All priced £125
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (June 2, 1913 – January 11, 1980)
She was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. Studied English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, served in the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War II. Barbara Pym's literary career suffered a long hiatus between 1963 and 1977, when, despite early success and continuing popularity, she was unable to find a publisher for her richly comic novels.
The turning point for came with a famous article in the Times Literary Supplement in which two prominent names, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Her comeback novel, Quartet in Autumn, was nominated for the Booker Prize.
She worked at the African Institute in London for some years, and played a large part in the editing of its scholarly journal, Africa, hence the frequency with which anthropologists crop up in her novels. She never married, despite several close relationships with men. After her retirement, she shared a cottage at Finstock in Oxfordshire with her younger sister, Hilary, who continued to live there until her death in February 2005.
THE LILY POND. A Novel by Elaine Howis.
London 1957. Rough but clean green cloth library binding, good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘B Pym November 1961.’
THE GLITTERING PRIZES by Frederic Raphael.
Middlesex 1976., 1976. Penguin paper back, very good copy with photograph of the actor Tom Conti in his role in the TV series on front cover. Signed on the title page ‘*Barbara Pym Christmas 1976* ’ Newspaper cuttings relating to TV series laid in. A novel exploring the changing attitudes and styles of a generation that went to Cambridge in the 1950’s.
BRIEFE AN EINE JUNGE FRAU by Rainer Maria Rilke
Leipzig nd. Original patterned paper over boards, little dusty and rubbed at edges, otherwise a very good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym Dresden-May 1938'.
DIE LEIDEN DES JUNGEN WERTHERS by Goethe.
Leipzig nd. Original patterned paper over boards, little dusty and rubbed at edges, otherwise a very good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym Oxford-24 6 November 1937.’
Goethes Briefe.
Leipzig nd. Original patterned paper over boards, little dusty and rubbed at edges, otherwise a very good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym Dresden. May 1938'.
THE POEMS OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Edited with Textual and Biographical Notes by Ernest Hartley Coleridge.
London/Oxford 1931. Original pale blue cloth, gilt, spine soiled and frayed at edges, otherwise a good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym. Oxford 1933.’.
GEDICHFE UND GEDANFEN by Rovalis.
Leipzig nd. Original patterned paper over boards, little dusty and rubbed at edges, otherwise a very good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym Oxford. 24 6 November 1937.’.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS
London 1875., 1875. Original green cloth, gilt, spine soiled and frayed at edges, otherwise a good copy. Signed on the first blank ‘Barbara Pym. December 1935'.
THE DEER ON THE STAIRS by Louis Field Cooper.
London nd. Original cloth with worn dust jacket, lacking some pieces, good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym. London 1960’ A novel by an American author, a comedy of manners concerning one family and three houses.
JOHN KEATS by Robert Gittings.
Middlesex 1971., 1971. Penguin paperback. Very good copy. Signed on the first leaf‘Barbara Pym 6 January 1972’.
THE SINGING AND THE GOLD by Charlotte Morrow.
London 1960., 1960. Original black boards, library label on lower front board, good copy. Signed on the first blank ‘Barbara Pym’ A novel, the story of seven years in the life of a young girl.
POEMS OF THOMAS CAREW
London nd. Original blue cloth, gilt, edges rubbed. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym June 3rd 1935’.
ARGONAUT AND JUGGERNAUT by Osbert Sitwell.
London 1927., 1927. Original cloth, sine faded, good copy. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara M.C Pym. Chritsmas 1930’ and at the base of the page ‘Simon’.
THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
London 1932., 1932. Original green cloth, gilt, edges rubbed. Signed on the inside cover ‘Barbara Pym Oxford 1933’.
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