Two Half Moons (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOAN FEISENBERGER TO WRITER VERA SNELLING) [BLOOMSBURY GROUP INTEREST]
by Blair, Eric
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Oxford: Alden Press, 1968. VG/VG. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOAN FEISENBERGER TO THE AUTHOR, VERA SNELLING, inscribed on front endpaper. Inscription reads, 'Inscribed for/Vera Snelling/with very best wishes/from Joan Feisenberger/30 Decenber/1968'. The autobiography of Eric Bligh who was an author and bookseller. In this book Bligh recounts his London and country life, the latter centred round the Sussex town of Midhurst and the village of Woolbeding. Bligh died in 1965, shortly after completing the book and before its publication in 1968. Joan Feisenberger worked for Bligh and held the copyright for the book. Joan was married to writer and bookseller Hellmut Feisenberger. Bligh and the Feisenbergers are particularly interesting for their associations with the Bloomsbury Group. Dustwrapper design by Ronald Fuller. D/w edge chipped; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed. First edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18825
- Title
- Two Half Moons (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOAN FEISENBERGER TO WRITER VERA SNELLING) [BLOOMSBURY GROUP INTEREST]
- Author
- Blair, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Alden Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Alden Press. Vera Snelling. Joan Feisenberger. Hellmut Feisenberger. Booksellers. Writers. Authors. Literary Studies. Literary Research. Autobiography. Biography. Bloomsbury Group. Bloomsbury Set. London. London Social History. Social
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