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Pocket Essentials, 2009. First printing in this new edition. Condition: Very good plus, light scuff mark on front cover, price sticker on rear cover.A useful, if general, overview of Moore's career up to the mid-2000's. Creator of Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell, and more.

New Directions, New York, 1968. First presumed edition NDP254. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, corner crease, spine nicks and creasing, slight tears at spine, a well read book.Rimbaud—a mythic name—his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call "modern" literature; nearly a hundred years before the arrival of the "mind-expanding" drugs, Rimbaud understood that the borders of the writer's consciousness must be extended and made the deliberate attempt to use hallucination as a creative method.Dr. Starkie, a lecturer in French literature at Oxford, has devoted many years of research to Rimbaud.

Peter Owen, London, 1970. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. Book has very light bumping at corners. Dust jacket has light edge wear and nicks, spine has light creasing, light soiling on rear cover, price clipped.The extraordinary and much-requested first volume of Cendrars' autobiography, this account chronicles the author's exploits in the Foreign Legion—including the loss of his arm—before the narrative sets off across continents. From Africa to South America, Cendrars encounters everyone from Gallic gipsies to Piquita, the Mexican millionairess. And to all his encounters he brings the vitality, savage humor, and vivid observation that characterize his dazzling writing.

New Directions, Norfolk, 1958. First edition. Condition: Good in good minus dust jacket. Price clipped with several tears and creases on dust jacket.An account and an interpretation of Baudelaire's work; of his life; of his times. And it is a biography not of his outward life alone but of that inner personality which is reflected so intimately in poetry such as Les Fleurs du Mal.

John Murray, London. 1994. First edition. Condition: Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket. Slight edge wear on dust jacket. Price clipped.A massive illumination of the life of Baudelaire, French poet extraordinaire.

Condition: Good in good dust jacket, book has edge wear and nicks, previous owners name on inside front cover, dust jacket has wear and tears at spine edges. wrinkling on rear, a well read book. This is large and heavy book and may require additional postage.No one had really heard of the Beatles until 1962; now they are a part of our lives. As a group they became heroes; as individuals they have become superstars in their own right. Here is their extraordinary story -- the most astounding phenomenon in the whole of musical history.

Jawbone Press, London, 2009. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very light edge wear and price sticker on rear cover, else fine.Bill Bruford has been at the top of his profession for four decades, playing with Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Earthworks, & many more. This is his memoir of life at the heart of prog rock, art rock, and modern jazz. It is an honest, entertaining, well-written account of life on the road & in the studio.

Harper, New York, 2006. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, remainder mark on bottom edge.Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the author Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never–before–published letters, documents, and photographs that help tell the story of this literary genius and his remarkable creative journey. The result is a richly textured, detailed biography that illuminates the origins and accomplishments of Bradbury's fascinating mind.

Harvill, London, 1999. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. DJ has slight edge wear. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.He was different things to different people: a director at Sotheby's with an unerring eye for detail; an archaeologist present at the finding of the evidence of man's earliest use of fire; a successful Sunday Times journalist; a photographer; an art collector; a restless traveller and a best selling author. A full blown biography of Chatwin.

Penguin, New York, 2001. 5th printing. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear.From the publisher: Karen Armstrong has been acclaimed for her scholarship and vision in works The New York Times Book Review calls "penetrating, readable, and prescient." Her rich, timely, highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. Armstrong follows the Buddha as he leaves his wife, his young child, and his comfortable life and eminent social status for an arduous quest for spiritual enlightenment.

University Of Chicago Press, 2009. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Decades after his death, Albert Camus (1913–1960) is still regarded as one of the most influential and fascinating intellectuals of the twentieth century. This biography by Stephen Eric Bronner explores the connections between his literary work, his philosophical writings, and his politics.Camus illuminates his impoverished childhood, his existential concerns, his activities in the antifascist resistance, and the controversies in which he was engaged. Beautifully written and incisively argued, this study offers new insights—and above all—highlights the contemporary relevance of an extraordinary man.

Condition: Very good, magazine format, edge wear and slight corner creases, spine has creasing and light nicks at ends.

Paragon House, New York, 1992. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has slight edge nicks and bumping at corners.From the publisher: Biography of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1894-1961, controversial French author of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan. Awarded the prestigious Goncourt for Biography. Translated by Jesse Browner. This is the "definitive Celine biography," according to Kurt Vonnegut.

Knopf, Toronto, 2003. First edition. Condition: Near fine, book has light corner bumps, light edge wear on dust jacket.Ever wondered where novelists get the inspiration for their characters? Why the hero or villain of your favourite book seems oddly familiar?Who inspired Mordecai Richler to create Bernard Gursky; Margaret Atwood to create Zenia in The Robber Bride? In which novel does Northrop Frye appear (as a character named Morton Hyland)? The answers can be found in Character Parts, Brian Busby's irreverent yet authoritative guide to who's really who in Canadian literature. The most original and entertaining reference book to be published in years, Character Parts is the behind-the-scenes look at CanLit we have all been waiting for.

Grove, New York, 1999. First edition. Condition: Near fine, slight edge wear, price sticker on back cover.From the publisher: Locked in The Arms of a Crazy Life is the acclaimed biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the globe. Extensive research and unique contributions from friends, family and associates - including Mickey Rourke, Harry Dean Stanton, Robert Crumb, Sean Penn, Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg - as well as personal photographs and drawings make this a must for all Bukowski devotees and new readers alike.

Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 1995. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear.Continues the multi-volume series comprising the complete works of the legendary cartoonist, one of America's most original, trenchant, and uncompromising satirists. This volume features work from 1976 and 1977.

Penguin, London. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven, describing in intimate detail the mind-altering pleasures and pains unique to opium. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way for later generations of literary addicts from Baudelaire to James Frey, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.

New Directions, New York. 8th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear.Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery. This vigorous and revealing collection of essays and letters renders the tale of a man whose personality still charms us all and whose reckless gaiety and genius made him a living symbol and the Jazz Age. For those who grew up with The Great Gatsby or Tender is the Night, this extraordinary autobiographical collection provides a unique personal blend of the romance and reality embodied by Fitzgerald's literature and his life.

Ecco Press, Hopewell NJ, 1992. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky but also a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshing informality, clear-sightedness, and passages of exquisite prose, these pages record with equal fascination the behavior of an itinerant spider, a brutal episode of violence in a Tangier marketplace, and the excess of Malcolm Forbes's seventieth birthday party. In Days, a master observer of the foreign and obscure turns his attentions toward his own daily existence, giving us a startlingly candid portrait of his life in late twentieth-century Tangier.

Signet, New York, 1969. 9th printing. Condition: Good, edge wear and creasing, a well read and loved softcover. 9th paperback printing.From the publisher: A powerful self-portrait by van Gogh from his intimate letters to his brother.