Search Results: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: St. Martin's, 1988. Near fine (slight wear at top of spine) in fine dust jacket. 362 pages including index, notes, and bibliography. 16 pages of photographs. Focuses on Jack London's relationship with Charmian Kitteridge, the "improper" woman he left his family for. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Random House, 1983. Very good (a few foxing spots on page edges, otherwise clean and bright) in very good dust jacket (scrape at bottom of spine). 345 pages including index, bibliography, and notes. This renowned novelist and screenwriter turns to a biography of a notable American writer famous for "The Maltese Falcon" and other novels.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Random House, 1983. Very good (a few light foxing spots on page edges, otherwise clean and bright) in fine dust jacket. 345 pages including index, bibliography, and notes. This renowned novelist and screenwriter turns to a biography of a notable American writer famous for "The Maltese Falcon" and other novels.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

Berkeley: University of Calif Press, 1952. Very good (near fine except for a few tiny foxing spots on page edges, interior fine) in near fine (price-clipped, otherwise fine) dust jacket. Nisbet was a notable Dickens scholar, and this book grew out of her work on another book about Dickens during which she uncovered documents which led her to reevaluate Dickens' relationship with this young actress. 89 pages with a foreword by Edmund Wilson. Something of the tone of the writing--fact-based rather than sensationalist--is indicated by the title of the first and last sections: "Household Saint' and "Decanonization"!. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. A readable and scholarly book. Rowse writes of this key figure in the literature of England and Ireland during the 17th and 18th centuries. 240 pages with index. 25 black-and-white illustrations. Very good (edgeworn at spine and corners but bright and clean interior) in very good dust jacket (edgeworn, a couple of tiny closed tears, looking quite presentable in protective cover).. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

Salt Lake City: Gibb M. Smith/Peregrine Smith Books, 1984. As new in like dust jacket. 384 pages including index, bibliography, and notes to individual chapters. Well-researched with regards to Mexican history and its links to Lawrence and his writing.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Good reading copy (no dust jacket, extensive soiling of white covers with spine printing barely legible, interior crisp and clean with no markings) of this biography of the surrealist novelist and screen writer. Well-written, interesting book. 435 pages including extensive index and 20 pages of black and white photographs. West, in addition to being an important novelist--little appreciated during his short lifetime--worked on 1930s B-movies as a screenwriter and was a friend of F.Scott Fitzgerald (who died the day before West in 1940). The book explores these and other aspects of West's life.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Atheneum, 1973. Very good+ (small food stain on a couple of pages and 1 page corner turned down; a few small spots on page edges) in near fine dust jacket (slight edgewear). A portrait, by their son, of the unique marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson. 249 pages including several sections of photographs, an index, and chronologies at two places.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Random House, 1982. Very good (foxed page edges, one bumped corner, interior fine) in fine dust jacket. This is the first extended study of the life and works of the poet, not avoiding his difficulties. Extensive notes and index. Many photographs. 527 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Very good (a little light foxing on page edges) in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear and rubbing). Focuses on his career rather than childhood (although a "Chronology" contains a bare outline). Contains apparent transcripts of interviews with people close to him, like his daughter Lucy.338 pages including index and bibliography. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Macmillan/Gill and Macmillan , 1971. Fine in VG+ dust jacket (edgeworn at spine, 1 short closed tear on lower right corner of front panel--see scan). Edited with an introduction by J.C. Trevin, drama critic. Eileen O'Casey, Sean O'Casey's widow, writes about their life together and among their friends and acquaintances, who included G. B. Shaw and Harold Macmillan. Many photographs; 318 pages including bibliography and index. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. Very good (sunned top of covers, one slightly bumped corner, page bottoms sprayed blue which looks OK with the navy blue cover but may indicate book was remaindered; interior clean and solid) in very good dust jacket (very light edgewear; rubbed). Interesting format: author presents these celebrities in unusual contexts with the author as witness and participant. Many photographs. 278 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Near fine (some light foxing on rough-cut page edges, mainly the photographic sections) in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, edgewear along top). The author has created these "family dialogues" using material from letters, manuscripts, and journals, focusing primarily on the happiest years of the Sam Clemens family, 1872-1896, Susy Clemens' lifetime. The author appears as the "Narrator" when transitions or explanations are needed. Two large groups of family photos. 444 pages with extensive bibliographical material, index, and reference notes to the actual source material cited in the body of the book. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985. Near fine (slight wrinkle at top of spine) in very good dust jacket (edgewear at top of spine, sunned spine). Contributions from various writers--including Quentin Bell on the Bloomsbury writers--covering the home settings of such writers as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle, Hardy, Henry James, Kipling, Shaw, T.E.Lawrence, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Many illustrations.. Hard Cover.