Search Results: Biography/Autobiography from Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books

New York: Peter Haring Judd, 2012. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners bookplate on rear of front cover.The image of Valentine Ackland is not included on the front cover of the book (see image), so this may be a pre-publication copy. The previous owners name is also neatly written on the half-title together with the date, 2013. The previous owner has written eight page numbers in pencil to the free blank rear endpaper, which correspond to vertical lines in panceil to the margins on those pages. The previous owner has also made very occasional notes and comments to the text in pencil. 392pp. Several b/w illustrations. In the late 1930s, in the context of war in Spainthe threat of another great European war and heated politics, this book recounts the story of the lives of three literary women who became entwined through friendship, shared interests, and love. Two were English and lived in Dorset for much of their… Read More

London: John Murray, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dark green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, previous owners name neatly written at top of front endpaper, with the date 21 September 1997. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 228pp..

London: John Murray, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First published in 1970, this is a copy of the 1998 hardcover reissue. Navy hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name and the date 25 November 1998 neatly written in pencil at top of front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 179pp. .

London: Jonathan Cape (Random House), 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark grey hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Very good, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. 335pp. Many b/w photographic illustrations. This book gives a thorough overview of the life and work of the German born photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983), who spent the majority of his career in Britain..

London: The Hogarth Press Ltd., 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dark brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good,with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Inscription to previous owner and the previous owners name on front free endpaper. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, and light foxing to rear of jacket. Not price-clipped. 288pp. 11 b/w illustrations, inc.frontispiece. In this book, the author tells the story of the nine main characters of the Bloomsbury set: Vigrinia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Desmond MacCarthy, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant..

Brook, Hampshire: Canterton Books, 2002. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Artist. Limited.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Turquoise colour hardcover with title in silver on front cover and spine. Translucent acetate dustjacket. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Don Potter has inscribed his initials on the half-title. Dustjacket condition: Good, with some general shelfwear, including a small chip to the top of front cover where it meets the spine, and light soiling. 218pp. Several colour and many b/w illustrations. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies, this being no.113. Some additional material is loosely laid in, including an undated handwritten letter to the previous owner from Don Potter. This book celebrates the life and work of the multi-talented Don Potter (1902-2004), chiefly known as a sculptor and potter, and as an assistant to Eric Gill..

London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1943. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Navy hardcover with title in silver on spine. Printed to War Economy standards. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name, address and a short inscription in blue ink on front endpaper. Very faint browning to pages throughout. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally shelfworn with some small chips and tears and light browning to rear of jacket. Some foxing to inner flaps of dustjacket. Not price-clipped. 182pp. B/w frontispiece and four further b/w illustrations..

London: Printed for the Author, Distributed By Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1953. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Raspberry pink cloth with title in faded gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn and lightly soiled, with a couple of small chips and tears. Not price-clipped. Loosely inserted is a subscribers copy compliment slip signed by the author. 184pp. 8 b/w plates plus frontispiece. John Abernethy (1764-1831) was an eminent teacher of surgery and the founder of St.Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. This volume gathers together all the available materical including many of his letters and a bibliography of his writings. .

London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Olive green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Some light foxing to fore-edge of textblock. Inscribed by the author to his aunt (Vera) on the front endpaper. Also loosely inserted is a letter from the author to his aunt. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with some creasing to front cover of jacket. Not price-clipped. 187pp. 8 b/w illustrations plus frontispiece. This book by Gervas Huxley (cousin of Aldous and Julian and husband of Elspeth) which paints a picture of life in one of the wealthiest of the great ruling Whig families in the first half of the 19th century is based mainly on the unpublished letters and diaries of Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the Duchess-Countess of Sutherland, wife of the second Marquess of Westminster, and mother of the first Duke. Family life, politics, the social round in town and… Read More

London: Collins, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 459pp. Many b/w photographic illustrations..

London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2019. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. NB: Two volume set . The first volume, "Youth" was published in 2019 and the second, "Fame", in 2020. Black hardcovers with title on spines. Condition: Fine, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just the faintest hint of shelfwear. 680pp and 568pp. respectively. Several colour illustrations in each volume. .

St.Edmundsbury Press, Suffolk: Anne Huxley (privately printed), 1981. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Light green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light flecking to top left hand corner of front cover. Binding sound. Inscribed to the author Elspeth Huxley (who also wrote the foreword) on front endpaper. Elspeth Huxley was married to Gervas Huxley, Anne Huxleys brother). Anne Huxley was the daughter of Henry Huxley and the granddaughter of Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist and foremost expounder of Darwinism. Written towards the end of her life, this book contains her recollections. 85pp. Several b/w photographic illustrations..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1968. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Turquoise colour hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers, and light foxing to endpapers. Signed and inscribed on the half-title to the previous owner by the author, Elspeth Huxley. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and one small tear to top of front of dustjacket. Not price-clipped. Loosely enclosed is a letter dated 1968 from Elspeth Huxley to the previous owner, her aunt Vera Grant, which includes references to the plot of the book. .

Marston Magna, nr.Yeovil, Somerset: Marston House, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Revised edition, 1994 (first published 1987). Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Light sunning to spine and small area at top left corner of fron cover. Signed and inscribed by the author, Tony Birks, to the previous owner on half-title. 224pp. Many colour illustrations..

Brookland, Kent: Huddlesford Publications, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Signed by the author on title page. The front endpaper also bears the name Huxley (this book came from the collection of the late writer on Africa, Elspeth Huxley). Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 159pp. Several b/w photographic illustrations. In this book the author describes his life as a settler in Kenya during the period after World War II and the granting of independence, dividing his time between farming and hunting, and a way of life gone forever..

Oxford: Printed for Private Circulation, 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter grey-blue paper-covered boards with title in black on beige buckram spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and soiling to covers. Binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. 96pp. 8 b/w photographic plates. Loosely inserted is a letter from the author (the son of Octavius Pickard-Cambridge) to his aunt, written on Balliol College headed notepaper, presenting the book to her. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 - 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. His son, Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, FBA (20 January 1873 - 7 February 1952), and the author of this book, was a British classicist based at Balliol College Oxford for much of his career. He was one of the greatest authorities on the theatre of ancient Greece in the first half of the 20th century..

London: John Murray, 2005. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, previous owners name neatly written at top of front endpaper and dated 2005. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 319pp. The twelfth and final volume of James Lees-Milne's magnificent diary..

London: Constable, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pale grey-green hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket conditiion: Good, with light shelfwear, and light vertical crease to spine of jacket. 288pp. 8 colour plates (inc.frontispiece and half-title), many b/w illustrations. Nina Hamnett (1890-1956) was a talented artist and legendary Queen of Bohemia in London and Paris, immortalised in the paintings and sculptures of her contemporaries (such as Roger Fry, Walter Sickert and Gaudier-Brzeska), while her portraits of her friends are among her finest work. This biography, largely based on personal interviews and original research, is an account of Hamnett's life, her work and the bohemian world she lived in. .

London: The Radcliffe Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound. Inscribed by the author to Elspeth Huxley (who wrote the foreword for the book) on front endpaper, and dated April 1995. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with sunning to spine and just a hint of shelfwear. 266pp. Twelve b/w plates and two b/w maps. Oscar Watkins strove unceasingly to protect the interests of the African peoples in East Africa, particularly Kenya. This biography by his daugter provides him with in the words of Elspeth Huxley "an eloquent and fitting memorial".

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Some light foxing to endpapers. Previous owners name written a top of front pastedown. Dustjacket condition: Fair, the jacket is complete but somewhat sunned (particularly the spine) and worn. Not price-clipped. 511pp. Ten colour plates and nearly six hundred b/w illustrations. Dr.Andrew Causey's critical biography analyses the development of the work of Paul Nash (1889-1946) from its beginnings before the First World War to the artists' death at the age of fifty-seven in 1946. Scarce. A heavy book - will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK..