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Click to view full description | 1. | Stevenson, D.E. AMBERWELL
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1955). First U.S. edition, first printing. Inked ownership name to the front endpaper, slight lean to the spine with the crown slightly bumped, else very good plus; in a price-clipped illustrated dust jacket, mildly soiled, with a few edge tears, and chipping to the upper spine and flap folds.
A descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson (her father's first cousin), Dorothy Emily Stevenson wrote 42 novels which were published on both sides of the Atlantic. AMBERWELL, the Scottish home of generations of the Ayrtons, is the focus of this novel.
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| 2. | Stevenson, D.E. GERALD AND ELIZABETH
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969). First U.S. edition, first printing. Fine in green cloth; in a near fine illustrated dust jacket with minor shelfwear and mild age-toning. Jacket illustration by Ben Stahl.
''A ladylike blend of London theater atmosphere, mystery, and love, with few surprises but pleasant diversion.''--Publisher's Weekly.
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| 3. | Stevenson, D.E. GERALD AND ELIZABETH
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969). Family Bookshelf edition. Fine in blue cloth; in a near fine illustrated dust jacket with modest shelfwear. Jacket illustration by Ben Stahl.
Gerald Brown returns from South Africa, in disgrace. Desperately in need of a job, he decides to contact his sister, the beautiful actress, Elizabeth Burleigh, who is also mysteriously troubled. Can they solve the mysteries surrounding their lives?
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| 4. | Stevenson, D.E. KATE HARDY
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1947). First U.S. edition, first printing. Small patch of scarring to free front endpaper, tiny tear to spine crown, else near fine; in an age-darkened illustrated dust jacket that shows some very minor edgewear and nicking.
The titular lady novelist, who writes adventure yarns under a masculine pseudonym, buys a house in a quiet English village; there she finds peace, and a number of other things, pleasant and unpleasant, including love!
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| 5. | Stevenson, D.E. LISTENING VALLEY
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978). Book club edition. Nearly fine in green boards; in a lightly rubbed illustrated dust jacket.
A companion piece to CELIA'S HOUSE, this Highlands romance follows Antonia Melville from sheltered childhood to the joyous serenity she attains as a young woman.
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| 6. | Stevenson, D.E. MRS. TIM GETS A JOB
London: Collins, 1947. First edition, first printing. Owner's blind-stamped name and address to front free endpaper, else fine, in light brown cloth with blue spine lettering; in a faintly foxed, mildly age-toned, near fine dust jacket with a tiny sticker scar to lower spine panel, a hint of wear.
The war is over, and to fill in the months before Mr. Tim's demobilisation, Mrs. Tim takes a job as assistant to the tough and masculine Miss Clutterbuck, who has converted her large house in the Border country into a private hotel.
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| 7. | Stevenson, D.E. MUSIC IN THE HILLS
New York/Chicago/San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1972). First edition thus: New edition. Fine in grey-green cloth lettered in yellow and decorated in pale green; in a price-clipped illustration dust jacket with artwork by Ben Stahl.
Sequel to VITTORIA COTTAGE, set in the Scottish Border country. ''Miss Stevenson's deft handling of characterization and superb delineation of social patterns earns her a place in literature which may be compared with that of Jane Austen.''
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| 8. | Stevenson, D.E. ROCHESTER'S WIFE
New York/Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., (1940). First U.S. edition, first printing. A nice very good, in turquoise cloth with russet lettering, showing faint dust-soiling, light edgewear, mild spine slant, quarter-sized patch of pale stain to rear cover; lacking dust jacket.
Young doctor Kit Stone takes on a position as assistant to old Dr. Peabody in the village of Minfield, in this scarce novel by the Edinburgh-born novelist and creator of Mrs. Tim and Miss Buncle. Originally published by Collins in the U.K. in 1940.
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| 9. | Stevenson, D.E. SHOULDER THE SKY: A Story of Winter in the Hills
New York/Chicago/San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1972). First edition thus. Fine in a fine, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket art by Ben Stahl.
Tale of the Scots border country continues the story of James Deering Johnstone and his bride, and renews acquaintances with characters first seen in VITTORIA COTTAGE and MUSIC IN THE HILLS. First issued in the UK in 1951 as WINTER AND ROUGH WEATHER.
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| 10. | Stevenson, D.E. SMOULDERING FIRE: A Romance
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1938). First U.S. edition, first printing. Green cloth with blue cover and spine titles and rules, map endpapers. Rental library address rubber-stamped to front and rear pastedown endpapers, age-toning and tanning to the endpapers, fraying to the spine ends, wear and soiling to the covers, else good to very good with no other library markings; lacking dust jacket.
Stevenson's sixth book, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1935, is set in a remote farming community of the Scottish Highlands with the plot rotating around the custody of the child of divorced parents (a wicked father and a loving devoted mother).
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| 11. | Stevenson, D.E. THE MARRIAGE OF KATHERINE
New York/Chicago/San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1965). Family Bookshelf Edition. Near fine; in a very good, shelfworn and rubbed illustrated dust jacket with several nicks at the edges.
Katherine Wentworth and Alec MacLaren are off on their honeymoon in the idyllic Scottish Highlands in this sequel to KATHERINE WENTWORTH, and from there the plot moves swiftly to Edinburgh and then to the Wentworth ancestral mansion at Limbourne.
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