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The Fountain Overflows
by WEST, Rebecca
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- NF/VG+
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/VG+. 1st Edition. 14 x 22 cm red boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine, [vi]391[1]pp with original unclipped dust jacket priced at 16s net. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Clean bright boards with a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge. Internally, there is a small area of toning on both of the front free endpapers where the dust jacket does not reach. The author's signature on the front free endpaper is dated January 1957. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) is lightly toned on the spine and has a touch of rubbing to the spine tips, joints and corners with minimal loss. There is a stamp for - Macmillan's Overseas Library on the back flap which has been crossed out in purple pen. There are no other indications that the book is a library copy. All in all a very good looking signed first edition. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Synopsis
Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, the youngest of three daughters of Charles Fairfield, a journalist in London, and Isabel Mackenzie, a talented pianist who supported her family by giving music lessons. Fairfield was a brilliant storyteller who entertained his daughters with tales of wild adventures in America and Australia, but he was moody and unreliable, and in 1901 he left his wife and children to go to Sierra Leone, where he hoped to start a pharmaceutical plant. The plan failed, and he returned to London, though not to his family, dying when Cicily was fourteen. Inspired by such stars of the stage as Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Cicily hoped to become an actress, and in 1910 she enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Art. Soon, however, she abandoned her theatrical ambitions and joined the staff of the feminist journal The Freewoman , for which she began to write regularly under the name of Rebecca West (adopted after playing that character in a performance of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm ). Among Rebecca West’s protean accomplishments are critical studies of two writers she deeply admired, Henry James and D.H. Lawrence; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), a vast work about pre-World War II Yugoslavia that combines history, political analysis, and vivid descriptions of travel; The Meaning of Treason (1947); and several novels, beginning with The Return of the Soldier (1918) and including The Fountain Overflows (1956), which is closely modeled on the events of her own childhood. Andrea Barrett is the author of five novels, most recently The Voyage of the Narwhal , and two collections of short fiction, Ship Fever , which received the 1996 National Book Award, and Servants of the Map . A MacArthur Fellow, she was also a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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- Bookseller
- Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201514
- Title
- The Fountain Overflows
- Author
- WEST, Rebecca
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF/VG+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Signed|Women
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