Graves Ida Affleck (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. Ida Affleck Graves was born in 1902 in India, and first published a book of poems in 1929 with Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press. Later a couple of slim volumes appeared, illustrated by her well-known engraver husband, Blair Hughes Stanton, and together they won a Venice Biennale Prize in 1937. Then in the 'fifties, novels and children's books appeared from Faber. In the intervening years she has continued to produce poems of a distinct character and style, now collected into a new book for Oxford Poets. Men, hospital, vegetables, animals, all come under this poet's altert irreverent, sometimes sad, always entertaining eye. This book is intended for usual readership for new poetry, and also perhaps the elder generation of readers.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy. Light age-toning to covers and pages. Binding remains firm and square with clean, unmarked contents. A collection by poet, novelist and children's author Ida Affleck Graves, whose work first appeared under the auspices of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press. Poems marked by wit, observation and humanity, addressing domestic life, memory, ageing, friendship and the natural world.…

Paperback. Condition: UsedAcceptable. some marking and denting to edges, good reading copy.

Paperback. Condition: UsedAcceptable. some marking and denting to edges, good reading copy.

Paperback. Condition: UsedAcceptable. some marking and denting to edges, good reading copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good paperback. First edition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First. 8vo. ver creasing and eneven rusty staples. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First. 8vo. Book.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Minor wear & toning to wraps. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Wrappers. From the library of the poet David Gascoyne, with the Gascoyne library book-label.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First. 8vo. rear cover a biy marked. Book.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 63 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; English poetry. British poetry. Hospitals - poetry. Death - poetry. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, VG++/nr.fine in wraps. No inscriptions. Text unmarked. Minimal shelf-wear.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 63 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; English poetry. British poetry. Hospitals - poetry. Death - poetry. 1 Kg.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A lightly worn copy. 6604684.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A lightly worn copy. 6604683.

Paperback. Condition: New. Ida Affleck Graves was born in 1902 in India, and first published a book of poems in 1929 with Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press. Later a couple of slim volumes appeared, illustrated by her well-known engraver husband, Blair Hughes Stanton, and together they won a Venice Biennale Prize in 1937. Then in the 'fifties, novels and children's books appeared from Faber. In the intervening years she has continued to produce poems of a distinct character and style, now collected into a new book for Oxford Poets. Men, hospital, vegetables, animals, all come under this poet's altert irreverent, sometimes sad, always entertaining eye. This book is intended for usual readership for new poetry, and also perhaps the elder generation of readers.…

FIRST EDITION, one leaf with light crease at top corner, pp. 266, crown 8vo, original red boards, backstrip lettered in black, a few very faint spots to edges and free endpapers, the latter slightly browned in part, dustjacket with designs by Pearl Binder to front and backstrip panels, very slightly nicked and rubbed at extremities, a little waterstaining at foot of rear panel and internal tape-repair ot a couple of horizontal cracks to backstrip panel, very good. A scarce book, the author's second novel. She had earlier established herself as a poet, under the name Ida Graves, publishing volumes with the Hogarth Press and the Fortune Press, as well as working in collaboration with her then partner, the artist Blair Hughes-Stanton, with whom she had two children. By the time of this work she had met Don Nevard, a jazz pianist, with whom she would remain until her death - the novel carries a printed dedication to 'Don and the Happy Jazzmen'. The narrative-method here, in a 'story [.] about a little servant girl who brings calamity to a childless couple without meaning to', perhaps bears traces of the influence of that musical form, with a breathless style dominated by the present tense. Graves published one other novel with Faber, as well as some works for children; a long interval followed before her poetry career was revived in the 1990s.…