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The Fair of St. James: A fantasia
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good-only
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2210
- Title
- The Fair of St. James: A fantasia
- Author
- FARJEON, Eleanor; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-only
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Signed & Association Copies;
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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- Cloth
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- POD
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- Gilt
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