AMIS, KINGSLEY

Memoirs

London, Quality Paperbacks Direct. 1991. Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 346pp. A series of essays and sketches from the life of author Kingsley Amis. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 024458

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Biography, Writer

AUGSTEIN, CARL

Hebbel Als Denker

Berlin, Minerva - Verlag. 1947. Hard Cover, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with lightly rubbed and foxed boards, tanning to pages and page edges, bumps to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Paper used appears a slightly greyish post-war type. 162pp. Thoughts from author Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863). All text in German. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 015990

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Author, Biography Philosophy

BENNETT, ANDREW

Katherine Mansfield

Plymouth, Devon, Northcote House. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0746310161) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 98pp. Biography of writer Katherine Mansfield in the 'Writers and Their Work' series. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011709

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Biography, Writer, Author, 0746310161

BINGHAM, MADELEINE

Sheridan : The Track of a Comet

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1972, First Edition. (ISBN: 0049280244) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. 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 slight creasing/rubbing to upper edge. 383pp. A rounded, colourful portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan - writer, theatre producer and politician in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, yet a man who began with neither family influence nor wealth. Illustrated. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 006109

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 0049280244

BOSWELL, JAMES

Boswell's Life of Johnson (illustrated)

London, Routledge, Warnes & Routledge. 1865. Half-Leather, 7.5 x 5.25 inches. 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. We are also selling Volumes III and IV in the same one-volume format. Very Good (-)/No Jacket.

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Book number: 016919

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Politics, Society, Travels, 18th Century, Biography Social History

BRADFORD, RICHARD

The Odd Couple : The Curious Friendship Between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin

London, The Robson Press. 2012, First Edition. (ISBN: 1849543755) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or rubbedwith very minor creasing to upper edge. 373pp. An account of the fascinating relationship between writer Martin Amis and poet Philip Larkin which lasted over forty years from their meeting at St John's Oxford in 1941 despite a period of acrimony in the 1960s. Without this relationship, both of their careers would have been different. First edition, first impression. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 028111

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Literary Biographies Social History 1849543755

COCKBURN, CLAUD

Crossing the Line

London, Macgibbon & Kee/Readers Union. 1959. Hard Cover, 7.75 x 4.75 inches. 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. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 024385

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Autobiography, Writer

COLBECK, MAURICE

My Yorkshire Life

Skipton, Dalesman Books. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 1855680661) Hard Cover, 9.75 x 7 inches. 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 traces of storage. 144pp. Autobiography of the man who was editor of Yorkshire Life for over thirty years. Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 011941

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Autobiography, Editor Yorkshire Life, Journalism 1855680661

DURRANT, GEOFFREY

William Wordsworth

Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge Univ Press. 1969. (ISBN: 0521095840) Paperback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 161pp. Literary biography of of one of England's greatest poets by the author, a Professor of English Literature. Fine.

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Book number: 002813

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, Poetry, Lakes, Lakeland, Literary Biography 0521095840

GOODWIN, CLIFF

To Be a Lady : Biography of Catherine Cookson

London, Century. 1994. (ISBN: 071266159X) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight browning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with minor traces of handling. 326pp. 'First complete biography of one of Britain's best selling and best read writers - from a crowded, confusing home in East Jarrow -.as amazing and compulsive as any of her best sellers'. This biography was published despite the efforts of Catherine Cookson herself to forbid any biography to be produced. Near Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 010981

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Biography, Writer, 071266159x

GREENE, GRAHAM

Lord Rochester's Monkey: Biography of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

London, Omega Books. 1974. (ISBN: 0860077403) Soft Cover, 9.75 x 7.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of front cover, none rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. 231pp. John Wilmot was the most notorious rake of Charles II's court, famed for his lecheries, wild pranks and drunkenness, feared for his biting wit and also one of the finest lyrical and satirical poets of his age. Near Fine.

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Book number: 015726

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Biography, 17th Century 0860077403

NEIL HANSON

Priestley's Wars (Rediscovering Priestley)

Ilkley, Yorkshire, Great Northern Books Ltd. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 1905080360) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 384pp. This study traces the personal odyssey of one of Britain's greatest literary figures beginning with his volunteering in WWI. The horrors he told of in his letters started to transform him and ultimately he became one of the most influential voices for peace and disarmament. He was one of the co-founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disrmament CND. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 022378

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Jb Priestley, Biography, Literary, World War One, World War Two Biography - Military 1905080360

HUNTER, IAN

Nothing to Repent: The Life of Hesketh Pearson: Biography of Hesketh Pearson

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241119936) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very slightly dusty page edges and a very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with creasing to upper and lower edges and minor traces of storage. 211pp. Hesketh Pearson had many careers in his life, a South American adventurer, a stage actor, Secretary of the Shakespeare Society, a soldier in the First World War and a biographer of prominent stage actors and politicians. Very Good (+)/Very Good.

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Book number: 022459

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Biography, Literary 0241119936

LANCASTER, OSBERT

All Done from Memory

London, John Murray. 1963. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 6 inches. Ill.: the Author. 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. Very Good (+)/Good (+).

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Book number: 027802

Catalogue: Biography - Literary

Keywords: Autobiography, Humour Biography - History the Author

NEVINSON, HENRY W

Life of Friedrich Schiller

London, Walter Scott Publishing Co Ltd. 1889. Hard Cover, 8.5 x 5.75 inches. A little foxing to some pages and sunning to ffep. No other inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with rubbing to lower spine and light bumping to corners. Gilt letterng on blue cloth boards, uncut front and lower page edges and gilt upper edge. 23page bibliography + 203pp. From the 'Great Writers' series. Near Very Good.

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Book number: 002797

Catalogue: Biography - Literary