Stranger by Kavan Anna (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library copy. 1995 reprint. Orange dust jacket intact and in Mylar. Some staining to the edges of the page block. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp 302. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered gilt at the spine. FIRST APPEARED IN 1935 UNDER THE NAME HELEN FERGUSON. Brian Aldiss is quoted on the rear of the d/w:'Kavan's prose is like pollen, frail yet enduring. She is De Quincey's heir, Kafka's sister, and a true witer'. ISBN 0720609550 Fine in fine dust jacket.No inscriptions, not price-clipped. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The first edition under the name Anna Kavan, previously issued in 1935 under her then name of Helen Ferguon. First Peter Owen edition hardcover, text identical, with unclipped dust jacket. Light shelf wear to the jacket, otherwise in an unread condition. LW.…

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

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Early semiautobiographical novel by the acclaimed stylist, of a dysfunctional family, first published in 1935 under her married name; she later assumed the name Anna Kavan, who appears as a character in this and others of her books. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; light wear to book, small scratch to lower front board; jacket with a large chip to lower front panel, minor creasing. Text clean, no names or marks; [10], 302 pages. Size: Octavo.…

London: Peter Owen. 1995. 8vo. Original brown cloth, silver lettering to spine, with illustrated orange and white dust wrapper, unclipped; pp. [x], 302; very light bumping to head of spine, otherwise a fine copy.First Peter Owen hardcover edition of this early novel, originally published in 1935 under Kavan's married name, Helen Ferguson.Initially publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, Anna Kavan adopted her now-famous pseudonym in 1939 - a change that marked a profound personal and artistic transformation. The name "Anna Kavan" was taken from a character in her 1930 novel Let Me Alone and appears also in the present work. The writer embraced it not only as a pen name but as her legal identity, effectively reinventing both her life and her literary voice.Set in the 1930s across bohemian London, Paris, and the south of France, A Stranger Still traces the decline of a wealthy family as they navigate personal and financial turmoil. For readers familiar with the author's elusive and turbulent life, the novel resonates with echoes of Kavan's own childhood trauma and psychological unrest.As Brian Aldiss writes on the blurb: "Kavan's prose is like pollen, frail yet enduring. She is De Quincey's heir, Kafka's sister, and a true writer".…