jean devanny (14 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 352 pages. cover and spine worn, name on inside cover, text lightly tannedIn August 1896 Randolph Biddow's family join him on the sugar-cane plantation s of North Queensland. For his wife Blanche, it is an exile in the wilderness; b ut for their maid Cindie, it is an exciting world of tropical forests, rewarding.

Zustand: Good. 1951. First Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. 'A field-work study of the home front during the second world war, a study of the contributions Australians made from far north Queensland down the eastern coast, & what our people think about the war and the kind of society they would like to see arising out of it'. Jane (Jean) Devanny was an Australian writer and communist. Born in Ferntown, New Zealand, she migrated to Australia in 1929, eventually moving to Townsville in northern Queensland, where she died at the age of 68. No DJ; Owner's Name inside. Boards bumped at edges; tanning; stain top corner last few pages but text not affeected; probable silverfish damage top corner first page. 284 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair condition. Wear to book edges and corners. Foxing to top foredge. Previous owners have signed inside pages. Small tear to front endpage. Mark on back cover. No dust jacket. Book is in a non-adhesive protective cover. Examines the national integrity of the Australian people during wartime. Written in 1945, this book tracks the author's journey from North Queensland to Sydney, providing detailed descriptions of the people and places she encountered. Includes stories of Torres Strait Islanders, and their interactions with Allied soldiers and profiles of people such as the composer Varney Monk, providing a snapshot of the Australian arts scene during the mid-1940s. Experiences include feeding crocodiles and cassowaries in North Queensland, as well as the lore of timbermen and cane farmers. According to the Australian Women's Register, Jean Devanny (1894-1962) was a novelist and a prominent member of the Communist Party of Australia with a particular interest in the position of women in Australian culture and society. A contemporary of Katherine Susannah Prichard.

318 Seiten Die Jahresangabe ist ungefähr. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut. Schiefstand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 501 Hardcover Leinen, ohne Schutzumschlag.

8° Die Herrin (The Butcher Shop) Roman von Jean Devanny, hrsg. Berlin, Th. Knaur Nachf. o.J. (ca. 1925); Olwd. 8°, 318 S m. Namensstempel auf Vorsatz etwas angestaubt im Schnitt sonst guter Zustand Best.Nr.21108 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 750.

Zustand: Fair. 1932. First Edition. 285 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 2 pages of adverts for other Devanny works to rear. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Several pages slightly rough cut. Text block edges notably foxed with slight rubbing. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is slightly darkened and worn. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a heavy forward lean. Visible rubbing and water marks to boards with dark mottling overall. Dark spots heaviest to spine. Both boards notably warped.

319 Seiten um 1950/keine Jahresangabe, Hardcover, Ganzleinen, abgegriffen, verschmutzt, fleckig, gebräunt, abgerieben, am Buchrücken eingerissen, Kanten und Ecken bestossen, schiefgelesen, Seiten gebräunt, vergilbt, altersfleckig, verschmutzt, Bibliotheksexemplar, viele Bibliotheksstempel, tw. Notizen, locker in Bindung, mittelmäßiger Zustand Sprache: Deutsch.

Paperback. 56pp. 8°. Covers slightly worn. Slightly used.

Zustand: Gut. Gr 8°, 318 S. Leinen, farbiger Kopfschnitt, Einband stärker beschabt, leichte papierbedingte Bräunung der Seiten, guter Zustand.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First American Edition. (no dust jacket) [general wear to edges and corners of covers, lower corners slightly bumped, spine somewhat faded, age-toning and light soiling to edges of text block, one-time owner's single name in ink on front endpaper]. A novel embodying "the conflict of two ways of living -- the sophistication of city civilization, and the clean simplicity of the Australian bush." A scarce work (also published under the title "Taipo") by this New Zealand-born writer (1894-1962), who later became a prominent speaker and activist on behalf of the Communist Party of Australia, and was well-known for her outspoken opinions on sexuality and women's rights. This novel, about a swell fellow from the outback who inherits a fortune, and is subsequently "caught by a worldly woman attracted by his money and his physical strength," is concerned, as was most of Devanny's fiction, with the economic, social and sexual dynamics at work in male-female relationships. [NOTE that the quoted passages here are from the book's dust jacket, which is NOT present on this particular copy.] Devanny's first novel, "The Butcher Shop," had been banned in New Zealand, Australia, Germany and parts of the U.S.; in 1929 she moved with her family to Australia, where she was deeply involved with the Communist Party until she was expelled in 1941, ostensibly for "moral degeneracy." She later lamented that her devotion to the Party and its causes had prevented her from realizing her full potential as a writer (although she did publish over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction).

Hardcover. 230 p. Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and use. Retired library copy with corresponding labelling. Book smells musty. Otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Zustand: Gut. Originalleinen, 320 Seiten, Einband und Block angeschmutzt, Stempel im Vorsatz RdW Reihe Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.