- Author = May Sarton
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THE GIRL IN THE BLACK RAINCOAT: Variations on a Theme.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - As Garrett explains in his introduction, this started as a classroom assignment when the real "girl in the black raincoat" had to drop out of his creative writing class, and one of the students wrote a story about her - but it soon grew into a sort of game, and eventually resulted in this very unusal collection of 41 pieces,short stories and poems - all except one written specifically for this challenge. Among the contributors are Shelby Foote, Annie Dillard, May Sarton, Babette Deutsch, Carolyn Kizer, Kelly Cherry, Mary Lee Settle, Fred Chappell, William Manchester, Donald Justice with Mark Strand, Barbara Harris, David Slavitt and many others. Brief notes on the contributors. 368 pp,
Condition: Very good in very good minus dust jacket. (prev owner's name, tear with associated creasing on back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 37663More details Price: $20.00 -
THE POET AND THE DONKEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous and lyrical tale set in an imaginary village in New Hampshire. Illustrations by Stefan Martin.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (slight hint of spine slant, some soiling to white background of rear cover of dj.)
Book ID: 16391More details Price: $35.00 -
HALFWAY TO SILENCE: New Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Norton, 1980. A slim collection of lyric poems. Index. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-393-009920.
Condition: Good condition (foxing to edges of textblock.)
Book ID: 44897More details Price: $10.00 -
ENDGAME, a Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A journal which recounts a year of debilitating weakness in her life -but also one in which Sarton's creative spirit was still able to triumph - with the help of friends - over the frailties of her aging body. Illustrated with photographs. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-393-033465.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (short closed tear to upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 45770More details Price: $13.50 -
I KNEW A PHOENIX: Sketches for an Autobiography.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Norton, n.d. [1969.] dj. Hardcover - Reissued as a companion piece to her other autobiographical work, 'Plant Dreaming Deep.' Memoirs of her Belgian background, the influence of her parents, her years at Shady Hill school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her apprenticeship at Eva LeGalliene's repertory theater in New York City, and her trips to London where she met Virginia Woolf and Richard Koteliansky, among others. Frontispiece photograph of Sarton and her father. 222 pp.
Condition: Fine in a good only dust jacket (several edgetears to dj, with taped repairs on the interior, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 46435More details Price: $18.00 -
A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED: New Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Norton, 1971. SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED by Sarton on the first blank page ('Inscribed for Louise Young') and dated in the year of publication - Milwaukee, March 9, 1971. Uncommon signed. ISBN: 0-393-043444.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 27328More details Price: $45.00 -
CLOUD, STONE, SUN, VINE: Poems Selected and New
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive selection: in addition to selections from 4 previous volumes, arranged thematically, this also includes 27 new poems. 144 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tears at top edge and along side of spine.)
Book ID: 27274More details Price: $45.00 -
ANGER.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Norton,, 1996. Novel originally published in 1982. ISBN: 0-393-313891.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 25851More details Price: $10.00 -
A RECKONING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's 16th novel, the story of a woman with inoperable cancer who wants only to be allowed to die in her own way, and realizes that it is the 'real connections' which matter most in these last days. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-088286.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (few light foxing spots on half title page and fore-edge.)
Book ID: 35652More details Price: $25.00 -
COMING INTO EIGHTY.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Norton, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wonderful collection - Sarton in her preface writes "here I am, writing poems in my seventy-ninth and eightieth years, and the reason is partly because I am a foreigner in the land of old age and have tried to learn its language." Warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper in Sarton's miniscule handwriting, but less legible than usual. Laid in the program for the Service in Celebration of the Life of May Sarton, Nelson, New Hampshire, Sat Oct 7, 1995. 80 pp plus 16 pp program in stiff stapled wrappers. ISBN: 0-393-036898.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Program is also very near fine.
Book ID: 56625More details Price: $200.00 -
THE SMALL ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's eighth novel - a 'perceptive, deeply questioning novel of a New England college.' 249 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (gift inscription - for a 'devoted teacher'.)
Book ID: 41077More details Price: $30.00 -
CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Norton, (1980, c 1975.). A novel about a woman who literally 'explodes' out of a suffocating marriage - a serious look at how traditional social expectations can stifle an individual: a burden borne, in our society, most often by married women. ISBN: 0-393-009866.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 32990More details Price: $10.00 -
AS WE ARE NOW.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Norton, (1973.) dj. Hardcover - Described as a "short swift blow of a novel" - the story of an old woman trying to stay alive in a nursing home. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-393-083721.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63317More details Price: $15.00 -
CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a woman who literally 'explodes' out of a suffocating marriage - a serious look at how traditional social expectations can stifle an individual: a burden borne, in our society, most often by married women. ISBN: 0-393-087255.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (hint of spine slant, short closed tear to back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 35708More details Price: $18.00 -
INNER LANDSCAPE: Poems.
Edition: First US printing from English sheets.
Condition: Near fine in coarse beige cloth with blue and rust lettering in a good only dust jacket with some chipping to upper edge, toning to the spine and other wear. Still very uncommon in dustjacket and especially so inscribed by Sarton in the year of publication.
Book ID: 50000More details Price: $400.00 -
THE MAGNIFICENT SPINSTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a woman whose life escapes conventional expectations and of a 50 year friendship between two remarkable women. 379 pp. ISBN: 0-39302220x.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (closed tear to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 82977More details Price: $18.50 -
BRIDGE OF YEARS.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1946. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sarton's second novel, set in Belgium - the country where Sarton was born - in the years of peace which formed a bridge between the two world wars. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For . . . in grateful remembrance of a house long ago, with love" and dated in 1986. 342 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in green cloth with a bit of mottling to the front cover, spine lettering rubbed, but tight binding in a good only and very fragile dustjacket which is beginning to separate along the side of the spine, has a few small chips, etc. Original price of $2.50 still present..
Book ID: 72250More details Price: $85.00 -
A RECKONING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's 16th novel, the story of a woman with inoperable cancer who wants only to be allowed to die in her own way, and realizes that it is the 'real connections' which matter most in these last days. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-088286.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant, pc)
Book ID: 2152More details Price: $20.00 -
CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Gollancz, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a woman who literally 'explodes' out of a suffocating marriage - a serious look at how traditional social expectations can stifle an individual: a burden borne, in our society, most often by married women. ISBN: 0-575-020571.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj, rem line.)
Book ID: 15113More details Price: $40.00 -
SELECTED POEMS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Norton, (1978). First edition - Edited and with an introduction by Serena Sue Hilsinger and Lois Brynes. ISBN: 0-393-045129.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (some spotting to top edge of textblock).
Book ID: 69238More details Price: $12.50 -
ENDGAME, a Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A journal which recounts a year of debilitating weakness in her life -but also one in which Sarton's creative spirit was still able to triumph - with the help of friends - over the frailties of her aging body. Illustrated with photographs. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-393-033465.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (appears unread, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 34499More details Price: $14.00 -
ANGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The exploration of the inner landscape of a marriage. ISBN: 0-393-016439.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (small chip at top of spine on dj.)
Book ID: 41401More details Price: $20.00 -
ANGER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The exploration of the inner landscape of a marriage. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-393-016439.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 7567More details Price: $25.00 -
BRIDGE OF YEARS.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1946. Hardcover first edition - Sarton's second novel, set in Belgium - the country where Sarton was born - in the years of peace which formed a bridge between the two world wars. 342 pp.
Condition: Very good in green cloth, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 72251More details Price: $25.00 -
CLOUD, STONE, SUN, VINE: Poems Selected and New
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive selection: in addition to selections from 4 previous volumes, arranged thematically, this also includes 27 new poems. 144 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good dustjacket (some discoloring to edge of text block, part of author's name and most of the word "Cloud" missing from dj spine, pc, other small chips.) Still, a very nice copy of one of Sarton's less common books.
Book ID: 4821More details Price: $25.00 -
AFTER THE STROKE. A Journal.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1988. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: NF/NF (pc, rem line)
Book ID: 2168More details Price: $12.50 -
THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful story of a woman opening a bookstore -. ISBN: 0-393-026957.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dj (prev owner's stamp on half title pg)
Book ID: 2161More details Price: $14.00 -
THE MAGNIFICENT SPINSTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a woman whose life escapes conventional expectations and of a 50 year friendship between two remarkable women. 379 pp. ISBN: 0-39302220x.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good + dj (2 short closed tears, crease on front flap)
Book ID: 2159More details Price: $16.50 -
THE MAGNIFICENT SPINSTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a woman whose life escapes conventional expectations and of a 50 year friendship between two remarkable women. 379 pp. ISBN: 0-39302220x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 2158More details Price: $25.00 -
CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a woman who literally 'explodes' out of a suffocating marriage - a serious look at how traditional social expectations can stifle an individual: a burden borne, in our society, most often by married women. ISBN: 0-393-087255.
Condition: Ex-library, tight copy but with usual stamps, pocket, dj is pc, closed tears.
Book ID: 2157More details Price: $12.50
