Buy this book on-line BISHOP, ELIZABETH - transl by: : The Diary of "Helena Morley".**LONDON.GOLLANCZ,1958.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG++.Neat, ink gift presentation inscrptn+date to ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj.Yellow+black upper wrap with white letters to black top+bottom bands and black letters to middle yellow band; with minimal shelf- wear and negligible creasing to edges with
a miniscule nick/rub to upper,top right- hand corner - no other major tears present.Dw/dj is lightly marked,with spine/backstrip slightly darkened with miniscule bumping and reciprocal creasing,
rear plain white wrap is also lightly grubbed.The top,internal edges to dw/dj are slightly aged but minimally foxed and the rear,inner vertical edge is also slightly aged with slightly more foxing/
spotting.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and slightly aged - as usual/normal - with
minimal sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edge
considerably cleaner and also less foxed/
spotted; contents bright,tight and very clean with no dog-ear reading creases to page corners.Unblemished,plain red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and generally clean with minimal foxing,plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xxxviipp+4-281pp includes half-title+title pages,an introduction,author preface
(Helena Morley),and 3 chapters/parts covering the years of 1893/4/5.
This is a true diary,kept by a girl between the ages of twelve and fifteen,in
a provincial diamond-mining town called Diamantina,the highest town in Brazil, during the years 1893 and 1895.The author,
who is half-English is now seventy-six (then 1958).
When Elizabeth Bishop - the translator of
this book - first went to Brazil in 1952 and asked friends which Brazilian books she should begin reading,this diary was most frequently mentioned.It had been published privately in a small edition in 1942.Georges Bernanos,who was living in Brazil in exile,discovered it (see his letter on the front of the dw/dj) and gave away many copies.Its reputation began to spread in literary circles,new editions
followed,and now it is a classic.
As the translator says "Much of it could have happened in any small provincial town
or village,and at almost any period of history - at least before the arrival of the automobile and the moving-picture theatre.Certain pages remind me of more famous and 'literary' ones:Nausicca doing her laundry on the beach,possibly with the
help of her freed slaves;bits from Chaucer; Wordsworth's poetical children and country people . . . ." And Miss Bishop justly describes one aspect of the Diary as "notes for an unwritten,
Brazilian,feminine version of Tom Sawyer and Nigger Jim."
Though preceded by the US,NY,Farrar Straus & Cudahy 1957 edn (4,000 copies), this UK edn is the rarer,only 1500 being published.
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