Looking by Jane Boyle Needham (4 results)
Language: English
Published by Putnam 1959
- Hardcover
Seller: Cape Breton Regional Library, Sydney, CanadaCape Breton Regional Library
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fair
£ 38.62
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Pages are clean throughout text although pages are somewhat yellowed from age. End papers and pages edges have finger soiling and staining. Cover boards are in good shape with minimal wear to corners and spine. Former library book with usua…l library stamps and markings.
More imagesPublished by Putman
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Autumn Leaves, Allentown, U.S.A.Autumn Leaves
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£ 43.25
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. A clean, tight copy of this polio memoir. The pages are bright and crisp. There is a name at the front, and tanning to the endpapers. The jacket has some soiling, a closed tear at the front and a tear at the top of the spine. It is now p…rotected by a mylar Brodart cover. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided.
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons (c.1959), New York 1959
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, U.S.A.ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA
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£ 154.48
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, light shelfwear, very slight bumping to corners; jacket a bit faded at spine, one short closed tear and associated minor creasing at bottom of front panel, another short closed tear at top of rear panel]. A "gay, lighthearted book" b…y a 36-year-old woman who had been diagnosed with polio at the age of 27, an affliction which left her paralyzed from the neck down and confined to an iron lung -- but "went bravely on to make a home for her children, face her troubles with high good humor, and learn to live with the true spirit of religion." (This in spite of having been divorced by her husband.) The book's tone is primarily cheerful and upbeat, although in the words of one reviewer, "she does manage to occasionally convey the anger at her fate and the anguish of her spouse's betrayal; occasionally she is downright cutting, and those bits are a relief, because otherwise this woman's saintliness and fortitude would be much too good to be true." The latter part of the book makes much of the strength she derived from her Catholic faith. Alas, she died just three years after the publication of this book, of complications from gall bladder surgery. A surprisingly scarce book. Illustrated by (dj) Margot Tomes (illustrator).
