jarrett cora (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 174 pages. 6.00x0.40x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. No Edition Remarks. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil marking to half-title page. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; Limited edtion. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages; [SIGNED] 1937 Farrar & Rinehart. HC/DJ. 1st edition, limited to 1500 copies, this copy numbered 944 and signed by the author on the limitation leaf. Jacket a trifle sunned at spine and with rubbing and shallow chipping at edges. Light scuffing and rubbing to cloth along the top edge of the boards. Expected mild toning to page stock. VG-/VG-; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Black titles on gray cloth, toned on spine. 293pp + ads. Original book seller's tiny label on fep.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good- dj. First Edition. [a good sound copy, with some mild smudging/soiling on the front cover; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with small tears and a bit of paper loss at the spine ends, a short closed tear and some associated creasing at the bottom of the front panel, and an unfortunate hole torn in the front panel (about 1.5" tall and roughly in the shape of Maine)] The second novel by this Virginia-born author (1877-1969), who began writing in her fifties and authored a handful of genre-straddling novels, some with supernatural elements and all with a Southern Gothic flavor. (Several of her books are listed in both Bleiler and Hubin, which will give you some idea of their dual nature.) The jacket blurb is vaguely non-descriptive in that special jacket-blurb manner -- referring to "abstruse passion told in terms of everyday American life" and "the strength of character exerting itself in the face of inner mental struggle" and "of emotions beyond the normal" and "moments of real horror," while all the while you're saying to yourself, "yeah, but what's it ABOUT?" Well, I'll tell you: it's about a very unhappy young man of 25, just returned to his Southern hometown after three years of study in Paris, who is suffering from a bunch of personal and psychological issues, chief among which is an obsessive hatred for his father. The complex narrative, which unfolds largely in flashback, ultimately reveals that the father was a thorougly villainous fellow who reciprocated his son's hatred, and who had been responsible for numerous abuses of both his wife and son (which I won't spoil by revealing here) which had contributed to the latter's sorry state of mind and emotion.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Yellow cloth. 8vo. 339pp. Pictorial dust jacket (not price-clipped). First edition with publisher's monogram on copyright page. A novel by the Virginia-born author of "Night Over Fitch's Pond" and other works with a flavor of psychological intrigue and Southern gothic content. A very good copy with some soiling to the cloth. There is an ink checkmark to the front flyleaf else the text is very good with light soiling. The jacket has some soiling and wear and a two-inch closed tear to the upper rear panel. The jacket spine is chipped and has a small white paint mark at the top. It has been reinforced on the reverse side with tape which has browned. Despite these defects the jacket presents well.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Corners a little bumped, very good or better in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with several small chips and tears. Psychological romance. Scarce.

First UK edition, first impression, published simultaneously with the US edition, this copy in strikingly attractive condition. Cora Hardy Jarrett (1877-1969) began writing in her 50s, first publishing under the pseudonym of Faraday Keene before writing a series of supernatural mysteries under her own name, which Bleiler includes in his Checklist of Supernatural and Fantasy Literature. Jarrett studied widely, including at the Sorbonne and Oxford, and taught Greek and English for much of her career. Her works "are truly Southern Gothic wherever they may be set" and are "deep probings into abnormal psychology which move across the boundary into supernatural" (Reilly, p. 858). John M. Reilly, ed., Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers, 1980. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in black. With dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked and toned, light rubbing to board edges, top edge faintly dust toned, spots of foxing to fore edge and outer leaves, light offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and bright; a very good copy in the attractive jacket, spine folds and edges faded, small mark to rear panel, unclipped.