The special copies, produced jointly with Observer Books
, featured an original etching by Michael Ayrton
. The US edition was by Viking
(as were those of MS
's next few books); she had broken...
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Katherine Mansfield
The edition from Knopf
, New York, October 1924, was titled The Little Girl.
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Freya Stark
FS
published, with John Murray
, East is West. In the United StatesAlfred A. Knopf
published this book as The Arab Island: The Middle East, 1939-1943.
It was dedicated to Derek Hill
, who had done for EB
her painting of Bowen's Court.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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The New York edition, Seven Winters and Afterthoughts, from Alfred A. Knopf
(EB
's regular...
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Elizabeth Taylor
Blanche Knopf
asked for fairly radical revisions in this novel: that it should concentrate more completely on the two very young lovers. ET
replied, in terms of the utmost humility, that she could not revise...
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Willa Cather
On her travels in France in 1920 she had done research for this novel.
Urgo, Joseph R., and Willa Cather. “Introduction. Willa Cather: A Brief Chronology. A Note on the Text”. My Ántonia, edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Joseph R. Urgo, Broadview Press, pp. 9-39.
Lindemann, Marilee, and Willa Cather. “Introduction, Chronology”. Alexander’s Bridge, edited by Marilee Lindemann and Marilee Lindemann, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xliv.
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It sold 30,000...
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Elizabeth Taylor
Knopf
had serious reservations about this novel, and in January 1953 ET
broke with them and went to Viking
instead, on the advice of Peter Davies
.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books.
258-61
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
It sold nearly 5,000 copies in six weeks, a further acceleration of the high sales rate (for ICB
) of Elders and Betters.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
In December the same year came Before Lunch, finished just before war broke out. After this AT
's rate of production at least slightly declined.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
124,127
By this stage of her career, she was...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
With this book ICB
's advance went up to £200, payable at publication, and she stipulated that Gollancz
was to reprint her earlier titles.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
271
Its American publication, by Knopf
, preceded the English one: 19 March 1951.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
209
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Storm Jameson
She followed these with other translations of his works: Horla and Other Stories (1925), and (with Ernest Boyd
) Eighty-Eight Short Stories (1930). All of these volumes were put out by Knopf
, the publisher...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Knopf
declined to publish this novel, on the grounds that ICB
's sales in the USA had been disappointing. In the end it was published by Julian Messner
of New York instead.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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F. Tennyson Jesse
Knopf
published the work in New York that same year. In 1952, George Harrap
issued a new edition, as did Pan Books
in 1958.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
77
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch.
267
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
This poem was No. 2 of The Borzoi Chap Books published in New York by Alfred Knopf
.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
280
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George Egerton
She had begun the working on this translation many years earlier, in 1890-91, while living in London just after she had first met and fallen in love with Hamsun.
Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. Editor White, Terence de Vere, Richards Press.