Sinclair May Pseud Mary Amelia St Clair (5 results)

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 "Superseded" takes place in a girl's school whose headmistress, Miss Cursiter, is a formidable and not entirely likeable woman with "an intelligence fervent with the fire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 The "New York Sun" said of "Superseded," "Makes one wonder if in future years the quiet little English woman might be recognized as a new Jane Austen."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. …

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.

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.…