G K Chesterton a Biography

FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Harper & Row. HARDCOVER. 1987. FIRST U. S. Edition, FIRST Printing.. AS NEW, bound in brown cloth with gold titles in brown pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Dust jacket photograph of G. K. Chesterton on his journey to America in 1921. 'So round, so firm, so fully packed'… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, Publishers. Good in Good dust jacket. 1986. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0062503278 . E--This book is a first US edition. There is a small tear on the upper front of the dust jacket edge and a previous store sticker on the back. There is a handwritten number on a back endpage. The… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. The first life of Chesterton since the official biography by Maisie Ward in 1945 to draw on newIy discovered original sources therby filling gaps in our knowledege of this major literary figure.llustrated with photographs, 369 pages, 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Very good book in a very good dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.… Read more about this item

Harper & Row [1986]. Hard Cover. 369 p., index, plates. ‘Drawing upon recently discovered original sources-- letters, a Sherlock Holmes detective story, and several poems-- Michael Ffinch has taken the traditional view of Chesterton as the ‘jolly journalist,’ the master of pun and paradox, and turned it on its head. He shows that a man who has been generally… Read more about this item