Groundling by Daneman Meredith (4 results)

1st UK Edition. Hardback. Near very good in near very good, edge worn, faded on spine and plastic protected, d/w. Spine cocked and bumped, edges and corners rubbed and bumped, pages browned. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 185. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the title page to Nanette Newman (b.1934), British actor and the film director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes (1926-2013), 'To Bryan and Nanette, with much love Merry'. ISBN: 0718121325 Fine in fine dust jacket.

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 22.3cm x 14.5cm. 186 pages. Original Hardcover with original, illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Fine condition. Rare in this condition ! This story begins in Sydney, land of milk-shakes and honey-coloured beaches, in the early fifties, when the sense of cultural separation from England was still potent and painful. On her thirteenth birthday, Judy is taken to see a visiting English production of 'Macbeth', the unlucky play. From that night on, her life becomes fatally bound up with the off-stage love affair of the two leading actors, Claude Williams and Stella Mann, who seem to embody everything from which she feels so isolated: words, Shakespeare, the spoken beauty of language, all dissipated somehow in the hedonistic heat of the sun. The actors carelessly adopt her into their passing intimacy, and Judy is stricken with a love-sickness for which there can be no remedy. For she has fallen in love, not with a person, but with the love between two people, which must by its nature eventually exclude her. In England years later, Judy finds the actors estranged from each other and from a theatre radically altered from the one of her childhood dreams. But what private relationships she reaches with Claude and Stella cannot appease her real passion. Inexorable she is driven to engineer the event which brings about her own automatic rejection.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Brian Palmer (illustrator). First Edition. 186pp. 8.8 inches. Navyblue buckram, gilt titles, about as new with faint speckle of foxing to tops. Internally, no owner's marks, vg with tanned pages, faint foxing to endpaper only. In original pictorial jacket, artwork by Brian Palmer, light shelfwear, slight creasing to upper edge, foxed leaves. Tasmanian author's 2nd novel, depicting the development of a curious love triangle situation, set in the world of the theatre in Australia and England. 350g. (Literature, Theatre, Australia, Sydney) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.