Ackland Valentine (77 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.78.

Paperback. Condition: 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.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. 135p., fine first US edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Ackland was the companion of Sylvia Townsend Warner for more than 40 years.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 135 pages; 1985 Chatto & Windus. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with sunning and color shift to spine and edges of front panel; front flap price clipped. Mild toning to page stock. VG/G++.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($13.95 price intact). Published by Norton, 1986. Octavo. Book is like new, stamp on front flyleaf. Dust jacket is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/issued without jacket. Cloth. A tight clean copy, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. POETRY (office).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The poetry of Valentine Ackland (1906-69) touches the twentieth century at key points. The poet who worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War lived to oppose the war in Vietnam. A Communist Party member in the 1930s, she became a Roman Catholic in the 1950s. In her political poems and her pastoral and spiritual lyrics, she displays a passionate commitment to truth. Above all, she is one of the most hauntingly erotic poets of the century. This is the first collection to draw on the full range of Ackland's poems, and includes the entire text of Whether a Dove or Seagull, the poetic narrative of their relationship that Ackland published with Sylvia Townsend Warner in 1934, legendary but long out of print. Frances Bingham's illuminating discussions of each stage of Ackland's life set her work in context, an important contribution to placing Ackland in twentieth-century poetry. The poetry of Valentine Ackland (1906-69) touches the twentieth century at key points. The poet who worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War lived to oppose the war in Vietnam. This book discusses each stage of Ackland's life, sets her work in context, and makes an important contribution to placing Ackland in twentieth-century poetry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "For over forty years, Valentine Ackland was Sylvia Townsend Warner's companion and closest friend". Cover sunned? ; 64mo.

hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Foreword by Bea Howe. 1st ed. NY (Norton) 1986. Fine in worn dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Norton, 1986. First American edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($13.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A beautiful copy. Her account of her relationship with the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. 135 pp., Jacket mildly sunned at spine, otherwise fine.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Type: Book 1st printing. DJ complete, shows slight use.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. 63pp. Valentine Ackland (1906-1969) was educated in London and Paris. She began to write poetry with serious intentions in her early twenties. The poems in this selection are arranged in roughly chronological order from 1931 to a few years before her death. Ackland was also the long term partner of Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cover (inevitably) faded. Otherwise bright, clean unmarked copy.

First edition. 8vo. 62 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (84756).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Edges tanned, toned, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket (featuring a very glum Ackland): spine and joints sunned, creasing to spine ends and top edge. A very good copy of Ackland's posthumously published confessional memoir.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Chatto & Windus, 1985. Roger Peers' copy with his bookplate. Very good in somewhat faded d/w.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Edited by Susan Pinney. Pimlico, 1998. Wrappers. Neat name o/w very good indeed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Colin Kersey (illustrator). 1st Edition. Poems from all period's of Ackland's life, discovered after her death. A few marks on the cover and light foxing of fore edge. Binding firm, contents clean and unmarked. Extremely scarce.

1st Edition. Hardback. Near very good, no d/w. Spine faded, corners bumped, boards warped, back board dented, pages browned and foxed, spotting to edge of pages. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's cream-coloured cloth. A VG copy (soft spine tips and minor marks to the boards). No D/W. That section of the front panel of the D/W that includes the title and author's names has been affixed to the front board. To the spine of the book a former owner has affixed the title and author's names from the spine of the D/W. The blurb from the back panel of the D/W has been laid (rather than stuck) into the book. 109 poems (54 by Warner and 55 by Ackland). The UK first edition is extremely scarce. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First UK edition. First UK Edition. 8vo. [218 x 145 x 25 mm]. [3]ff, 155pp. Bound in the publisher's khaki cloth, printed blue paper label tipped-in at the back. In the original printed green dust-wrapper (short tears at the head with small losses). London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. A very good clean copy, with just a little spotting around the edges. The label intended for the spine (and a spare) remain unattached and are tipped-in at the back. The dust-wrapper has not been price clipped. It was originally priced at 6s and Stephen Clark paid 2s 6d for this copy at Wells in 1957. This first UK edition was preceded by the first US edition of 1933, but both are rare, and this one comes with a key at the end assigning authorship to the individual poems. 54 were by Warner and 55 by her lover and long term partner Ackland. ODNB notes it did little to enhance their careers but "it constituted an interesting experiment in presentation, along the lines of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's jointly published Lyrical Ballads. In the melding together of the two writers' work [.] Warner and Ackland made a gesture against "the frame of mind which judges a poem by looking to see who wrote it". [.] At the same time anonymity afforded them considerable licence, and the collection is remarkable for its love poems, many of which were so sexually explicit as to pass contemporary reviewers without comment".

8.5 x 5.75 inches. In beige cloth covers with original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. spine darkened, front and back part darkened. Slightly rubbed along top edge with a few small chips and tears. Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Slight browning to endpapers. Owner?s rubber stamp to front endpaper. Title label loose in back. Else a clean and tight copy. 155 pp. The poems are by both Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland. The decision was made to avoid attribution partly as ?.a protest against the frame of mind which judges a poem by looking to see who wrote it.?.

FIRST EDITION, pp. 23, foolscap 8vo, original stapled brown wrappers, near fine. Inscribed at the head of the title-page by the author's partner: 'H.A. Rappaport, from Sylvia Townsend Warner'. The recipient was a New York-based bookdealer and collector. A scarce collection from the poet's wilderness years, following two decades after her last published volume.