By Aphra Behn (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. A fine copy in pictorial wraps. Later printing. Covers have some general wear. A nice tight copy with no names or inscriptions. 8vo; 400 pages.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Condition: Very Good. The rover - by Aphra Behn ; edited and with an inroduction by Simon Trussler.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket as issued. First Thus. Usual tanning to edges otherwise a firm, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Spine is cracked at half title page. Pages have some light browning. Endpapers have some light fading. Spine has some fading, and moderate wear around the edges. Top edge of spine has some chipping.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. The book is near fine with slight edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Xviii, [Ii], 280 Pp. Plum Moire Cloth Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. Lightly Used, Covers Clean And Evenly Colored (Slight Fading To Spine Cloth), Gilt Brilliant, 3 Tiny Frays Along Lower Edge Of Spine Cloth. 20 Plates And Engraved Titles After The Originals (illustrator).

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, small thick octavo, green cloth backed paper covered boards, paper title to spine. A very good tightly bound copy, many pages remaining unopened and thus unread. 452pp.

hardback, 8vo, 147pp, illustrated, owner's bookplate on endpaper, foxing on edges and endpapers, marbled boards and quarter-cloth gilt, covers nice and bright, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Routledge, 1913. Handsome black linen with beveled edges. Gilt spine titling: "The Royal Slave and Other Novels Aphra Benn Early Novelists Ed. by E. A. Baker". "Behn was an English playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. One of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. She wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. She is remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." (wiki).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1986. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref P96. Oroonoko and Other Stories by Aphra Behn. Edited By Maureen Duffy. Published in 1986 by Methuen, London.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 8vo.decorated wrappers.with a glossary and some illus., a scarce edition pub in Africa and edited by an African.about Fine.(SN5/1).

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.75in. xxx. 400pp. Publisher's cloth boards. FINE/AS NEW in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the extremities, else Fine/As New. As pictured.

Hard cover. Reprint. REPRINT OF 1915 1ST. PHAETON, 1967. Reprint. REPRINT OF 1915 1ST. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. VERY CLEAN, UNREAD. 5 volume set. 458 p. LOC VAL, FROM WYE, KENT, APHRA AMIS MARRIED DUTCH BEHN, LIVED IN SURINAM, DUTCH SPY, RESTORATION LONDON Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. VERY CLEAN, UNREAD.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Aphra Behn (1640-1689); adapted into French by Pierre-Antoine de la Place (1707-1793). Oronoko, ou le Prince nègre. Imitation de l'anglois, nouvelle édition, revue & corrigée. [. . .] Avec figures. A Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez Vente, 1769. 12mo (17 × 10 cm). [4], xii, 212 pp. With five engraved plates by Baron after Marillier. Contemporary mottled calf, upper cover bearing the gilt supralibros 'Md. d'Humières', smooth spine with gilt floral decoration, red morocco title label, red edges. The earliest edition of Oroonoko in any language with a series of narrative illustrations, and the first illustrated edition of La Place's French prose adaptation. The five engravings accompany the story on separate plates bound among the text leaves. The earlier illustrated edition we have examined, Southerne's English stage adaptation of 1736, contains only a frontispiece; we have traced no earlier edition with a sequence of illustrations accompanying the narrative. First published in 1688, Behn's Oroonoko centres on an African prince betrayed into slavery in Suriname, his reunion with Imoinda and his resistance to colonial authority. Written by one of the earliest professional women writers in English, it became an influential work in the literary representation of Black heroism, enslavement and colonial violence. La Place's adaptation, first published in 1745, substantially reshaped the narrative for French readers. He softened its violence, substituted a happy ending and incorporated the separately titled Histoire d'Imoinda. He also recast Imoinda, an African woman in Behn's original, as a woman of European origin. These changes make the volume a revealing source for the transformation of racial and gender identities through literary adaptation. The combination of La Place's rewritten narrative and Marillier's illustrations gives this edition particular interest for the study of Oroonoko's visual reception. The present copy also preserves evidence of eighteenth-century female ownership in the gilt name of Madame d'Humières on its contemporary binding. Condition: Joints and corners lightly rubbed, one corner worn; very light foxing. Otherwise a clean, fresh and attractive copy. References: Cf. Sabin 4373 (1745 edition). Lacroix, Paul. Bibliothèque de la reine Marie-Antoinette au Petit Trianon. 1863, p. 69, no. 407. Seeber, Edward D. "Oroonoko in France in the XVIIIth Century." PMLA, vol. 51, no. 4, 1936, pp. 953-959. Guénette, Marie-France. "À la limite de la traduction : le cas de Pierre-Antoine de La Place (1745-1799)." Chronotopos, vol. 4, no. 1, 2022, pp. 66-80. …