keith cunningham jacket design (2 résultats)

Etat : Good. 12mo. Dust Jacket, Very Good with some creasing. Photograph.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Jacket design by Keith Cunningham (illustrateur). First Edition. Volume One - 1944-1947. First impression of the first British Commonwealth edition, published in 1972. With eight pages of black & white photographic illustrations at the centre of the book. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann. ***Very good in mauve cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, although there is some sun fading shadowing the titles on the dustwrapper to the spine where light has passed through the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also very good with ownership initials in red ink on the front free endpaper. Pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good black and white photo-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £3.25 net. Black & white photograph of the author on the back panel. There is some rubbing to the edges of the dustwrapper, mainly affecting the fore-edge of the front panel. No chips, creases or tears. The bright pink titles on the spine of the dustwrapper remain unfaded. Dustwrapper bright. ***ix prelims plus 235 text pages including a detailed Index at the back of the book. 222mm x 144mm. ***'This new volume of the famous "Journals" demonstrates again the literary and historical value of Anaïs Nin's work. The years of the mid-1940s find her in New York, in a Greenwich Village studio surrounded by young artists. She battles with the Establishment and for a time becomes polarized between involvement with the young -- among them Gore Vidal -- and with the established order, represented by Edmund Wilson. We also follow her discovery of America, in the summer of 1947, when she makes her way in an old Ford to the West Coast and, eventually, to Mexico. The themes are self-discovery, the individual in a hostile environment, and the openness of youth versus the calcifications of "maturity". As the Los Angeles Times has said, the "Journals" afford "one of the most candid records drawn by a writer of the 20th century. That this writer is a woman makes it even more relevant"' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the first British Commonwealth edition, published in 1972, in its original dustwrapper in very good condition. Uncommon especially in this condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.