Reckoning by Sarton, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition inscribed by author. Dust jacket has some smudging from handling. Front jacket flap price clipped. Small tear at lower edge of front jacket panel. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page. "There has been a great deal of documentation lately on death and dying. Here, in a novel and work of art, we have a chance to experience it through the eyes and heart of a wise and endearing woman as she 'lives her dying.' " Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Spine is slightly skewed and loose, small bumps on corners and spine ends, thin scratch on head edge; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear, small creases on spine head, light rubs on interior of jacket, corners of front flap are clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First edition. First printing [stated]. 254, [2] p. From Wikipedia: "May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 July 16, 1995), an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Sarton was born in Wondelgem, Belgium (today a part of the city of Ghent). Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes. When German troops invaded Belgium after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, her family fled to Ipswich, England where Sarton's maternal grandmother lived. One year later, they moved to Boston, Massachusetts. She went to school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating from Cambridge High and Latin School in 1929. She started theatre lessons in her late teens, but continued writing poetry, eventually publishing her first collection in 1937 entitled Encounter in April. In 1945 she met her partner for the next thirteen years, Judy Matlack, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They separated in 1956, when Sarton's father died and Sarton moved to Nelson, New Hampshire. Honey in the Hive (1988) is about their relationship. In her memoir At Seventy, she reflected on Judy's importance in her life and how her Unitarian Universalist upbringing shaped her. Sarton later moved to York, Maine. In 1990, she suffered a stroke, severely reducing her ability to concentrate and write. After several months, she was able to dictate her final journals, which celebrated the joys of her life. She died of breast cancer on July 16, 1995, and is buried in Nelson, New Hampshire. Despite the quality of some of her many novels and poems, May Sarton's best and most enduring work probably lies in her journals and memoirs, particularly Plant Dreaming Deep (about her early years at Nelson, ca. 1958-68), Journal of a Solitude (1972-1973, often considered her best), The House by the Sea (1974-1976), Recovering (1978-1979) and At Seventy (1982-1983). In these fragile, rambling and honest accounts of her solitary life, she deals with such issues as ageing, isolation, solitude, friendship, love and relationships, lesbianism, self-doubt, success and failure, envy, gratitude for life's simple pleasures, love of nature (particularly of flowers), spirituality and, importantly, the constant struggles of a creative life. Sarton's later journals are not of the same quality, as she endeavoured to keep writing through ill health and often with the help of a tape recorder. Although many of her earlier works, such as Encounter in April, contain vivid erotic female imagery, May Sarton often emphasized in her journals that she didn't see herself as a "lesbian" writer, instead wanting to touch on what is universally human about love in all its manifestations. When publishing her novel Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing in 1965, she feared that writing openly about lesbianism would lead to a diminution of the previously established value of her work. "The fear of homosexuality is so great that it took courage to write Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, " she wrote in Journal of a Solitude, "to write a novel about a woman homosexual who is not a sex maniac, a drunkard, a drug-taker, or in any way repulsive, to portray a homosexual who is neither pitiable nor disgusting, without sentimentality." After the book's release, many of Sarton's works began to be studied in university level Women's Studies classes, being embraced by feminists and lesbians alike. Margot Peters' controversial biography (1998) revealed May Sarton as a complex human being who often struggled in her interpersonal relationships." Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed and dated on t-p. Pencil erasure residue on half-title. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition stated, 1st prntg. black boards, light tan quarter-cloth spine, clean & bright, bndg firm, no bumps, cream-white print design dj w/ some age toning, in protective sleeve VG+, bottom front inner flap clipped, book price at top intact, not clipped, exc unread cond; interior unmarked, orange-red eps, signed by author on half-title pg, signature only, 254 pp. 6"x 8.5". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slightly cocked spine and faint spotting on the page edges else about near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with toning on the spine. Inscribed by the author.