THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE
Chatto & Windus, 1998. 1856197115. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 434, illus with coloured and b&w plates (no inscriptions). More
Biography
ALBERT FREDERIC ACTON A Victorian Gentleman
Privately published, 2000. Signed and inscribed by author on inside front cover. Tall 8vo. Original printed card covers (softback) (marks on lower cover - otherwise VG). Pp. 123, illus with b&w photos (no other inscriptions). More
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH An Essay in Autobiography Ark Series No. 1
Ark Press, 1959. 1st edn. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorative paper-laid boards (VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. 48, illus with b&w drawings by Ben Shahn (ex academic library with usual stamps and labels; no inscriptions). More
CHARLES LAMB English Men of Letters
Macmillan, 1908. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge gilt (small mark on upper board - otherwise bright VG). Pp. x + 191 (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions). More
CRABBE English Men of Letters
Macmillan, 1903. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge gilt (VG). Pp. viii + 210 (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions). More
PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS BUT ... The Life of D.H. Lawrence 1885 - 1930
William Heinemann, 1950. 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (lightly chipped at head and tail of spine - in protective wrapper). Pp. 367, illus with b&w plates (top and fore-dge spotted; no inscriptions). More
THE BRIGHTFOUNT DIARIES
Remploy, 1978. New edn signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt lettered dark blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (spine lightly sunned - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). More
GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AS MRS A An Intimate Biograpy of the Great Star by Her Husband
Odhams Press, 1955. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (spine a little faded - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 351, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's inscription on front endpaper). More
OMAI NOBLE SAVAGE.
Collins & Harvill Press, 1977. 0002626101. 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered brown cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. 223, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions). More
ROY CAMPBELL A Critical Biography.
Oxford University Press, 1982. 0192117505. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. x + 277, illus with b&w photos (previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper). More
THE POET AS SPY The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting
Aurum Press, 1998. 1854104772. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. xvi + 221, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
W.B. YEATS The Man and the Milieu
John Murray, 1998. 0719554209. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. xvi + 388, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
PETER LEVI
Signal Books, 2014. 9781908493989. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (casing with slight lean - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. xii + 452 (no inscriptions). More
KIPLING SAHIB India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling.
Little Brown, 2007. 0316726559. 1st edn. 8vo. Original red lettered brown cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG, price clipped). Pp. xix + 426, illus with coloured and b&w plates and maps (previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper; no inscriptions). More
EXPERIENCE
Jonathan Cape, 2000. 0224050605. 1st edn 1st printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 400, illus with b&w photos (no other inscriptions). More
THE DOUBLE BOND Primo Levy A Biography
Viking Penguin, 2002. 0670883336. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xxvi + 898, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions). More
JEAN RHYS
Andre Deutsch, 1990. 0233985972. 1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (top edge lightly spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. xiii + 762, with b&w photos (previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions). More
SALMAN RUSHDIE A Memoir
Jonathan Cape, 2012. 9780224093972. 1st edn 1st printing. Tall 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. x + 633 (no inscriptions). More
PRINCELY PAGEANT
Thomas Harmsworth, 1987. 0948807059. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 248 (no inscriptions), illus with b&w plates. More
TRELAWNY A Man's Life
Robert Hale, 1941. 1st edn. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 352, illus with b&w portrait frontispiece (no inscriptions). More
I AM FIFTEEN AND I DO NOT WANT TO DIE
Collins, 1956. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered light blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear on extrems; spine sunned - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 127 (endpapers and prelims lightly tanned; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown). More
LONGFELLOW His Life and Work
Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1963. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge red (boards discoloured), dustwrapper (worn at edges - in protective wrapper). Pp. 338, illus with b&w frontispiece (no inscriptions). More
THE CINGALESE PRINCE
Hurst & Blackett, 1938. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (lightly marked on upper board), no dustwrapper. Pp. 287 + 15, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's long gift inscription on front free endpaper). More
JANE AUSTEN AND SOUTHAMPTON
Spottiswoode Ballantyne and Co., 1949. 8vo. Original printed card covers with pictorial illus on upper cover (softback) (spine and extrems sunned; pen mark on upper cover). Pp. 54, illus with b&w plates and endpaper maps (no inscriptions). More
CHEKHOV IN MY LIFE
Methuen Drama, 1989. 0413621200. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (lightly bumped on top edge of upper board - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 152, illus with b&w drawings in text by Lynton Lamb (previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper). More