Joyce Cary

CARY Joyce: Memoir of the Bobotes, London Readers Union 1965 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover
Very Good Joyce Cary

(500 gram rate) DW small chip to head otherwise VG with discolouration to white rear panel.. pages age toned, illustrations by Cary. 170pp. the forgotten Balkan War 1912-13 during which Joyce won the Montenegrin equivalent of the Militray Cross as a stretcherbearer for the Red Cross. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Very Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

[SW: Balkan War 1912 1913 war twentieth century joyce cary red cross]

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Bishop, Alan: Gentleman Rider : A Biography of Joyce Cary, London, England Michael Joseph Limited 1989 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0-7181-2330-1
0-7181-2330-1 Good B/W Photographs

Black textured paper on boards. Volume has some soil that has stuck page edges together at top, removal has caused a tiny tear. Jacket has a tear on at the spine front fold. Now in clear cover. "Joyce Cary is one of the great English novelists of this century. [20th] He is also one of the most complex and controversial. A writer with a varied and vivid experience of the world. Alan Bishop traces Cary's life from his birth into a major, but declining Anglo-Irish family, through a brief flirtation with Bohemianism in Oxford and Paris, to his first taste of war in the Balkans. He examines Cary's years spent as a colonial administrator in Nigeria, where he confronted in his daily duties many of the issues, such as injustice and man's inherent creativity, which were to inspire some of his greatest works. Bishop follows Cary's career through to the full flowering of his fame and onto his later family years in Oxford, where he enjoyed the respect of some of the foremost literary figures of his time." Good Hard Cover

[SW: Biography, Joyce Cary, Writer, Author, Non-Fiction]

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Cary, Joyce: THE HORSE'S MOUTH, Middlesex, England Penguin Books 1979
0140006486 Very Good Stanley Spencer; Joyce Cary;

375 pp. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; store stamped. The cover features Desire by Stanley Spencer, courtesy of the Lady Walston collection; the frontis is a line drawing by Joyce Cary, created for the Penguin edition. Scans are available for all books. Later Printing Paperback

[SW: sir alec guinness; movie cinema motion picture film tie in; rank organisation; art world; gully jimson;]

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Cary, Joyce: Castle Corner, New York, NY, U.S.A. Harper & Row, Publishers 1938 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover
Good Not Credited, probably Paul Galdone, PG on front cover

Yellow paper on boards, black cloth on boards. Volume has wear all edges, a stain on the front cover at the top edge of the cloth/paper binding, page edges stained, soiled. Light scratch on the rear panel. Jacket is worn all edges, chips and small tears, a large scuff to the front panel, (label removed?). Now in clear cover. With a prefactory essay written by Joyce Cary for the English Carfax Edition appended at the end of this volume."Castle Corner is one of Joyce Cary's great panoramic novels, introdrucing the Irish Corner family and their adventures in the late nineteenth century. John Chass Corner who inherited the Castle with its multiple responsibilites, a man of indestructible good will whose purse was as open as his heart; and Felix Corner, whose restless and inquiring spirit took him to West Africa where opportunity beckoned pioneers and speculators. Cary's concern, as always, is with character, with the common hopes and needs of men in a free society where the privilege of choice creates an incurable dilemma. In Castle Corner first published in 1938, he has written a story of tremendous scope, rich in people, incidents, and humor." First U. S. Edition, 1963 Good Hard Cover Reading Copy; First U. S. Edition, 1963

[SW: Fiction, Novel, Africa]

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