wide sargasso sea di rhys jean, Prima edizione (47 risultati)

Condizione: New. If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 10. Weight in Grams: 94. 2011. 01st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

Condizione: Good. 1968. First Edition Thus. 156 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839-45. Textual notes illuminate the novels historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wealth of material on the novels long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhyss biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica. Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/a whisper of shelfwear.British novelist Jean Rhys (1890 - 1979), appointed 1978 a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writings, was born & raised in the Caribbean island of Dominica until the age of 16 before sent to England for schooling. This, her best known novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, was written in 1966, won the Royal Society of Literature Award, and the W.H. Smith Award; this is a 1998 reprint edition. Written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in 1880s Jamaica, an account of a Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway who marries a young Englishman --- she spirited child which the British Empire's Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 plunged into poverty, and he who embraced rigid, Victorian values & expecting wives to behave accordingly. He will force Antoinette to conform, unaware that in denying her her identiy, pushes her into madness, and destroys a part of himself as well! 152 pgs in 3 parts. Part I, Antoinette's childhood; II, Alternating points of view of Antoinette and husband during their honeymoon; and III, Again from Antoinette perspective, now in England, renamed "Bertha", and, hidden & confined to the attic under guard. Brilliant novel of social dislocation & dispossession as world's social-philosophical values change.

HardBack. Condizione: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. Folio Society 1st Edition Thus, 1999. Royal 8vo. Frontispiece, many further Copper Engravings by Chris Daunt, green endpapers. Very good, appears unread, clean tight sound square, crisp corners and edges, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Beautifully bound in bright two toned pictorial green boards, featuring embossed bright green wave illustration to both boards. Housed and protected in good condition in original green slipcase.

8vo., First Edition thus, with decorative title in green and black, and 12 plates; geeen cloth, boards blocked in green, darker green back lettered in green, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. Very good inside and out, no inscriptions etc, DJ not price clipped but has minor edge rubbing on corners and top of spine. First World Book edition.

hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. World Books edition, published in the year following the Deutsch first printing. Jacket looks impressive, but has a 2cm closed tear to the top edge of the front panel,a little loss around the top of the spine, & creasing at the top of the back panel. Internally very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Copper engravings by Chris Daunt. Introduction by Bel Mooney. First edition thus. Fine in a fine slipcase.

First Edition, First Printing for The Folio Society with introduction by Bel Mooney. Copper engravings by Chris Daunt. -- Hardcover. Condition: fine with fine slipcase.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. None (illustratore). First edition. A smart first edition, second impression of this postcolonial, feminist response to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. First edition, second impression. A postcolonial, feminist prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, illustrating Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. This novel explores the power in relationships between men and women through themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation. Written by Jean Rhys, a British novelist who was raised in the Caribbean island of Dominica, she is best known for this work. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with minor chipping to the extremities and the odd small closed tear. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.

Condizione: Good. 1966. First Edition. 189 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Introduction by Frances Wyndham. Pages bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Heavy creasing to pages 31 and 33. Page 31 has a large closed semi-circular cut across the text, although the page remains legible. Text block edges slightly liquid stained. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Some mild marks to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean. Gilt is bright. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned. Slight foxing and creasing to flaps.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 3rd Imp 1968. A third printing in the same format as the 1st edition. Includes the rare wrap around band. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good. Small name to front endpaper. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17474.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition/1st impression. Clean copy with mild foxing on the thick edge and slight darkening on front end paper without inscription. The not price clipped dust jacket has one tear but which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp. Red boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Some unsightly tape residue markings to the free endpapers and pastedowns, and a touch of soiling to very occasional margins. Backstrip ends very slightly bruised. A good copy, really very crisp bar the residue marking, in the handsome double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped and in fine state bar a touch of creasing to the head of the spine panel. A more than respectable copy of the author's most famous work, a prequal to 'Jane Eyre', published over twenty-five years after her previous book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth lettered gilt on spine. pp 190. Ownership signature of Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) man of letters: poet, novelist and essayist. His copy used by him for a review of The book published in The Spectator October 28th 1966 and tipped in at the rear of te book - 'a magnificent comeback.' THere are 4 other press-cutings pasted inc a review by Brabrooke's friend Kay Dick and one by Colin Macinnes. There are some notes and linings in the text, some in ink (all by Braybrooke) and some notes for his review on the rear blanks Vg in slightly nicked ele vg d/w. Some slight taning to eps, some press-cuttings and notes in text (see description).

hard cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. New York:W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. (1966). 1st edition. 190pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition. Two toned boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with light wear along edges and spine ends. Gilt on spine dulled. Page edges soiled. Internally, green end-pages slightly age-toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. Pages throughout are clean and bright. The binding is tight but slightly cocked, and hinges intact.  The dust jacket is in good condition, still in one piece (and price-clipped) but soiled and worn along edges and folds, with an old damp stain to spine strip. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Andre Deutsch in December, 1966. This is the second impression, two months later than the first which was published in October. Very nice hardback copy with price-clipped dust jacket now protected in removable cover. This novel will always be related to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. The heroine first appeared in Jane Eyre. She was the Creole heiress whom Mr. Rochester married on his father's orders, and who was later to haunt Miss Eyre as the madwoman kept hidden in the attic of Thornfield Hall. Collector's Item.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Dust Jacket - Good. First Edition. First Edition - First Printing with the number line extending from 1 to 9. Dust jacket is wrapped- jacket has moderate edge wear with some rubbing to the corners and spine ends with several small tears but none more than a half inch long- jacket price not clipped. Book and jacket are clean, has a good tight binding, no marks or notations, foxing to the top page edge only. 1966.

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. Green cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Spine ends gently crimped, faint toning top edge, fine in very good dust jacket lightly sunned along spine, shallow chips spine ends, some rubbing front cover. Laid in are publisher's review slip, a typed letter from Norton's Executive Director, and a card announcing the Royal Society of Literature Award to Rhys for this novel.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First UK edition, First printing.Pp. 190. A true first printing with first published 1966 and no reprint statement to the copyright page. Spotting to the text block and a sprinkle to end pages, tight binding. Jacket clipped and in very good plus bright condition.

1st edition, first printing Very good plus/very good plus (a nice-looking copy of this rare item; not price-clipped; no owner markings).

First American edition. 8vo, 189 (1)pp; half-cloth. A nice copy of Rhys's great novel that re-introduced her to the literary world after a twenty-year silence. Ownership signature on front endpaper dated 1967; binding a little age-dulled; near fine in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a short tear to the rear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In a Near Fine Jacket. First Edition/First Printing. $4.50 On Flap. . Excellent Copy. The Author's Great Classic.

8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Eric Thomas. Slight fading to the top edges of the cloth. Edges of the text block a little foxed. Faint offsetting to the free endpapers from the jacket flaps which are lightly foxed. Unclipped d/w is slightly rubbed at the corner tips and has a tiny nick either side of the head of the spine. Very good in very good + d/w. This novel of the childhood and marriage of the first Mrs Rochester is a critical response to 'Jane Eyre' and brought its author prizes and the recognition she deserved.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover - first printing - in unclipped Eric Thomas jacket. Introduction by Francis Wyndham. Jacket is bright, with very little general shelfwear, and a small nick at spine foot; small score nearby. Red boards beneath lightly bumped at spine foot. Page block is foxed; rare instances of foxing spots on a few pages within. Text is clear throughout. A very good copy. TS. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First American edition, first printing. Good+, with light lean to spine, light foxing to covers and edge of page block, pages toned. In a Good+ dust jacket with publisher's price intact, foxing to flaps and blank verso, edge wear with several short tears and small scrapes, soiling and general wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket. First Edition. Rare In This Condition. Unfaded Jacket Spine. Gorgeous Copy of The Author's Masterpiece.

8vo., First Edition;, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.