- Author = May Sarton
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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 -
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: Ex-library, with all the usual flaws, front endpaper removed, dust jacket somewhat rubbed, edgeworn, tear to back cover.
Book ID: 2156More details Price: $12.50 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
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 -
THE SMALL ROOM
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Norton, 1961. A novel about women in academic life, set on the campus of a New England college.
Condition: Near fine in glossy printed wrappers (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 5898More details Price: $8.50 -
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 -
AMONG THE USUAL DAYS, A PORTRAIT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Unpublished poems, letters, journals and photographs, selected and edited by Susan Sherman. Preface by May Sarton. Index. Slighly oversized, and profusely illustrated with photographs - a very attractive book. ISBN: 0-393-034518.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 7805More details Price: $28.50 -
THE MAGNIFICENT SPINSTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1985. 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: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 10712More details Price: $17.50 -
A PRIVATE MYTHOLOGY: New Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poems written partly to commenorate a trip taken around the world as a celebration of her 50th birthday.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (small bookplate on front pastedown, light edgewear to dj with some short closed tears.)
Book ID: 11391More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
I KNEW A PHOENIX: Sketches for an Autobiography.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Rinehart, 1959. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Sarton with an uncommon signature - 'for Mary, for auld lang syne, from Day Mountain Ray'
Condition: Near fine in a fair only dust jacket (fading to spine, closed tear with associated creasing and a small chip at upper edge of front cover of dj, other wear at ends of spine, foxing to flaps of dj.)
Book ID: 29990More details Price: $65.00 -
A WORLD OF LIGHT: Portraits and Celebrations
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Celebrations of those who live on in Sarton's memory: her parents, George and Mabel, writers Elizabeth Bowen and Louise Bogan, fellow residents of Nelson and many others. Illustrated. Erratum slip laid in. ISBN: 0-393-075060.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (tear at upper edge of dj, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 20453More details Price: $17.50 -
AFTER THE STROKE. A Journal.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Journal written as her way to find her way back to health after suffering a stroke at age 73. ISBN: 0-393-025330.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 21325More details Price: $20.00 -
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: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 21326More details Price: $25.00 -
THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton,, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful story of a woman opening a bookstore - 320 pp. ISBN: 0-393-026957.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23570More details Price: $16.00 -
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 -
THE SINGLE HOUND.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Norton, 1991. Sarton's first novel, originally published in 1938. ISBN: 0-393-307859.
Condition: Very good in wrappers (some toning to the pages, curling to covers.).
Book ID: 23655More details Price: $9.00 -
MISS PICKTHORN AND MR. HARE: A Fable.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This simple tale set in a small New England village is a 'quiet tender allegory of love, neighbors, independence and the true function of solitude. Illustrated with drawings by James J. Spanfeller. 92 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 80254More details Price: $25.00 -
FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Rinehart, 1955. dj. Hardcover - Her fifth novel - described as a vivid dramatization of the plight of the embattled American liberal during the McCarthy era. Set in the world of Harvard and Cambridge. 281 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket. (the usual rather severe toning to the paper, but otherwise a tight and clean copy, light edgewear to dj, with original price of 3.00 still present on dustjacket.)
Book ID: 76386More details Price: $18.50 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
BRIDGE OF YEARS.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1946. dj. 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: Good only in a like dustjacket (some dampstaining to the green cloth, which caused bleeding onto the interior of the dustjacket, a bit of staining to the edge of the rear endpaper, none in the text, price-clipped) Despite the flaws, this is a straight and attractive copy- the dustjacket is quite bright and with an archival protector on, it shows very well. A good hole-filler for a book which is becoming hard to find in dustjacket.
Book ID: 29989More details Price: $50.00 -
CONVERSATIONS WITH MAY SARTON.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78982More details Price: $18.00 -
SARTON SELECTED: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poems of May Sarton.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive anthology of Sarton's works, with introductory essays by Daziel and Constance Hunting and essay on writing by Sarton herself. Includes selections from thirteen of her books of poetry (covering a period from 1930 to 1988), eight autobiographical writings, an excerpt from the novel 'A Reckoning' and the complete 1973 short novel 'As We Are Now' about a former teacher's confinement in a nursing home. A wonderful sampler of the varied output of this extraordinary woman writer. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029689.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 38769More details Price: $25.00 -
SARTON SELECTED: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poems of May Sarton.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive anthology of Sarton's works, with introductory essays by Daziel and Constance Hunting and essay on writing by Sarton herself. Includes selections from thirteen of her books of poetry (covering a period from 1930 to 1988), eight autobiographical writings, an excerpt from the novel 'A Reckoning' and the complete 1973 short novel 'As We Are Now' about a former teacher's confinement in a nursing home. A wonderful sampler of the varied output of this extraordinary woman writer. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029689.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55479More details Price: $20.00
