Lived Glory: First Edition (3 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 1st Edition. SIGNED / INSCRIBED presentation copy with long message dated 1991 to Kathy and Dale on front ep; 112 pages; text unmarked; some soiling & small tears to dust jacket. Signed by author. Hardcover (dj).

Condition: Good. 1985. First American Edition. 153 pages. Signed by the author. Green pictorial dust jacket over beige and blue cloth. Title page has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. …

Tall 8vo. xii, [4], 319, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 16 photo plates. Blue pictorial publisher's cloth, cover art of young girl peeking out through window at passing German soldiers, lettering in red & gilt (very minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of woman in red, white & blue holding shield & sword, w/ running German soldier (chipping & tears to upper fore-edge, some lettering perished, minor chipping to spine, dustsoiling), still NF/G- copy. First edition of this pseudonymous memoir recounting a young woman's experiences studying with the Berlin Opera from 1916 to early 1918, when she manages to return back home to Boston, MA. She recounts, recurring and arbitrary restrictions, curfews, expired documents, Americans summarily executed in police stations, struggles while studying music, fending off suitors, until finally securing an admirer's assistance to obtain a precious Norwegian passport, and visas to return to the U.S. Very scarce with original dustjacket. …