Sheila Ballantyne letter and three books collection
Place Published: various
Publisher: various
Date Published: 1975 to 1982
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hard Cover
Sheila Ballantyne was an American educator, novelist and short story writer who was well known for her feminist-themed books, including the novel Imaginary Crimes. Her two novels, Norma Jean the Termite Queen (1975) and Imaginary Crimes (1982), both concern women struggling to balance family with their desire to realize their own identities. Imaginary Crimes was adapted as 1994 motion picture and won the Washington State Governor's Award for Fiction, among other honors. The author spent much of her later life as a creative writing teacher at Mills College from 1984 until 1996.
3 Books & 1 TLS:
• Norma Jean the Termite Queen. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Grey flecked paper boards, quarter bound in black cloth, in dust jacket, signed presentation copy to James Murphy.
• Imaginary Crimes. New York: Viking Press, 1982. Cream paper boards, quarter bound in matching cloth, in dust jacket, signed presentation copy "For James Murphy with my gratitude for your response to this book. Sheila Ballantyne October 10, 1982" and with 1 TLS To James Murphy, 10 October 1982, with envelope, touched by Murphy's letter, she admires readers who buy and read books, Penguin to publish Imaginary Crimes and Norman Jean in paperback, was in Georgia years ago and wrote a story about visiting the Ocmulgee burial mounds, “writing is a silent and frustrating business most of the time”.
• Life on Earth, Stories. New York: Linden Press, 1988. Cream paper boards, quarter bound in white cloth, in dust jacket.
Collection on consignment with LDRB.
Very Good+. Item #8895
$175.00 USD
$241.30 CAD