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Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). First printing. A book which attempts to answer the question "who was Colette" by a writer who was herself an acquaintance of Colette, and based on many interviews with those who knew her. Illustrated with photographs. Introduction by Janet Flanner. Chronology, bibliography.… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, 1951.. Hardcover -. Very near fine ingray cloth in a near fine dustjacket. (original price of $3.50 on dj flap). Hardcover. Autobiography of the poet - with vivid portraits of many of the writers he knew, including Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden - as well as a discussion… Read more about this item

New York:: Delta,, (1990). Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. The "first objective, full-length biography of this major American writer". Illustrated with photographs. Botes on sources, index, 416 pp.

New York:: Franklin Watts,, (1984). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket with minor edgewear.. First US printing. "The first serious full-scale biography to be written in English" of this French novelist, whose life was as extraordinary as her books. Based not… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years… Read more about this item

New York:: Pantheon,, (1990). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A major biography of this important feminist author, who, in addition to "Herland" (which depicted an utopia where women had equal rights) also wrote "Women and Economics" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" and many more as well as being a lecturer on feminist… Read more about this item

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1998.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. . First printing. The first full-length biography of this mid-century American author (Hemingway called her his favorite living author) whose work was almost unknown until a fairly spectacular revival in the 1990's. Gore Vidal called this biography 'not only a distinguished work… Read more about this item

New York:: Random House,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder dot). First printing. The "first objective, full-length biography of this major American writer". Illustrated with photographs. Botes on sources, index, 416 pp.

New York:: Viking,, (1996). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (previous owner's name). First printing. The first full-scale biography of this important America writer, one which explores both his life and his literary legacy. Drawing on nearly ten years of research, hundreds of hours of interviews, and unlimited access to his papers,… Read more about this item

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1928). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in tan boards with paper label on spine (front flap only of dj laid in) . First US printing. In reviewing this book, T. S. Eliot commented "The book is very readable, confused and confusing - The exhumation is really a romantic biography; the skull is a… Read more about this item

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, (1977). Hardcover -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor wear to top edge of dj). Book club edition. Posthumous publication of a book which Christie began writing in around 1950, when she was 60 years old. Illustrated with photographs. xii, 519 p

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (1997). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book based on access to Chandler's papers and previously unrecorded accounts by those who knew Chandler,one which "assesses the impact an English public school education had on this most American of writers, the man who turned hard-boiled detective… Read more about this item

London:: Methuen,, (1965). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in the original brown cloth in a near fine dustjacket (small chips to top of dj spine).. First UK printing. A book which places Gissing within the context of the ideas of the Victorian era, as well as discussing his often unhappy life. His early novels… Read more about this item

New York:: Picador,, (1998.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good overall in a very good dust jacket (fairly inconspicuous library stamp on front endpaper and top edge of textblock) . First printing. An account of the Maynard family, but especially the story of her relationship with J. D. Salinger and its influence on her writing and on the… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (1998.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. An unconventional biography of the expat writer Paul Bowles, based on many interviews Dillon (the biographer of Bowles' wife, Jane) had with him in Tangiers. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. Works cited. xix, 340 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (2013). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The second volume of Twain's autobiography, assembled by the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library with the first volume published on the 100th anniversary of the author's death based on his strict instructions, uncensored and exactly as… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1978.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (small stain affecting the lower edge of the rear board and the final few pages) .. First printing. :"An Intimate Biography Of The First Lady Of Crime" based on accounts by people who knew her. Illustrated with black and white photographs.Appendix,… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, 1991.. First edition -. Near fine in printed orange wrappers (minor wear to covers) with date of publication and number of pages hand-corrected on front cover. Publisher's material laid in. An uncommon advance issue. . Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) A major biography of this extraordinary writer - the first in 50… Read more about this item

New York:: Random House,, 1993.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (some shelfwear, remnants of a bookplate on front endpaper). First printing. Part biography, part memoir, part critical study, part exploration of sexual politics in our time, this is the story of the friendship between a young writer and her mentor. … Read more about this item

London:: Pandora Press, (1990). Very good in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages).. 1st trade paperback printing. The first biography of this English and Scottish writer, the author of over 80 books, a notable feminist and socialist who was at the center of London's intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s. Illustrated with photographs, bibliography of… Read more about this item