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.
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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
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 3 (1939-1944)
by Anaïs Nin
Harvest/HBJ Books, New York. 11th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, light nicks and price sticker at rear cover.A record of Nin's third crucial encounter with North America during the difficult years of the 1940's which eventually determined her career as a writer.
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$4.41
The Bronte Cabinet - Three Lives in Nine Objects
by Lutz, Deborah
New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. A new unread copy with new dustjacket which is not price clipped. However there is a very small flaw to the front of the dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. xxv + 310 pages. 14 black and white and 10 colour illustrations. In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontë's through the...
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$22.80
The Detective and Mr. Dickens
by Palmer, William J
New York: St. Martins Press, 1990. Hardcover. black cloth in price clipped dust-jacket. 290 pages. First edition, first printing. Jacket shows several minor tears, else fine. A novel written in the form of a secret Victorian journal, attributed to Wilkie Collins, having been discovered and edited by the author. No previous ownership marks. Fine in very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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$15.00
Charlotte Bronte A Passionate Life
by Gordon, Lyndall
London: Chatto & Windus. 1994. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Discreet remainder dot to base. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 418 pages. Looks beyond the image of the modest Victorian lady and slave to duty and shows a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Robust,...
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$16.55
The Story of San Michele
by Munthe, Axel, and Shuster, George N (Introduction by)
New York.: A Dutton Paperback., 1957. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Top page block splash-spotting. Light single spine crease. Tightly bound. Ex-school inventory.. 1 534 p. Slightly longer than mass-market paperback. Durable covers in stain-glass style blue and green. Autobiographical timeless story told by a Swedish doctor, a self-revealing and filled with gusto, vitality, and romantic curiosity about women and men. First published in 1929.
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$7.00
Swinburne; Contemporary Men of Letters Series
by Woodberry, George Edward, and Bradley, William Aspenwall (Series edited by)
New York.: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. First edition. Presumed 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor discoloration to spine and rear overlap. Interior appears fresh and clean. Slight spine tilt.. Holler, Frederick (Frontispiece B&W photo of Swinburne copyright by).. 1 117 p. Dark red cloth w/ blind-stamped front series logo and gilt-stamped front and spine titles. Gilt top page block; deckled other blocks. 18 cm. Algernon Charles Swinburne, a 19th century English...
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$68.00
The Girl from Leam Lane - The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson (Revised and Expanded Centenary Edition)
by Dudgeon, Piers
London: Headline, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.xv11 + 302 pages. 64 illustrations. Catherine Cookson (1906-1998), the illegitimate daughter of an Irish barmaid, was born in a two room apartment in a run-down area of dockland on the south bank of the Tyne. Forty four years later her debut novel 'Kate Hannigan' was accepted by the first publisher to whom it was submitted. It established her as a powerful creator of character and a storyteller of rare...
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$10.13
The Secret Memoirs Of Lord Byron
by Nicole, Christopher
London: Michael Joseph, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some minor marks to fore edge) with Fine dustjacket. 416 pages. After Byron's death in 1821 his memoirs were burned as they were considered too scandalous and for over 150 years were therefore considered lost. The author claims that he has discovered in Greece an ancient manuscript in Byron's handwriting which could be the long lost memoirs. Whether this book is the literary discovery of the century or an ingenious forgery,...
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JAMES BOSWELL : PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS
by Newman, Donald J., 1947- [editor]; Boswell, James, 1740-1795 [subject]
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 1st edition; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, white with black print; DJ has light edgewear with small tears to front bottom edge, else clean and bright; Boards in black paper, slight wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf, else clean and tight; xviii, 222 pages. NOTE: Shelved in Room X, Case #8. 1357930. FP New Rockville Stock.
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$93.75
Dickens' Works in Germany 1837-1937
by Gummer, Ellis N
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1940. Hardcover, dark blue cloth in original printed buff dust-jacket. 199 pages. General Bibliography, Index. An exceeding scarce and uncommon reference. Includes short bibliography at rear. The 1976 reprint has long been out of print and copies of either the Oxford or the Octagon re-issue are almost never found in dust-jacket. No writing, marking or marginalia. Dust-jacket shows chip at upper spine and mild age toning. Cloth covers clean and square. A very fine...
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$55.00
Jean De La Fontaine
by Hamel, Frank
London: Stanley Paul, 1911. Photogravure portrait of La Fontaine to frontispiece tissue guarded and 16 other portraits. Not dated but The British Library has this as 1911 and the preface is dated Autumn 1911. Gilt signature of La Fontaine and lettering to spine on blue bevelled boards. Wear to board extremities, head and tail of spine frayed, contents clean with a small name to verso of frontispiece. Loose half title page at front advertising another book by author. 389 pages + 32 page publisher's...
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$12.67
Jules Verne
by Jules-Verne, Jean
London: Macdonald and Janes, 1976. Translated and adapted by Roger Greaves. Written by the grandson of Jules Verne.Silver lettering on blue. Blue pictorial dustjacket depicting Captain Nemo's vessel with a vignette portrait of Jules Verne and a photographic portrait to back. Dustjacket has slight wear and minor chipping. A biography that gets close to Verne as any book is ever likely to do. Has a comprehensive bibliography. C3C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" -...
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$10.13
Garish Lights The Public Readings of Charles Dickens
by Fitzsimons, Raymund
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. 192 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with engravings from Dickens novels [by Phiz], drawings of Dickens reading, and three photographs-- one of Dickens, one of his wife, and one of his mistress. First Edition. A fascinating study of Dickens' reading tours from 1858 to 1870, from England to the United States. No...
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$20.00
Sleight of Hand : Conversations with Walter Satterthwait
by Satterthwait, Walter
Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Hardcover, ex-library. University of New Mexico, Press, 1993, stated first edition. In near fine condition, usual library markings. Conversations with Walter Satterthwait..
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$15.00
Richard Middleton: The Man and His Work
by SAVAGE, Henry
Boston: Small, 1929. Hardcover. Very good hardcover. Typed letter Signed by author tipped inside of front cover. Text clean. Illustrated. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Rear hinge cracked. Small sticker inside rear cover. Little yellow spots on title page. Bottom corners of cover lightly rubbed and bent. Spine darkened. Spine ends rubbed. Light water stain on edges of green cloth cover.
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$48.50
W. B. Yeats With 141 Illustrations
by Mac Liammoir, Michae & Eavan Boland
Thames and Hudson. As New. 1998. Paperback. 0500260222 . An As New Trade Paperback with a sound binding and bright, unmarked pages. "An illustrated biography of the Irish poet, dramatist, and essayist generally considered to be the most important poet in English of his time." ; 181 X 0 X 232 millimeters; 144 pages .
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$16.28
Yours Etc. Letters To The Press 1945 - 89 Selected & Introduced By Christopher Hawtree
by Greene, Graham
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xx, (iv), 268, index; green cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket;. Greene was a compulsive letter writer. Yet as a great writer his letters are compelling. An interesting and lively collection of the popular British novelist's letters to the press as published over more than four decades, often caustically responding to critics or merely expounding on various themes and ideas.
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$15.00
Not the Whole Story - A Memoir
by Huth, Angela
London: Constable, 2018. An As new copy in As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 311 pages. 26 photographs. The novelist, who, at the age of five, decided that she would become a writer, describes her idiosyncratic childhood. Her father was a famous actor and film director , her mother was known for her humour, fluency in foreign languages and her penchant for giving memorable parties. But in spite of her parents' initial happiness they parted after the war....
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$12.67
Stephen Spender Journals 1939 -1983
by Spender, Stephen; Edited by John Goldsmith
London: Faber & Faber. 1985. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Endpapers & edges faintly foxed and a small ding to the top front edge. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 510 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$19.86
And Long Remember; Some Great Americans Who Have Helped Me
by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
New York.: Whittlesey House., 1959. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Light moisture stain top of front cover, bleeding red dye near top board edges. Minor old rippling near top pages.. Keats, Ezra Jack (Illustrated by).. 1 Red cloth over boards. 118 p. 26 cm. Includes Illustrations. U.S. History / Biographical Notes, written for youth. The man who heard Lincoln. -George Washington. -Thomas Jefferson. -Old Dr. Franklin. -John Paul Jones. -Patrick Henry. -Nathan Hale. -David Farragut. -Dorothea Dix....
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$4.00
Jonathan Swift
by Glendinning, Victoria
London: Hutchinson, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 324 pages. 22 illustrations. Facsimile letter of Swift to endpapers. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'. In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry of controversy and paradox. 15. First. Hard...
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The Years with Ross.
by Thurber, James (Text and Drawings by)
Boston.: Little, Brown., 1959. Book Club Edition. B.O.M.C.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Darkened top page block. Else near fine. Clean pages, unmarked.. 1 Decorated cloth and paper over boards. Ross photo portrait frontispiece; Thurber back jacket portrait. 310 p. 22 cm. Pen&Ink line art. Humorist's James Thurber offers notes about 'the colorful, crusty, naive perfectionist who created the sophisticated New Yorker magazine', front cover promo. Memoir of Harold Ross...
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$5.75
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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The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
by Frost, Robert, and Untermeyer, Louis (Foreword and with added commentary by)
New York.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston., 1963. First edition. Stated 1st edition.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Light age-toning to book cover. Jacket has edge wear, minor sun-fade to jacket spine.. 1 Off-white sturdy cloth over boards. Green and Black titles. Facsimile Frost signature in title. ix, 388 p. 25 cm. The record of a rare friendship, and something New England poet Robert Frost refused to write, his autobiography. Louis Untermeyer's last visit with Frost was a...
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$14.00
Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography
by WILLIAMS, Dakin and Shepherd Mead
New York: Arbor House, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 352pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light foxing on the edges, near fines in a very good dustwrapper with light wear and rubbing. A biography by Williams' brother.
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$20.00
