London: Harper Collins,. Hardback. 335pp. Biography of the nomadic American writer (Call of the Wilde; White Fang), oyster pirate, seal hunter etc. Two selections of black and white plates. Brief bibliography. Indexed. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper is a little rubbed and tanned and slightly faded to spine. Near fine copy in good + dw. . Hardcover. 1997.
New York: Hawthorn,. Hardback. 374pp. Divided into 3 sections: British, Continental, American. 22 essays each largely dealing with just one writer. Writers covered include: H. G. Wells, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Graham Greene, C P. Snow, Albert Camus, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gunter Grass, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Norman Mailor, William Styron. Blue cloth is unevenly faded. Light edge wear. Good+, sound copy. . Hardcover. 1971.
New York: Columbia University Press,. Hardback. 243pp. An examination of the apparent rejection by post-war British novelists of modernist experimental fiction. Extended focus on Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis and C. P. Snow (as both novelist and critic), with some reference to William Golding, John Braine, Iris Murdoch, Alan Sillitoe. Bibliographies for the main 3 writers are given in detail covering books, essays and book reviews, and ending in 1962. Blue cloth is slightly rubbed and bumped. Lightly sunned to spine. Good+ copy . Hardcover. 1967.
London: Pluto Press,. Hardback. 206pp. Biography of the American writer best known for his short fiction, his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, and autobiographical non-fiction including John Barleycorn and The Road. London was a socialist and this biography is published by the socialist Pluto Press. Selection of black and white photographs. Crease to inner flap of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed. Near fine copy in very good dw . Hardcover. 1976.
London: Methuen,. Hardback. Dust wrapper has suffers and small chip and tear to back top edge. slight scuff mark to dw spine. Otherwise clean and neat. Very good copy in good dust wrapper . Hardcover. First edition thus. 1985.
Oxford: OUP,. Paperback. 411pp. Biography of the novelist who was born (1895) in Russia to an English family. Published the first book in English on Chekhov. Small number of black and white plates. Indexed. Lightly rubbed with light dust soiling to edges. Internally beginning to brown. uncreased spine appears unread. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1991.
London: Andre Deutsch,. Hardback. 241pp. Very light edge wear. Dust wrapper sunned to spine. Light foxing to free front end paper. Ex libris sticker. Very good copy in good dust wrapper . Hardcover. 1971.
