Literary Biography

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Auden

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.
Journals

Journals

by Anais Nin

Trelawny

Trelawny

by William St Clair

Jmbarrie

Jmbarrie

by Janet Dunbar

Life Of Kenneth Rexroth

Life Of Kenneth Rexroth

by Linda Hamalian

Life Of Ezra Pound

Life Of Ezra Pound

by Noel Stock

Talking With Michener

Talking With Michener

by Lawrence Grobel

Gonzo

Gonzo

by Hunter S Thompson

Too Strong For Fantasy

Too Strong For Fantasy

by Marcia Davenport

City Poet

City Poet

by Brad Gooch

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Boswell

by James Boswell

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Robert Creeley

by Ekbert Faas

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Frieda Lawrence Including Not I, But the Wind and Other Autobiographical Writings

by Rosemary and Frieda Von Richthofen Lawrence Jackson

Literary Biography Books & Ephemera

Antonia White

Antonia White

by Dunn, Jane

Memories of My Father;   Translations of Thomas Mann's Works - A Bibliography

Memories of My Father; Translations of Thomas Mann's Works - A Bibliography

by Mann, Golo

Inter Nationes, Bonn, Germany, 1965. First German Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 64 pages, last 3 blank, bibliography. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, of Thomas Mann by Paul Citroen. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography and facsimile's of Thomas Mann's writing/work. Maroon coloured covers, with French flaps, and black writing on the front panel and spine. A little rubbing to the edges of the book. Some browning of the... Read more about this item
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$13.21
Rebecca West; A Life

Rebecca West; A Life

by Glendinning, Victoria

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, London, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. bound in original dark blue papered boards, with a dust jacket, illustrated, which has faded slightly on the spine section. The book is free of any annotation, and the dustjacket has been price clipped. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photography, and with a list of major works, source notes, and index. The biography of one of the 20th century's most... Read more about this item
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$13.21
Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life

Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life

by Coomes, David

Oxford, ENG: Lion Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992.. First Edition. Hardcover. 256 pages .
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$29.95
Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories

Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories

by Bayley, John

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1999. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy.Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 208 pages. Both a memoir of the last year of Iris Murdoch's life and a biography of a marriage. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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$13.20
James Duane Doty:  Frontier Promoter

James Duane Doty: Frontier Promoter

by Smith, Alice Elizabeth

Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket tattered, sunned, price-clipped.. 1954. Hardcover. Cranberry cloth binding. x, 472pp, index, notes, bibliographical note, photos and illustrations. The story of one of the frontier’s most amazing figures: lawyer and circuit-riding judge, member of Congress, governor of two territories, land speculator, railroad promoter, founder of cities, and all-round booster and optimist. (from front jacket panel). ; 8vo... Read more about this item
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$25.00
Old Books, Rare Friends:  Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion

Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion

by Stern, Madeline B.; Rostenberg, Leona

New York: Main Street Books. Fine. 1998. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Full number line.. 292 pages. Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May... Read more about this item
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$13.00
Charles Dickens His Life and Work

Charles Dickens His Life and Work

by Leacock, Stephen

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Hardcover, salmon cloth in dust-jacket. 322 pages. Chronology, Index. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings from the novels and holograph manuscript pages. No price on jacket flap, presumed book club issue. Dated 1936 on title-page. A well written and researched biography of the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A clean, sound and unmarked copy in a very worn and tattered dust-jacket. Very good in a poor dust-jacket. Podeschi H293..... Read more about this item
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$7.00
Saint-Exupéry De La Rive Gauche À La Guerre

Saint-Exupéry De La Rive Gauche À La Guerre

by Gerber, François

DENOEL. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 2207251101 . A Fine pictorial Paperback. Tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages. A black & white photo section. "Intellectuel engage´, Antoine de Saint-Exupe´ry fut un acteur et un te´moin privile´gie´ du de´bat ide´ologique d'avant-guerre. Son parcours politique original l'amena a` s'engager de`s la de´claration de guerre, en 1939. Cette biographie explore cette face me´connue de... Read more about this item
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$21.78
An American Friend of Dickens

An American Friend of Dickens

by Winterich, John T

New York: Thomas F. Madigan, Inc., 1933. Hardcover, dark green cloth back-strip over light green pictorial paper covered boards. 14 pages. A limited edition of 150 copies, this being no. 48. Printed by William E. Rudge's Sons, December 1933. Three facsimile holograph letters tipped-in. Mild toning to covers. Scarce. A very nice copy. Very good+. Podeschi H489.. Limited/Numbered. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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$75.00
Hugo, Poète Réaliste

Hugo, Poète Réaliste

by Aragon

Paris, France: Editions Sociales. Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. French text. Green Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A sound binding, on the back end paper and paste down are some green scrbble marks, otherwise a clean, unmarked interior. Previous owner's blind imprint on the title page. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 62 pages .
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$16.34
Jean Cocteau: Poets D'aujourd Hui

Jean Cocteau: Poets D'aujourd Hui

by Roger, Lannes

Seghers. Very Good+. 1955. Paperback. French text. A smaller sized Paperback in Very Good+ condition. Pages are tightly bound & unmarked. Wear to the cover edges and spine ends. "Avec un choix de poe`mes soixante illustrations une chronologie bibliographique: Jean Cocteau et son temps." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 235 pages .
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$18.58
KESEY

KESEY

by edited by Michael Strelow & The Staff Of The Northwest Review

Eugene, Oregon: Northwest Review Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown cloth has gilt title on spine & front cover. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with B/W photographs, manuscript pages, working notes for novels and drawings by Ken Kesey, the writer. VG dust jacket protected with a mylar cover. Author; B/W Photographs, Facsimile; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 197 pages .
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$225.00
Rimbaud

Rimbaud

by Bonnefoy, Yves ( Schmidt, Paul Translator )

New York: Harper & Row Limited, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Fine But For Slightest Traces Of Use To Extremities. An Apparently Unread Copy, With No Spine Crease. First Paperback Edition In English..
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$63.28
Rebecca West; A Life

Rebecca West; A Life

by Glendinning, Victoria

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987. First Edition. Buckram. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations, acknowledgements, introduction by author, notes, and index. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photographs / illustrations between page 172 and 173. Buckram covered boards with blue titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photographic dustwrapper, showing Rebecca West as a young woman, with a blue textured background with blue, white and black titles to... Read more about this item
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$13.21
Brecht and Company Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama

Brecht and Company Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama

by Fuegi, John

Grove Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802115292 . Stated First Edition, number line indicating a First Printing. Tan / Brown Hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition with bright, unmarked pages and a solid binding. A red mark to the bottom edges. The DJ is unclipped and is in Very Good++ condition. A tiny piece missing of off the back flap fringe bottom. "A revolutionary portrait of one of the world's... Read more about this item
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$48.58
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

by Countess Of Carnarvon

Great Britain: Hodder & Soughton. Very Good. 2014. First Softcover Edition; First Softcover Printing. Hardcover. This book looks at the lives of a beautiful American heiress, and a young Lord at an English castle. Catherine Wendell was only twenty years old when she married Lord Porchester and became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle, the setting for Jullian Fellowes' Downton Abbey. Charming and charismatic, Catherine caught the eye of Lord Porchester at a ball in 1922. They fell deeply in... Read more about this item
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$16.00
My Times  Living With History 1947-1995

My Times Living With History 1947-1995

by Berton, Pierre

Doubleday Canada. Very Good. 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0385255284 . Red Hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition, a solid binding with bright, unmarked pages and light spine end bumping. Illustrated endpapers with three black & white photo sections through the book. An unclipped DJ in Fine condition, protected by a clear, plastic covering. "For fifty years Canadians have had a standing date with Pierre Berton--in Maclean's and The Toronto Star, on the TV... Read more about this item
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$28.48
Frieda Lawrence: Including Not I, but the Wind and Other Autobiographical Wri..

Frieda Lawrence: Including Not I, but the Wind and Other Autobiographical Wri..

by Rosemary Jackson; Frieda Von Richthofen Lawrence

Harpercollins, 1994-11. Hardcover. Very Good. 1994. Pandora. Hardcover w/dust jacket. 1st Edition, 1st Print. No prior owner marks. Minor wear and scuffing on book and jacket. Ship same or next day. More Biographical books in my store. Matching ISBN.
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$6.40
Ernest

Ernest

by Buckley, Peter

The Dial Press, New York, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 162 pages, then a further 86 pages which are non paginated, photo credits. Photographic endpapers, being black-and-white photograph of seabirds over water. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Ernest Hemingway. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white photographs from the life of Ernest Hemingway. Black coloured boards with silver writing on the spine. Bumping to the head and to the... Read more about this item
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$13.21
Miles Gone By:  A Literary Autobiography

Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography

by Buckley Jr., William F

Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Bumped corner; small scrape on surface of dj . Deckle-edge pages; includes a CD-Rom; pictorial endpapers; Protected in a removable archival cover. . 256 pages. with CD .
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$17.95
In Dickens's London

In Dickens's London

by F Hopkinson Smith

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Charcoal Drawings by the Author. Lengthy presentation note " To Judith Ramsay from the Committee and Stall Holders of the Dickens Fair held on the 4th and 5th of October 1921 at Gray's Court, York, in remembrance of her devoted and successful work as Honorary Secretary ( from) James Melrose.." Grey covers with green lettering and cream spine are heavily darkened and... Read more about this item
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$25.54
Evelyn Waugh's Officers, Gentlemen, and Rogues:  The Fact Behind His  Fiction

Evelyn Waugh's Officers, Gentlemen, and Rogues: The Fact Behind His Fiction

by Phillips, Gene D

Chicago: Nelson Hall. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover. Small amount of edgewear to d j . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Dark gray boards and spine with title and author imprinted in silver. Tan endpapers. . 180 pages. Based on his close study of Waugh's diary and his interviews with family members, the author illuminates the extent to which the English writer transformed the facts of his life... Read more about this item
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$10.00
Belles Saisons; A Collette Scrapbook Assembled, and with Commentary, by Robert Phelps

Belles Saisons; A Collette Scrapbook Assembled, and with Commentary, by Robert Phelps

by Phelps, Robert

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. 650 g.; XII, 13-304 pages, last page blank, notes and sources and bibliography. Blue coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs from throughout Colette's life, reproductions of posters, cartoons and reproductions of manuscript pages. Purple coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed illustration of a flower on the front... Read more about this item
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$13.21
John Mortimer:  The Secret Lives of Rumpole's Creator

John Mortimer: The Secret Lives of Rumpole's Creator

by Lord, Graham

New York: Thomas Dunne Books. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. First US Edition. Hardcover. 1/8 inch closed tear at top of back d j cover. 336 pages. In Britain every generation produces a national treasure, a lovable figure so English that he could not possibly be of any other nationality, and Sir John Mortimer is just such a figure. Mortimer has delighted millions all over the world with seven television series about the gloriously larger-than-life fictional barrister Horace Rumpole ---... Read more about this item
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$12.95
W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore:  Their Correspondence 1901-1937

W. B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore: Their Correspondence 1901-1937

by Bridge, Ursula (editor)

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, endpapers foxed, jacket . toned, closed tears, and several chips missing.. 1953. First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth with red and gilt decorative spine label, red topstain. xix, 214pp. Black and white frontispiece portrait, black and white illustrations, notes, and index. Over one hundred fifty letters which highlight both poets' views on everything from the technical points of verbal expression to the philosophy and... Read more about this item
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$15.00