Sleeveless errand von james norah (26 Ergebnisse)
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Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1929
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In den WarenkorbXV. 211 pages. (19x12cm). Broché. Couverture illustrée en couleurs. Couverture brunie avec plusieurs tâches et rousseurs. Cet ouvrage représente bien plus qu'une simple histoire d'amour,c'est un acte de rébellion littéraire. Publié d'abord en anglais, cet ouvrage a d'ailleurs créé un véritable scandale outre-Manche, jugé pour ob…scénité devant le tribunal de Bow Street et condamné à la destruction, la plupart des exemplaires britanniques étant brûlés. Cette édition parisienne représente donc l'une des très rares survies du texte original dans sa version française. Norah Margaret Ruth Cordner James était une femme d'avant-garde, diplômée de la prestigieuse Slade School of Fine Art, elle fréquentait le Club 1917, ce cercle politique et littéraire où se côtoyaient des penseurs socialistes comme Harold Laski et H.G. Wells. Elle avait d'ailleurs travaillé au Ministère des Pensions, où elle s'était engagée pour les droits des travailleurs. Cette expérience du monde du travail, ses convictions progressistes et sa vision sans détour du désir féminin transparaissent dans ce roman qui, malgré sa brièveté, dérangeait les bonnes murs victoriennes. L'ouvrage explore les thèmes chers à James, notamment l'univers hospitalier, et développe une histoire d'amour crue et passionnée, empreinte d'une liberté de ton qui explique pourquoi les censeurs britanniques ont voulu le réduire au silence. Papier bruni avec des tâches et rousseurs.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Sleeveless Errand' is a poignant and starkly realistic novel that captures the profound disillusionment of the 'Lost Generation' in post-World War I London. The narrative follows Paula, a woman reeling from a devastating betrayal, and Bill, a man trapped in a passionless marriage. When the t…wo strangers meet in a London café, they discover a shared sense of existential despair and a mutual desire to end their lives. Over the course of thirty-six hours, they navigate the cynical, alcohol-fueled social circles of the city's Bohemian underworld, seeking a final moment of human connection.A daring work of psychological depth, 'Sleeveless Errand' offers a visceral look at the mental health and social mores of the late 1920s. Norah C. James masterfully portrays the fractured psyche of individuals struggling to find meaning in a world scarred by war and shifting moral boundaries. Celebrated for its uncompromising honesty and gritty dialogue, the novel remains a significant example of early 20th-century British realism and a haunting study of urban alienation. This work serves as a vital historical document of the era's cultural anxieties and the search for identity amidst social upheaval.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Paris, Henry Babou and Jack Kahane,, 1929
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In den Warenkorb1st ed. 217 p. Exlibris Georg S. Johansen on preliminary page. Cut minimally spotted, otherwise very fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 8°, original half-cloth binding.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Sleeveless Errand' is a poignant and starkly realistic novel that captures the profound disillusionment of the 'Lost Generation' in post-World War I London. The narrative follows Paula, a woman reeling from a devastating betrayal, and Bill, a man trapped in a passionless marriage. When the two stra…ngers meet in a London café, they discover a shared sense of existential despair and a mutual desire to end their lives. Over the course of thirty-six hours, they navigate the cynical, alcohol-fueled social circles of the city's Bohemian underworld, seeking a final moment of human connection.A daring work of psychological depth, 'Sleeveless Errand' offers a visceral look at the mental health and social mores of the late 1920s. Norah C. James masterfully portrays the fractured psyche of individuals struggling to find meaning in a world scarred by war and shifting moral boundaries. Celebrated for its uncompromising honesty and gritty dialogue, the novel remains a significant example of early 20th-century British realism and a haunting study of urban alienation. This work serves as a vital historical document of the era's cultural anxieties and the search for identity amidst social upheaval.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you may see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First French edition (issued after the book was banned in England). Text in English. Preface by Edward Garnett. Cloth and papercovered boards.Endpapers slightly foxed, corners bumped and worn, spine slightly tanned, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. A novel of two people exploring bohemian…postwar London.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Henry Babou & Jack Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The first Paris edition (the text in English). 8vo. 217pp. Decorated paper-covered buckram, lettered in black at the spine. Corner tips rubbed and with just a little fox spotting to the endpapers and to several preliminary and concluding leaves. Binding just a little tender…at several gatherings. Former owner name pencilled to the front free endpaper alongside an inked date and price. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. 'Sleeveless Errand' was originally published in London by Eric Partridge in early 1929. That edition was swiftly suppressed by the authorities for its 'verbal obscenities' and almost all copies confiscated and destroyed. Encouraged by the strong recommendation of Edward Garnett, Jack Kahane purchased the rights and within a month had published the book in Paris where it sold for a hundred francs a copy. Following this success Kahane founded his celebrated Obelisk Press. Pearson A1.
Verlag: H. Babou & J. Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHard Cover. First. "First Paris Edition" stated. White cloth with black spine lettering, over patterned-paper covered boards. A novel of "sophisticated London life" which was banned in England for obscenity. Edward Garnett, in the preface to this edition, points out that the British censors were apparently upset by some of the l…anguage used (for example, one character uses the term "bloody hell") as well as inappropriate suggestiveness (a man and woman lay together on a bed but only to talk). The novel was printed in the U.K. by Scholaris but virtually all copies were seized and destroyed. Jack Kahane, founder of the Obelisk Press, immediately published it in Paris. The Americans apparently had less of a problem with it as it was published in the U.S. by Morrow. Very good, light soiling to the spine strip and some wear to the edges of the boards. No dust jacket.
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Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, France, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First Paris edition published by Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris in 1929. Large 8vo., cream cloth-backed decorative black and white boards; spine lettered in black; outer edges untrimmed; together in the original pictorial wrapper printed…in black and yellow, priced '50 Francs' to the spine, and featuring a striking period design by M. Kahane ; The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. A little bubbled along the backstrip, with spotting to edges of text block and prelims, and the odd spot throughout. Some light splash marks to the lower edge of pages 90-91 ; The WRAPPER is in Very Good++ condition. The panels and spine are a little toned, with some light spots and marking; rubbed to folds; some small nicks, chips and closed tears to extremities, the longest 3.5cm approx; repaired to the verso with tape. The wrapper artwork looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. First Paris printing in the second state wrapper which is exactly the same as the first issue in design but detailing 'The Obelisk Press' as the publisher, the price as '50 francs' (initially sold at 100 francs) and the rear panel carrying four Obelisk Press titles, the last of which, 'The Well of Loneliness' dates the wrapper from no earlier than May 1933. Indeed, James knew Radclyffe Hall well, and attended the 1928 obscenity trial for 'The Well of Loneliness'. Here, the Arnold Bennett review quoted on the front flap has also been reset, and beneath it now appears 'Entirely unexpurgated edition of the novel that was SEIZED BY THE LONDON POLICE'. The wrapper artwork, the same as the first, was provided by the artist Marcelle Kahane (the publisher's wife). Kahane had overestimated the demand for the book in 1929 and consequently found himself with piles of unsold copies. These went on to be sold in the 1930's, as here, in the second issue wrapper, the revised wording of which claimed the book for the Obelisk Press. The first Paris edition of Norah James' debut novel, which was banned in the UK shortly after publication. The novel follows Paula, a bohemian jilted by a lover, with an existential itch. She resorts to suicide, forming a pact with a stranger to drive off of a cliff. Though the stranger backs out, Paula proceeds with the plan. Originally printed in London by Scholartis Press, a proof copy of that edition was, as the wrapper correctly states, seized and the publisher was prosecuted by Bow Street Police Court. Of the 750 copies produced, 517 were confiscated before they even hit the shelves, and most of the others were destroyed in the days which followed. Later investigation suggested that the police had been tipped off about the content from the editor of the 'Morning Post', shortly after they had received the review copy. It was subsequently printed in Paris that same year by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press. According to one publication, 'Sleeveless Errand' was likely the most suppressed novel ever to be published in England. Every store containing copies was raided, and a guard was posted to stand outside one such location for an entire weekend before the owner could be located to remove it. Even today, no-one has been able to provide an adequate explanation for this reaction, and why it was censored so intensively, although one theory suggests that it was because of one specific word printed in the book. The official basis for the prosecution was that the novel could have a degrading, immoral influence, and 'tended to excite unhealthy passions'. The publication undoubtedly sparked a lively debate concerning censorship, with Arnold Bennett calling it a "merciless exposure of neurotics and decadents" and Garnett defending the apparent blasphemy and promiscuity by comparing it with Hemingway's 'Fiesta', which received none of the same treatment. A scarce copy of this wonderfully designed book. (My thanks to : Pearson, Neil ~ Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, 2007). Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Kahane, M ( wrapper artist) (illustrator).
Verlag: Paris Henry Babou and Jack Kahane 1929, 1929
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In den WarenkorbFIRST PARIS EDITION 8vo. hardback bound in quarter cream cloth, with patterened paper-covered boards. 217pp. Slight edgewear to boards, handling marks to spine. A Good copy overall. (This novel was suppressed in the UK in March 1929). (Shelf 200) Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipien…t's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Boards lightly soiled, else fine without dustwrapper.
Verlag: William Morrow & Company, New York, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good dj. 5th printing. [bottom corners bumped, otherwise a tight clean copy with no significant wear; jacket is the Grosset & Dunlap (later printing) issue, worn along bottom edge with various small tears and associated creasing, a couple of white scrape marks at front hinge, long vertical cre…ase at edge of front flap]. "At the same table in a London coffee-shop sit a man and a woman. The man has just discovered that his wife is unfaithful, and is meditating suicide. The woman, Laura, whose lover has just thrown her over, is determined on the same thing. The man follows her when she goes out -- to her apartment. The rest of the book is a history of their next thirty-six hours." A notorious novel of its day, it was (per the jacket blurb) "recently banned and confiscated in London" (under the Obscene Publications Act); the following year, it became the first book published by Jack Kahane's newly-established Obelisk Press in Paris, and its brisk sales help to get the fledgling firm off to a good start. According to a contemporary critic quoted on the rear jacket blurb, "Miss James knows her neurotic society of modern London and she portrays it with a veracity that creates shudders of apprehension and pity in the reader." The censors certainly seem to have been apprehensive, but there seems to have been very little pity involved in their judgment that the book contained "conversations by persons entirely devoid of decency and morality" and that "blasphemy is freely indulged in by all the characters, and filthy language and indecent situations appear to be the keynote." The Irish-born author wrote more than a dozen more novels during the 1930s, but any momentum for a "literary" career that she might have gotten from this book seems to have rapidly dissipated, and eventually her name became associated almost exclusively with the numerous potboilers she turned out in the romance genre, at least through the 1960s. Today, however, she is so thoroughly forgotten that she doesn't even rate a basic Wikipedia page (the new measure of cultural obscurity in our society).
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First French edition (issued after the book was banned in England). Cloth and papercovered boards. White spine a bit soiled, and corners of the boards worn through and a bit rounded, modest scuff on rear board, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. white cloth spine, marbled boards, no dust jacket, 217 pp spine slightly cocked covers worn on the edges foxing on the edges and pages Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. white cloth spine, decorated boards, black lettering, no dust jacket, 217 pp spine darkened and slightly cocked covers worn foxing on the egdes Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. white cloth spine, decorated papered boards, black lettering, 217 pp covers worn on the egdes spine soiled moderate foxing Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Verlag: Jack Kahane and Henry Babou, Paris, 1929
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Canadian Edition. 217 pages. Pages, endpapers and foredges lightly foxed, otherwise clean and good condition. Previous owner's embossed stamp at bottom of half title page. Quarter bound with white cloth over black and white patterned boards. Black title on spine. Edges lightly worn. Corners wor…n and bumped. VG. Book.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1929
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In den WarenkorbCouverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60072319: 1929. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 217 pages. Couverture légèrement passée. Fichette et tampons au dos des plats et en pages de garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1929
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In den WarenkorbCouverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60078082: 1929. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 217 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane., 1929
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In den WarenkorbFirst Paris edition, first printing. Publisher's original cream quarter cloth and patterned paper covered boards, in the M. Kahane illustrated first state dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with some shelfwear rubbing to the bottom edge of the boards. The contents, with some spotting to… the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The closed text block edge is somewhat toned and marked. Complete with the good, rubbed, nicked and toned dustwrapper the has several tears (secured with tape to the underside), and small chips to the spine tips, upper edge of the rear panel and corners. The underside of the dustwrapper has a name in pencil to the upper edge of the rear panel. Publisher's original [first state] price of 100 Fr net is present to the spine. Uncommon in the dustwrapper. The author's first book. Originally to be published in London on 21 February 1929 by the Scholartis Press, the novel was deemed obscene by the authorities prior to publication, the publisher prosecuted at Bow Street Magistrate's Court and all but a handful of advance copies destroyed. This Paris printing, the first obtainable edition, was produced by Jack Kahane in April of the same year. It was the first of the banned English books that he published in Paris. Its publication preceded the creation of Obelisk Press by two years. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Verlag: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1927
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. Preface by Edward Garnett. A letter from Kahane to his literary agent Eric S. Pinker, dated 29 March 1929,suggest April 1929 as the publication date. Originally to be published in London by the Scholartis Press on 21 Febuarty 1929. The publishe…r was prosecuted at Bow Street Police Court and the novel condemned before publication as obscene on 4 March 1929. Published inNew York, with some expurgations by William Morrow. This is the first edition published in Paris. Dust jacket with some stains to the back panel, foxing to the edges, endpapers, ffep. Price on spine 100 Fr. Net. The dustwrapper is the only difference between first and second-issue. The publisher overestimated demand for the book in 1929 and was left with piles of unsold copies. These were sold during the 1930s in the second-issue dustwrapper with the price on the spine changed to 50 Francs. First printing with the scarce dust wrapper. 6" - 8¾". Marcelle Kahane (illustrator). book.
Verlag: Scholartis Press, 1929
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In den WarenkorbFIRST EDITION, ONE OF 450 COPIES (from an edition of 500 copies) [but fewer, see below], half-title browned, one or two tiny spots, pp. 239, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, lean to spine, a little wear to lower joint and to bottom corners, top edge orange (now a little faded), others toned and faintl…y spotted, the endpapers likewise, later date in pencil to front pastedown, hinges tender, fair condition. Scarce. A bleak novel of London night-life, in part autobiographical, which attracted controversy that rested as much on external circumstances as the book's own contents. On the eve of publication, the publisher, Eric Partridge, was visited by the police - a chain of events begun by a reviewer at the Morning Post in receipt of an advance copy, who notified the Home Secretary as to the book's perceived obscenity. The police seized every copy of the book that they could lay their hands on; these were subsequently destroyed. Partridge considered that 'a few review copies and perhaps ten others' may have eluded them, as well as 'about thirty copies' sent to the US ('The First Three Years', p. 25). Following the successful prosecution of the work, whose obscenity was seen to reside in its 'filthy language and indecent situations', it was taken up by the enterprising Jack Kahane for a Paris edition that established the model for a series of succès de scandale with his Obelisk Press. Both the scarcity and the importance of the book derive from its fate at the hands of the authorities; it was the author's debut novel, and its refusal by Jonathan Cape, where James was then employed, must be seen as a direct effect of that publisher's prosecution the previous year for issuing Radclyffe Hall's 'The Well of Loneliness' at whose trial James had sat, in the same Bow Street Magistrates' Court that would rule against her own work.
