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Published by McClelland, 1963
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.
Published by McClelland & Stewart, 1963
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.
Published by David & Charles, 1984
ISBN 10: 0436367157ISBN 13: 9780436367151
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart, 1963, 1963
Seller: Books on the Web, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
First Edition
Hard bound, first edition, Pp286. Very good in slightly torn & edge-chipped good only dust jacket. 472 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Published by Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1987
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 285 pp covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by Penguin Classics, 1987
ISBN 10: 014008584XISBN 13: 9780140085846
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Book
paperback. Condition: Good. Book is in good condition. Slight discolouration to the pages. Price sticker on the front cover.
Published by London, Secker & Warburg/Arts Council of Great Britain 1985., 1985
First Edition
Second edition (the first edition, published in 1960, scarce after being withdrawn by the 'editor' shortly after publication, and pulped). Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine price-clipped dustjacket. Edited, and with a preface by Michael Holroyd, who gives an intriguing and clarifying (as is possible) overview of the diary and its author.
Published by Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1015131239ISBN 13: 9781015131231
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
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Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1963
Seller: J.C. Bell, Lunenburg, NS, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. 286 pp, green cloth, dj shows tiny nick to one edge, few small spots of soiling, & sunning/toning to spine area. [97].
Published by Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014291828ISBN 13: 9781014291820
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
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Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1985
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Preface by Michael Holroyd. Pp. xvi+286; demy 8vo; light blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the endpapers slightly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Secker & Warburg in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1985. New edition. *A literary hoax. First published in 1960, purporting to be the diary of David Peterley, 'a literary young man and dilettante of the upper classes, whose indecisive life reflects the mood of an England between the two great wars' [wrapper blurb]. Shortly after publication, the book was withdrawn from circulation by its 'editor', Richard Pennington, whose role in the creation of the book is discussed by Michael Holroyd in the preface to this new edition.
Published by McClelland & Stewart Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1963
Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. The book is near fine with very slight edge wear in a very good- dust jacket with light edge wear, chipping at extremities and a couple of small pieces missing at lower front edge. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
Published by Hutchinson of London, London, 1960
Seller: Book Bazaar, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth hardcover. Scarce First Edition, First Printing in original green cloth. No jacket. Weak hinges, front and back, but no danger of coming apart. Binding solid. Biographical notes about the book on front fly page. 285 pp. 1st Edition before infamous recall, few copies sold. [JZ].
Published by Hutchinson of London, Londdon, 1960
Seller: Garden City Books, Herts, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. 1960 first edition lacks dustajcket. This book caused controversy on publication as being an elaborate hoax: the dustjacket They were told readers that since 1946 Richard Pennington had been head librarian at McGill University where Peterley's diary and papers had been sent. But by including an anonymous drawing in profile of David Peterley as frontispiece, and a photograph of Mr Pennington on the inside flap of the jacket, the publishers were giving away too many clues.In very clean condition with no writing, marks or tears, covers clean and unscuffed.
Published by Hutchinson, 1960
Seller: A.O'Neill, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition of this scarce book the" private diary" of the author.
Published by Hutchinson, 1960
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, frontisipiece portrait of the author (see below), pp. 286, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with decoration in red, gentle knock to top corners, top edge red, faint partial browning to free endpapers, publisher's review slip laid in (listing date of publication) at front, newspaper clipping regarding the book's suppression laid in at rear, dustjacket by Patricia Davey, a couple of marks at head of rear panel, very good. This is a scarce first edition: the book was withdrawn after suspicions began to be raised regarding its authenticity, with Leonard Russell of the Sunday Times pronouncing it a literary hoax - perpetrated by the book's supposed editor, Richard Pennington, librarian at McGill University (where the original manuscript was claimed to be held). A comparison of the the frontispiece portrait of the young author and the photograph of the middle-aged editor to the rear flap would seem readily enough to give the lie to the construct. It is, or purports to be, a diary of 1930s London and Prague by a young man of private means, who has for a few years previously been (as Pennington was) in Australia - where he (Peterley/Pennington) knew the poet Christopher Brennan (J.C. Squire had dismissed the latter as one of Pennington's inventions when he attempted to submit an article on him to The London Mercury in 1930!); back in Europe, he continued to move in literary and political circles. The precise status of the book is hard to determine, given its curious blending of fact and fiction. On reviving the work in the 1980s, Michael Holroyd considered it to be neither 'a hoax or a forgery but one of those "fakes" that present autobiographical material with the foreshortening and ambiguity of an imaginative work. And does it matter if the book is a memoir or fiction or an ingenious amalgam of the two?'. Pennington, who had bought up the remaining copies from the publisher once it had become clear that it might be misunderstood, later referred to it as 'a novel which had as its theme life in England of the period between the wars, a period that interested me because I had lived through it and because I had certain ideas about it'.
Published by Printed from the Peterley Papers by the Redpath Press, (Montreal), 1958
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 24mo. [15]pp. on double leaves. Stitched decorated paper self-wrappers. One of 30 copies on Hosho paper hand-set and hand-printed by Richard Pennington at the Redpath Press. Scarce. Fine. *OCLC* accounts for 13 of the 30 copies.
Published by London: Hutchinson, 1960
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper (by Patricia Davey) slightly frayed at spine. With the bookplate of Sir Michael Holroyd, his marginal markings and underlinings throughout, and his manuscript notes on the rear endpapers. Loosely inserted are: the mock-up title-page for Secker & Warburg's 1985 edition, and typescript text for the title-page verso, both marked up by the publisher; the copy-edited typescript for Holroyd's preface to the same, 18pp. 4to, with his autograph corrections; Holroyd's autograph draft manuscript for the preface, 34pp. 4to, with a further 8pp. 4to of manuscript notes; a copy typescript of John Wain's 1984 introduction to the book, 4pp. 4to, apparently unpublished; a copy typescript of Pennington's own 1984 biographical notes, 2pp. 4to; a copy typescript of (extracts from) three letters from Pennington to the literary agent Andrew Hewson, 1982, 2pp. 4to; an autograph letter signed from Pennington to "Miss Vincent", 1p. 8vo, Blanzac, 2 February 1978, with a photocopy of David M. Legate's Montreal Star review of McClelland & Stewart's 1963 edition (quoting Pennington at length), 1963. When Peterley's diary of the years 1926 to 1939 was published in 1960, it caused a minor furore. What was it? Philip Toynbee, in The Observer, saw it as a transparent "hoax" and "a serious strain on my patience". If the editor was not the editor but the author, to what extent was the diary autobiography? Was this pseudonymous journalising, or was it autofiction - a sort of novel? Richard Pennington made matters worse by demanding that the book be withdrawn, shortly after publication. He gave no reason. The first edition thus became a rare book, surrounded by mystery. In 1987 Peter F. McNally sought to disentangle author and editor and the various editions, in an article for the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. He struggled a bit, though Richard Pennington (1904-2003), University Librarian at McGill University, 1947-64, had done his best to explain. On 10 June 1982 he had written to his agent, "Is this autobiography or fiction? A pertinent question, to which I would reply first of all: Does it matter which it is? and secondly and more seriously, I would explain that my idea was to present an autobiography (which this is) in such a way as to suggest it is an imaginative work." To the reviewer of the Canadian edition in The Montreal Star he had written as long ago as 1963, "I suspect [the English critics] confused the novel with the factual reporting that goes on in newspaper offices, and thought a novel should resemble a newspaper and be a straightforward story, like 'Pamela' or 'Gulliver's Travels' or 'Tristram Shandy'." Whereas it was, he told Andrew Hewson, more like George Borrow's Lavengro, "a favourite of mine, and the forerunner of this genre" - and "difficult to classify as a literary work". (He also confided, privately, to Hewson, that he had withdrawn the book not for reasons of copyright but because his wife "insisted" on it.) Michael Holroyd, a pioneer of modern biography with a habit of defying "genre", was perhaps an ideal re-introducer of Pennington s fiction. He must have enquired earlier after Peterley Harvest, for Pennington writes from France in 1978 that he has been in touch with Hutchinson "and learned that while the Literary Department had strongly recommended P.H. for re-publication, the Managing Director, Mr [Harold] Harris, as strongly hesitates, not being sure of seeing any big money from the sale, and apparently he has a preference for big returns. I do not know whether a note from Mr Holroyd to Mr Harris (perhaps he knows him?) would tip the balance . . ." It would be seven years before Secker & Warburg undertook the new edition; Holroyd's masterly preface, playful, serious, appreciative and running to over 5000 words, first appeared in the London Review of Books, 15 November 1984; in 1987 it was redeployed when Peterley Harvest was promoted to the series Penguin Modern Classics.