Arnold Bennett. A Biography by Drabble, Margaret - 1974

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 039448794X . Publisher icon on bottom edge; 039448794X. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 1st Am. ed. . Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 396p., illus.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Some shelf wear and tear to DJ with several tape repairs and some loss to spine extremities with original publisher's price sticker to price clipped front fly. Some shelf wear to boards, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1974. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Good reading copy, no names inside. DJ design by Keiran Stevens. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; B&W Photographs; 320 pages; An in-depth account of the varied life and work of one of the great English writers of the early 20th century. .

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, publishers, London - 1974 hardcover, 6½" x 9¼" [16cms x 24cms], with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, and barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Today, 75 years after Arnold Bennett's death, his novels and plays are back on the study lists. Here is his best biography. "Arnold Bennett was born in a street called Hope Street. A street less hopeful it would be hard to imagine.' So begins Margaret Drabble's biography of a man whose most famous achievement was to re-create the life, atmosphere and character of the 'Five Towns' region in which he was born and grew up.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974. Hardback. good/good. with DW, slightly foxed