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New York, U.S.A.: Madison Books, 2000 206 pages with index, notes, bibliography. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. ".. David Stuart traces Nash's life from his idyllic boyhood in upstate New York through his rise to literary fame in the rapidly expandig publishing industry in New York City of the 1950s and 1960s to his gradual retirement to family homes in Baltimore and New Hampshire. Stuart includes selections and complete poems from the poet whose astute observations of American society earned him the title "Master of Light Verse".

London, UK: Abelard-Schuman, 1973 Translated from the French by Francine Barker. B/w illustrations. Some age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. D/j edges rubbed, corners bumped. Book cover at spine top and tail slighted bumped. Top left hand corner of front endpaper has previous owner's name and address in blue ink - otherwise no internal markings, clean text pages. Top edge of pages has age spots. Tight copy. "In The Big Supposer, a distillation of six hours' conversation with Marc Alyn (a leading French poet and book critic of the Figaro), Durrell draws an astonishing picture of himself, playing with words, trifling with reputations and literature. Durrell himself says of Marc Alyn's book that it at first seems arbitrary but in fact has a shape of its own. He aimed at a sort of collage composed of many snapshots. At the back of the book is a horoscope of Durrell, composed by astrologer Moricand from a date provided by Henry Miller (Moricand did not meet… Read More

London, U.K. : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1952 Collectible. Beautifully illustrated with coloured and black & white illustrations. No dustjacket. Age and shelf wear - edges of boards worn, corners bumped. Spine sundamaged. Sewing of the inside back and front boards loose. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd - March 1952 reprint (first published 1943). Subject title: "Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as our dinner guests in a bygone year". Coloured illustrated endpapers (front & back). Includes a list of people mentioned in the book. Some of the "guests" are: Erasmus; George Washington; Sir Thomas More; Cervantes; Shakespeare; Moliere; Descartes; Queen Elizabeth I; Robespierre; St Francis; Mozart;… Read More

London, U.K. : Jonathan Cape, 1980 With a foreword by the English historian C.V. Wedgwood who worked at Cape. Tight Copy. No internal markings, clean text pages. Original dustjacket - price clipped.
At the age of 50 towards the end of the First World War, the poet W.H. Davies decided it was time for him to effect a change in his life-style and to seek a wife who would share a new life in the country. With disarming honesty, not to say bluntness as to the acts, yet with humour and delicacy, Davies records his trial runs with three women before he finally meets Emma, then pregnant, as she alights from a bus in the Edgware Road. He describes with beguiling innocence the love that develops before calamity overtakes them. When Jonathan Cape first received the manuscript in 1924, he feared that its publication might damage Davies' reputation. At Davies' death in 1940 Cape tried to publish it again but were advised against publication. In 1979, Davies' widow (Emma) died and Cape were… Read More