Sinclair May Mary Amelia St Clair Sinclair (13 results)

Probable first edition (no direct statement provided). 332 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some soiling, a few nicks and minor bumps at edges. Light olive cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine. Past owner's personal blind-stamp on pages 5-6; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. Else a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. With Preface, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, and Index. Features eighteen chapters divided into two parts title as "Her Life" and "Her Writings." Examines the life and writing career of British author Mary Amelia St. Clair who wrote under the pseudonym of May Sinclair. ISBN 0838611567.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. First Edition. 380 Pp + 4 Pp Catalog Of Other Sinclair Books At End. First American Edition, First Printing.Red Cloth Covers, Not Faded Or Stained Or Marked, Gilt Lettering On Spine Bright, Light Wear At Corners With A Few Points Of Fraying At Corners. Inscribed To "Lenore Kipp Lamonte (Sic) From H. W. P.", With Her Signature Below Twice With "Cotten" Added Later In Joseph Cotten's Hand And His Signature Three Times Below. Lenore Kipp La Mont Was Cotten's First Wife; She Had Been A Fashion Editor At Vogue Under Diana Vreeland. Also With Two Pencil Female Heads On Rear Blank Endpapers, Probably By Lenore Kipp Or Her Daughter, Cotten's Step-Daughter.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First US edition. Henry Holt 1906. Good plus red cloth hardcover. Wear to spine head, small store plate to corner of rear endpaper.Author, poet, critic, and suffragist Mary Amelia St. Clair was a contemporary of and acquainted with Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West, among others. She served as an ambulance driver in World War I, and produced poetry and fiction based on it. "Superseded" takes place in a girl's school whose headmistress, Miss Cursiter, is a formidable and not entirely likeable woman with "an intelligence fervent with the fire of the enthusiast, cold with the renunciate's frost." Miss Cursiter wishes to improve education, and advocates her students spend their evenings studying great literature, but charts a course not all of her charges are fit to follow. As a character puts it, "Your precious system . . . sets up the same absurd standard for every woman, the brilliant genius and the average imbecile," with results that lead to tragedy. The "New York Sun" said of "Superseded," "Makes one wonder if in future years the quiet little English woman might be recognized as a new Jane Austen." "Publisher's Note: Miss Sinclair has expressed a desire to have this book republished in America, because she considers it the best of her work previous to 'The Divine Fire.' It originally appeared with another work in a volume entitled 'Two Sides of a Question,' a small imported edition of which is now exhausted.". Book. …

Pamphlet. 32p., wraps and title page foxed else very good condition, 4.5x7 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 12mo. 133pp. Maroon cloth with gilt letters. Minor wear to extremities, stamped #9 on ffep, else Vg/ No jacket.

Condition: Quasi ottimo. Classica Europa Fiction and Poetry Classical Fiction Europe Collana di letteratura 64 bross. edit. ill. con bandelle - trad. di Paolo Fontana OTTIME CONDIZIONI.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Henry Holt and Company, New York (1906). Author's Edition. 175 pages + Ads. VeryGood Hardcover, no dj. IndianRed cloth. Gilt stamping and lettering. No Wear. Free of marks, inscriptions, etc. Strong Tight binding, perfect hinges. 7.6"x5.1"x0.9". be26861.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Originalleinen. Condition: Gut. 302 s. 14x19,5x3 cm._Originalleinen_Englisch_302 s._372 g. J25-W12-104 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 372.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. RARE SURVIVING COPY. THIS TITLE HAS BEGUN TO BE REPRINTED. BOOK: This is a 1925 edition with Gold Boni and LIveright logo on front (1917-25); Spine #4 (1925-29); Brown Leatherette (1925-29); dark green and white Brodzky endpapers (1919-25); spine ends chipped to edges of text block, titles not affected. Light reading crease and break in binding, no missing or loose pages. PLOT: THE BELFRY, is told in three "books" all of which are included here. The first one tells of Tasker "Jimmy" Jevons, the reader is introduced to Jimmy by the narrator, a friend named Walter. It is 1905 and Jimmy is a young struggling journalist without a half crown to his name, but with big dreams. These dreams include winning the heart of Walter's beautiful secretary, Viola. Much to the disbelief and somewhat annoyance of Walter (and those around him) Jimmy professes great foreknowledge of his future success as well as various events that will occur over the course of the next few months or years. To make matters worse, scandal ensues when Viola is discovered to have traveled to Belgium with Jimmy to see a belfry.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Published: 1901. DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth with blind stamped design to front. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Small tear to upper spine end. Minor toning to cloth with small mark to rear. Tightly bound with intact endpapers and firm hinges. Inscription to ffep. Spots to the margins of the first 23 pages, otherwise very occasional spots and marks to margins. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 332, catalogue. Size: 19cm by 12.5cm. AUTHOR: May Sinclair (pseudo: Mary Amelia St. Clair 1863-1946), British writer of short stories and poetry. An active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers Suffrage League. Critic of modernist poetry and prose, and attributed with first using the term stream of consciousness in a literary context. Born in Rock Ferry, Cheshire to a Liverpool shipowner, who went bankrupt, became an alcoholic, and died before she was an adult. Her mother was strict and religious. After one year of education at Cheltenham Ladies College, she acted as carer for her brother who were suffering from a fatal congenital heart disease. Career: From 1896 she wrote professionally, to support herself and her mother, who died in 1901. An active feminist, Sinclair wrote on themes relating to the position of women, and marriage. She also wrote non-fiction based on studies of philosophy, particularly German idealism. Around 1913, at the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London, she became interested in psychoanalytic thought, and introduced matter related to Sigmund Freuds teaching in her novels. In 1914, she volunteered to join the Munro Ambulance Corps, a charitable organization (which included Lady Dorothie Feilding, Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm) that aided wounded Belgian soldiers on the Western Front in Flanders. She was sent home after only a few weeks at the front; she wrote about the experience. She reviewed in a positive light the poetry of T. S. Eliot (1917 in the Little Review) and the fiction of Dorothy Richardson (1918 in The Egoist). Sinclair was a believer in Spiritualism, and was also a member of the Society for Psychical Research from 1914. Sinclair wrote two volumes of supernatural fiction, Uncanny Stories (1923) and The Intercessor and Other Stories (1931). From the late 1920s she was suffering from the early signs of Parkinsons disease, and ceased writing. She settled with a companion in Buckinghamshire in 1932.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. RARE SURVIVING BONI AND LIVERIGHT FIRST, FALL 1918 BOOK. THIS TITLE HAS BEGUN TO BE REPRINTED. BOOK: C5 Catalog with 66 Titles listed at front across from title page; Gold Boni and LIveright logo on front (1917-25); Spine #1 (1917-19); Brown Leatherette with wrinkling on spine; odd Brodzky brown endpapers. (see scan). PLOT: THE BELFRY, is told in three "books" all of which are included here. The first one tells of Tasker "Jimmy" Jevons, the reader is introduced to Jimmy by the narrator, a friend named Walter. It is 1905 and Jimmy is a young struggling journalist without a half crown to his name, but with big dreams. These dreams include winning the heart of Walter's beautiful secretary, Viola. Much to the disbelief and somewhat annoyance of Walter (and those around him) Jimmy professes great foreknowledge of his future success as well as various events that will occur over the course of the next few months or years. To make matters worse, scandal ensues when Viola is discovered to have traveled to Belgium with Jimmy to see a belfry. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF ABEBOOKS EXCELLENCE.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Third edition. Third edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, with 4/- price sticker to spine. A great collection of weird tales, described by Bleiler as "Excellent", no less. A very good copy; jacket a little rubbed at spine. Illustrations by Jean de Bosschère. (illustrator). Book.…