Vera Brittain

Testament of Youth/ Testament of Friendship/ Testament of Experience

New York, Seaview Books, 1981. Hardcover. A set of three hardcover books with dustjackets, all in very good condition. Jackets of vols. 1 and 3 price clipped. Mild edgewear; otherwise like new. Vols. 2 and 3 include introductions by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. The autobiography of World War I nurse and pacifist activist Vera Brittain. Very Good .

Kubik Fine Books Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 205889

Catalogue: World War One

Brittain, Vera

Testament of Friendship. The Story of Winifred Holtby. Signed

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1940, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First American Edition Inscribed by Vera Brittain on the front free endpaper. "For Martha Sunnari with best wishes and thanks from Vera Brittain". 8vo. 412 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Winifred Holtby. A bright copy in red cloth, some foxing to prelims, red titles to the spine in a TBCL black cloth slipcase. Memorializing their friendship, Vera Brittain presents a vivid portrait of Winifred Holtby, their meeting at Oxford, their separate careers as practicing writers, (Holtby wrote the first major study in English of Virginia Woolf), and their continuing friendship throughout Miss Brittain's marriage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [22-32644]. Near Fine .

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Book number: 33275

Catalogue: Presentation & Inscribed Copies

Keywords: FIRST EDITION SIGNED INSCRIBED VIRGINIA WOOLF WINIFRED HOLTBY SOUTH RIDING VERA BRITTAIN TESTAMENT OF YOUTH . Electronic List TBCL

BRITTAIN Vera

Testament of Friendship. The Story of Winifred Holtby. [Fourth Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Macmillan,, [1940]. 8vo., Fourth Impression, with coloured portrait frontispiece; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published three months after the first edition. Loving biography of Holtby by her close friend Vera Brittain. A wide-ranging writer and novelist, Holtby is now probably best remembered for 'South Riding'. Includes accounts of Holtby and Brittain revisiting the WWI battlefield areas in which they both served. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 29129

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern firsts, biography, ww1, WWI, great war, winifred holtby, south riding, yorkshire, w holtby, modern first editions, testament, friendship

BRITTAIN Vera

Testament of Friendship. The Story of Winifred Holtby. [Second Impression]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Macmillan,, [1942]. 8vo., Second Impression, with coloured portrait frontispiece, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION (DATED 1943) ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Loving biography of Holtby by her close friend Vera Brittain. A wide-ranging writer and novelist, Holtby is now probably best remembered for 'South Riding'. Includes accounts of Holtby and Brittain revisiting the WWI battlefield areas in which they both served. Published in the same month as the first edition.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37789

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, brittain, vera brittain, holtby, winifred holtby,

BRITTAIN Vera

Testament of Friendship. The Story of Winifred Holtby. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Macmillan,, 1940. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, free endpapers lightly browned; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First appearance of the loving biography of Holtby by her close friend Vera Brittain. A wide-ranging writer and novelist, Holtby is now probably best remembered for 'South Riding'. Includes accounts of Holtby and Brittain revisiting the WWI battlefield areas in which they both served. SCARCE.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 42341

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, biography, ww1, wwi, great war, brittain, vera brittain, holtby, winifred holtby, south riding, yorkshire

BRITTAIN, VERA

Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby

Virago. 1980-08-11. (ISBN: 0860681505) Paperback, 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Good.

M. Godding Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 227857

Catalogue: War and Military

Keywords: 0860681505

Brittain, Vera

Testament of Friendship.

Fontana Fontana, 1981. A reprint of the Virago edition, with the Afterword by Rosalind Delmar. 453pp, the paper browning a little with age. Illustrated softback covers with an illustration of a poppy and a rose. Internally clean and tight. Continuing the story of Testament of Youth, the author's friendship with Winifred Holtby... Very Good.

Hessay BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 1059

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Biography, WWI, History, Winifred Holtby