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Published by W. W. Norton & Company (edition First Edition), 2010
ISBN 10: 0393338576ISBN 13: 9780393338577
Seller: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
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Published by Granta Books, United Kingdom, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847084281ISBN 13: 9781847084286
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way. In this classic modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness. Yet for all its unhappiness, Instead of a Letter remains a story of hope, written with the frank intelligence and lack of self-pity that have become the hallmarks of Athill's writing. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Avalon Publishing, 1984
ISBN 10: 0881840467ISBN 13: 9780881840469
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Granta Books, 2006
ISBN 10: 1862074542ISBN 13: 9781862074545
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Granta Books, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1783787430ISBN 13: 9781783787432
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way.In this classic modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness. Yet for all its unhappiness, Instead of a Letter remains a story of hope, written with the frank intelligence and lack of self-pity that have become the hallmarks of Athill's writing.'Her first and still most perfect perfect book' - LiteraryReview'The reader sees the transformation of the battered soul into a buoyant woman,open-minded and open-hearted' - Hilary Mantel Athill's debut, and a modern classic memoir: a moving story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope during the second world war. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Granta Books, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1783787899ISBN 13: 9781783787890
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrated memoirs.Edited, selected and introduced by Athill, and annotated with her own delightful notes, this collection of those letters reveals a sharply intelligent woman with a keen eye for the absurd, a brilliant turn of phrase and a wicked sense of humour. Covering her career as an editor, the adventure of her retirement, her immersion in her own writing and her reactions to becoming unexpectedly famous in her old-age, and including gossip about mutual friends, sharp pen portraits, and uninhibited accounts her relationships - and ailments - Instead of a Book gives a wonderful description of a woman growing older without ever losing her zest for life. A collection of candid, entertaining letters, spanning thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 168137613XISBN 13: 9781681376134
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Diana Athill, nearly forty-three and far from a household name, sat down to write Instead of a Letter, the first in her series of trailblazing memoirs, she was looking for an answer to the question What have I lived for? In this searching book, she recalls her child-hood on her grandparents magnificent estate, the teenage romance that was certain to lead to marriage, her university days coinciding with the Second World War, and the sudden dissolution of her engagement, a loss that became the defining experience of the next twenty years of her life. Athill is as forthright in confessing her faults as she is in celebrating her triumphs. From this table, with this white tea-cup, full ashtray, and small glass half full of rum beside me, she writes, I see my story, ordinary enough though it has all been and sad though much of it was, as a success story. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The Reprint Society, UK, 1965
Seller: Grandmahawk's Eyrie, Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. HB, red boards in green pictorial DJ, 192pp. Uncl;ipped Dj had moderate rubbing to edges. Book has moderate rubbing to edges of covers, rounding to corners, inside has PO stamp to top of title page , else square, clean & tight. A refreshingly clearsighted autobiography. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Granta Publications Ltd, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 1847081460ISBN 13: 9781847081469
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Reprint; First Printing. Some reading and cover creases, light shelf wear, last few leaves slightly misbound, minor foxing. ; First printing of Granta paperback edition with full number line, 2010. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover photo by Mark Crick. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Photographs; 686 pages; Omnibus edition of Diana Anthill's memoirs comprising: Yesterday's Morning; Instead Of A Letter; Stett; and Somewhere Towards The End. With an introduction by Ian Jack.
Published by Granta Books, London, UK, 2011
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition - 2nd Print Run. 328 pages. No dustjacket. Very clean black background hardback binding. Pages very clean and tidy.
Published by Granta Publications, London, UK, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847084125ISBN 13: 9781847084125
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition First Printing. Illustrated boards, no jacket was issued for this edition, the first printing of the first edition with numbers inside 1 3 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.
Published by Granta, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 1847081231ISBN 13: 9781847081230
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Book
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 698 pages. xviii, 667 pages : 24 cm In a celebration of one of Britain's best-loved, four of Diana Athill's memoirs, spanning the 20th century from her childhood to old age, are now collecte d in one volume ; Yesterday Morning, Instead of a Letter, Stet, a nd Somewhere Towards The End Yesterday morning -- Instead of a l etter -- Stet -- Somewhere towards the end.
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Published by Reprint Society, London, 1965
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Book
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to a green panel on the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper is in fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only 15, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way. In this modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness. Her book is uncompromisingly honest. Yet although she discusses with unusual frankness matters not usually discussed by conventionally reared daughters of British colonels, she is never embarrassing because nothing embarrasses her. Diana Athill was born in 1917. She worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War and then helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name. She is the author of five volumes of memoirs - Stet, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe - and a novel, Don't Look at Me Like That. A selection of her memoirs appear in Life Class published in November 2009. Ref HHH6.
Published by London Granta Books 2011, 2011
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
8vo illustrated boards, cloth spine hardcover 328pp. very good+.
Published by The Reprint Society, London, 1965
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Reprint Society edition. Some creasing and small tears to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, some foxing to outer pages, but otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. The first volume of autobiographical memoirs by the author from her childhood in the early 1930s, Oxford in the 1930s, working for the BBC during WW2, and in publishing after the war with Andre Deutsch. 192pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Granta, 2009
Seller: The Book House (PBFA), Northallerton, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large octavo, 667 pages, illustrated. Contains: Yesterday Morning, Instead of a Letter, Stet and Somewhere Towards the End.
Published by London: Granta, 2009
ISBN 10: 1847081231ISBN 13: 9781847081230
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Fine. First edition, first impression. HB. Cloth and colour photo-illustrated dustjacket. 668pp. Introduction by Ian Jack. Consists of Yesterday Morning (about her childhood); Instead of a Letter; Stet; and Somewhere Towards the End, her brilliant reflections on ageing and death. A Fine copy. Photos available.
Published by Granta, 2009, 2009
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition SIGNED. As new and bright all around mauve boards in pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. This author's distinct memoirs included here with an introduction by Ian Jack are Yesterday Morning, Instead of a Letter, and Somewhere Towards the End. A fully signed edition by the author on the full title page. New and bright all around, gift quality.