Selected Letters of Rebecca West by West, Rebecca. Edited By Bonnie Kime Scott

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) dampstain few pages. ISBN 0300079044 497pp.

(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) 0300079044. 8vo; original biscuit-coloured cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xlvi + (ii) + 497, incl. index; photographs. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed; trace of fishmothing to edges of cloth; binding a little slack; occasional fox spot. Good to very good condition. "The letters include correpondence with West's famous lover H. G. Wells and with [George Bernard] Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Emma Goldman, J. B. Priestley, Noel Coward and many others. They offer pronouncements on such personalities as Norman Mailer, Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Tynan, Victoria Glendinning, Nadine Gordimer, Lawrence Durrell and William Burroughs; and provide new insights into her battles against misogyny, fascism and communism. Rebecca West deliberately fashions her own biography through this intensely personal correspondence, challenging rival accounts of her groundbreaking professional career, her frustrating love life and her… Read More

New York, New York: Yale University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Dust jacket protector included.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2000. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; one crease on rear dj flap; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition..

2000. 1st Edition. Very Good/Very Good. The Selected Letters of Rebecca West. Yale University Press, 2000. Hardcover, 496 pages. Very Good/Very Good. Front board very slighty curved at edge, touch of light soiling to closed page block, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Light shelfwear to jacket. This collection of West's letters is the first ever published and has been culled from the estimated ten thousand she wrote during her long life. The more than two hundred selected letters follow this spirited author, critic, and journalist from her first feminist campaign for women's suffrage when she was a teenager through her reassessments of the twentieth century written in 1982, in her ninetieth year. The letters, which are presented in full, include correspondence with West's famous lover H.G. Wells and with Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Emma Goldman, Noel Coward, among many others; they offer pronouncements on such contemporary authors as Norman Mailer, Nadine Gordimer, and Arthur… Read More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xlvi [i], 497pp. Illus. d.j.with a photo portrait of West to the cover. No inscriptions, wear, marks, or fading. Part of the publisher's Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity.. 1st edition, 1st impression. Hardback. Fine/Fine. large 8vo.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. large Octavo. Type: Book pp xlvi, 497. 1st printing. DJ which shows slight use is in plastic protective cover.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xlvi, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: West, Rebecca Dame 1892-1983. West, Rebecca ; Correspondence. Genre: Biography. Language: English.

Hardback. New. The politics and writings of Rebecca West have always ellicited strong reactions. This collection of her letters includes correspondence with such luminaries as George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, and her famous lover H.G. Wells, and offers pronouncements on misogyny, fascism and communism.