Search Results: Stevenson, D.E from Anglophile Books

Lancaster, CA: Anglophile Books. As New. c1940 & 1943, 2002. First Edition Thus. Softcover. A new booklet with a tape binding.; <b>D.E. Stevenson (Dorothy Emily Peploe) is best known as a novelist, publishing almost a novel a year from the mid 1903's until her retirement in 1970. Her books of children's poetry were published in 1940 in the US and in 1943 in Great Britain. They have long been out of print. This volume, published by arrangement with her heirs, combines the poems from both books and makes them available to many of her admirers for the first time.</b> .

Edinburgh: Greyladies. New. c1940, 2014. First Edition Thus. Softcover; Trade PB. A new book. All copies received from printer with very light edgewear and faint horizontal ripples on spines. ; <b>This novel was written in 1940, near the beginning of World War II. It is set in England before, and just after, the start of World War II. In 1938 Franz von Heiden, son of a Nazi official and an Englishwoman who died when he was a child, comes to England to visit his English cousins. Life in England is not what he expected, and he reports this to his father back in Germany. Completed on 29 February, 1940, before the US had entered the war, DES hoped this book would explain the British attitude to the war to her American readers.</b>This edition now out of print. Image is one of actual copies on offer. .

London: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1953. First British Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth binding, spine ends and bottom corners lightly bumped, front hinge beginning to split at pastedown as is often seen with Collins editions from this time. Yellowed page edges have a few tiny soil marks; interior pages clean. Small bookseller label on rear pastedown. Unclipped dust wrapper, lightly edgeworn and soiled, spine head reinforced with tape on inside by previous owner. Once white rear panel now age browned. One of the nicer copies we've seen.; <B>One of the rather scarce titles by this wonderful author. Set in the Scottish Border country and London.</b> Images are actual copy available. .

Edinburgh: Greyladies. New. 2013. Softcover; Trade PB. A new book. ; <b>A selection from the unpublished papers 'found in the attic' by the author's granddaughter. They include short stories (including a gentle revenge on critics, an eccentric maid, a ventriloquist desperate for work and a very human burglar); verse (a burlesque, some war poems); two delightfully witty one-act plays, and articles and talks on books and writing. Illustrated with some wonderful family photographs. The articles on books and writing especially offer a compelling insight into this beloved author. Recommended.</b>This edition now out of print. .

Edinburgh: Greyladies. New. 2013. First Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. A new book. ; Probably written c.1917, this novel opens in 1913 with the Erskine family moving from Edinburgh to the Scottish east coast village of Crale, where Jeans life is transformed by her friendship with Diana MacDonald of Crale Castle. She writes a book telling Dianas story; of friendships and love affairs, of family and village life, all shadowed by the much darker themes of the Great War and devastating inherited conditions. At the heart of the story is the secret, known only to Jean, that threatens Dianas hard-won happiness.; One of the darker books by this author. As with some of her other very early work, this is for a reader that is already a DE Stevenson admirer. This edition now out-of-print. .

Edinburgh: Greyladies. New. c1956, 2015. Softcover; Trade PB. A new book. ; <b>'In Number Six Kirkaldy Crescent lives Mrs Lenox and her five children (all in their late teens or early twenties). Number Four, the house next door, is occupied by Miss Dorothea Balfour, a gentle and unassuming spinster who was constantly surprised to find "how astonishingly nice and good people were when you knew them....What she did not know and would not have believed was that the people who knew her could not help living up to her belief in their good qualities." It seemed only natural that a warm relationship should develop between the occupants of the two houses. This is a charming story of the friendship which blossoms between people who are so outwardly different and of the happiness it bring to both households.'<p>From the 1956 dust wrapper: "Molly Clavering was born in Glasgow, but lived in the country from a very early age. After six years service with the WRNS,… Read More

Edinburgh: Greyladies. New. c1923, 2013. First Edition Thus. Softcover; Trade PB. A new book.; <b>Originally published only in the Britain in 1923, this was D.E. Stevenson's first published novel. Set in Kintoul, Scotland, a beautiful Highland village with a tumbling river, a ruined castle, and pine-clad hills. This love story "follows the mingled fortunes of the crofters, the minister and doctor, and those at Kintoul House -- Peter West and the shades of his mother. This is a world where integrity and honour stand firm against the easy path, and despite many a wrong turning, are the only sure way to lasting happiness."</b>; This edition now out-of-print. .

NY: Sheridan House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper. 2001. First US Edition. Hardcover. 281 pages. A new copy received with a faintly bumped spine head and faint edgewear to unclipped dust wrapper. A lovely copy.; <b>'Tracing the path of Stevenson's fateful South Seas journey. An enchanting mix of high seas adventure and a fresh view on the fragile writer, this is an illuminating and respectful approach to the author's exploratory journeys.'</b> .