Kay Boyle's second novel, Year Before Last, was published in 1932 by Harrison Smith in New York and by Faber and Faber in London, in each case a true edition from different settings of type. Matthew J. Bruccoli, the textual editor of the Cross currents/Modern Fiction series, has used the Harrison Smith edition in preparing this volume which is unique in the annals of textual editing of a modern novel because the emendations in the copy-text have been approved by the author. Harry T. Moore has provided a Preface which ...
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Kay Boyle's second novel, Year Before Last, was published in 1932 by Harrison Smith in New York and by Faber and Faber in London, in each case a true edition from different settings of type. Matthew J. Bruccoli, the textual editor of the Cross currents/Modern Fiction series, has used the Harrison Smith edition in preparing this volume which is unique in the annals of textual editing of a modern novel because the emendations in the copy-text have been approved by the author. Harry T. Moore has provided a Preface which considers this work in relation to Miss Boyle's development as a novelist. Mr. Bruccoli's Note on the Text provides information about both the 1932 editions and lists the emendations. Against the background of the French Riviera we watch the unfolding of the story of a young woman who has left her husband for another man, a poet of compelling personality. Their love affair is complicated by the insane jealousy of an older woman which leads them to acts of desperation. This novel of love and hate moves forward in swift incident and action to a dramatic end.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (fiction, poets, historical) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Add this copy of Year Before Last to cart. $26.50, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Smith.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition thus. Octavo. Two page preface by Harry T. Moore. Dust jacket (price clipped). Very good. 224 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
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Very Good. FIRST EDITION. New York: Harrison Smith, 1932. About Very Good in like dust jacket. Light staining to fore edge, bookplate on paste down. Spine panel darkened, small bits of nibbling along back panel's top and fore edges, price intact. An OK. copy.
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Very good book in a very good dust jacket. 373 pages. First Edition. Boyle s third book and second novel, set among the gay, careless crowd in the South of France. Very good, with paper cracked at rear hinge and owner name on front endpaper, in very good dustjacket with small chip at top edge of rear panel, very light toning to spine panel and other light edge wear.
Add this copy of Year Before Last to cart. $157.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Faber & Faber.
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Very good(-) 320pp., 8vo, original drab olive wrappers, cocked; light wear; paper spine label. London: Faber & Faber, (1932). First English Edition. PROOF COPY, housed in a patterned board slipcase. Autographed on the title page.
