Rage Of The Soul (Only Signed Copy for Sale on the Internet)

Vincent Sheean

Published by Random House, New York, 1952

Stated First Printing, First Edition. Once listed, this will be the Only signed copy for sale anywhere on the Internet. The inscription is on the first front end paper. It reads 'For the Baileys, Peggy and David, with best wishes, JVS.' Below that he wrote ' Vincent Sheean, June 4. 1952.' (So two signatures for the price of one!-- His full name was James Vincent Sheean). You can see the covers of the book in the photos. There are a few light spots on the front cover. The spine is faded to a lighter brown. Some of the lettering on the spine has a little bit of wear, more so with the publisher's name. There is one tiny nick to the front middle edge. The edges are otherwise free of wear. The corners are in very good shape, the front bottom one has a tiny bit of light rubbing. The book has a definite forward lean, but it is very solidly bound with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The top page edge is black. The page edges look good. So do all the pages in the book. I scrolled through them several times without finding any instances of soiling. The tip of the bottom corners have a teeny tiny semi-crease. There are no turned-down corners or placeholder creases. There are no markings. No attachments. And with the exception of the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. "To those who read Lead Kindly Light and shared through that Sheean's mystical experience with Gandhi in search of peace, this novel will come as something of a shock. For here he tells, in convincing terms, the story of a very troubled lady who goes to India, seeking help and understanding, and finds it, but not through her contact with mysticism and asceticism, not through her time of contemplation in a "clean and tidy Ashram". All of that she found faintly ridiculous, unreal (and one senses that to Sheean, also, it has become unreal). Through a young Hindu she has a more enlightening experience in meeting his guru, and learns that her own readiness is vital, and that when that comes she will find the answer in her own heart. The story is told in counterpoint: first her story, as she journeys half a world away from her husband, learns that she is at times possessed wholly, unreasonably, by a purely physical lust, the object meaningless to her, and that she must understand this in herself before she can accept-- and bring her husband to accept-- her undeviating love for him; second- and alternating thereafter- the story of her husband and his brief but spectacular involvement in "the Affaire Sneeze", when his interest in human beings in trouble persuades him to help a couple escape the closing-in of the Soviet net." --Kirkus Reviews. 'James Vincent Sheean was an American journalist and novelist. Sheean's most famous work was Personal History. It won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Distinguished Biography of 1935. Film producer Walter Wanger acquired the political memoir and made it the basis for his 1940 film production Foreign Correspondent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Sheean served as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune during the Spanish Civil War. Sheean wrote the narration for the feature-length documentary Crisis (1939) directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline. He translated Ève Curie's biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1939), into English. He wrote Oscar Hammerstein I: Life and Exploits of an Impresario (1955) as well as a controversial biography of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy and Red (1963). He studied at the University of Chicago, becoming part of a literary circle which included Glenway Wescott, Yvor Winters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Janet Lewis. Vincent and Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean were friends of Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen; they spent time together on Ragged Island off the coast of Maine during the summer of 1945.'. Seller Inventory # 003897

Bibliographic Details

Title: Rage Of The Soul (Only Signed Copy for Sale ...
Publisher: Random House, New York
Publication Date: 1952
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good Minus
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition