The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Biswell, Andrew

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Macmillan UK / Picador, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition/First Printing. Very mild discolouration to block edge and a prev owner's name on the half title page in light pencil, otherwise a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket.

London:: Picador. Hardback. 434pp. First edition. Biography of the novelist shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 and best known for A clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick. He wrote several other novels including Enderby quartet as well as librettos and screenplays and reviews. Two selections of black and white plates. Book is very clean, tight and neat. Faint hint of scattered foxing to closed page edges. Very slightly sunned to dust jacket spine. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 2005.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London England: Picador. Hardcover. First Edition. The Real Life of Anthony Burgess. Slightly rolled spine. The author's biography is the first to make sense of Burgess's life and works in a comprehensive way. It takes in the full range and variety of his writings and looks at his early influences, his chaotic sexual life and the repercussions - both literary and philosophical - of the loss of his Catholic faith. Drawing on extensive interviews, unpublished manuscripts, letters and diaries, this book reveals both the professional writer and the private man as he has never been seen before. Illustrated. 435 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 2005.