Diary by Morley Helena (23 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback. Front cover very slightly bent.

Condition: Good. 2nd Printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Near fine. First Ecco Press edition of Morley (Brant)'s adolescent diary, first privately published in Brazil in 1942 and in Bishop's English translation in 1957, reissued here as one of the "Neglected Books of the Twentieth Century" with a new foreword by Bishop. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original glossy wrappers designed by Cynthia Krupat. [xxxviii], 281, [1] pages. Minor toning and edgewear.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Stiff crisp unmarked book with minor bumping.; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches.

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

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Ecco Press : [distributed by Viking Press], 1977. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Covers have shelf wear.

Softcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. None. Spine, binding and cover all fine; contents very clean and no inscription. Light tanning throughout. 281 pages.

Condition: Good. Shelf wear & marks to the softcover, faded spine. Lightly tanned textblock. Content is in very good, clean condition.

Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early reprint. Octavo. 281pp. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Bishop. Faint name in ink on half-title, cloth portion of binding foxed, general light edgewear and spine cocked, a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with wear at the extremities and splits at the head of the spine. "A girlhood journal of life in a mountain town of Brazil at the turn of the century" (from the cover).…

Condition: Near Fine. First printing (stated). First edition of Morley (Brant)'s adolescent diary in Bishop's translation from the Portuguese. Alice Deyrell Caldeira Brant began keeping diaries in 1893, the 12-year-old daughter of a diamond miner in the small Brazilian town of Diamantina; their first publication (in Brazil in 1942) was arranged by her husband and edited to omit any and all reference to their meeting and courtship. At the time of Bishop's English translation, the author was 76, happy to meet the poet and expand on her old stories, living proof that "it really happened; everything did take place, day by day, minute by minute, once and only once, just the way Helena says it did" (Bishop). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter yellow cloth with gray-green decorative boards. In original unclipped ($4.75) first-state dust jacket by Harry Ford. Yellow topstain. Photographic endpapers. 281, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards and jacket, minor soil and scuffing to extremities. Near fine in very good plus jacket.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo, 281 pp, photo illus endpapers, Very Good plus in Very Good plus unclipped dust cover, blindstamp at top corner of tp and name at top of ffep, else clean and tight with just minimal wear. Nice copy of this scarce account.…

Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing. First UK edition of Morley (Brant)'s adolescent diary, first privately published in Brazil in 1942 and first appearing in Bishop's translation in 1957. Alice Deyrell Caldeira Brant began keeping diaries in 1893, the 12-year-old daughter of a diamond miner in the small Brazilian town of Diamantina; their first publication was arranged by her husband and edited to omit any and all reference to their meeting and courtship. At the time of Bishop's English translation, the author was 76, happy to meet the poet and expand on her old stories, living proof that "it really happened; everything did take place, day by day, minute by minute, once and only once, just the way Helena says it did" (Bishop). 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth. In original unclipped (18/-) dust jacket. 281, [1] pages. Minor edgewear to boards, faint touches of soil to jacket.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xxxvii, 281. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. The publisher's own retained copy with their stamp on the front pastedown reading 'file copy'. Very good indeed in very good dust jacket, with faint soiling on the rear white panel. Decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. First UK edition. Very Good/good. Clipped d.j. spine tanned and leans slightly, cover bright, a few very minor splits and abrasions, interior with ink presentation inscription to ffep, otherwise crisp and clean, binding tight.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner's name back of free endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Jacket has edgewear.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1952, soon after her arrival in Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop asked her new Brazilian friends which of their country's books she should read. They recommended Minha Vida de Menina - a diary kept by a young girl who lived in a mining town at the end of the nineteenth century. As a labor of love, Elizabeth Bishop devoted three years to translating the diary, a delightful account of a young girl's life in Brazil.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnElizabeth BishopKlappentextIn 1952, soon after her arrival in Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop asked her new Brazilian friends which of their country s books she should read. They recommended Minha V.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Diary of "Helena Morley" | Helena Morley | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 1995 | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL | EAN 9780374524357 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …