Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Free Shipping
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Published by New Directions, 2023
ISBN 10: 0811237451ISBN 13: 9780811237451
Seller: The Maryland Book Bank, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Book
paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reissue. Used - Very Good.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 12.82
Used offers from US$ 6.70
Also find Softcover
Published by Vintage Classics, 2022
ISBN 10: 1784877808ISBN 13: 9781784877804
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
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.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 12.41
Used offers from US$ 5.06
Also find Softcover
Published by New Directions, 2022
ISBN 10: 0811234568ISBN 13: 9780811234566
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 11.85
Used offers from US$ 13.89
Also find Softcover
Published by Vintage Publishing, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1784879320ISBN 13: 9781784879327
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Tonks on holiday - a charming, funny and sun-soaked novel by the author of The Bloater.Fun, witty and sun-soaked - literary cartwheels and seaside capers from the astoundingly brilliant mid-century writer who destroyed her own books.Great friends, Mimi and Caroline, are off on holiday to a beautiful Italian island. There they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of characters including their debonair host and his mistress, a relentless venture capitalist and a villain in the form of the local dentist. There is also Beetle, with whom Mimi is completely and simply in love. As everyone relaxes into island living and the demands of real life drift away, the holiday hijinks culminate in a very Mediterranean prank - the cutting down of the dentist's prize lemon tree.Back in print after many decades, this is a glorious novel by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks.'Everyone could do with a bit of Tonks in their lives' Stewart Lee Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 16.02
Used offers from US$ 15.87
Also find Softcover
Published by Vintage Publishing, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1784879312ISBN 13: 9781784879310
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Another outstandingly wry and funny novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The BloaterGut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman's desperate quest for freedom.'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck'Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, self-conscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable?Back in print after many decades, this is an outstanding novel by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks.'Salted with wit and peppered with clever images' Guardian'Writing like this.is far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky post-War grays, the lurking sexual violence of London' Michael Hoffman, Poetry Foundation Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 16.26
Used offers from US$ 15.87
Also find Softcover
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2016
ISBN 10: 1780373619ISBN 13: 9781780373614
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 14.09
Used offers from US$ 13.69
Also find Softcover
Published by Vintage Publishing, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1784879304ISBN 13: 9781784879303
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Finally back in print, a shockingly wry and funny coming-of-age novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The BloaterBrilliantly funny and brutal, this is the story of one woman's escape from the clutches of polite society, by the incredible mid-century writer who destroyed her own books.Sophie's mother knows exactly how to needle her. Sophie's lover Philip knows how to stab her in the heart. She may be clever, charming and smart but is Sophie destined to be an eternal bit-part?After a particularly callous throwaway remark from Philip, Sophie knows she must break away - from him, from her mother, from the snobbery of her Hampstead Heath upbringing. Being good and agreeable has brought nothing but loneliness; setting out alone might finally bring Sophie satisfaction.Back in print after many decades, this novel is a piece of dynamite, written by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks.'A bubbly, empathetic and ultimately lovely novel of a belated coming-of-age' New York Times'Nobody writes about angsty women like Tonks' The Millions Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 16.44
Used offers from US$ 15.87
Also find Softcover
Published by März Verlag GmbH, 2024
ISBN 10: 3755000334ISBN 13: 9783755000334
Seller: Kalligramm, Berlin, Germany
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 27.99
Used offers from US$ 13.27
Also find Hardcover
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2014
ISBN 10: 1780372388ISBN 13: 9781780372389
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
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.
More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks
New offers from US$ 209.47
Used offers from US$ 23.24
Also find Softcover First Edition
Published by IL SAGGIATORE
ISBN 10: 8842832383ISBN 13: 9788842832386
Seller: Brook Bookstore, Milano, MI, Italy
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Ambit, London, 1965
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Adrian Henri; Jill Martin (illustrator). 1st Edition. 48pp + 4pp card covers. The twenty-sixth issue of Ambit - a quarterly collection of poetry, short stories and criticism. This issue contains twenty-two poems. Includes an article by Michael Benedikt on the New York Theatre. Pink titling on black and white covers. Staple bound. Shelf wear to top of spine. Otherwise in VG condition with clean inside pages. The magazine is printed by The Lavenham Press Ltd., Suffolk.
Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2014
ISBN 10: 1780372388ISBN 13: 9781780372389
Seller: Invicta Books P.B.F.A., Builth Wells, POWYS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. illustrated, 153 pages.
Published by Putnam, London, 1958
Seller: UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rosemary Tonks, Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms, Putnam, London 1958, First Edition of this influential compendium of poetry. Rosemary Tonks published several compendia and novels before retiring from public life when she converted to Christianity. This attractively-bound volume is an ex library book with some marks, otherwise it is a clean and tidy book. pp 32 Seller Inventory 002320.
Published by Durham University Literary Society, Durham, 1969
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8pp. Tonks contributes A Bedouin of the London Morning & Epoch of the Hotel Corridor. Also a half page Tonks biography presumably by Adams in which she is said to be "working on sonomontage". She was to read to electronic music at the University on February 18th (surely one of her last appearances). Slightly foxed. Extremely scarce printed record of one of 20th century poetry's most fascinating fugitives. Book.
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1967
Seller: UK Countryside Booksellers, Cromford, DERBY, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rosemary Tonks, The Iliad of Broken Sentences, The Bodley Head, 1967 First Edition. An attractive volume with a very good complete dustjacket covering striking yellow and red cloth boards and spine all in first order. Internally one library mark otherwise in clean unmarked and tight condition. pp 30. Rosemary Tonks published a small number of books of poetry and novels before retiring from public life when she converted to Christianity.
Published by The Bodley Head, London - Sydney - Toronto., 1967
Seller: Antiquariat Heinzelmännchen, Stuttgart, Germany
Book First Edition
30 pages. Yellow original hardcover and dustjacket in red. (A little used- Private Name and date on title). 22x15 cm * First edition. Rare. Sehr selten! ---- Rosemary Tonks war eine englische Dichterin und Autorin. Nachdem sie zwei Gedichtsammlungen, sechs Romane und Stücke in zahlreichen Medien veröffentlicht hatte, verschwand sie nach ihrer Bekehrung zum fundamentalistischen Christentum in den 1970er Jahren aus der Öffentlichkeit.(Quelle Wikipedia) --- Rosemary Tonks (17 October 1928 15 April 2014) was an English poet and author. After publishing two poetry collections, six novels, and pieces in numerous media outlets, she disappeared from the public eye after her conversion to Fundamentalist Christianity in the 1970s; little was known about her life past that point, until her death. Rosemary Desmond Boswell Tonks was born 17 October 1928 in Gillingham, Kent, the only child of Gwendoline (née Verdi) and Desmond Tonks, a mechanical engineer. Desmond, who died of blackwater fever in Africa[where?] before Rosemary's birth, was the nephew of the surgeon and painter Henry Tonks, an official war artist on the Western Front during World War I and then professor of fine art at the Slade during the 1920s. Desmond's brother Myles was married to Gwendoline's sister Dorothy (the aunt who was later to provide Rosemary with refuge in Bournemouth, when Rosemary's life crisis had become unbearable alone). Tonks attended boarding school at Wentworth college in Bournemouth. Rosemary published children's stories while a teenager. In 1949, she married Michael Lightband (a mechanical engineer, and later a financier), and the couple moved to Karachi, where she began to write poetry. Attacks of paratyphoid, contracted in Calcutta, and of polio, contracted in Karachi, forced a return to England. She lived in Paris in 195253, before returning to London where she settled with her husband in Hampstead. They later divorced and lived several doors from each other for some years. Career: Tonks worked for the BBC, writing stories and reviewing poetry for the BBC European Service. She published poems in collections and The Observer, the New Statesman, Transatlantic Review, London Magazine, Encounter, and Poetry Review, she read on the BBC's Third Programme. She also wrote "poetic novels"[which?]. Her work appears in many anthologies, including Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (ed. Keith Tuma), Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, British Poetry since 1945, and The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (ed. Sean O'Brien). Tonks published two collections, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms (Putnam, 1963) and Iliad of Broken Sentences (Bodley Head, 1967), and after both books went out of print following each publisher's decision to axe their poetry lists, she was discussing a selected edition of her work with John Moat and John Fairfax's Phoenix Press in Newbury from 1976 until 1980, when the project was abandoned following her conversion to a puritanical form of Christianity.[6] Little was known publicly about her subsequent life past that point. As Andrew Motion wrote in 2004, she "Disappeared! What happened? Because I admire her poems, I've been trying to find out for years. no trace of her seems to survive apart from the writing she left behind."[2] In the 30-minute BBC Radio 4 Lost Voices documentary, "The Poet Who Vanished", broadcast 29 March 2009, Brian Patten observed, from the literary world's perspective, she'd "evaporated into air like the Cheshire cat"; Tonks had disappeared from public view and was living a hermetic existence, refusing telephone and personal calls from friends, family and the media. Following her death in April 2014, Neil Astley published an obituary and then an article in the Guardian, followed by his introduction to the Bloodaxe collected edition of her poetry and selected prose, Bedouin of the London Evening, in which he revealed the background to her "disappearance", how she had "turned her back on the literary world after a series of personal tragedies and medical crises which made her question the value of literature and embark on a restless, self-torturing spiritual quest". Her mental and physical health deteriorated following an emergency operation on New Year's Day 1978 to save her eyesight which left her almost blind for the next few years, and in 1979 she moved to Bournemouth to recuperate. In 1980 she moved into a house behind the seafront where she lived alone for the next 33 years, using her former married name, Rosemary Lightband. In 1981 she made the decision to "confront her profession" and burned the manuscript of an unpublished novel. That October she travelled to Jerusalem and was baptised near the River Jordan on 17 October 1981, the day before her 53rd birthday. "Obliterating her former identity as the writer Rosemary Tonks, she dated her new life from that 'second birth'," according to Astley, and thereafter she never read any books apart from the Bible. Character of her poetry: Tonks's poems offer a stylised view of an urban literary subculture around 1960, full of hedonism and decadence. The poet seems to veer from the ennui of Charles Baudelaire to exuberant disbelief at modern civilisation. There are illicit love affairs in seedy hotels and scenes of café life across Europe and the Middle East; there are sage reflections on men who are shy with women. She often targets the pathetic pretensions of writers and intellectuals. Yet she is often buoyant and chatty, bemused rather than critical, even self-deprecating. She believed poetry should look good on a printed page as well as sound good when read: "There is an excitement for the eye in a poem on the page which is completely different from the ear's reaction". Of her style, she said "I have developed a visionary modern lyric, and, for it, an idiom in which I can write lyrically, colloquially, and dramatically. My subject is city life with its sofas, hotel corridors, ci.
Published by LONDON: THE BODLEY HEAD, 1967
Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,30, red titled yellow cloth, a very good clipped dust-jacket which has a little edge-wear and two small tears which have been neatly repaired, the text is free from marks but as usual has some very light age-toning, a pleasing copy. Tonks disappeared from the public eye after converting to Fundemental Christianity in the 1970's living in obscurity in Bournemouth until her death in 2014.
Published by London : Putnam, 1963
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Fine cloth-backed board copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Putnam Poetry Books. Physical description: 32p. ; 23cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 1 Kg.
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1972
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards tidy with some shelf wear. Light shelf wear to dust jacket except for one tear to the back of the dj (10mm). Spine sunned. Size: 8vo.
Published by London : Putnam, 1963
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Fine cloth-backed board copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Putnam Poetry Books. Physical description: 32p. ; 23cm. Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century. 1 Kg.
Published by Putnam, London, 1963
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
158 pp. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 158 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth on boards with gilt along spine, faint bump to foot of spine, else near fine. Dust jacket has slight bump to top corner and very small inner tear near head of spine on verso; overall a near fine copy.
Published by Putnam, London, 1963
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Quarter black buckram with marbled paper-covered boards and gilt lettering to the spine. 32pp. The Author's first poetry collection; A near fine copy in a VG+ dustwrapper priced 8s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The dustwrapper is nicked to the spine tips and sunned to the spine (as often found). No inscriptions. A nice copy. The first volume of Rosemary Tonks' poems; the poet later converted to fundamentalist Christianity and completely withdrew from public life. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Published by Putnam, London, 1963
Seller: Dufour Editions Inc., Wyomissing, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Like-new book in very good jacket. This copy has never been sold, but has been in the file library of the one-time US distributor. There is a 2x6 cm green bookseller's sticker pasted to the inside front cover. Jacket is sunned at spine and fore-edge, slightly frayed at edges, 6 mm closed tear, price-clipped with USD price stamped on inside front flap.
Published by Putnam, London, 1963
Seller: Primrose Hill Books BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Quarter Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ DJ. First edition. The first volume of Rosemary Tonk's poems; the poet later converted to fundamentalist Christianity and completely withdrew from public life, allegedly reading nothing but the Bible from her baptism in the River Jordan in 1981 until her death in 2014. Ex libris Alan Coren, his inscription to ffep. Quarter cloth with marbled paper on boards, gilt lettering to spine bright. Spine of dj sunned, some staining to front cover of dj including two mug rings. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce fiction novel by Rosemary Tonks, set in a foggy and wintry London and in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition.Very scarce.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This novel was written by English poet and author Rosemary Tonks. While Tonks was initially active on media outlets, writing for various magazines and working for the BBC writing stories and reviews, she eventually converted to fundamentalist Christianity and disappeared from the public eye. This work tells the stories of the strange inhabitants of a cold and foggy town in London. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only slight offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap is very smart with sunning to the rear, light handling marks, light spots and a minor closed tear to the head of the front. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with the odd spot and light offsetting to the front few pages. Spotting to the fore edge. Near Fine. book.
1st American edition. Semi-autobiographical fiction. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck'. Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, self-conscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable? Pp.208. Brown cloth spine with cream cloth boards. Dustwrapper has crease and tear to lower rear edge at spine, 2.8cm loss to base of spine and wear to fore-edge and corner tips but is nw in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/G+.**Rosemary Tonks (1928 2014) was an English poet and author. After publishing two poetry collections, six novels, and pieces in numerous media outlets, she disappeared from the public eye following her conversion to Fundamentalist Christianity in the 1970s; little was known about her life past that point, until her death. In 2009 she was the subject of the 30minute BBC Radio 4 Lost Voices documentary, "The Poet Who Vanished".
Published by Putnam, 1963
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, in the red printed dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, very crisp, but faded of spine. Loosely laid in are an assortment of press cuttings related to Tonks and the collection, including separately published poems and reviews of the work. Rosemary Tonks's first collection of poetry.
Published by ADAM Books, 1963
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, pp. 122, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, dustjacket, slightly rubbed at extremities with some chipping at head of rear panel, very good. The copy of Scottish poet, Edwin Morgan - with his ownership inscription to the flyleaf. A scarce book - the 'half-hilarious and half-haunting chronicle of the creative doubts and experiences of a young woman poet alone in London today' (blurb), published in the same year as her debuts in both fiction ('Opium Fogs') and poetry ('Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms').
Published by Bodley Head, 1972
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, pp. 165, crown 8vo, original light blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, ownership inscription of Edwin Morgan (see below), dustjacket by Derrick Greaves, small pressure-mark to rear panel, very good. The copy of contemporary Scottish poet, Edwin Morgan; her final novel, preceding her radical conversion to Christianity that ended her literary career.
Published by The Bodley Head, London, 1967
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard. Condition: Vey Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Text bright, pages mostly clean with occasional very light spotting, inscription on front endpaper, light shelf wear to boards, spotting on blank inside of dust jacket, 2cm closed tear on head of jacket spin, two 1cm closed tears on head of rear jacket, light shelf wear to jacket. Please inquire for photos of condition. Size: 8vo.