This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...very lonely when the first glamour had worn off. The mornings were given up to writing, and the afternoons spent in solitary exercise. Hyde Park was lovely in the summer sunshine, and most of her walks took her there. She would sit at her ease on the grass, reading or watching the children and the lovers. All ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...very lonely when the first glamour had worn off. The mornings were given up to writing, and the afternoons spent in solitary exercise. Hyde Park was lovely in the summer sunshine, and most of her walks took her there. She would sit at her ease on the grass, reading or watching the children and the lovers. All her thoughts were for Philip Hungerford, for you may be sure she had not forgotten that wonderful evening. You know very little of the heart of princesses if you think such a scene could pass lightly from her mind. As she walked about alone, she comforted herself with his sayings. He had told her she was beautiful--too beautiful to spoil. He had caressed her, and whispered little sweet compliments in her ear. "You are like a flower," he had said. "So frail and white and slender." Her heart turned to him like some small, hungry animal to the hand that feeds it." "Oh, God, let me see him again!" was her cry. On her homeward way she often stopped to pray in Westminster Cathedral, and her prayers hovered round Hungerford invariably. Once she lighted a candle before one of the shrines, and knelt down to ask that he soon might invite her to his flat. But nothing came of it. As time passed, our Princess became mightily depressed. The ways of this world puzzled her. Why was Life made so hard--princesses condemned to loneliness, and no compensation given? She even developed Doubts. Surely God had forgotten all about her; or why was He letting her suffer like this? She kicked against the pricks with might and main, clamouring for a swift salvation. Then for a while she was quiet, absorbed in the creative mood. She wrote twelve chapters of a novel that was analytical and heavy. All the characters were like dolls that wear a label on which is inscribed...
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Add this copy of Little Miss Muffet: a Love Story for Grown-Ups to cart. $25.50, very good condition, Sold by Cardinalis Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, ON, CANADA, published 1919 by Moffat, Yard and COmpany.
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Very Good. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. The first AMerican edition. Original light blue cloth hard covers, with dark blue titling to front and spine. Light handling and shelf-wear to covers; dye just a little mottled. Old owner's name to front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat--a sound and handsome copy.
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Add this copy of Little Miss Muffet: a Love Story for Grown-Ups to cart. $197.00, very good condition, Sold by Dorley House Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hagerstown, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Moffat, Yard and Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12 vo. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite chipping, in mylar; blue c w/some fading and dampstaining at edges; 299 clean, unmarked pages; Humorous novel about the daughter of a clergyman who goes to London to be a journalist and meet men, including some thinly disguised literary figures. Very scarce, especially in jacket.
Add this copy of Little Miss Muffet: a Love Story for Grown-Ups to cart. $325.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Moffat, Yard and Company.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First American edition. Spine very slightly sunned through the jacket, about fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a little soiling, and some tiny nicks and tears. Humorous novel about the daughter of a clergyman who goes to London to be a journalist and meet men, including some thinly disguised literary figures. Very scarce, especially in jacket.
