Journey From the North - Autobiography - Volume 1 by Storm Jameson

Random House, Incorporated, 1986. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Collins & Harvill, 1970. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Some wear & tear to the dust jacket. Slight edge wear and toning to pages.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Random House, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Hardback. New. After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extraordinary reckoning with how she had lived: her childhood in Whitby, shadowed by a tempestuous, dissatisfied mother; an early, unhappy marriage and her decision to leave her young son behind while she worked in London; a tenaciously pursued literary career, always marked by the struggle to make money; and her lifelong political activism, including as the first female president of English PEN, helping refugees escape Nazi Germany. In a richly ironic, conversational voice, Jameson tells of the great figures she knew and events she witnessed: encounters with H.G. Wells and Rose Macaulay, and travels across Europe as fascism was rising. Throughout, she writes with electric candour and immediacy about her own motivations and psychology. Reissued with an introduction by Vivian Gornick, Journey from the North is one of the great literary… Read More

London: Collins Harvill, 1969 clipped dust jacket has rubbing wear to joints and edges, book tidy, 415pp + plates, volume one of her memoirs. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Harvill P. : Collins , 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 384 pages, 4 plates: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Subjects: Jameson, Storm 1891-1986. Jameson, Storm 1891-1986; Biography. Authors, English 20th century; Biography.