Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound.
Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.She has also written poetry wh ich have appeared in various anthologies, including Richard Adams’s Occasional Poets and Daisy Goodwin’s Poems to keep you Sane.ĭaughter of a doctor and English teacher (who had worked in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park) who met at Cambridge, Sally Emerson lives in London.Add to my wishlist add to my wishlist Add To My Shopping Bag After university she was assistant editor of Plays and Players then editor of Books and Bookmen publishing early journalism by such future greats as Ian Hislop and Sebastian Faulks, while writing her first novel Second Sight.Īfter the success of Second Sight she mostly concentrated on novels and screenplays. She won prizes including a Catherine Pakenham Award, the Vogue Talent Contest and the Radio Times Young Journalist of the Year. At Oxford she edited Isis and continued her reviewing work and wrote for The Times. She began her career there as an editorial assistant in a rat-infested basement in London’s Victoria Street. Since 2003 she has been travelling all over the world for The Sunday Times, writing about the adventures of travel - to the Galapagos, to the gorillas of Rwanda, to the dead craters of Tanzania, and has won various awards for her work.Įmerson’s three recent anthologies of great poetry and some prose are about the three great subjects, birth, love and death: New Life, Be Mine and In Loving Memory.Įmerson was editor of the literary magazine Books and Bookmen. Helen Dunmore commented, 'Welcome back to these dark, gripping and timeless novels.' Kate Saunders wrote that 'It is such a pleasure to see Sally Emerson's extraordinary and original novels introduced to a new generation.'īroken Bodies , a 'clever mixture of thriller and passionate love story' with the story of Elgin's extraordinary wife and the Elgin marbles as the backdrop, and the chilling Listeners complete the set of six.
The two dark love stories bestsellers Fire Child and Heat came first, then Second Sight and the bestselling Separation about the power of children, published in the USA as Hush Little Baby. She likes the playfulness of short stories the way they grab the reader and tease the reader in such a short space.Īll six of Sally Emerson's award-winning novels were reissued as Rediscovered Classics. She has written fiction all her life, and a faded collection her mother gave her as a child ‘Great Short stories of the World’ is still one of her favourite books. In the stories everything seems ordinary enough until something extraordinary, even impossible, begins to happen and takes the reader nowhere expected. Sally Emerson’s short stories, Perfect, Stories of the Impossible are to be published in June this year by Quadrant. From rat-infested basement to Washington Heat to the gorillas of Rwanda