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Price: US$39.58 + shipping
Description: 12mo, 18cm, first edition, 96p., with 3 plates including frontis (2 portraits & facsimile letter), black cloth, gilt spine titles, very good to fine copy. (S1). [Woolmer 360].
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
BUCHAN, Susan. Funeral March of a Marionette. Hogarth Press, London, 1935.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 12mo. 96pp. Very good with small tear at two preliminary leaves, off-setting rear page and boards moderately worn with mottled boards and spine gilt dulled. One of 1500 copies. Woolmer 360.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black boards with gilt letters, with three previous owners signatures on front free page. There is light foxing throughout and three illustrations. The dust jacket is not price clipped has two 1 cm tears and a 1mm chip at top of spine.
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Susan Buchan. Funeral March of a Marionette. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1935.
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The life of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany who was the daughter of Charles Edward (The Young Pretender) and his mistress, Clementina Walkinshaw. 96 pages, bound in black cloth with yellow lettering. Frontispiece portrait. The book is in very good condition but for a few finger-marks on the endpapers. The rare illustrated dustwrapper has a sun-browned spine which is lightly worn at the ends, but is otherwise in good condition.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Buchan, Susan. FUNERAL MARCH OF A MARIONETTE Charlotte of Albany. Hogarth Press, London, 1935.
Price: US$316.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 96 pages in very good, clean condition. The last page has darkened. Three illustrations. Black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Titles a little faded at head of spine. Very light wear on corners and edges. Blue DJ with red titles and illustration. Jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Minor sunning on spine and edges. Tiny chips at the corners and head of spine. Lower jacket lightly soiled.Scarce with jacket. VG/VG- Size: 5 x 7 1/2
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$424.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression ("First published 1935" on copyright page), one of only 1500 copies, of this odd and unexpected life of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany (1753-1789), illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), his only child to survive infancy. Small, slim 8vo; [10],11-96pp, with portrait frontispiece and two full-page illustrations. Publisher's black cloth, spine gilt; blue dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell, printed in red and priced 4s/6d. An excellent copy, square, tight and bright (apparently unread); Fine jacket, spine just barely toned. Scarce in such superb condition. Woolmer 360. Charlotte Stuart's mother was Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress to the Prince from 1752 until 1760. After years of abuse, Clementina left Charles, taking Charlotte with her. Father and daughter were finally reconciled in 1784, when he legitimized her and created her Duchess of Albany. She left her own three illegitimate children with her mother, and became her father's care-giver and companion in the last years of his life, dying less than two years after him. Buchan was wife of the author (The Thirty-Nine Steps) and Governor General of Canada, John Buchan. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, sole impression, of this biography of Charlotte Stuart, the illegitimate child of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his mistress Clementina Walkinshaw. The author was a close friend of the Woolfs and wrote this biography in light of new letters that had been discovered by the Bodleian Library. It is scarce in the jacket. Charlotte Stuart was an overlooked character of the Jacobite Rebellion. Her parents' relationship was disastrous. Charlotte was Charles's only child to survive past infancy, and he was abusive and possessive towards her and her mother. He refused to support them, and Walkinshaw was forced to petition his father, James Stuart, for assistance. James aided their escape to a Parisian convent, and Charlotte spent most of her life estranged from her father. She was unable to marry as a consequence, and despite her repeated written appeals to Charles, she too was forced into becoming a mistress with illegitimate children. Charles finally recognized his daughter in 1784, prompted by his own serious ill health. He created her Duchess of Albany, and she became his carer and companion in his final years, though their relationship remained far from magnanimous. Woolmer 360. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Portrait frontispiece, 2 plates. Head of spine slightly bumped, one corner just worn; spine and edges of jacket lightly toned, trivial mark on rear panel, nicks and tiny chips at spine ends and corners: a very good copy indeed in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom