Elixirs of Life by Leyel, Mrs. C.F - 1970

N. Y.: Signet Books / New American Library . Near Fine/ . 1982. First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. 0451118774 A Near fine Mass Market Paperback, an entirely clean and bright paperback original, a nice copy with very light cover wear and a solid binding. A Signet Book, 214 pages, including an intimate Elvis Presley photo gallery of 8 pages. The truth from Elvis himself, who during his last days talked with author May Mann about his past, present, and future. .

1987. Paperback. Good. LEYEL, MRS. C. F. Elixirs of Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1987. 8vo, pp.221, indexes. [First published in 1948.] Wraps.

Paperback. Acceptable.

London: Faber & Faber, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. M. E. Eldridge. Minor singe mark on lower dust jacket front. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

London: Stuart & Watkins Limited, 1970. reprint. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 221pp., b/w ills., indexes, With drawings by Mildred E. Eldridge. Sl. chipped dust jacket o/w nice copy

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1948. pp 221 A Herbal which describes "herbs that throughout the world have been used from the earliest times to promote longevity", illustrated with drawings by M E Eldridge. Very good in teal cloth, end papers foxed but the pages are clean; in a good dust jacket, chipped and torn across the spine, foxed to verso. Tipped in press cutting discussing the prosecution of herbalists for selling an 'Elixir of Life' under a false description, and a letter from Cambridge University to Harry Stopes-Roe concerning his Ph.D dissertation, which has a list of herbs to verso. This book comes from the collection of the scientist and pioneer birth-control campaigner Marie Stopes (1880-1958) which was inherited by her son the philosopher Harry Stopes Roe (1924-2014) and sold following the death of his widow Mary Stopes Roe in May of this year. Mary was herself an academic and author, the daughter of the engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, Sir Barnes Wallis. Mildred E Eldridge 1948

London: Faber, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's blue boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Pink top edge. A book-plate to the front paste-down and offsetting to both sets of end-papers otherwise a near fine copy in like price-clipped dustwrapper with miniscule loss at the head and tail of the spine and a tiny chip from the bottom edge of the back panel. Photographs/scans available upon request.