Van Wart Alice Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine Plus. Near Fine Plus. First Edition, First Printing. Smart's journals covering 1933-1941; 285 pages plus B/W photo illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Tiny stain of bottom edge; dust jacket with short corner crease top of front flap. Smart's journals covering 1933-1941; 285 pages plus B/W photo illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Small rubbing front cover. Bumping of edges. Tanning of pages. Faint scratches on covers due to shelf wear. The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book charts Smart's departure into self-imposed exile in London at the beginning of the 1930s, the birth of her four children and her repeated, half-hearted attempts to leave the married Barker. When "By Grand Central Station" was burned and censored in Canada by her mother, Elizabeth cut herself off from her past. Thowing herself into the social whirl of the 50s and 60s, she wrote for "Queen" and "Tatler" and mixed with London's bohemians - including Jeffrey Bernard, and poets Robert MacBryde, Robert Colquhoun, W.S. Sydney and Patrick Kavanagh and artists Craig Aitchison and Patrick Swift. The 70s was a time when Smart returned to her diaries and novel writing with renewed vigour, and once again won over the critics and the public for her stories and poetry, maintaining a high profile until her death in 1986.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Navy paper boards. 144 pp. [8] pp. B&W photos. Very minor damp spotting to top edge of text block. About fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green boards with gold lettering to the spine. Glazed pictorial clipped dust wrapper, now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. 305pp, No inscriptions, black and white photographs to the centre, clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image can be provided upon request).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Elizabeth Smart was born in Ottawa in 1913 and died in London in March 1986. Perhaps best known for her book ' By the Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ' which reviewers described as a work of art and a masterpiece , Elizabeth Smart kept a number of journals of which this is the first published volume. There is a dedication on the front end -paper. the boards, binding and text block are all square and tight, although there is light speckling to the head of the text block, the dust jacket is also clean with light rippling to the head. Book price includes 2nd class post in UK only.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Octavo 144pp. Black and white photo illustrations. Black cloth, gilt. Very light spotting on extreme top edges of pages. Black pictorial dustwrapper not price clipped.