Kay Boyle's second novel, Year Before Last, was published in 1932 by Harrison Smith in New York and by Faber and Faber in London, in each case a true edition from different settings of type. Matthew J. Bruccoli, the textual editor of the Cross currents/Modern Fiction series, has used the Harrison Smith edition in preparing this volume which is unique in the annals of textual editing of a modern novel because the emendations in the copy-text have been approved by the author. Harry T. Moore has provided a Preface which ...
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Kay Boyle's second novel, Year Before Last, was published in 1932 by Harrison Smith in New York and by Faber and Faber in London, in each case a true edition from different settings of type. Matthew J. Bruccoli, the textual editor of the Cross currents/Modern Fiction series, has used the Harrison Smith edition in preparing this volume which is unique in the annals of textual editing of a modern novel because the emendations in the copy-text have been approved by the author. Harry T. Moore has provided a Preface which considers this work in relation to Miss Boyle's development as a novelist. Mr. Bruccoli's Note on the Text provides information about both the 1932 editions and lists the emendations. Against the background of the French Riviera we watch the unfolding of the story of a young woman who has left her husband for another man, a poet of compelling personality. Their love affair is complicated by the insane jealousy of an older woman which leads them to acts of desperation. This novel of love and hate moves forward in swift incident and action to a dramatic end.
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Add this copy of The Year Before Last to cart. $4.75, good condition, Sold by Orca Books Cooperative rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olympia, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Penguin Books.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (fiction, poets, historical) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Add this copy of Year Before Last to cart. $19.50, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by Smith.
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First edition thus. A reissue of her second novel. Preface by Harry T. Moore and a note on the text by Matthew J. Bruccoli. A very near fine copy in an about near fine dust jacket that has some minor wear to the top of the spine and a few small tears. A very nice copy.
Add this copy of The Year Before Last (Virago Modern Classics) to cart. $32.91, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Penguin Books.
Add this copy of Year Before Last to cart. $37.50, very good condition, Sold by George Houle rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Springs, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Southern Illinois Univ. Press/London, Feffer & Simons, Inc.....
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition thus. Octavo. Two page preface by Harry T. Moore. Dust jacket (price clipped). Very good. 224 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
Add this copy of Year Before Last to cart. $47.10, very good condition, Sold by Daedalus Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Southern Illinois University Press.
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Very Good. FIRST EDITION. New York: Harrison Smith, 1932. About Very Good in like dust jacket. Light staining to fore edge, bookplate on paste down. Spine panel darkened, small bits of nibbling along back panel's top and fore edges, price intact. An OK. copy.
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Very good. Red cloth, stamped in gilt. Ownership inscription, dated the year of publication, of her future publisher James Laughlin [New Directions] on first free endsheet. Spine faded, else very good, lacking the jacket. First edition. Boyle's second novel, dedicated to the Italian-American poet Emanuel Carnevali. In New York in 1922 she met and married a French exchange student, Richard Brault, moving to France in 1923. She separated from her husband and met magazine editor Ernest Walsh, with whom she had a relationship and a daughter, Sharon, named for the flowering shrub "Rose of Sharon." Sharon was born in March of 1927, five months after Walsh's death from tuberculosis in October of the previous year. YEAR BEFORE LAST has been presumed to be a memorial to Walsh.
