Literary Biography
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Auden
by Richard Davenport-Hines
Richard Davenport-Hines was born in 1953. The author of several books, including Sex, Death, and Punishment and The MacMillansFrom the Hardcover edition.
Literary Biography Books & Ephemera
The Black Book Of Vice President Adlai E Stevenson, 1836-1914, Governor Adlai E Stevenson, 1900-1965, Senator Adlai E Stevenson, 1930-
by Stevenson, Adlai E
Saint-Exupéry De La Rive Gauche À La Guerre
by Gerber, François
DENOEL. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 2207251101 . A Fine pictorial Paperback. Tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages. A black & white photo section. "Intellectuel engage´, Antoine de Saint-Exupe´ry fut un acteur et un te´moin privile´gie´ du de´bat ide´ologique d'avant-guerre. Son parcours politique original l'amena a` s'engager de`s la de´claration de guerre, en 1939. Cette biographie explore cette face me´connue de...
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£17.22
THE WORLD OF RAYMOND CHANDLER
by Gross, Miriam (edited by) [Eric Homberger, Julian Symons, Russell Davies, Billy Wilder, John Houseman, Philip French, Dilys Powell, Michael Mason, Michael Gilbert, Clive James, Natasha Spender, Jacques Barzun, et al]
New York: A & W Publishers Inc 1978. First US edition. 190 pages last numbered page is 189,, photo-illustrated, bibliography, introduction by Patricia Highsmith, Near Fine copy very scattered top edge foxing in price clipped [with small printed price sticker added] else Near Fine Dust Wrapper [lower corner crease and a bottom edge nick to the front flap]. 190
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£13.01
The Invisible Woman The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
by Tomalin, Claire
Knopf. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0394579593 . Light foxing to the exterior edge of pages only. Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing.; 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.5 inches; 317 pages .
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£14.59
Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter. Penguin Modern Poets 2
by Amis Kingsley
Penguin Books. Very Good+. 1968. Paperback. A Very Good+ Paperback. The binding is tight, no internal markings. A small sticker scar to the front cover.. Age tanning. (1962) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 127 pages .
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£9.56
Louise Bogan a Woman's Words
by Smith, William Jay
Washington, DC: Library Of Congress. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1971. Trade Paperback. Dampstaining from the inside front cover to the title page and contents page. Light wear and rubbing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback. .naut4
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£6.50
Fragments of Stained Glass
by White Claire Nicolas
light wear, small stain to spine, in dust jacket with a trace of wear.The dust jacket is protected by an adjustable mylar cover.
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£12.19
Auden
by Richard Davenport-Hines
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.67
Patrimony A True Story
by Roth, Philip
Touchstone Books. Very Good. 1992. Paperback. 0671758624 . Trade Paperback, Very Good, tightly bound & unmarked with moderate cover wear. A crease to the front cover bottom corner. "Roth's brilliant memoir between father and son. He accompanies his irascible, 86-year-old father through each stage of his heroically stubborn engagement with life." ; 8.40 X 5.40 X 0.80 inches; 238 pages .
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£8.98
Jean Stafford A Biography
by Roberts, David
London: Chatto & Windus. 1988. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 494pages. The biography of the Pulitizer Prize winning author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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£9.40
Nothing to Repent: The Life of Hesketh Pearson: Biography of Hesketh Pearson
by Hunter, Ian
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very slightly dusty page edges and a very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with creasing to upper and lower edges and minor traces of storage. 211pp. Hesketh Pearson had many careers in his life, a South American adventurer, a stage actor, Secretary of the Shakespeare Society, a soldier in the First World War and a biographer of...
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£6.50
Donkey Work
by Blishen, Edward
London: Hamish Hamilton. 1983. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 249 pages. The continuation of Blishen's autobiography, deals with his life following the publication of his first book 'Roaring Boys' which recounted his teaching experiences in the 1950s. In this book he recounts how he became a successful broadcaster and writer. Robust, professional packaging and...
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£9.40
Stendhal: Memoirs of an Egotist
by Stenhal; Ellis, David (translator)
London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. 0701121009 . Purple cloth. Notes. An innovative translation of one of literature's most enduring autobiographies written in 1832 and describing Stendhal's life and work in Paris and London. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages .
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£16.26
A Life of Kenneth Rexroth
by Linda Hamalian
Paperback / softback. New. "Linda Hamalian is to be saluted for the sheer amount of detection and unraveling she has brought to her life of Kenneth Rexroth. It's the kind of information everyone seems to take for granted, but which would still be covered by the desert sands of time except for the biographer's herculean labors." -Washington Post Book World
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£32.28
Forgotten Kings: The Days of Irwin Shaw
by Salter, James
Sag Harbor, NY: The Bookman Press. Near Fine; Light arcing indentation line at fore-edge of half-title page, . as if a fingernail were run along it.. 1998. Softcover. One of 200 numbered copies. Photo reproduction frontispiece by Eugene Atget. Printed by the Stinehour Press. Marbled wrappers with glassine jacket. An excerpt about Salters friendship with fellow writer Irwin Shaw taken from his 1997 autobiography Burning the Days. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 36 pages .
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£32.52
Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography
by Hudson, Derek
NY: Clarkson N. Potter. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly soiled and worn.. 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0517530783 . Lavishly illlustrated biography of Lewis Carroll, the Alice in Wonderland author. Notes, references, select bibliography, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages .
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£20.32
The Omni Interviews
by Weintraub Pamela editor
ni NY: Omni Press, 1984. 364 pages of interviews from Omni magazines 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very light wear.
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£8.13
BYRON'S TRAVELS
by Massie, Allan
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Fading to jacket color at spine. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated. ; 9.30 X 6.40 X 1 inches; 208 pages.
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£32.52
John Buchan
by (Buchan, John ie Lord Tweedsmuir) By His Wife and Friends [Preface by George M. Trevelyan, O.M.]
Photo-illustrated. Gift inscription, edhe wear, dust soiling to page edges, in edge worn Dust Wrapper with chipping heaviest at the spine ends, especially at the heel] and short tears. See photos bx79
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£16.26
Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories
by Bayley, John
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1999. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy.Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 208 pages. Both a memoir of the last year of Iris Murdoch's life and a biography of a marriage. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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£10.45
The Story of the Alcotts
by Cheney, Ednah D
Vertical crease to the rear cover [which has a museum shops price sticker affixed], else VG+ copy with one minute spot stain to the rear cover. .
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£8.13
Boz on America Being the Observations and Comment of Charles Dickens, Esq., On His Visit to the United States in the Year 1842
by Burlingame, Dr. C. Charles
New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1942. Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 30 pages. First edition. Privately printed Christmas gift book by Dr Burlingame, who selected letters and passages from Dickens's "American Notes" in an effort to shed light on the author's thoughts regarding his first American sojourn. Illustrated with frontispiece and four plates. Illustration on cover taken from the title of the first edition of "Martin Chuzzlewit," depicting stage much like the one...
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£12.19
The Voyage Home
by Church Richard
A charting in the odyssey in search of spiritual fulfillment, by an office worker, artist turned poet. 223 pages. Previous owner address label to front free endpaper, ight wear and dust soiling in like dust jacket
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£8.13
T.S. Eliot Supplement to British Book News
by Bradbrook, M C
Longmans Green and Co. Very Good. 1951. Paperback. B001GCXNXW . Stapled wraps, pages are tight and do have sparse markings through them. Some soiling and browing to the covers. Frontispiece of Eliot. Published for The British Council and the National Book Council. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages .
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£14.98
