Search Results: stars of the desert by hope laurence pseudonym

William Heinemann, London . New, 1911. Reprint. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1/4 Tan coloured cloth covered back strip with paper pasted to the back strip, and within that insert green coloured titles. 3/4 sage green coloured boards. Collection of poetry from this author dealing with romance, unrequited love and longing. The book is showing its age and use. Small splits to all corners of the back strip along with some fraying. The front and rear spine gutters had the small tears – the front 2.5" and the rear 1.5". Rubbing to the book edges and panels with uniform tanning of the text block edges and pages. Offset tanning to the end pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5], VI - VII [1] 151, [1] pages.. Deckled edges (rough cut). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; 1900-1920; Inventory No: 0123174. .

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, 1923.. Hardcover -. Very near fine in a very good example of the uncommon dustjacket. with some toning to the spine, minor edgewear. . Vintage hardcover. Hope's second book of poetry, originally published in 1903. She spent almost all of her adult life in India, and her writing "steeped in the Indian landscape and Sufi symbolism, often assumes the voices of Indian dancers and slaves to engage themes of passionate love and loss. Her first collection, The Garden of Kama (1901), was initially presented as a translation and arrangement, rather than the original poetry it was later revealed to be." While her work was very popular at the time, they would not have been considered proper for a woman to write, thus the adoption of a male pen name. In an attractive red cloth binding with a stylish art deco illustration on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine. 152 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1923. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The foredges of the text block are uncut. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, foxing, ground-in dirt, several edge tears, nicks and a couple of snags to the rear spine joint. "In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. She attempted to pass these off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Edwardian era. Her poems are typically about… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. . 3-books bound together in 1 volume. Edition de luxe, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Full red leather with raised bands, gilt decoraiton, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn-ins, printed patterned endpapers. Cover shows minor rubbing and fading, pages are clean.

London: William Heinemann. New York: John Lane, 1903. 8vo, 214 x 138 mms., unnumbered, pp. [viii], 151 [152 text, with colophon reading "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co. | London & Edinburgh," including half-title, uncut, many leaves unopened, errata slip pasted to lower margin of page 1, original grey boards with cream-coloured spine, with paper label (slightly soiled), and inscribed by author on recto of front free end-paper, "Aunt [?Lucy] | from Violet | Xmas 1903." Adela Florence Nicolson (1865­1904) published under the pseudonym Laurence Hope, though to friends and her husband she was "Violet." Stars of the Desert was Laurence Hope's second book of poetry, and was first published in 1903. It was the last book by Hope to appear before her death. The inscription is dated to December 1903, and she committed suicide about ten months later, in October 1904. Her third book, published as Indian Love in Britain and as Last Poems in the United States,… Read More