Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria
Victoria Glendinning was born in the north of England and read French and Spanish at Oxford. Her first book was A Suppressed Cry, a family memoir about her Quaker great-aunt. She has written biographies of Edith Sitwell (which won the James Tait Black Award and the Duff Cooper Prize), Vita Sackville-West (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Rebecca West, Anthony Trollope (Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf. She co-edited Mothers and Sons with her son Matthew Glendinning, and has published three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity, and Flight. She reviews books for national newspapers and journals, has been a judge of the W. H. Smith Prize and other literary awards, and chair of the judges of the Booker Prize. From 2000-03 she was president of English PEN. She is an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and was awarded a CBE in 1998.
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography
by Glendinning, Victoria
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- 1978
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New York, 1978. Stated First American Edition 1978 8vo sized hardcover with dust jacket; 331 deckle edged pages plus a glossy 16-page section of black and white photographs From jacket: "In this richly detailed biography, (the author) brings alive the last of the great Anglo-Irish novelists, a brilliant and fascinating woman whose literary achievements were equaled only… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria (Biography of Elizabeth Bowen.)
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf [0-394-40533-1] 1978, 1st American edition. (Hardcover) 331pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Top edge stained red. Photographs, bibliography, index. Remainder mark on the bottom edge. "In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the last of the great Anglo-Irish novelists, a brilliant and fascinating woman whose… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen: portrait of a writer
by Victoria Glendinning
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Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977 Signed by the author to the title page, with an inscription to 'my dear godmother'. Name and inscription to ffep, otherwise clean, sound, good, in creased and chipped, mended, good DJ. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen: portrait of a writer
by Victoria Glendinning
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Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977 Signed by the author to the title page ('for Felicity my dear godmother'). Small dent to the lower edge of the front board, name and inscription to ffep, otherwise generally VG, in creased, chipped, mended DJ, good only. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Victoria Glendinning
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[ Edition: First ]. Fair Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: Avon Pub Date: 1/1/1977 Binding: Paperback Pages: 306 Item Price
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ELIZABETH BOWEN
by Glendinning, Victoria
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Knopf, 1978. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/NEAR FINE. xvii, 331 pp. Dyed head edge, deckled fore edge. 16 unnumbered plates. Very clean and tight, minor rubbing to extremities, discreet bookplate to FPEP, otherwise sharp. DJ price clipped, bright and crisp. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen: Edith Sitwell: Portrait of a Writer
by Glendinning, Victoria
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Elizabeth Bowen.
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New York: Knopf, 1978. First American Edition. Octavo, cloth & boards, (hardcover), xvii, 331 pp. Photos, portraits. Light stains on fore-edge and lower edge of text block; otherwise, clean and tight in a chipped dust jacket. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1978-01-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. Minor shelf wear to binding & edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj shelf worn with creases, light soiling, toning, small stains & tears. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by [Bowen, Elizabeth] Victoria Glendinning
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Hardcover. xvii, 331p. + 16p. photos, foreword, select bibliography, notes, books by Bowen, index, very good later printing of the US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Very faint remainder stamp to bottom page edges. Grier B*. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by GLENDINNING, Victoria
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Spine toned, cover stained, modest wear, first leaf with a bit of shallow loss, a bit of inking in the foreword, about very good. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Biography
by Victoria Glendinning
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Content appears as unopened, unread & unblemished in near fine wraps displaying no significant surface/edge wear as shown. Spinal reinforcement. In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living. Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by GLENDINNING, Victoria
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. 331 [1]pp. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates. Foxing on the foredges with faded boards, very good in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with age-toning, a culaccino on the front panel, and a few chips on the corners. A biography. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
by Glendinning, Victoria
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria
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- 1977
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Random House Trade, 1977. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Victoria Glendinning
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- 1979
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Avon Books (Mm), 1979. First discus printing. Paperback. Very Good. Sun fading on spine or cover.. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1978-01-01. Hardcover. good/FAIR. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped lightly worn jacket. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Victoria Glendinning
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- 1978
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Random House Children's Books, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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Elizabeth Bowen
by Glendinning, Victoria
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