; FARJEON, Harry (music); [HAGART, Bertha]
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London: Privately published; "Made and printed in Great Britain by the Favil Press Ltd", 1955. Paperback. Very Good. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Side-stapled pamphlet (21.6 x 14cm), pp. [12]. Pink card wrappers, lettered in black. Sunned and soiled, faint liquid stain to rear wrapper, corners creased. Gently toned, a few fox spots. Inscribed by Eleanor Farjeon in blue ink to limitation page: "To dear Bertha/ with Eleanor's love/ for Christmas 1955". Else, clean. Still, a pleasing copy of this Farjeon family collaboration. JiscLHD lists only one copy at the Bodleian, OCLC finds no further copies. Little is known about Farjeon's dedicatee, Bertha Hagart. It seems likely she is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. This title was subsequently published as a French…
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Brave Old Woman
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, BErtha]
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London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1941. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 271, [1]. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in lilac. Spine slightly cocked with nick to heel, bumped and rubbed, a few marks. Bookseller pencil notes to front pastedown, inscribed by Farjeon in sepia pen to ffep: "Dearest Denys/ with all my love./ From Eleanor./ June 22nd 1952" and beneath in another hand in blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys/ March 15th 1971." Else, clean and tight. A unique association copy. Good+ Denys Blakelock (1901-1970), actor, RADA teacher and childhood friend and lover of Laurence Olivier, became one of the closest friends of Farjeon's later life. The couple met when Blakelock was cast as King Nollekins of Norfolk in the first run of Farjeon's play The Silver Curlew at The Arts Theatre in 1949/1950 (an event celebrated in her inscription to our copy of Love Affair (ref. 2214), as well as in our inscribed copy of the The Fair Venetian (ref.…
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Love Affair: Decorations by Rolf Gérard
by FARJEON, Eleanor; GÉRARD, Rolf (decorations); [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: Michael Joseph, 1947. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 223, [1], incl. 3 b/w illustrations and head-pieces by Rolf Gérard. Illustrated endpapers. Original purple cloth, spine letter in silver, silver and red-stamped seagull with letter to upper board. Spine gently sunned, extremities bruised and worn, bottom corners bumped. Gently toned, inscribed by Farjeon in sepia ink to half-title: "Denys/ from/ Eleanor/ Jan. 22nd 1950/ The last of / The Silver Curlew." and in another hand and blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Renée / in memory of Denys./ March 15th 1971." Else, clean and tight. A unique association copy marking the beginnings of Farjeon and Blakelock's own love affair (in/ of friendship). Very good. Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (née Hagart) by Blakelock's sister-in-law Renée: "in memory of Denys/ March 15th 1971". Denys Blakelock…
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Magic Casements
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London: P.E.N. Books/ George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1941. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo, pp. 48. Eggshell blue and yellow patterned paper boards, spine and upper board lettered in black. A little soiled and darkened, bruising and light wear to extremities, arcing closed tear to spine. Spine cracked at p.16-7, still, binding firm. Else, clean. Good+
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The Fair of St. James: A fantasia
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London: Faber and Faber, 1932. Cloth. Good-only. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 352. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Shaken, binding slack, but holding, spine sunned, joints splitting, especially rear, corners bumped. Some foxing, inscribed by Farjeon in publication year in sepia pen to ffep: "Dear Maggie/ from Eleanor & Pod/ May 1932" and in another hand below: "Bertha Hagart/ July 1956". Else, clean. Good-only. It seems likely that Bertha Hagart (later Rose) was the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that Hagart and Farjeon met through the author's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Pod was Farjeon's partner and friend, George Earle; Maggie, sadly, remains unidentified.
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Devoted Ladies (VMC)
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London: Virago Press Limited, 1989. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Edgewear, toned edges, else, clean and tight. VMC no. 138. Very good.
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A Fable
by FAULKNER, William
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. Cloth. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed, bruising and wear to extremities, marks to upper board. Toned, Andrew Sarnowski's 1961 inscription to himself in red biro on ffep, noting: "A present to myself again... broke again: it was good while it lasted!". Good+ Faulkner's WWI novel, which took more than a decade and a tremendous effort to write, was the first title to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. The author had had high aspirations for it, describing it as "the best work of my life and maybe of my time".
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