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Hadleigh: Tower Bridge. 1951. Octavo, original cloth boards, frontis portrait plate of Mary Shelley, pp xii 235. Ex-library, good reading copy of the scarce first edition. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein 1st edition. Boards.

Tower Bridge Publications Limited, 1951-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. No dust jacket. The orange cloth boards are sunned, more so on the spine, light corner rubbing, a little soiling. Clean interior. First edition 1951. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011

Hadleigh: Tower Bridge Publications Limited, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xii, 235 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece of Shelley. Orange cloth hardcover binding with red lettering on spine. Original dustjacket with red lettering wrapped in protective mylar. Dustjacket has small chips and tears. Pencil crayon mark on spine. Small hole in front free endpaper. Some pencil notes, pencil crayon on back free endpaper. While best known today as a novelist, Muriel Spark first published this historical literary criticism.

Tower Bridge, 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Orange hardback WITHOUT/NO dust cover. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some marks on book cover but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age.

Hadleigh: Essex: Tower Bridge Publications Limited, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 235pp. Orange cloth with red spine lettering. Lightly sunned at the board edges and the spine ends a touch bumped, excellent copy, binding tight and square, the jacket price clipped, edges and spine darkened a little, with a few light creases at the edges. Nice copy.

Hadleigh, Essex: Tower Bridge Publications Limited, 1951. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; xiv,235,[1]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced 12/6 net), lightly edgeworn and gently spine-sunned, with a few tiny tears, some dustiness to rear panel, and a faint splash mark to spine panel. Spark's first book published under her own name, a critical work on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley focussing both on her life, as well as her "neglected capacity as a writer" (from front flap).

Tower Bridge Publications Limited, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 235 pages. First edition (first printing). Orange cloth with red lettering on spine. Spotting to cloth edges, thus a very good copy; in a dust jacket with a bit of edge wear and light fading to spine.

Tower Bridge, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in.

Hadleigh, Essex: Tower Bridge Publications Limited, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. In this engrossing biography, acclaimed novelist Muriel Spark recreates Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's turbulent life and career and persuasively defends the enigmatic writer's place among the giants of literary history. Octavo: 235 p. with a frontispiece. Original orange cloth binding, with burgundy titles. Minor crease to the rear flyleaf. In the scarce dust jacket, which is lightly faded along the extremities. Near fine.

Essex: Tower Bridge, 1951. First edition of the author's first book published under her own name; 8vo, pp. [iii]-xii, [2], 235; slight creasing at the top of the spine of the dust-jacket, back panel of jacket a bit soiled, else fine through.