1975, ISBN: 9780394478968

New York: Knopf, 1975. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. Stated First Edition. Very Good in red cloth over boards, brown spinestrip with gilt titling. Head tinted green.… mais…

New York: Knopf, 1975. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. Stated First Edition. Very Good in red cloth over boards, brown spinestrip with gilt titling. Head tinted green. Spine ends faded, creased. V small (1/4") of soil on fore-edge, bookseller's pencilled price on FFEP, ow clean, unmarked, tight. Price-clipped DJ is only Acceptable with overall soiling, corner wear with chips, 1" blind tear at front spine tail w crerases, rubbing, chipping, nicks on rear head. Spine tail missing 1/4" strip. Bookseller's sticker on rear." The "Afterthoughts" of the original edition are critical essays in which she discusses and analyzes, among others, such literary figures as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Anthony Trollope, and Eudora Welty. Bowen's stories, mostly about people of the British upper middle class, portray relationships that are never simple, except, perhaps, on the surface. Her concern with time and memory is a major theme. Beautifully and delicately written, her stories, with their oblique psychological revelations, are symbolic, subtle, and terrifying. A Time in Rome (1960) is her brilliant evocation of that city and its layered past."--publisher Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall, Knopf, 1975, 2.75<

1975, ISBN: 0394478967

[EAN: 9780394478968], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf, New York], BIOGRAPHY, Stated First Edition. Very Good in red cloth over boards, brown spinestrip with gilt titling. Head t… mais…

[EAN: 9780394478968], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf, New York], BIOGRAPHY, Stated First Edition. Very Good in red cloth over boards, brown spinestrip with gilt titling. Head tinted green. Spine ends faded, creased. V small (1/4") of soil on fore-edge, bookseller's pencilled price on FFEP, ow clean, unmarked, tight. Price-clipped DJ is only Acceptable with overall soiling, corner wear with chips, 1" blind tear at front spine tail w crerases, rubbing, chipping, nicks on rear head. Spine tail missing 1/4" strip. Bookseller's sticker on rear." The "Afterthoughts" of the original edition are critical essays in which she discusses and analyzes, among others, such literary figures as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Anthony Trollope, and Eudora Welty. Bowen's stories, mostly about people of the British upper middle class, portray relationships that are never simple, except, perhaps, on the surface. Her concern with time and memory is a major theme. Beautifully and delicately written, her stories, with their oblique psychological revelations, are symbolic, subtle, and terrifying. A Time in Rome (1960) is her brilliant evocation of that city and its layered past."--publisher Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall, Books<

1974, ISBN: 0394478967

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[EAN: 9780394478968], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: New York: Alfred A Knopf], BIOGRAPHY ELIZABETH BOWEN IRELAND HISTORY WRITERS FICTION, Jacket, First edition, published the year before… mais…

[EAN: 9780394478968], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: New York: Alfred A Knopf], BIOGRAPHY ELIZABETH BOWEN IRELAND HISTORY WRITERS FICTION, Jacket, First edition, published the year before the UK edition. HB. Red cloth with brown cloth spine, gilt title and decorative border to spine, and dustjacket designed by Warren Chappell (as well as the tyopgraphy and binding). 193pp. With a foreword by Spencer Curtis Brown. A collection of Elizabeth Bowen's writings, including the beginning of her last novel, published postumously. a Very Good book, in Very Good jacket, now in clear removable sleeve. Jacket has small losses to back edge and corners and light wear to spine ends. The book has clean covers , stain mark to top page edges: this had faded one part of the green tinted top edges and the green pigment has carried down as a small light stain on the top margins of all pages- but fairly lightly. A nicely designed book., Books<