Listening Valley

D. E. Stevenson

Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1944

About this Item

First Edition (NAP; Farrar & Rinehart= NAP). This is a very rare hardcover, in fact once listed it will be the Only American (Farrar) edition for sale anywhere on the Internet. And, happily, the book is in very nice condition. You can see the covers in the photos. They are exceptionally clean, no soiling at all. You can see that the blue and gilt lettering and design on the spine is still fairly bright. The covers have very little wear, a bit of crinkling or creasing at their spine ends. That's actually it. The cover edges are in excellent shape, no rubbing, no wear. Same goes for the corners, that's pretty remarkable for a book published in 1944, no rubbing, no wear at the corners. The page edges are also very clean. The middle and bottom ones are deckled or rough-cut. They did a very good job. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I didn't find any conspicuous soiling. I also didn't find any conspicuous creasing, with the exception of one thin vertical crease on the blank front end paper. There are no placeholder creases, no turned-down corners. The white inside covers and end papers are also very clean. The only wear that I found is very minor: 1) the first five pages have a teeny tiny loss at the tip of their top corners, not much more than a speck of paper, and 2) two consecutive pages in the book have a very tiny edge tear (1/8th"). That's it. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It's very clean, one light spot next to the 'Y' in 'Valley' on the spine. There is a very thin tear off the front top edge. There are several small losses, all of them visible in the photos. The flaps are in very nice condition. They too are very clean, no soiling. There is a tiny bit of wear on the front flap's top edge just adjacent to the corner, nothing much of anything. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. From the dust jacket: 'D. E. Stevenson writes with magical insight; her perception of feelings, of sorrow, of love, of the dreams felt and of hopes as images, become their own experience for her readers. Many of these have urged her to devote her special talent to the people of today and their problems. For Listening Valley she has done this, exquisitely, and the achievement will greatly impress her already large audience, for in Listening Valley she has produced her finest novel.' Referencing all her novels, a reviewer from the New York Times Book Review wrote 'Whatever Stevenson puts her fictional hand to, has certain ineradicable, sure qualities. Humor, lightness of touch, the ability to plot an enthralling story in fascinating surroundings and to create characters that appeal, convincingly, both to head and heart.' Ms. Stevenson's father, David Alan Stevenson, a lighthouse engineer who built 26 lighthouses in and around Scotland, was a first cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson. Seller Inventory # 005280

Bibliographic Details

Title: Listening Valley

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, New York

Publication Date: 1944

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Jacket design by John O'Hara Cosgrave II

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus

Edition: 1st Edition