Cecily Mackworth (213 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 220 pages, hardback (publisher's brown cloth), a very good ex-library copy [0710078781].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Underlining & notes to text & dj flaps; binding tight; name inked on flyleaf; minor wear to dustjacket. 220 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 220 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket, ex-library [0710078781].

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Laura Gethryn spends the first 7 years of her life in Monmouthshire where her father's family have been landowners for centuries. Her horsey mother idolizes the absent soldier and his return a broken man, emasculated by the Great War, leaves them destined to remain the disappointed parents of a single girl child. Welsh speaking, working-class and intellectual, he, his talented daughter, Mair, and disaffected son, Idris, open Laura's eyes to a surprising new world.…

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Unabridged. 188 p.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Fair. A used book with moderate to heavy shelf wear and imperfections. Light to moderate annotations to text. Photos and additional details upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Paperback. Condition: New. Lucy's Nose is a richly layered narrative that blends historical fiction, life writing, psychoanalysis and socio-political history to explore the intersections of memory, the imagination, and identity. At its heart is a detective-like quest to uncover the story of Freud's elusive patient 'Lucy R.', a 30-year-old Scottish governess in Vienna who sought Freud's help in the early 1890s for olfactory hallucinations. As the contemporary author-narrator visits Vienna in the 1980s to search for traces of the woman who inspired Freud's case study, she reflects on Lucy's resistance to Freud's sexual theories and begins imaginatively to reconstruct her voice and life. Set against the symbolic backdrop of a historic Viennese train station, the text becomes both a meditation on time and a neo-Victorian experiment in autofiction, merging personal memory with cultural history and blurring the lines between fact, fiction, and self-creation.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Lucy's Nose is a richly layered narrative that blends historical fiction, life writing, psychoanalysis and socio-political history to explore the intersections of memory, the imagination, and identity. At its heart is a detective-like quest to uncover the story of Freud's elusive patient 'Lucy R.', a 30-year-old Scottish governess in Vienna who sought Freud's help in the early 1890s for olfactory hallucinations. As the contemporary author-narrator visits Vienna in the 1980s to search for traces of the woman who inspired Freud's case study, she reflects on Lucy's resistance to Freud's sexual theories and begins imaginatively to reconstruct her voice and life. Set against the symbolic backdrop of a historic Viennese train station, the text becomes both a meditation on time and a neo-Victorian experiment in autofiction, merging personal memory with cultural history and blurring the lines between fact, fiction, and self-creation.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unread. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Shelf wear to cover edges.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Lucy's Nose is a richly layered narrative that blends historical fiction, life writing, psychoanalysis and socio-political history to explore the intersections of memory, the imagination, and identity. At its heart is a detective-like quest to uncover the story of Freud's elusive patient 'Lucy R.', a 30-year-old Scottish governess in Vienna who sought Freud's help in the early 1890s for olfactory hallucinations. As the contemporary author-narrator visits Vienna in the 1980s to search for traces of the woman who inspired Freud's case study, she reflects on Lucy's resistance to Freud's sexual theories and begins imaginatively to reconstruct her voice and life. Set against the symbolic backdrop of a historic Viennese train station, the text becomes both a meditation on time and a neo-Victorian experiment in autofiction, merging personal memory with cultural history and blurring the lines between fact, fiction, and self-creation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Laura Gethryn spends the first 7 years of her life in Monmouthshire where her father's family have been landowners for centuries. Her horsey mother idolizes the absent soldier and his return a broken man, emasculated by the Great War, leaves them destined to remain the disappointed parents of a single girl child. Welsh speaking, working-class and intellectual, he, his talented daughter, Mair, and disaffected son, Idris, open Laura's eyes to a surprising new world. When Laura Gethryns education is entrusted to Mr Howells, a Welsh-speaking, working-class intellectual, her eyes are opened to a surprising new world. Years later, she receives Mr Howells Parisian notebooks in the mail. Reading and destroying them may be the biggest service she does both her mentor and her future self. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester, 1987. NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in FINE- mylar-protected dust-jacket. Previous owner's signature on FFEP. Minimal toning to DJ's spine. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. First British Edition, First Printing. …

First edition Fine and bright black boards in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First American Edition. Black cloth. Lightly bumped at the spine tips. Otherwise a bright, strong and square copy with no markings. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is chipped at the top left corner of the front, a little at the top of the spine and lightly rubbed at the corners. It is also price-clipped.…

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First edition Near fine black boards in very good dustjacket with just slight loss to head of spine. Otherwise, text is clean throughout with vintage photographs as well as art work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Ecco Press, 1975. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good.