The stories in this extraordinary first collection are concerned with some of the most private and complicated issues: living and dying, growing old, questioning one's beliefs, and recognizing one's own failings. Whether it is an old man struggling to come to terms with an incident in his past or a meddling spinster who is forced to recognize the subtle dance of resentment, in each of these stories a "gentle insurrection" occurs that changes lives forever.
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The stories in this extraordinary first collection are concerned with some of the most private and complicated issues: living and dying, growing old, questioning one's beliefs, and recognizing one's own failings. Whether it is an old man struggling to come to terms with an incident in his past or a meddling spinster who is forced to recognize the subtle dance of resentment, in each of these stories a "gentle insurrection" occurs that changes lives forever.
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May have heavy foxing to page edges. Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: Octavo; Green cloth hardcovers little age-toned and edges. Interior clean, binding secure. Jacket is rubbed and edgeworn with few little nicks and tears and couple small pieces missing.
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Used; Very Good. Putnam Pub Group. Used; Very Good. Putnam, 1954, Hardcover. First Edition. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside cover. Book has very slight pencil markings throughout. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1954. First Edition. HARDCOVER.
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Good in Good jacket. Signed by Author(s) Signed. A Good copy in green cloth, in a Good dust jacket with general light edge-wear, and a tear at the top edge of the rear panel. There is a short tape-mend on the verso, at the head of the spine. The jacket is not price-clipped. Tanning/foxing at the foredge, clean within, and with a paper-clip mark (but no tearing) at the top edge of the second blank endpaper. Signed by the author at the title page. A ten-line handwritten postcard signed by the author is laid in.
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1954
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Published:
1954
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English
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BETTS, Doris. THE GENTLE INSURRECTION AND OTHER STORIES. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1954]. 8vo., green cloth in dust jacket; 274 pages. First Edition of author's first book. Winner of the first Putnam University of North Carolina Prize Contest. Betts (1932-2012) was Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina. Lengthy and personal signed presentation from Betts on the front endpaper: "For Petree-In memory and gratitude for many happy times together, and for warmest good wishes for the future-Incidentally, I'll always regret we didn't have our year at N.C. as roommates, but somehow Lowry appealed to me more in that respect...All kinds of love, Doris Betts." Ink name of "Nancy P." at the very top of the page. Very Good (contents clean & tight); little wear & soil (tiny nicks or shallow chips, few short tears internally repaired with clear, archival tape; $3.50 price is present on the front flap) d/j. $275.00.
