Vivandière by Gaye Phoebe Fenwick (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. Decorated Black Cloth Covers with Red and White Lettering and Decoration to spine and front cover; Book edges are soiled and darkened from age; Right and Bottom Book Edges are rough-cut; spine very lightly rubbed; decorative silver and black endpapers; Book Interior is clean and tight except for page 335 which has a small stained spot in margin; 8vo; 338 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 338 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Near Fine- (moderate soiling, wear to front, back; clean/bright inside, no foxing)/na (as issued; illustrated boards). 1st/First Edition, 3rd/Third Printing. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. This is a first edition, 2nd impression, 1929 copy presented in a worn and torn wrapper. There is even a small cup ring on the back. We can only hope the consumer of the beverage in question enjoyed their drink as much as we are enjoying the remnants of it. Is the original cup still intact, or broken and chipped? There is some foxing to the page edges and a little on a few pages, around but not on the text. It's all feint, by and large.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Some variation in color on the cover. P/o names inside with dates and number. Darkening to the page edges from age. There is a cut out portrait under the name 'Phoebe Fenwick Gaye' that is pasted down, and seems to be done by a previous owner. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

First Edition. Sugar dustjacket art. Novel of Napoleon's march on Moscow and a wine-seller who follows the army. Near Fine in Good plus dustjacket, spine ends chipped half-inch deep.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 320. VG in chipped dj. Author's popular first book. An historical novel about Napoleon's troops advancing on Moscow, and the adventures of a lovely French wineseller who marched along with them.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. GAYE, Phoebe Fenwick. Vivandière! London: Martin Secker. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's pale green cloth lettered in black to the spine and upper board, in the excellent dust jacket designed by John Austen. A smart example, the cloth clean and bright, the textblock a little dust-marked at top edge, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean with a couple of minor marks only. Publisher's printed catalogue loosely inserted. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, which is darkened and slightly rubbed, with a few short chips around the spine head and tail. One of the author's best received novels, which follows a young woman, a vivandièrea dealer in goods and provisions aligned to the militaryon her journey with Napoleon's doomed Russian campaign of 1812. The book is set in three parts; the journey to Russia, in Russia, and the retreat from Russia, and is told consistently through the eyes of the woman; romance ensues. Gaye was a very popular author in her timethis novel was in its third printing by the end of the year. She was an associate of Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Vera Brittain, Naomi Mitchison, and others, but unlike all of these, struggled to dust off a middlebrow reputation. In an excellent tongue-in-cheek poem from 1937, she expresses this frustration: I've written my dozen of novels I've signed autographs by the score (and my portrait in oils and my photo at Foyles) And I've spoken at Harrods at four; The money is never a problem I sell like the proverbial hot cake; And the libraries fight for each word that I write, Yet I have this incurable ache: Refrain I wanna be known as a Highbrow. I want my prestige to go up; I don't want romance I want Mr Gollancz And a par. in the dear old Lit. Sup. To hell with my library public; To hell with a cheaper edition; A sentence or two in a weekly review Remains my unswerving ambition. OH! I wanna turn into a Classic I'm as good as the next on the list I want some indication, from the Statesman and Nation That I as an author exist. To hell with the Book of the Month club; And my serial rights in Cathay I wanna be known as a Highbrow And I don't care what Hutchinson's say!