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Published by Harvill Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 1860463606ISBN 13: 9781860463600
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
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Published by Penguin Random House, 1997
ISBN 10: 1860462693ISBN 13: 9781860462696
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. First Impression. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by Harvill Press, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 1860462693ISBN 13: 9781860462696
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Editi on; Second Printing.
Published by The Havrill Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860462693ISBN 13: 9781860462696
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A good used copy. Hard cover with jacket and purple place ribbon. First endpage has small hand written music staff in upper right corner. Interior is otherwise clean and unmarked.
Published by The Harvill Press, 1996
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Bookplate, else fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Second printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1996
Seller: Balfour Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Previous owner's inscription on FFE, otherwise clean contents and b/w plates.
Published by HARVILL
Seller: Book Cupboard, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, United Kingdom
1996 1ST RUBBRSTAMP COVENT GARDEN O/W FINE /FINE.
Published by The Harvill Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860462693ISBN 13: 9781860462696
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp x, 342.
Published by Harvill Press, London, 1996
Seller: B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First impression. Photographic illustrations. 8vo. Near fine publisher's cloth, silk tie present, smart and clean in a similar unclipped dust wrapper, spine lightly sunned; the famous musician who entered into a marriage without consummation - a friend of the Sitwells et al. x, 342pp.
Published by The Harvill Press, LONDRA, 1996
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy
Condition: BUONO USATO. INGLESE Brossura editoriale. Pagine leggermente brunite ai bordi. Numerose fotografie nel testo. Numero Pagine 342.
Published by Harvill Press London, 1996
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Signed
Ist impression. Plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 342-pages. Original grey cloth with applied portait as issued. With a matchingly bound CD case containing a CD of her Harpsicord music. (with 2 small rust marks within; from the staples of the sleeve holding the explanatory pamphlet - not affecting the CD). All contained in the original clamshell case. Spotting to title and dedication leaf else in all other respects fine. Signed by the author.
Published by Harvill, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860462693ISBN 13: 9781860462696
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. ~With CD in hardcover folder. With fine original box. As new. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: x, 342pp. No dustwrapper as issued. Signed by author. Binding sound, text unmarked.
Published by Harvill, 1996
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Violet Gordon-Woodhouse was a British keyboard player. She specialised in the harpsichord and clavichord, and was influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion. She was the first person to record the harpsichord, and the first to broadcast harpsichord music. Signed by The Author, small red mark to top of page edges.Price Clipped.Small tear to endpaper Size: Octavo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Published by The Harvill Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860462693ISBN 13: 9781860462696
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition hardback in Fine condition. An utterly fascinating true story. No owner marks but one slight mark on the dustjacket where a price sticker has been removed.
Published by London: The Harvill Press, 1996., 1996
First Edition Signed
First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), x, 342pp. 32pp plates. Original grey cloth. This is the limited edition, housed in a grey cloth solander box, and also including a CD of Violet's harpsichord music (the CD is housed in a separate cloth case, and also includes a 12pp booklet). The book, the CD case and the solander box are all in excellent condition. Signed by the author. ISBN 1860462693.
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1996
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, one of an unspecified number of specially bound copies, signed by the author and supplied with a CD of her harpsichord music. 8vo. x, 342pp. Grey cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine, and with a paper portrait inset to the upper board. Ribbon place-marker. With fifty-seven black and white photographs and reproductions. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called-for, but housed in a matching clamshell slipcase which also holds the separate cloth folder housing the CD and inlay. A biography of the celebrated harpsichord and clavichord player, and a close friend of Siegfried Sassoon, W.H.Davies and George Bernard Shaw. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Published by Harvill for SBC Warburg, London, 1996
Book Signed
Condition: Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo, amply illustrated, plus DVD Violet Gordon Woodhouse: Great Virtuosi of the Harpsichord Volume III and booklet in matching case. Grey cloth, decorated and lettered in silver, illustrated paper label, framed in blind, to upper board, pink marbled endpapers, purple ribbon marker. Both housed in grey cloth clamshell box with pink marbled paper innards. Shallow bruising to bottom edges of clamshell box, a scatter of pinprick stains. Douglas Home's signature in blue pen to fly-leaf. Else, clean, tight and bright: a splendid copy of an attractive edition. Near Fine. A celebrated pianist, Violet Gordon Woodhouse became the foremost clavichord player of her day and the first artist to record and broadcast harpsichord on the radio. She was also key to the revival of pre-Romantic music. Her private life was equally unorthodox: she lived in a "a surprisingly harmonious" ménage à cinq known, less than affectionately, by contemporaries as "the Woodhouse circus" with four men, including her legal husband, John Gordon Woodhouse. The intentionally childless marriage, allowed VGW to pursue music full-time. As well as the devotion of four "husbands," she was also adored by Dame Ethel Smyth, Christabel Marshall, and Radclyffe Hall, who dedicated The Forgotten Island to this "mistress of stylish showmanship".
Published by The Harvill Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 1860462693ISBN 13: 9781860462696
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. A signed and superb clam shell slipcased special edition of The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse, signed by Jessica Douglas Home. VGW was a British keyboard player who specialised in the harpsichord and clavichord. She was influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion, and was the first person to record the harpsichord. She was also the first to broadcast harpsichord music on the radio. Steeped in music from a very early age, by the time she was seven Violet was already showing a precocious talent. By the age of sixteen she was studying with Oscar Beringer, one of the most notable piano scholars of the day. Violet's extraordinary ear for tone and phrasing, her instinctual interpretation of the music, and her exciting performances made her salon a cult, a magnet to many of the most important artists of her age-Picasso, Diaghilev, and Delius. Violet's musical genius was equalled by her evident physical allure. She had a horror of convention and lived in a scandalous menage a cinq with her husband (the marriage remained unconsumated) and three superhusbands, as she called them. An utterly compelling story, Violet's life was studded with unexpected sub-plots, the most fascinating a double murder which forms the bizarre center of an extraordinary life. Much of the book serves as a history of music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Violet was a prodigy and clearly an exceptional talent. If you're interested in music history this book will certainly appeal. The book taught me a great deal about music and it's place in the lives of the Victorians and the English of the first half of the twentieth century. The other major interest is Violet's charisma and personal magnetism. She had an ability to, and frequently did, wrap people around her little finger. This, more than anything, explains how she was able to establish her menage. A few rare women in history are said to be possessed of such powers - Cleopatra perhaps being another. Violet was also complex and spoiled. The following extract gives a good idea of her personality: 'At first Violet received her coolly, addressing her formally as Miss Morrison-Bell. When John remonstrated, asking Violet to call her Patricia, Violet replied, "I shall see if I like her first." The girls John had previously brought to stay he had generally been banned from bringing back, but by the end of the first evening the only question was when John was going to marry Patricia. From then on she became "Pattie" to Violet, and they became devoted to one another. A stunning biography, which reveals a fascinating personality. Violet Gordon Woodhouse was a formidable, complex and highly sophisticated woman, and her lifestyle choices were unorthodox by any standards - not least those of late Victorian and Edwardian England! As a result, they make for spellbinding reading. It is greatly to Douglas-Home's credit that she manages to breathe sympathetic life back into an individual who often demonstrated dubious character traits, yet remained capable of inspiring deep love and even adulation from those around her. Violet's personal highs and lows are off-set by a masterful analysis of the shifting social and cultural background against which she lived. Richly textured, elegantly told and frequently surprising, this book is absolutely superb. It comes with a special CD, bound in a uniform hardback folder, with a booklet full of the performance details. The title of the book itself is on a paper label mounted upon the cover. There is a slight set off with the red in the title. Apart from that this is a superb production and a truly astonishing story. Copious illustrations feature in two sections of the text. The author has signed this on the half title. Signed by Author.