Dodie Smith - Look Back With Love/Mixed Feelings/Astonishment/Gratitude - 1974-1985
Dodie Smith - Look Back With Love/Mixed Feelings/Astonishment/Gratitude - 1974-1985
Title
Look Back With Love; Look Back With Mixed Feelings; Look Back With Astonishment; Look Back With Gratitude.
Author
Dodie Smith
Year
1974-1985
Publisher
Heinemann; W. H. Allen; Muller, Blond & White, London
Description
Complete Set of First Editions. Dodie Smith’s four-volume autobiography - Look Back with Love (1974), Look Back with Mixed Feelings (1978), Look Back with Astonishment (1979), and Look Back with Gratitude (1985) - together form one of the most vivid and engaging literary self-portraits of the 20th century. Best known as the author of I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Smith’s memoirs trace her extraordinary life with unflinching honesty, wit, and theatrical flair.
Across these volumes, she transforms her own experiences into a sweeping narrative of ambition, creativity, and self-discovery. From her early years in Manchester and her failed attempts at acting in London’s theatre world, to her breakthrough as a playwright and novelist, Smith chronicles every triumph and misstep with humour and precision. Her recollections of 1930s and 40s London, New York, and Hollywood breathe with the vitality of someone who lived at the heart of it all - a woman equally at home among West End impresarios, Heal’s shopgirls, and Hollywood stars.
Condition
Look Back With Love (1974) shows tape reinforcement to the inside of the dust jacket, causing a two-tone effect on the cover and slight adhesion to the endpapers; light edge wear to the jacket, but pages remain clean. Look Back With Mixed Feelings (1978) is price clipped, with some creasing and wear to the dust jacket; includes a printed publisher’s slip before the first page noting a correction to p.4; clean cover and pages. Look Back With Astonishment (1979) has a creased dust jacket with mild interior discoloration along the spine area (not visible externally); clean cover and pages. Look Back With Gratitude (1985) is price clipped, with minor edge wear and creasing to the jacket; clean cover and pages.
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