Literary Biography
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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.
Literary Biography Books & Ephemera
The Black Book Of Vice President Adlai E Stevenson, 1836-1914, Governor Adlai E Stevenson, 1900-1965, Senator Adlai E Stevenson, 1930-
by Stevenson, Adlai E
The Michael Fraenkel Henry Miller Correspondence called Hamlet Volume I and Volume II
by Fraenkel, Michael; Miller, Henry
London: Edition du Laurier Carrefour, 1962. 3rd Printing. paperback. Very Good in heavily rubbed wraps. large 8vo. b&w illustrations The correspondence between Michael Fraenkel and Henry Miller, covering a period from 1935-1938 during which hundreds of letters were exchanged between the two; two volumes in one; b&w photo illustrations and drawings; printed wraps with original red silk cord binding; folios here with perforated edges, many unopened; Very Good throughout; wraps heavily rubbed/foxed.
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A$75.00
Enid Bagnold : the authorized biography
by Sebba, Anne
London : Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (black and white) : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. Subjects: Bagnold, Enid Biography. Authors, English 20th century Biography. Genre: Biography. Language: English.
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A$35.26
The Letters of John Cheever
by Cheever, John (Benjamin Cheever, Editor)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/near fine. First Edition, First Printing in clean bright dust jacket. Clean light turquoise boards with white cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean turquoise endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 397 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is...
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A$18.61
Small Collection
by (JOYCE, James)
various: various. (1939-1959). A small collection of four works about Joyce, from the library of Horace Middleton, who collaborated with Phil Phillips on critical studies of Joyce. (Phillips' archive is at the Rosenbach Museum.) Offered here are four books that have been heavily annotated by Middleton. Each bears Middleton's ownership signature, one adding "from PP [presumably Phillips], Nov. 1959." Included are first editions of James Joyce by Herbert Gorman (1939); James Joyce by Harry Levin (1941);...
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A$620.20
Writer by trade : a view of Arnold Bennett / by Dudley Barker
by Barker, Dudley
London : Allen and Unwin, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 260 pages frontispiece, 14 plates (including portraits) 23 cm. Subjects; Bennett, Arnold Criticism and interpretation. Bennett, Arnold 1867-1931. Novelist English; Fiction Biography Criticism. Writing; history.
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A$39.07
George Meredith: His Life and Lost Love
by Williams, David
London: Hamish Hamilton. 1977. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. [xii]227pages.. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$15.00
The Life of Dr John Donne Late Dean of St. Paul's Church, London
by Walton, Izaak
London: The Folio Press. 1988. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in clear glassine dustjacket as issued. Introduction by Colin Ward. Black & white frontispiece. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Bound by Hunter & Foulis in quarter moiré silk, Mitchell & Malik (Ann Muir) marbled paper boards, pale grey paper labels to spine and front board. The text paper is Van Gelder Old Dutch Laid acid-free mould-made paper. 74 pages. Issued in the Folio Press Fine...
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A$55.00
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THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT [10 VOLUMES] [SIGNED]
by Lockhart, John Gibson
London: J. B. Millet Company, [1908]. Limited Edition, #75/150. Hardcover. Octavo, 10 vols.; VG-; contemporary three-quarter bindings of red leather, boards in red marbled paper; spines with raised bands, gilt lettering and design in panels; mild shelf wear and scuffing to all vols.; upper edges gilt; previous owner's bookplate at front paste downs; vol.1 numbered 75/150; vol. 1 inscribed by publisher at limitations page; pages clean; shelved above US Politics R-Z. Date presumed from publisher's...
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A$744.24
The Charles Dickens Originals
by Pugh, Edwin
Londion: T.N. Fouls, 1913. Hardcover, bound in the original light blue cloth with back-strip faded as per usual for this title. 347 pages. Index. Illustrated with 30 tipped in monochrome plates depicting various personalities whom Dickens knew and drew upon for inspiration in creating his literary characters, all with tissue guards intact. Second printing. No previous ownership marks. Mild fading to back-strip and general light wear overall, with sporadic, very light foxing. A solid, internally...
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A$46.52
The Envoy from Mirror City: An Autobiography: Volume Three
by Frame, Janet
NY: George Braziller. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0807611247 . Final volume in the late New Zealand author's autobiography. Author photo on rear jacket flap. Jacket art by Edgar Blakeney. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages .
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A$31.01
Byron: The Years of Fame
by Quennell, Peter
2nd printing thus. Fine hardcover, no DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. 8vo, 256 pp; index.
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A$23.26
Mrs. Lynn Linton her life letters and opinions with twelve illustrations 1st Edition
by Layard, George Somes; Mrs Lynn Linton
London: Methuen, 1901. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG /no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations 1st Edition of Layard's biography of Mrs. Lynn Linton, drawing heavily on Linton's thinly disguised autobiographical novel 'Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland'; 12 b&w plate illustrations; includes 45 page Methuen catalogue to rear of text; bookplate to front pastedown, medium-heavy foxing to front endpaper, medium foxing to prelims and text block, scattered foxing throughout, o.w. G-VG; boards lightly...
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A$75.00
The Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell
by Edwards, Anne
Laurel, 1984. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$10.34
Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen
by Svendsen, Clara (with Frqans Lasson, editor)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Book. Very Good+. Paperback. Later printing.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Later printing. Very Good+. Clean large paperback (approx. size is a little over 8" x 10"). Cover is clean with very slight age-toning, no creasing or chipping. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with wonderful photographs of Dinesen throughout her life. 227 pages with index..
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A$27.91
C.S. Lewis The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. A Biography
by White, Michael
London: Abacus. 2005. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 268 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$18.00
E.E.Cummings. A Life.
by E.E.CUMMINGS. Susan Cheever
Pantheon Books, New York, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 213pp. White boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nearly fifty black and white photographs and reproductions. A touch of minor bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Not published in the UK in casebound format..
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A$19.40
Arrow in the Blue the first volume of an autobiography 1905-31 with a new preface by the author Uniform Danube Edition
by Koestler, Arthur
London: Hutchinson (Uniform Danube Edition), 1969. Uniform Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations A volume in the Uniform Danube Edition of the works of Arthur Koestler, being the first volume of Koestler's autobiography, covering the first 26 years of his life; black cloth boards with silver titling to spine, and silver spiral motif to front board; former owner's name to front pastedown, endpapers, prelims, and text block foxed (medium...
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A$40.00
The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson's Dairy of a South Sea Cruise
by Mrs.Robert Louis Stevenson
Scribners , NY , 1914 First edition 189 pages Illustrated Hardcover lacking the dust jacket. Interesting biography . A very good copy with light edge wear, light wear to cloth binding, spine darkened , light foxing to the end papers,else a tight clean copy. See Photos bx 34
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A$31.01
Emily Dickinson: Friend and Neighbor
by (DICKINSON, Emily). JENKINS, Macgregor
Boston: Little Brown. 1930. A biography of Dickinson published a century after her birth, and written by a child-neighbor of "Miss Emily." Jenkins also spoke that year at the first public observance of the centenary of Dickinson's birth, held in Amherst, MA. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with shallow edge wear and what may be a sticker shadow on the upper front corner. Uncommon. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.
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A$387.62
Hans Christian Andersen
by Godden, Rumer
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean brown cloth boards with blind-stamped lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 206 pages + 6-page index. Jacket is not...
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Antonia White : A Life
by Dunn, Jane
London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First English edition, first printing. xii, 484pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Burgundy coloured endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Likely unread. Dust jacket very lightly chipped along top edge, price unclipped. 8vo. Definitive biography of the writer Antonia White which charts her ambivalence towards...
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A$23.28
Jonathan Swift. A biography. (SIGNED)
by VICTORIA GLENDINNING
Hutchinson, London, 1998. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 324pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With facsimile reproduction endpapers and twenty-two further captioned reproductions. Former owner name to the base of the front free endpaper and further ownership details inked to the half-title. Half a dozen examples of quite minimal underlining and marginalia. A nice bright copy in...
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A$19.40
Dickens Criticism Past, Present and Future Directions : A Symposium
by FORD, George, JOHNSON, Edgar, et al
Boston: Charles Dickens Reference Center, 1962. Full tan calg, with original white wrappers bound in. 64pp., First edition, limited to 2550 copies, this being an out-of-series copy, un-numbered. A transcript of the symposium held by George H. Ford, J. Hillis Miller, Edgar Johnson, Sylvere Monod, with Noel C. Peyrouton as moderator, at the 56th Annual Conference of the Dickens Fellowship. Bookplate of Prof. Peyrouton insode front cover. A specially bound copy, most likely to be given out to...
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A$46.52
Born Under Saturn - A Biography of William Hazlitt
by Macdonald Maclean, Catherine
London: Collins, 1943. A very scholarly and well researched biography with 12 illustrations. Appendices of detailed notes and excellent index together with author's acknowledgements dated April 11th, 1943. Gold title on blue cloth boards. Internally very clean and unmarked. An excellent biography. 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A$15.52
CHARLES DICKENS HIS LIFE AND WORK
by Leacock, Stephen
Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Near Fine. 2004. Softcover. 1550417673 . Excellent condition, slight creasing on upper corner front cover and corner of first few pages, one earmark seen. Book is otherwise clean and unmarked. B/w illustrations. "Stephen Leacock shares the stage with Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world, and at the time of its original publication Leacock’s biography of Dickens was widely and enthusiastically hailed as a...
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A$7.67
