The Fountain Overflows
by West, Rebecca
Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, the youngest of three daughters of Charles Fairfield, a journalist in London, and Isabel Mackenzie, a talented pianist who supported her family by giving music lessons. Fairfield was a brilliant storyteller who entertained his daughters with tales of wild adventures in America and Australia, but he was moody and unreliable, and in 1901 he left his wife and children to go to Sierra Leone, where he hoped to start a pharmaceutical plant. The plan failed, and he returned to London, though not to his family, dying when Cicily was fourteen. Inspired by such stars of the stage as Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Cicily hoped to become an actress, and in 1910 she enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Art. Soon, however, she abandoned her theatrical ambitions and joined the staff of the feminist journalThe Freewoman, for which she began to write regularly under the name of Rebecca West (adopted after playing that character in a performance of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm). Among Rebecca West’s protean accomplishments are critical studies of two writers she deeply admired, Henry James and D.H. Lawrence;Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), a vast work about pre-World War II Yugoslavia that combines history, political analysis, and vivid descriptions of travel; The Meaning of Treason (1947); and several novels, beginning with The Return of the Soldier (1918) and including The Fountain Overflows(1956), which is closely modeled on the events of her own childhood.Andrea Barrett is the author of five novels, most recently The Voyage of the Narwhal, and two collections of short fiction, Ship Fever, which received the 1996 National Book Award, andServants of the Map. A MacArthur Fellow, she was also a Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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The Fountain Overflows
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Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1965. Reprinted. 391 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining to page edges throughout, text remains unaffected. Part of front free endpaper ripped out. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine… Read more about this item Item Price
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LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO, 1957 Red cloth with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 150 mm approx. 392 pp.Top edge of book block stained red.First Edition 1957. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book- mild shelf wear and markings to cloth, Offset browning bands to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Fountain Overflows is a 1957 best-seller by the British author, journalist and critic Rebecca West (1892-1983).
In it, she transmutes her own volatile childhood into enduring art. This is an unvarnished but affectionate picture of an extraordinary family, in which a remarkable stylist and powerful intelligence surveys the elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood, freedom and dependency, the ordinary and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Viking Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Book club edition, inscribed on the front endpaper "All my good wishes and gratitude to Helen and Phil Smith - and may they come back soon. Rebecca West 1st Sept. 1971.", very good hardcover shows a 1/2 inch deep clip from corner of front endpaper and half title… Read more about this item Item Price
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Virago Press, London, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. 392 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and it may have some creases but is… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Viking Press, 1956. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. red and yellow cloth, gilt letterig, no dust jacket, 435 pp covers are worn spine torn along top front edges price tag on the front pastedown
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London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. 392 pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine bumped with very minor wear, covers very clean, spine gilt bright. Binding tight and clean and unmarked, with area of toning… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Viking Press, 1956. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. A Good copy. NO DUSTJACKET. Book has edgewear, bumped corners, shelfwear, rubbing to covers, a cocked spine, toning to pages, a former owner's name in ink on inside front covers, and some scattered dog-ears. Interior is otherwise clean & unmarked. Item Price
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New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "My love to Beatrice and Bruce- who first gave the Fountain its chance to flow Rebecca West 1965." The recipients, Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors of the Ladies' Home… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fountain Overflows
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New York, NY: The Viking Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1956. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 313 pages; DJ nicked and chipped at spine head and rubbed at edges. Mylar cover. Book is solid, clean and tight. Couple of light stains at closed page edges. Tannish cloth little wear to note. .… Read more about this item Item Price
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London, United Kingdom: Macmillan & Co Ltd/ The Book Society, 1957. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. Pp. 391. Original red cloth, title in gilt to the spine. Macmillan & Co Ltd/ The Book Society issue. Internally clean pages, owner book plate to verso of front end page. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: The Viking Press, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full putty cloth, gilt & green titles & decorations, top edge dyed green, [iii], 313 pp. Rear board stained along lower fore-edge. Copyright page indicates a first US edition, but it has that book club look. Shipping weight 2 lbs.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/VG+. 1st Edition. 14 x 22 cm red boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine, [vi]391[1]pp with original unclipped dust jacket priced at 16s net. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Clean bright boards with a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge.… Read more about this item Item Price
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London:: Macmillan & Co.,, 1957.. First UK edition.. Hardcover.. Publishers red cloth, gilt title to spine, some soiling, spine ends slightly bumped, minor cocking, bottom txt block with couple tiny dings, first blank with a bookmark ghost foxed, still excellent condition. Illustrated dust jacket, very minor shelf wear, some rubbing at corners, top of spine with minor chipping,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Fountain Overflows
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London: Macmillan and Co. 4th printing (September 1957). 392pp. VG/VG copy, some toning to feps, jacket lightly edge worn, price-clipped, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1957. Item Price
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The Viking Press, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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