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London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1930. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly faded spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to some pages, small mark to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. The author escaped to England from France where a warrant had been placed for his arrest. This work describes his adventures in England and is full of vivid and convincing details about the life of the period.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+). 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
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Adventures of a Man of Quality
by Prevost, Abbe & Robertson, Mysie E. I. (translator)
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The Adventures of Rivella
by Manley, Delarivier ; Zelinsky, Katherine (editor)
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Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small bump to lower edge of front cover, tiny mark to lower fore-edge of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 178pp. A complex and partly autobiographical work by early 18th century female author Delarivier Manley. It throws light on a woman author's relations with publishers and is an important example of amatory fiction. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
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All Done from Memory
by Lancaster, Osbert
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London: John Murray, 1963. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked yeloo cloth boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with some rubbing/toning, minor creasing to page edges and tiny nicks to corners. 118pp. The author's memories of his childhood in Edwardian London. With line drawings and a coloured frontispiece by the author.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Good (+). Illus. by the Author. 8.75 x 6 inches.
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Anais : The Erotic Life of Anais Nin
by Fitch, Noel R.
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Boston, Mass: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight fading to spine and faint traces of storage. 525pp. The first intimate examination of the life of Anais Nin's, the ultimate femme fatale who lived from her early twenties as a liberated woman in Paris.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
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Athol Fugard (Signed By Author)
by Walder, Dennis
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Tavistock: Northcote House, 2003. Inscribed by author on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Probably unread. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 118pp. Biography of the South African dramatist and writer whose work highlighted the pain and suffering of the poor and disinherited in his country's terrible past.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
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The Atlas of Literature
by Bradbury, Malcolm (editor)
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London: De Agostini Editions, 1996. Appears unread.. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 352pp. A unique account of literature through the ages and across the continents with contributions from many of today's well-known writers about the greatest and best-loved writers of the past.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 11.25 x 8.75 inches.
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Boswell's Life of Johnson (illustrated)
by Boswell, James
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London: Routledge, Warnes & Routledge, 1865. Presentation plate (1865) on front end paper. Foxing to end papers and a few page margins. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, well-rubbed edges and corners and frail top of spine. Raised gilt bands down spine with one portion of gilt surface embossing missing Marbled boards and green leather spine and corners. Marbled end papers. Volumes I & II in one volume. 291 plus 298pp. The classic account of Johnson's work and studies, conversations and letters. Illustrated throughout. Cover page dated 1859 but each volume dated 1865.. Half-Leather. Very Good (-)/No Jacket. 7.5 x 5.25 inches.
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A Buried Life : Personal Recollections of A. E. Housman
by Withers, Percy
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Lower and vertical page edges uncut and dusty. Dust jacket not price clipped but foxed and with nicks and small tears and repaired at foot of sunned spine. or marked or torn or creased. 133pp. An intimate biography of poet AE Housman by one of the few people who knew him well as the man and not just a poet.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8 x 5.75 inches.
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Cassandra: Reflections in a Mirror
by Connor, Robert
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London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1969. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with small mark to lower front edge and tiny nicks to upper edge. Written by his son, this is the biography of Cassandra, the journalist Sir William Connor of the Daily Mirror. Introduction by George Brown.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 8.5 x 5.75 inches.
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The Complection of Russian Literature: A Cento
by Field, Andrew (compiler)
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London: Allen Lane, 1971. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight traces of storage. 324pp. A critical cento (a composition formed by joining scraps from other authors) of Russian Literature in an attempt to lead the reader to a radically different understanding of what Russian literature and cuture 'felt like', Includes a fold out photo-montage of 457 Russian writers 'gathered together' in a public square in Moscow. Printed on cream coloured paper. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9 x 5.5 inches.
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Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Two (2) Volumes
by Rousseau, Jean Jacques
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London: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1931. Two volumes I & II. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges, minor bump to spine foot of Vol I and no bumping to corners. Whilst being a matching set, the boards have aged slightly differently in their respective colours. Total of 616pp. Autobiography of the philospher, writer and composer who lived in the 18th century, mostly in France.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+). 6.75 x 4.5 inches.
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The Cowardly Lioness
by Rook, Jean
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with traces of handling. 199pp. Autobiography of Jean Rook, known as 'The First Lady of Fleet Street', who has been an editor on many newspapers, including the Daily Express, Daliy Mail, Yorkshire Post, the Sun and Daily Sketch. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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Crossing the Line
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London: Macgibbon & Kee/Readers Union, 1959. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slightly sunned spine. 198pp. The second of Claud Cockburn's autobiographical works.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 7.75 x 4.75 inches.
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Cultural Amnesia : Notes in the Margin of My Time
by James, Clive
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London: Picador, 2008. No marks or inscriptions. Very minor creasing to covers, creases to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 876pp. Clive James's intellectual autobiography - possibly his best.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 9.25 x 6 inches.
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The Days of My Life : An Autobiography : Volume 2 (I)
by Haggard, Sir H. Rider
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London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1926. Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with lightly marked red cloth boards, dusty page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. 286pp. Part 2 of the autobiography of writer Rider Haggard. Tissue guarded frontispiece of the author. All photographic plates present.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (-)/No Jacket. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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Delia Smith : The Biography
by Bowyer, Alison
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1999. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 243pp. Biography of the cookery writer. Press Release tucked in. 243pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf : Volume II : 1920-1924
by Woolf, Virginia & Bell, Anne Oliver (editor)
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1978. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unmarked art label on half-title page. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to edges and trace of sunning to spine. 371pp. The diarist's own progress as a writer and the Woolf's expanding circle of friends and interests are described with an immediacy, honesty and natural eloquence here. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion
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London: BBC Books, 2002. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little minor creasing to lower edge and minor traces of storage. 160pp. An illustrated biography of Charles Dickens' personal story of rags to riches - bankruptcy, enforced child labour to fame and fortune.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good (+). 10 x 7.75 inches.
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E M Forster : A Life : Volume One : The Growth of the Novelist 1879-1914
by Furbank, O N
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1977. Bookplate on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked olive cloth boards and tiny bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to upper edge. 272pp. In this volume, the author takes us through Forster's childhood and adolescence, with its mixed family background of Bohemia and prim respectability. Forster experienced a year or two of bitter unhappiness at his public school, but found happiness and awakening in the tolerant atmosphere of Cambridge and a further 'revelation' in Italy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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EF Benson As He Was
by Palmer, Geoffrey & Lloyd, Noel
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Luton: Lennard Publishing, 1988. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked board, very minor foxing to top of page edges and a little bumping to some corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge. 208pp. Biography of writer EF (Fred) Bemson who wrote a hundred comic novels in the first half of the 20th century,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
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