Jacqueline Wheldon (10 results)

Condition: Fair. 1968. Panther Edition. 477 pages. Illustrated paper covers. Light staining, foxing and moderate tanning to pages, text block edges and reverse of covers. Hinges are lightly cracked and stained but covers remain firmly attached. Paper covers have light edge-wear and corner curling with noticeable creasing, folding and scuffing overall. Spine has minor rolling and creasing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First American Edition. [slight bumping to all corners, faint soiling to top of text block, shelfwear and light soiling to lower extremities; the jacket is lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears along the top edge, a bit of wear and minor curling/creasing along bottom edge]. "Set primarily in England in the nineteen-fifties, [this novel] concerns a very young woman who is willing to go to any lengths to cross from childhood to the world of adults and to explore the heights and depths once she gets there. The young woman is Alexandra Bratbe, precocious, arrogant, enigmatic, rebellious, immensely self-willed and terribly lonely. Expelled from a fashionable boarding school as a result of an unexpected incident involving a pornographic book, Alexandra is shipped off to France by her mother with the hope that [some friends] in Paris will take her in hand. But in some ways it is Alexandra who takes them in hand and she soon returns to England in disgrace." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.****. Illustrated by (dj design) Richard Smith (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket is missing. Book has considerable wear. No highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 480. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their stamp on the front pastedown, endpaper and rear panel of jacket reading 'file copy'. Very good indeed in slightly used, very good minus dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London. Cloth bound hardcover in original publisher's Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. 1966. First Edition. 480 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Boards clean and sharp, contents clean and unmarked throughout. Dust Jacket is lightly worn, some fraying to spine foot, not price clipped.…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Landscape Quarto size (4to) in stiff card covers. Unpaginated, plates in colour and b/w etc . [CONDITION: AS NEW ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DBBARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Landscape Quarto size (4to) in stiff card covers. Unpaginated, plates in colour and b/w etc. PLUS 5 x 4 inch (approx.) b/w press photo of one of the exhibits - Mask II . [CONDITION: Almost AS NEW (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips) ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DBBARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. VERY RARE in this condition, and utterly collectable - this classic novel has a breadth of conception and an outstanding imagination; it is a cult classic, an astonishing piece of work that delights and entertains. This copy is the best one I have ever seen. The unclipped jacket close to perfect, especially considering its age. A work of rare achievement, and written with a poet's sensitivity. It has immense originality and it is hugely entertaining. Mrs Bratbe's August Picnic, published in 1965, reflected that. Anthony Burgess, one of several appreciative reviewers, wrote: 'Mrs Wheldon's Mrs Bratbe is as outrageous a prodigy as we have had this side of the war.'She then began work on a novel entitled Daughters of the Flood. During the next 15 years this spread to nine volumes and upwards of two million words. Those who have read parts of it, including James Hale, her editor, and Richard Simon, her agent, are emphatic about its force and originality. Hale pleaded with her to let him bring it out one volume at a time, but she was consumed with the idea of its wholeness and would not let it go. It obsessed her during those years, but after the death of her mother she lost interest in publishing it.From then on she was either content or self-condemned to write for writing's sake. The family moved to a magnificent house on Richmond Hill. The hospitality continued but Jay withdrew a little, sadly driven to this by an increasing deafness. For one as brilliant in conversation as she was, it was a cruel affliction. She wrote plays - one of which the Royal Court wanted to do but she preferred not to make the changes they suggested - poems, critical essays and long, Hertzogian letters. In the early 1980s her friends Norman and Midge Podhoretz asked her to become the UK executive director of the Committee for the Free World, briefly the intellectual opposition to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Its members were few, about 150, but distinguished: Bellow in the US, Stoppard in the UK. By that time her thinking was more Oakeshott than Laski.…