Ice by Anna Kavan, First Edition (10 results)

Condition: New. 2021. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New. 2022. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Condition: New. 2017. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Birthday inscription on title page (not by author).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. First Edition Thus (1985) , so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. However, the book shows a tiny red dot at the bottom edge of the text block - not a remainder mark, but a mark once used by local bookseller to distinguish 'new' from 'used' books. Near Fine in Wraps: The Book shows several small spots of soil at the top edge of the text block and a hint of shelf soiling to the bottom edge of same; very mild rubbing to the panels; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor cosmetic imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (7.35 x 5.05 x 0.4 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 5.5 ounces. Paperback. Anna Kavan, born Helen Emily Woods, (1901 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939 as both her pen name and her legal identity. She is most well-known for her 1967 novel, Ice, published just a year before her death. Asylum Piece (1940) , a collection of short stories which explores dreamy, strange mindscapes and touches on themes of captivity, mental illness, alienation, and the difficulty of the 'patient' role, was her first book under the name Anna Kavan. This collection marks a drastic change in Kavan's writing, and all subsequent works would continue to embrace and build upon the experimental, slipstream style exemplified by the collection, which Anaïs Nin called "nocturnal language". In her later years in London she lived as a virtual recluse. She enjoyed a late triumph in 1967 with her novel Ice, inspired by her time in New Zealand and the country's proximity to the inhospitable frozen landscape of Antarctica. The original manuscript was titled The Cold World. When her publisher Peter Owen sent Kavan his initial response, neither rejecting nor accepting her text, he described it as a cross between Kafka and The Avengers. Ice brought Kavan critical acclaim and it is her best-known novel, known for its strangeness, disturbing imagery, portrayals of violence and war, and slipstream writing style. Blends dream sequences and narrative to reveal an ice-and-snow world run by a secret government and threatened with nuclear devastation; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American Edition THUS, First Print of the 1985 reissue. Pp. 157. Original green boards lettering to spine in gilt, tight binding. Original jacket not price clipped. Clean pages, seems unread, bump to the bottom of last hand full of pages, small nick to last blank page and scrape to verso of rear board.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition, First Printing. A Very Good+ Book in a Very Good or Slightly Better Dust Jacket, Unclipped ($4.50). Book is moderately shelf worn and sunned to extremities. Corners are lightly bumped. Bottom edge is sprayed with Doubleday's typical purple remainder spray. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Alan Peckolick dust jacket is generally shelf worn with bumping/rubbing resulting in whitening, wrinkling, and some chipping to extremities, especially crown and tail. Bottom edge of jacket is likewise affected by purple remainder spray. Hardcover. Octavo. [xv], 176pp. Publisher's Blue Cloth, White Detailing.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Impression. A Near Fine Book in a Very Good Pictorial Dust Jacket, Unclipped (30s Net). Book is lightly shelf worn and toned to extremities. Text block is clean and fresh. Front pastedown has a previous owner's signature, text is otherwise unmarked. Binding is tight and square. D. Smith designed dust jacket is generally shelf worn with several instances of bumping and rubbing which has caused some whitening and creasing in places. Rear panel has some toning and light soiling. Hardcover. Small Octavo. [5], 6-157pp, [158]. Publisher's Black Cloth with Gilt Detailing.

EA, 158 S., OPbd. m. OU., gut erhalten Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien.

New York: Doubleday & Company. 1970. 8vo. Original blue cloth boards; spine lettered and blocked in white; pictorial dust jacket; pp. [xvi], 176; minimal bruising to spine ends; minor shelf-wear to extremities; slight foxing to fore edge; otherwise near fine.First US edition, first printing of Anna Kavan's final novel and cult masterpiece, very rare on the market.After being discharged from an asylum, Helen Ferguson legally borrowed the identity of a fictional protagonist: Anna Kavan, the name that had appeared in her 1940 collection of short stories Asylum Pieces, going so far as to become her own brainchild. Under the guise of a new authorial persona, Kavan later found mainstream success with Ice, which won the science fiction book of the year after being nominated by Brian Aldiss (who wrote the introduction to this first US edition), even if he was reluctant to pigeon-hole the novel along generic lines. Lawrence Durrell would write of Anna Kavan, "I have always thought of her as belonging to the great subjective-feminine tradition â" Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin", the latter of whom corresponded with Kavan. A blanket of ice, induced by an abstract nuclear war, is smothering the world; an unnerving play on the effects of the Cold War and a novel she herself classified as a "present day fable". As the unnamed protagonist inexplicably and obsessively pursues his "ice maiden", who herself is seized and controlled by a merciless military husband,"the warden", their ambiguous geography is brutally policed. Kavan's world is strikingly anonymous and as the narrator delves deeper into hallucination, the reader is left without a body to trust in this apocalyptic climate disaster swayed by delusion. Anna Kavan wrote under the effects of a violent heroin dependency that would cost her life. Just as the myth of Anna Kavan has somewhat usurped record of her living person, her fantastical dystopia, her bold use of non-linear narrative and disruption, has become an everlasting impression of who she was and the ways in which she escaped the depths of her mind through language. As Rhys Davis would write, "her best stories are representative not only of her art but of her life. She is âinâ each".