Search Results: The Left Bank & Other Stories by Jean Rhys

1970. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 8vo. - First Published 1927 - Spine ends slightly crushed - Gilt lettering to spine faded - Scratch to spine centre - Edges of text block toned and foxed - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - 256 pages

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, American issue, utilizing the British sheets and a cancel title page. Preface by Ford Madox Ford. Blue cloth with printed spine label. A very good copy with minor rubbing and soiling, without dust jacket. A collection of 22 Rhys short stories set in Paris during the 1920s. Ford, a mentor to Rhys, helped bring this collection to publication and requested permission to author the book's long Preface in which he notes the author's profound knowledge of the Left Bank in Paris. Of the collection, Ford stated "One likes, in short to be connected with something good, and Miss Rhys's work seems to me to be very good, so vivid, so extraordinarily distinguished by the rendering of passion, and so true, that I wish to be connected with it." A Very Good copy of this very uncommon scarce first edition of the Dominican-born author's debut book.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition. First edition, first printing. 256pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with paper spine label. Good+, slight lean, crimped ends, well-toned spine and label; soiling to extremities; offset endpapers. Lacking jacket. The debut collection of short stories by Dominican author Jean Rhys, set in the bohemian Left Bank of Paris. With a preface by the author's lover and editor Ford Madox Ford.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Ford Madox Ford. Yellow cloth with paper spine label. Spine and label a bit toned, else a nice very good or better copy without the dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First US Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth with paper title label. Wrapped in the rare dust jacket with $2.00 price. Printed from the UK sheets with cancel title page. Author's first book illuminating her bohemian life style in Paris. Dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and corner but still a sharp jacket and thus uncommon..