Stephania: A Trialogue by Field, Michael

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, unnumbered of 250. Pot 4to (in 8s), pp. [xii], 100, [4], [2 Press Notices for Sight and Song & The Tragic Mary], [2 catalogue], incl. intricate illustrated title page, and colophon, by Selwyn Image. Grey paper boards, paper title label lettered in black (significantly rubbed) to spine, Image's binding ornament in black to upper board. Edges untrimmed. Joints and spine ends professionally repaired, edgewear, heaviest at now rounded corners, spine darkened, boards faintly stained and scored. Edges dust darkened. Offsetting to endpapers, previous bookseller note in pencil to rear endpaper, occasional spots, else, clean and tight. A rather pleasing copy of an attractive edition of Michael Field's trialogue. Fairly well-represented in British research libraries, unusual in the trade. Good+ Michael Field was the pseudonym and creative persona of Katherine Bradley (1846�1914) and Edith Cooper (1862�1913), the British aunt and niece, who lived, loved, and collaborated… Read More

Elkin Mathews & John Lane, London. 1892. First edition, limited to 250 copies.. Hardback.. Decorative title-page. Paper-covered boards with black illustration of crown entwined with branch. This play (if you will) is by the aunt and niece, whose extraordinary literary output was well received under the pseudonym Michael Field. But when Robert Browning revealed the authors' identity they found their audience less enthusiastic. VG- (exterior hinges weak; spine darkened. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Largely uncut pages). Extra spine labels bound at end.