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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
by Lrllenberg, Jon; Stashower, Daniel; Foley, Charles
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Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life
by Coomes, David
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Oxford, ENG: Lion Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992.. First Edition. Hardcover. 256 pages .
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Evelyn Waugh's Officers, Gentlemen, and Rogues: The Fact Behind His Fiction
by Phillips, Gene D.
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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 into fiction .
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Had She but Known: A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart
by MacLeod, Charlotte
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New York: Mysterious Pr. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Closed tear at back flap . 335 pages. The life of America's first best-selling suspense novelist and playwright is presented in full detail, from Rinehart's role as a World War I trench reporter to her fascination with native American culture. National ad/promo. .
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Jane Austen, A Family Record
by Austen-Leigh, William
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New York: Barnes & Noble. As New in As New dust jacket. 1996. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pale green boaards and spine imprinted with title and author. Full number line. Genealogical tables . 326 pages. All the documented facts concerning the novelist are collected in this detailed account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career. Her role within an affectionate and talented family group is described in the Austens' own words, showing how Jane was valued as daughter, sister, aunt and friend. The book demonstrates how Jane transformed the details of her peaceful life in the Hampshire countryside, along with the wartime careers of her brothers, into six novels that are among the most popular in the English language. .
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John Mortimer: The Secret Lives of Rumpole's Creator
by Lord, Graham
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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 --- Rumpole of the Bailey --- as well as novels, autobiographies, stage plays, film scripts, short stories, television and radio plays, newspaper articles, and even an opera and a ballet. Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Alec Guinness appeared in his plays, and among his greatest theatrical triumphs is his stage and television play <i>A Voyage Round My Father</i>. He won a British Book Awards trophy for Lifetime Achievement in 2005. Mortimer actually practiced as a barrister for…
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Maeve Binchy: The Biography
by Dudgeon, Piers
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New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Minotaur. As New in As New dust jacket. 2014. First US Edition. Hardcover. 335 pages .
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Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
by Buckley Jr., William F.
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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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Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
by Stern, Madeline B.; Rostenberg, Leona
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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 Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. <i>Old Books, Rare Friends</i> describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we…
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The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
by Tan, Amy
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New York: G. P Putnam's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Red boards with red spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Light blue endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 398 pages .
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