David Peterley (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Peterley Harvest: the Private Diary of David Peterley. --. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardback. 8vo. (1985). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Owner's name on front free endpaper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. The book was first published in 1960. Preface by Michael Holroyd (pp v-xvi). 286pp. Or cloth boards in dust jacket.The diary records some of the events in David Peterley's own life and in 'the literary and political world around him in the years between 1930, when he returned to England after four years of voluntary exile in Australia, and 1939, when he went back, fleeing from the disillusionment of his personal life and from an England he believed set on a course of self destruction'. Size: 8vo.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hard bound, first edition, Pp286. Very good in slightly torn & edge-chipped good only dust jacket. 472 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. In excellent condition.

Condition: New.

Second edition (the first edition, published in 1960, scarce after being withdrawn by the 'editor' shortly after publication, and pulped). Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine price-clipped dustjacket. Edited, and with a preface by Michael Holroyd, who gives an intriguing and clarifying (as is possible) overview of the diary and its author.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. The book is near fine with very slight edge wear in a very good- dust jacket with light edge wear, chipping at extremities and a couple of small pieces missing at lower front edge. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 285 pp covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. 286 pp, green cloth, dj shows tiny nick to one edge, few small spots of soiling, & sunning/toning to spine area. [97].

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. This book is pre owned , Acceptable condition - and while its integrity is good - it has fading due to age so you get a bargain. Please see all photos. Peterley Harvest: The Private Diary of David Peterley" is a literary work that presents itself as the diary of a young man during the 1930s. Published by Penguin Modern Classics in 1987, this edition offers readers a glimpse into the personal reflections and experiences of the diarist. The narrative provides insights into the social and cultural milieu of the time, capturing the thoughts and observations of an individual navigating the complexities of that era.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. 1960 first edition lacks dustajcket. This book caused controversy on publication as being an elaborate hoax: the dustjacket They were told readers that since 1946 Richard Pennington had been head librarian at McGill University where Peterley's diary and papers had been sent. But by including an anonymous drawing in profile of David Peterley as frontispiece, and a photograph of Mr Pennington on the inside flap of the jacket, the publishers were giving away too many clues.In very clean condition with no writing, marks or tears, covers clean and unscuffed.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 24mo. [15]pp. on double leaves. Stitched decorated paper self-wrappers. One of 30 copies on Hosho paper hand-set and hand-printed by Richard Pennington at the Redpath Press. Scarce. Fine. *OCLC* accounts for 13 of the 30 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper (by Patricia Davey) slightly frayed at spine. With the bookplate of Sir Michael Holroyd, his marginal markings and underlinings throughout, and his manuscript notes on the rear endpapers. Loosely inserted are: the mock-up title-page for Secker & Warburg's 1985 edition, and typescript text for the title-page verso, both marked up by the publisher; the copy-edited typescript for Holroyd's preface to the same, 18pp. 4to, with his autograph corrections; Holroyd's autograph draft manuscript for the preface, 34pp. 4to, with a further 8pp. 4to of manuscript notes; a copy typescript of John Wain's 1984 introduction to the book, 4pp. 4to, apparently unpublished; a copy typescript of Pennington's own 1984 biographical notes, 2pp. 4to; a copy typescript of (extracts from) three letters from Pennington to the literary agent Andrew Hewson, 1982, 2pp. 4to; an autograph letter signed from Pennington to "Miss Vincent", 1p. 8vo, Blanzac, 2 February 1978, with a photocopy of David M. Legate's Montreal Star review of McClelland & Stewart's 1963 edition (quoting Pennington at length), 1963. When Peterley's diary of the years 1926 to 1939 was published in 1960, it caused a minor furore. What was it? Philip Toynbee, in The Observer, saw it as a transparent "hoax" and "a serious strain on my patience". If the editor was not the editor but the author, to what extent was the diary autobiography? Was this pseudonymous journalising, or was it autofiction - a sort of novel? Richard Pennington made matters worse by demanding that the book be withdrawn, shortly after publication. He gave no reason. The first edition thus became a rare book, surrounded by mystery. In 1987 Peter F. McNally sought to disentangle author and editor and the various editions, in an article for the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. He struggled a bit, though Richard Pennington (1904-2003), University Librarian at McGill University, 1947-64, had done his best to explain. On 10 June 1982 he had written to his agent, "Is this autobiography or fiction? A pertinent question, to which I would reply first of all: Does it matter which it is? and secondly and more seriously, I would explain that my idea was to present an autobiography (which this is) in such a way as to suggest it is an imaginative work." To the reviewer of the Canadian edition in The Montreal Star he had written as long ago as 1963, "I suspect [the English critics] confused the novel with the factual reporting that goes on in newspaper offices, and thought a novel should resemble a newspaper and be a straightforward story, like 'Pamela' or 'Gulliver's Travels' or 'Tristram Shandy'." Whereas it was, he told Andrew Hewson, more like George Borrow's Lavengro, "a favourite of mine, and the forerunner of this genre" - and "difficult to classify as a literary work". (He also confided, privately, to Hewson, that he had withdrawn the book not for reasons of copyright but because his wife "insisted" on it.) Michael Holroyd, a pioneer of modern biography with a habit of defying "genre", was perhaps an ideal re-introducer of Pennington s fiction. He must have enquired earlier after Peterley Harvest, for Pennington writes from France in 1978 that he has been in touch with Hutchinson "and learned that while the Literary Department had strongly recommended P.H. for re-publication, the Managing Director, Mr [Harold] Harris, as strongly hesitates, not being sure of seeing any big money from the sale, and apparently he has a preference for big returns. I do not know whether a note from Mr Holroyd to Mr Harris (perhaps he knows him?) would tip the balance . . ." It would be seven years before Secker & Warburg undertook the new edition; Holroyd's masterly preface, playful, serious, appreciative and running to over 5000 words, first appeared in the London Review of Books, 15 November 1984; in 1987 it was redeployed when Peterley Harvest was promoted to the series Penguin Modern Classics.

Booklet. Condition: Fine. One of 30 copies on Hosho paper. Repath Press Trifles No. 2. [15 p.]. Double leaves. 16 cm. Stitched brown patterned covers. Includes short typewritted note to Killcare Dobbs from Richard Prinker dated 18 June 1958 on McGill University letterhead. Hand set and hand printed by Richard Pennington at the Redpath Press. Pennington established Redpath Press while he was working at McGill University in Montreal. He started the press partly for pleasure and partly to demonstrate the practices of hand-printing to students in the school of librarianship where he annually lectured on the history of the book and printing.

FIRST EDITION, frontisipiece portrait of the author (see below), pp. 286, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with decoration in red, gentle knock to top corners, top edge red, faint partial browning to free endpapers, publisher's review slip laid in (listing date of publication) at front, newspaper clipping regarding the book's suppression laid in at rear, dustjacket by Patricia Davey, a couple of marks at head of rear panel, very good. This is a scarce first edition: the book was withdrawn after suspicions began to be raised regarding its authenticity, with Leonard Russell of the Sunday Times pronouncing it a literary hoax - perpetrated by the book's supposed editor, Richard Pennington, librarian at McGill University (where the original manuscript was claimed to be held). A comparison of the the frontispiece portrait of the young author and the photograph of the middle-aged editor to the rear flap would seem readily enough to give the lie to the construct. It is, or purports to be, a diary of 1930s London and Prague by a young man of private means, who has for a few years previously been (as Pennington was) in Australia - where he (Peterley/Pennington) knew the poet Christopher Brennan (J.C. Squire had dismissed the latter as one of Pennington's inventions when he attempted to submit an article on him to The London Mercury in 1930!); back in Europe, he continued to move in literary and political circles. The precise status of the book is hard to determine, given its curious blending of fact and fiction. On reviving the work in the 1980s, Michael Holroyd considered it to be neither 'a hoax or a forgery but one of those "fakes" that present autobiographical material with the foreshortening and ambiguity of an imaginative work. And does it matter if the book is a memoir or fiction or an ingenious amalgam of the two?'. Pennington, who had bought up the remaining copies from the publisher once it had become clear that it might be misunderstood, later referred to it as 'a novel which had as its theme life in England of the period between the wars, a period that interested me because I had lived through it and because I had certain ideas about it'.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.