Lady Pamela Tennant (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback with red covers. No jacket. Condition: Considerable fading to covers, primarily to and around cover spine. Narrow line of cloth creasing and light edge wear to top and tail of cover spine and some marks along spine. Browned end papers. Remains of label to inside front cover. Otherwise very good interior. - - - General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. If you request condition photos, these will be added to the AbeBooks listing within 2 business days. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall condition of the book(s) or other item. We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Please note that if there is a photo next to the listing which is titled 'Stock Photo', this is a generic photo provided by abebooks and not a photo of the actual book listed. The design of the covers and binding may be the same or may differ substantially. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by tracked mail for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Rackham; William Hogarth; Joshua Reynolds; William Turner; et al. (illustrator). First edition. A richly illustrated first edition of this book for children by Lady Pamela Tennant. In the publisher's original cloth binding. 21 plates including the frontispiece, most of which are colour reproductions of famous portraits by well-known artists such as Reynolds and Hogarth. Collated complete. Viscountess Pamela Grey of Fallodon (born Wyndham; later Pamela Tennant, Baroness Glenconner; 1871-1928), was an English writer of poems, prose and children's literature. She was one of the Wyndham Sisters painted by John Singer Sargent, part of the literary circle known as The Souls, and was friends with Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Edward Burne-Jones. This work is one of her children's books, in which the stories and occasional poems are based around the famous paintings reproduced in the volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart, with good colour to the boards, though there is a light stain to the front board and the spine is slightly sunned. Internally, the binding is slightly strained in a couple of places. Pages are generally bright and clean, with spotting to the fore edge that affects the occasional page, and the odd spot to the first few pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1907 second impression on pink cloth.

First Edition. Delightful Edwardian children's story. Arthur Rackham vignette to title page and 21 plates. Covers unevenly faded otherwise VG.