Austin's Antiquarian Books: Literary Biography
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The Other Man, Conversations with Graham Greene; Translated from the French by Guido Waldman
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 176; blue cloth and gray paper covered boards, lettered in white in a dust jacket. Valuable for the comments Greene makes concerning his own work. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18147
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1960]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Wilde's Devoted Friend: A Life of Robert Ross 1869-1918
Oxford, Lennard Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 9"), black boards, gilt, in dust jacket. 319pp. with index, bibliography and notes. Illustrated with photos in black and white. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17800
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20 | JP¥ 3921]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Keywords: Literary Biography; Oscar Wilde; Robert Ross
Louisa May Alcott, a Personal Biography
New York, Simon & Schuster, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xv, (iii), 298, (i), index; illustrated with black and white photographs; black cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. A well written new look at a very successful literary life. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17865
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1960]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Washington Irving, a Sketch
New York, The Grolier Club, 1891. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of three hundred forty-four copies on hand made paper printed by the De Vinne Press; Octavo; pp. (x), 115, and a colophon; Three plates; full polished red morocco with the Grolier Club insignia in gilt at center of the front board and the spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, deckled edges; Light wear at edges; A minor abrasion to the spine, another at the top edge right front board. A beautifully made book. BAL # 4390; Biography of Washington Irving by Curtis for the Grolier Club. This copy bears the bookplate of a noted author of cookery books, Helmut Lothar Ripperger. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12845
USD 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 135.25 | £UK 115.75 | JP¥ 22740]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
The Crime of Syvestre Bonnard; Translated from the French
New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. viii, (3), 4-310; three quarter blue morocco and blue boards; Top edge gilt, marbled end papers. Raised bands, spines decorated and lettered in gilt by Maurin. A Signed binding. Translation by Lafcadio Hearn with his Introduction. Minor edge wear; Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18686
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70 | £UK 60 | JP¥ 11762]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Keywords: Fine Bindings
P.G. Wodehouse, a Literary Biography
New York, The Rutledge Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 256 with index; Illustrated; black cloth and gray boards in a dust jacket. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 13454
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3137]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Keywords: Wodehouse; Humor; Jeeves; Bertie Wooster;
Yours Etc. Letters to the Press 1945 - 89 Selected & Introduced by Christopher Hawtree
Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xx, (iv), 268, index; green cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. Greene was a compulsive letter writer. Yet as a great writer his letters are compelling. An interesting and lively collection of the popular British novelist's letters to the press as published over more than four decades, often caustically responding to critics or merely expounding on various themes and ideas. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18202
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2352]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Tom; the Unknown Tennessee Williams
New York, Crown Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxvi, (ii), 644, index; genealogy chart, photographs; black cloth and blue paper covered boards lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket. An authorized biography with the author given access to private papers. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17827
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Catalogue: Literary Biography
Adventures with Ed, a Portrait of Abbey
Albuquerque, University Of New Mexico Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 298, index; illustrated with photographs; burgundy cloth and brick paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. An inside look at a very complex man and a great writer. No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-89), author of twenty-one books of fiction and nonfiction. This long-awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year friendship Ed Abbey and Jack Loeffler shared hundreds of campfires, hiked thousands of miles, and talked endlessly about the meaning of life. To read Loeffler's account of his best pal's life and work is to join in their friendship. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18902
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3137]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Theodore Dreiser
(New York), William Sloane Associates, 1951. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 267, index; frontispiece portrait of Dreiser; black cloth, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket; jacket has a bit of wear along top edge else very good, price unclipped. A volume in the American Men Of Letters Series. Very good/good +.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19168
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Catalogue: Literary Biography
Her Husband, Hughes and Plath, a Marriage
(New York), Viking Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xx, (ii), 361, (i), index; photographs; black cloth and terra-cotta paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page and dated 2003 at Wellesley College. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17773
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Catalogue: Literary Biography
The Magic Maker E.E. Cummings
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi 400, index; illustrated with a color frontispiece self portrait and photographs; decorated green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in an unclipped dust jacket; jacket shows some wear at extremities; previous owner's name on a preliminary. Norman knew Cummings well, they traveled in the same Greenwich Village circles. Very good/a good or better.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 16239
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Catalogue: Literary Biography
Whittier-Land, a Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected
Boston & New York, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1904. Later Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; xi, (i), 160, (vi), index, Ads; frontispiec portrait of Whittier, and fifty-six black and white plates including a double page color highlighted map; green cloth with an oval gilt depiction of Whittier's home, top edge gilt, lettered in gilt. Whittier's Essex County Massachusetts. Very good. A clean tight bright copy.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17695
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3137]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
Keywords: Poetry New Englandiana
The Life of Graham Greene. Volume I, 1904 - 1939
(New York), Penguin Books, 1989. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; xxxiii, (i), 783, index; illustrated with ninety-three plates & photographs; original paper pictorial wrappers, paperback. The first volume of this monumental biography of one of the greatest writers of any century. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18189
USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10 | JP¥ 1960]
Catalogue: Literary Biography
The Robert Louis Stevenson Originals
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 213, index; illustrated with a tipped-on color frontispiece and thirty additional plates including three in color, one folding facsimile, all but two tipped on; smooth tan buckram, top edge gilt, lettered in gilt with gray endpapers. A beautifully made book. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 17487
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28 | JP¥ 5489]
Catalogue: Literary Biography