2015, ISBN: 9780044408338

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UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,small,neat blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and price-clip to dw/dj.Brig… mais…

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,small,neat blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, subject's colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain pale cream cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped fluorescent purple/mauve ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,xi-xivpp+1- 162pp [paginated] includes author foreword,intro,genealogy of Timothy's keepers (1844-2004),Timothy's timeline,12 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,a world timeline,a Devon timeline,acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED,b/w subject's portrait vignetted title page,prose extract (Joseph Conrad, Victory),and separate contents+illustrations lists/tables. When Timothy the Tortoise died in April 2004 at more than 160,he was Britain's oldest living resident.For more than a century he belonged to the Courtenay family,Earls of Devon,living in the Rose Garden at Powderham Castle,which has been their home for 600 years.Timothy,a Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise, survived six monarchs,two world wars,and the frozen winters of 1947 and 1963.He hibernated under a giant purple wisteria and never came indoors.His diet was dandelions, lettuce and strawberries. His early life was spent as a ship's mascot before entering the family, fully grown,at fifty.But had he really been at the first bombardment of Sebastopol aboard the HMS Queen? Did he jump ship on hearing the next voyage was to Antarctica? In 1926,he endured the discovery that he was a she,and never mated. This is the story of his life,waking and sleeping.It is also the story of an estate and a family to whom he was a much-loved friend.It is their evolution and longevity,as much as his.'Where have I fallen,what have I done?' is the Courtenay family motto.In Timothy's case,it was into very good hands and really quite a lot. When the author's father took him to Powderham,just aged four,he wandered out into the Rose garden and met Timothy.It was a meeting he never forgot.In 1998,he returned to undertake the only interview Timothy ever gave,and was allowed to pick him up.When Timothy died, the family asked him to break the news,which then appeared on television,radio and in newspapers all over the world. The author is a writer and journalist living on his family farm near Exeter, Devon.He writes for many publications, including the 'Daily Telegraph','Country Life' and 'Horse & Hound'. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.ORION BOOKS,2004., 5, London: HarperCollins - Pandora, 1991. First Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" X 9 1/4. 300 Pages Indexed. Maroon boards with silver spine lettering. Owner's name with date 1995 on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps on this tight, otherwise As New book. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toldas first met on Sunday 8 September 1907 in Paris. From that day on they were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. They never slept under different roofs, or travelled without each other, or entertained separately. They were central to the cultural life of Paris for four decades. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at the rue de Fleurus. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso and written about in the memoirs of Hemingway, Beaton, Paul Bowles and Sylvia Beach. Gertrude and Alice is the story of their life together, of the paths that led them to each other and of Alice's years of widowhood after Gertrude had died. Alice heard bells ringing in her head when she first met Gertrude, proof to her that she was in the presence of genius. Both agreed that Alice should serve and defer to Gertrude and her genius. Alice dealt with all household affairs, typed Gertrude's manuscripts, guarded her from unwelcome visitors and fought to obtain for Gertrude the fame that came late --- when Gertrude was fifty-eight and The Autobiosraphy of Alice B Toklas was published. They attracted an audience wherever they went --- in Charleston, Oxford or Avila. They were indomitable, charismatic and a sight to be seen. They drove around in 'Auntie', their Ford car, with Basket, the cherished poodle, looking at paintings and Roman ruins, eating delicious food, talking to everyone, making the best of where they were. Alice said that Gertrude was the happiest person she had ever known. Long after Gertrude died Alice wrote that from the moment they met, it was Gertrude Stein who held my complete attention, as she did for all the many years I knew her until her death, and all these empty ones since then. From letters, memoirs and the published writings of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, Diana Souhami reconstructs the story of one of the most solid marriages of the century. Alice and Gertrude forcefully come alive: so emphatically and uncompromisingly themselves, that the world could do nothing less than accept them as they were. Contents in 16 Chapters: Gertrude and Alice, Gertrude's Early Years, Alice's Early Years, First Love for Gertrude, The Rue de Fleurus, Alice Meets Gertrude, Ousting the Others, Marriage, The First War, Famous Men, and Women, Country Life, the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, America, Another War, Peace, and Carrying On For Gertrude. Plus List of Illustrations, References, select Bibliiograophy, and Credits., HarperCollins - Pandora, 1991, 3.5<

1995, ISBN: 9780044408338

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. First edition. No jacket. Light general wear. 1994 Hard Cover. xxii, 50… mais…

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. First edition. No jacket. Light general wear. 1994 Hard Cover. xxii, 503 pp. "I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print." F. Scott Fitzgerald was twenty-six when he wrote this lament to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, in 1923 - two years before Scribners published The Great Gatsby. Soon after Gatsby appeared, Fitzgerald wrote to H. L. Mencken, "I think the book is so far a commercial failure - at least it was two weeks after publication - hadn't reached 20,000 yet." Gatsby turned out all right in the end. But while Fitzgerald's roller-coaster reputation fell precipitously in the years approaching his death in 1940, his stature in American literature has risen steadily in the five decades that followed - the strongest restoration in American literary history. Yet his life and work have remained obscured by myth and misconceptions. In this new collection of his letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and elegant authors. A Life in Letters is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters - many of them appearing in print for the first time. The fullness of the selection and the chronological arrangement make this collection the closest thing to an autobiography Fitzgerald ever wrote. While many readers are familiar with Fitzgerald's legendary "jazz age" social life and his friendships with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, and other famous authors, few are aware of his writings about his life and his views on writing. Letters to his editor Maxwell Perkins illustrate the development of Fitzgerald's literary sensibility; those to his friend and competitor Ernest Hemingway reveal their difficult friendship. The most poignant letters here were written to his wife, Zelda, from the time of their courtship in Montgomery, Alabama, during World War I to her extended convalescence in a sanatorium near Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald is by turns affectionate and proud in his letters to his daughter, Scottie, at college in the East while he was struggling in Hollywood.For readers who think primarily of Fitzgerald as a hard-drinking playboy for whom writing was effortless, these letters show his serious, painstaking concerns with creating realistic, durable art. A Life in Letters offers a full, vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life., Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994, 4, London: HarperCollins - Pandora, 1991. First Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" X 9 1/4. 300 Pages Indexed. Maroon boards with silver spine lettering. Owner's name with date 1995 on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps on this tight, otherwise As New book. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toldas first met on Sunday 8 September 1907 in Paris. From that day on they were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. They never slept under different roofs, or travelled without each other, or entertained separately. They were central to the cultural life of Paris for four decades. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at the rue de Fleurus. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso and written about in the memoirs of Hemingway, Beaton, Paul Bowles and Sylvia Beach. Gertrude and Alice is the story of their life together, of the paths that led them to each other and of Alice's years of widowhood after Gertrude had died. Alice heard bells ringing in her head when she first met Gertrude, proof to her that she was in the presence of genius. Both agreed that Alice should serve and defer to Gertrude and her genius. Alice dealt with all household affairs, typed Gertrude's manuscripts, guarded her from unwelcome visitors and fought to obtain for Gertrude the fame that came late --- when Gertrude was fifty-eight and The Autobiosraphy of Alice B Toklas was published. They attracted an audience wherever they went --- in Charleston, Oxford or Avila. They were indomitable, charismatic and a sight to be seen. They drove around in 'Auntie', their Ford car, with Basket, the cherished poodle, looking at paintings and Roman ruins, eating delicious food, talking to everyone, making the best of where they were. Alice said that Gertrude was the happiest person she had ever known. Long after Gertrude died Alice wrote that from the moment they met, it was Gertrude Stein who held my complete attention, as she did for all the many years I knew her until her death, and all these empty ones since then. From letters, memoirs and the published writings of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, Diana Souhami reconstructs the story of one of the most solid marriages of the century. Alice and Gertrude forcefully come alive: so emphatically and uncompromisingly themselves, that the world could do nothing less than accept them as they were. Contents in 16 Chapters: Gertrude and Alice, Gertrude's Early Years, Alice's Early Years, First Love for Gertrude, The Rue de Fleurus, Alice Meets Gertrude, Ousting the Others, Marriage, The First War, Famous Men, and Women, Country Life, the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, America, Another War, Peace, and Carrying On For Gertrude. Plus List of Illustrations, References, select Bibliiograophy, and Credits., HarperCollins - Pandora, 1991, 3.5<

1995, ISBN: 9780044408338

London: HarperCollins - Pandora, 1991. First Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" X 9 1/4. 300 Pages Indexed. Maroon boards with silver spine lettering. Owner's name… mais…

London: HarperCollins - Pandora, 1991. First Printing . Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" X 9 1/4. 300 Pages Indexed. Maroon boards with silver spine lettering. Owner's name with date 1995 on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps on this tight, otherwise As New book. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toldas first met on Sunday 8 September 1907 in Paris. From that day on they were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. They never slept under different roofs, or travelled without each other, or entertained separately. They were central to the cultural life of Paris for four decades. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at the rue de Fleurus. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso and written about in the memoirs of Hemingway, Beaton, Paul Bowles and Sylvia Beach. Gertrude and Alice is the story of their life together, of the paths that led them to each other and of Alice's years of widowhood after Gertrude had died. Alice heard bells ringing in her head when she first met Gertrude, proof to her that she was in the presence of genius. Both agreed that Alice should serve and defer to Gertrude and her genius. Alice dealt with all household affairs, typed Gertrude's manuscripts, guarded her from unwelcome visitors and fought to obtain for Gertrude the fame that came late --- when Gertrude was fifty-eight and The Autobiosraphy of Alice B Toklas was published. They attracted an audience wherever they went --- in Charleston, Oxford or Avila. They were indomitable, charismatic and a sight to be seen. They drove around in 'Auntie', their Ford car, with Basket, the cherished poodle, looking at paintings and Roman ruins, eating delicious food, talking to everyone, making the best of where they were. Alice said that Gertrude was the happiest person she had ever known. Long after Gertrude died Alice wrote that from the moment they met, it was Gertrude Stein who held my complete attention, as she did for all the many years I knew her until her death, and all these empty ones since then. From letters, memoirs and the published writings of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, Diana Souhami reconstructs the story of one of the most solid marriages of the century. Alice and Gertrude forcefully come alive: so emphatically and uncompromisingly themselves, that the world could do nothing less than accept them as they were. Contents in 16 Chapters: Gertrude and Alice, Gertrude's Early Years, Alice's Early Years, First Love for Gertrude, The Rue de Fleurus, Alice Meets Gertrude, Ousting the Others, Marriage, The First War, Famous Men, and Women, Country Life, the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, America, Another War, Peace, and Carrying On For Gertrude. Plus List of Illustrations, References, select Bibliiograophy, and Credits., HarperCollins - Pandora, 1991, 3.5<

1991, ISBN: 0044408331

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[EAN: 9780044408338], Near Fine, [PU: HarperCollins - Pandora, London], STEIN GERTRUDE 1874 1946 TOKLAS, Jacket, 300 Pages Indexed. Maroon boards with silver spine lettering. Owner's name… mais…

[EAN: 9780044408338], Near Fine, [PU: HarperCollins - Pandora, London], STEIN GERTRUDE 1874 1946 TOKLAS, Jacket, 300 Pages Indexed. Maroon boards with silver spine lettering. Owner's name with date 1995 on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps on this tight, otherwise As New book. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toldas first met on Sunday 8 September 1907 in Paris. From that day on they were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. They never slept under different roofs, or travelled without each other, or entertained separately. They were central to the cultural life of Paris for four decades. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at the rue de Fleurus. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso and written about in the memoirs of Hemingway, Beaton, Paul Bowles and Sylvia Beach. Gertrude and Alice is the story of their life together, of the paths that led them to each other and of Alice's years of widowhood after Gertrude had died. Alice heard bells ringing in her head when she first met Gertrude, proof to her that she was in the presence of genius. Both agreed that Alice should serve and defer to Gertrude and her genius. Alice dealt with all household affairs, typed Gertrude's manuscripts, guarded her from unwelcome visitors and fought to obtain for Gertrude the fame that came late --- when Gertrude was fifty-eight and The Autobiosraphy of Alice B Toklas was published. They attracted an audience wherever they went --- in Charleston, Oxford or Avila. They were indomitable, charismatic and a sight to be seen. They drove around in 'Auntie', their Ford car, with Basket, the cherished poodle, looking at paintings and Roman ruins, eating delicious food, talking to everyone, making the best of where they were. Alice said that Gertrude was the happiest person she had ever known. Long after Gertrude died Alice wrote that from the moment they met, it was Gertrude Stein who held my complete attention, as she did for all the many years I knew her until her death, and all these empty ones since then. From letters, memoirs and the published writings of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, Diana Souhami reconstructs the story of one of the most solid marriages of the century. Alice and Gertrude forcefully come alive: so emphatically and uncompromisingly themselves, that the world could do nothing less than accept them as they were. Contents in 16 Chapters: Gertrude and Alice, Gertrude's Early Years, Alice's Early Years, First Love for Gertrude, The Rue de Fleurus, Alice Meets Gertrude, Ousting the Others, Marriage, The First War, Famous Men, and Women, Country Life, the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, America, Another War, Peace, and Carrying On For Gertrude. Plus List of Illustrations, References, select Bibliiograophy, and Credits., Books<

1991, ISBN: 0044408331

[EAN: 9780044408338], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 3.46], [PU: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List], Gertrude and Alice: Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas This book is in very good cond… mais…

[EAN: 9780044408338], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 3.46], [PU: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List], Gertrude and Alice: Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. ., Books<