Emslie, Anne: The Owl House

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Emslie, Anne : The Owl House

Viking, 1991

ISBN 0670833681

Signed by Author(s)Jacket is shelf rubbed.Signed by author.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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Emslie, Anne : The Owl House

Viking, 1991

ISBN 0670833681

104 pages (complete). A sure, placid copy. The dustjacket is evocative of this extraordinary place of art. It is secure, shiny and sure. The boards are tidy with some shelving wear to the edges. Within, the early and later pages have storage marks. Nonetheless, the pages are comfortable, clean, clear, bright, expressive. fk. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

First Edition.

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Emslie, Anne : The Owl House

The Penguin Group (SA) (Pty) Ltd, 1991

ISBN 0670833681

104 pages (complete). A wonderfully generous and smart copy. The dustjacket is neat and healthy. The spine has light shelving sunning. It has very mild shelving wear to the edges and corners. The boards are attractive. The edges have light shelving fading. Included: a press cutting about the publication of this book. The contents are most satisfying. The full range, creativity and devotion of the art of the Owl House is vividly and vivaciously seen in these pages. The pages are clean, clear, confident, generous, gentle. fk. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

First Edition.

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Emslie, Anne : The Owl House

Viking, Middlesex, 1991

102p. Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour photographs. Photographs by Roy Zetisky. Spine is sunned. The artist Helen Martins lived in Nieu-Bethesda in the Karoo in South Africa, and created the owl house, an eclectic artistic vision. This book looks at the artist's life and work. Price stickers on back cover. Very slight creasing to top back cover of d/j. Very good condition.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good

First Edition

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Emslie, Anne : The Owl House

ISBN 0670833681

Viking Penguin, South Africa, 1991. ISBN: 0670833681. First Edition. Hard Cover. Quarto. Brown Boards. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Scarce in this hard-cover edition. Top edge of the boards sunned (6 mm). Spine-ends bruised. Base of boards rubbed. Small ink, non-authorial inscription to a previous owner on the front, free, end-paper. Small, closed tears to the spine-ends of the dust-jacket (2 mm each). Top edge of the spine of the dust-jacket creased. Helen Martins was the inspiration behind Athol Fugard's play, "The Road to Mecca". The following information is taken from Wikipedia : Helen Martins (23 December 1897 - 8 August 1976) was born in Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa. After obtaining a teaching diploma she got married. The marriage was unsuccessful and she returned to Nieu-Bethesda to take care of her ailing parents. In the years that followed, Helen grew more and more estranged from the outside world. After her parents' death she started to transform the house and the garden. Martins used cement, glass, and wire to decorate the interior of her home and later to build sculptures in her garden, drawing inspiration from Christian biblical texts, the poetry of Omar Khayyam, and various works by William Blake. In 1964, she was joined in her work by Koos Malgas, who helped her build the larger sculptures of owls, camels, and people (mostly pointing east as a tribute to Martins' fascination with the Orient) In 1976 Helen Martins's eyesight began to fail. Dreading the daunting fact that she was going blind, she took her own life by swallowing a mixture of caustic soda and crushed glass in olive oil. She was rushed to a hospital in Graaff-Reinet, where she died three days later, on 8 August 1976. As per her wishes, the Owl House has been kept intact as a museum (managed by the Owl House Foundation founded in 1996).

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EMSLIE, Anne : The Owl House

Viking, 1991

First Edition. A fine unread copy in a fine d.w. The extremely scarce original hardcover edition of this very attractive book, containing colour illustrations not repeated in the later paperback reissue. It disappeared virtually on publication, and has become very difficult indeed.

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