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1) The selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry
Breit, Harvey; Lowry, Margerie Bonner (editors

London:: Jonathan Cape,. 1967.. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Frontis, 209pp. more information

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2) THE WHITE/GARNETT LETTERS
David GARNETT

London:: Jonathan Cape Ltd,. 1968.. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine in Fine DJ. The friendship between T.H.White and David Garnett flourished in the long and amusing letters they wrote to each other over almost thirty years. Their remarkable cerrespondence, therefore, contains the essence of a rapport that lasted until White's death in 1964. These letters are witty and eloquent on a range of topics from tosnils to taxasion, hawking to history, ants, books and the personalities of the day. 318.p. in total. more information

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3) THE LIKENESS OF VENICE [Subtitle]: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari 1373 - 1457
Dennis ROMANO

USA:: Yale University press,. 2007.. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine in Fine DJ. Dennis Romano reconstructs Foscari's life through careful reading of extant govermental records and chronicle sources. He also uses architectural monuments bulit by Foscari and his heirs as critical interpretive keys for unlocking the personality and policies of the doge. With this biography Romano clears away long standing myths, fills in previously unknown details about Foscari's triumphs and ordeals, and allows to emerge the first intimate portrait of this singular doge. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 468.p. in total. more information

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4) AUDEN IN LOVE
FARNAN, Dorothy J

New York:: Simon & Schuster,. 1984.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In Dust Jacket. First Edition. Auden and Chester Kallman, written by Kallman's father's wife, who taught English at a school in the Bronx. Illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, small bookplate on front pastedo wn, fine in dustwrapper with short edge tears and crease at lower corner of rear panel. more information

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5) John Betjeman New Fame, New Love
Hillier, Bevis

London:: John Murray,. 2002.. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. "A model of biography, and fascinatingly documented" , "Utterly compelling" With 32 pages of photographs Inscibed by the author, octavo, 736 pages. more information

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6) A Nineteenth Century Childhood
Maccarthy, Mary

London:: Heinemann,. 1924.. First edition. Original Cloth. With the bookplate of Dudley Carew, designed by Evelyn Waugh, 118pp, 8vo. Spine very faded otherwise nice bright copy. more information

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7) JOHN RUSKIN, The Portrait of a Prophet
Quennell, Peter

London:: Collins,. 1949.. First edition. Hard Cover. In Dust Jacket. Illustrated, dustwrapper designed by Barnett Freedman, 320pp, 8tvo. very nice copy in frayed dustwrapper. more information

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8) A Life Reflected [Subtitle]: Selected Letters from 1944 - 1996
Rockefeller, Peggy McGrath

Portland:: Privately published,. 1969.. First edition. Cloth. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed on the title page by the author, with a letter signed by David Rockefeller laid in, 218pp. more information

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9) The Precariously Privileged [Subtitle]: A Professional Family in Victorian London
Shonfield, Zuzanna

London:: Oxford University Press.. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. 16pp of photographs, 266pp. more information

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10) BEYOND THE VICARAGE
STREATFEILD, Noel

London:: Collins And Harvill Press,. 1971.. First edition. Third volume of the author's autobiographic trilogy covered her life as a writer, fine copy in a price clipped dustwrapper designed by Charles Mozley more information

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11) Famous for 15 Minutes, My Years with andy Warhol
Violet, Ultra

London:: Methuen,. 1989.. First UK edition. Hard Cover. In Dust Jacket. 32pp of black and white photographs, 274pp, 8tvo. small inscription, fine copy in fine dustwrapper. more information

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12) Aurel Stein Pioneer of the Silk Road
Walker, Annabel

London:: John Murray,. 1995.. First edition. Hard Cover. Fine in Fine DJ. Illustrated with some b/w plates, tells the remarkable story of the shy outsider whose lifetime of single-minded dedication revealed to the world the glories of the Silk Road, octavo, 393pp more information

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