Search Results: lit bio from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Hurst, Berkshire: The Peacocks Press, 1955. HC. fine, blue cloth (hardcover) good glassine cover. Limited to 350 copies, these lectures were part of a series delivered in New York in about 1938. Pages largely unopened. 36pp.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). 99 B&W ill.. ISBN 0671214055 In this collection of essays, Kipling's youth, his years in India, his fascination with the army and the military ethos, his increasing disillusion with an England that seemed to him to have failed and shrunk, are all described in a book that assembles a moving and unique portrait of a major literary figure. 178pp.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1927. HC. very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover). Being Three Hitherto Unrecorded Adventures in the Life of the Reverend Laurence Sterne, A.B., Vicar of Coxwold in Yorkshire, etc., etc., Author of the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent." 263pp.

New York: Macy-Masius, 1928. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. One of the first biographies of Alger, and a must for the Horatio Alger collection. 241pp.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976. HC. very good+, green buckram cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket). ISBN 080576223X NO DUSTJACKET AS PUBLISHED 191pp.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 2000. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W ill., B&W maps. ISBN 1559705221 Follow in the footsteps of one of America's most beloved writers, the immortal Mark Twain, as he circles the globe, performing before more than a hundred standing-room-only crowds. 420pp.

West Melbourne, Victoria: Thomas Nelson Australia, 1980. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0170053210 An account of the lives and work of more than fifty of Australia's most important authors, poets and dramatists. 342pp.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0312042612 The author draws on his own experience in writing major biographies of Jane Austen and Matthew Arnold to explain modern methods in reconstructing authors' lives. 279pp.

New York: Random House, 1965. HC. very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). A presentation in condensed form of Shaw's ideas on important social questions. 231pp.

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1965. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). Erratum slip tipped in. 30pp.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) remainder mark. 13 B&W ill.. ISBN 0393024431 Using a wealth of hitherto unpublished material, the author explores the realities of the Coleridge marriage, as opposed to the myth. 287pp.

Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1973. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0806110759 This companion volume to AMERICAN WINNERS OF THE NOBEL LITERARY PRIZE evaluates the seven British winners of the most prestigious of all literary awards. 280pp.

NY/London: G.P. Putnam's/Knickerbocker, 1902. HC. very good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover). B&W illustrations. First published in 1899. 282pp.

Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1992. HC. good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 1853269727 This is one of the most comprehensive, detailed and accurate single-volume reference books on the life and work of Charles Dickens ever compiled. 376pp.

New York: The New York Public Library, 1929. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). 31pp.

New York: Bookman Associates, 1961. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W ill.. Since Charles Reade was perhaps the most enignmatic of all the eminent Victorians, this book endeavors, first of all, to explain his emotional and intellectual development--to show why he developed into a Victorian son and lover with delusions of personal grandeur; why in line with these delusions he felt that he had discovered in Bacon the key to all knowledge, and that, in consequence, he was destined to become a great writer-saviour of the Nineteenth Century. 360pp.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976. HC. very good+, maroon buckram cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket). ISBN 0805766685 NO DUSTJACKET AS PUBLISHED 172pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. HC. good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Life of Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), friend of Ruskin and William Morris and Director of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 385pp.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr, 1981. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) OWNER'S INSCRIPTION. ISBN 0271002867 Owner's Inscription. 200pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. HC. good, green spine, vellum boards, teg, light foxing (hardcover). B&W illustrations. Large paper edition, Limited to 500 copies. CONDITION NOTE: Light discoloration to spine and boards, light edgewear to boards. 189pp.