ADAMS, RICHARD

The Day Gone by

London, Hutchinson. 1990, First. (ISBN: 0091739675). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjaket which has small repaired closed tear. xiii + 398 pages. 39 illustrations. The captivating and beautifully written memoir follows Adams from his birth in 1920 to the end of the Second World War. His childhood was a happy one and his father was a keen amateur naturalist, and from him his son acquired his many and varied enthusiasms, from ornithology to plant life. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.92 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST C3B. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 010398

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: Watership Down Author 0091739675

AMIS, KINGSLEY

Memoirs

London, Hutchinson. 1991, First. (ISBN: 0091745330). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 346 pages. 54 photographs. The publication of Kingsley Amis's Memoirs is, of course, a major literary event. But reading them is also like a fascinating evening's talk in the pub in the most congenial and entertaining company. 5. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011262

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: 0091745330

BAKER, MICHAEL

Our Three Selves - the Life of Radclyffe Hall

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241115396). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. xiv + 386 pages. 36 illustrations. The first comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, the writer whose lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was banned as obscene in a sensational court case in 1928. The book draws on much unpublished material as well as her poetry and novels. Ladye (Mabel Batten) and Una Troubridge, the wife of an admiral, formed with John, as Radclyffe liked to be called, an uneasy menage a trois, until Ladye's death in 1916, thereafter John and Una kept in touch with her through a medium. Hall saw herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. A fascinating picture of a remarkable woman and her world. 21. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 003874

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: Lesbian Authors, the Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, Mabel Batten, Una Troubridge 0241115396

BAKER, MICHAEL

Our Three Selves - the Life of Radclyffe Hall

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241115396). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 386 pages. 36 illustrations. The first comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, the writer whose lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was banned as obscene in a sensational court case in 1928. The book draws on much unpublished material as well as her poetry and novels. Ladye (Mabel Batten) and Una Troubridge, the wife of an admiral, formed with John, as Radclyffe liked to be called, an uneasy menage a trois, until Ladye's death in 1916, thereafter John and Una kept in touch with her through a medium. Hall saw herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. A fascinating picture of a remarkable woman and her world. 21. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009953

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: Lesbian Authors, the Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall, Mabel Batten, Una Troubridge 0241115396

BALLARD, J.G.

Miracles of Life - Shanghai to Shepperton - an Autobiography

London, Fourth Estate. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780007270729). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. viii + 278 pages. Illustrations in the text. For almost half a century J.G. Ballard has been one of this country's most important writers. In this revelatory autobiography, bookended by time spent in Shanghai - the city of his childhood and internment in a World War II prison camp, and setting of his novel Empire of the Sun - he charts the course of his remarkable life. L. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009006

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Keywords: Shanghai, Lunghua Camp, Autobiography English Authors 9780007270729

BECKER, ALIDA (EDITED BY)

A Tolkien Treasury - Stories, Poems and Illustrations Celebrating the Author and His World

Philadelphia, Courage. 2000, First. (ISBN: 0762409940). Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ill.: Green, Michaeland Kirk, Tom. Gold titles on blue boards which are unmarked with a touch of shelf wear to lower edge. Internally unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket by T. Kirk is also VG+. A large format volume of 192 pages. Illustrated throughout. J.R.R. Tolkien's admirers form an international community of writers, scholars and artists. This richly illustrated anthology gathers together three decades of work dedicated to the master of fantasy. Critical essays by W. H. Auden, Edmund Wilson and othersexplore Tolkien's imaginative world and a biography offers insights into the author's life. In drawings by Michael Green and 8 full colour paintings by Tom Kirk, scenes from The Hobbit ans Lord of the Rings are brought to Life. PLEASE NOTE : A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.06 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 5. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010237

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: J.R. R. Tolkien 0762409940 Green, Michaeland Kirk, Tom

BENNETT, ALAN

Writing Home

London, Faber and Faber. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0571173888). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to closed edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 417 pages. 51 illustrations. The book includes the diary Alan Bennett kept during the production of his first play, Forty Years On, which starred Sir John Gielgud, together with hilarious accounts of the filming of his many television plays, notably An Englishman Abroad and a Private Function. The book brings together the talks, diaries and occasional journalism that he has written over 20 years or so, mostly for the BBC or the London Review of Books. At the heart of the book is Bennett's story The Lady in the Van, the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in his garden and stayed for 15 years. After her death in 1989 he describes how he unravelled her history to uncover the tragedy that had reduced her to life on the streets and brought her to Camden Town. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.865 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. Near Fine/Har.

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Book number: 011334

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: 0571173888

BRANDRETH, GYLES

Something Sensational to Read in the Train - the Diary of a Lifetime

London, John Murray. 2009, First. (ISBN: 9781848543119). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy in a dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xiv + 706 pages. 102 illustrations. A diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful obesrvation, providing a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Brandreth's unusual life. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 011081

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Keywords: 9781848543119

BRYANT, ARTHUR

The Lion and the Unicorn - a Historian's Testament

London, Collins. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002114712). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A VG+ unmarked copy which has a little foxing to closed edges. Dustjacket is price clipped with a little creasing. The noted historian, Sir Arthur Bryant, has compiled this work from the weekly commentaries he has made to the Illustrated London News, which is mostly biography, part commentary on the British people and way of life. 14. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002751

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: 0002114712

CECIL, DAVID

A Portrait of Jane Austen

London, Constable. 1979. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 208 pages. 74 illustrations. Second impression corrected for errors in the first edition. Lord David Cecil's book is intended neither as a straightforward biographical narrative of Jane Austen's life, nor as a study of her as author; but rather as an attempt, with the help of material drawn from her letters, her novels and other people's memories of her, to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art. Auberon Waugh, in reviewing the book, states '.is a masterpiece which ought to be in every educated home.' 4. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 010384

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: Jane Austen, Steventon, Chawton

COLLOMS, BRENDA

Charles Kingsley - the Lion of Eversley

London, Constable. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0094600201). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean and unmarked copy with bumping to one corner tip with complete dustjacket which has light fading to spine. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), novelist and poet, eloquent clergyman and inspired campaigner for social reform, is one of the eminent Victorian figures who best deserve remembrance. Made Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge through the influence of the Prince Consort, 'a mystic in theory and an ultra-materialist in practice' as he once described himself. 9 illustrations. NOT EX LIB C3B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004813

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: Biography, Victorian Authors 0094600201

CROFT-COOKE, RUPERT

The Green, Green Grass

London, W.H. Allen. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0491018363). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with no inscriptions which has dust marking to top edge and age toning to endpapers. Dustjacket by Val Biro is near Fine and is not price clipped. 192 pages. With, the twenty-fourth and final book in his autobiographical series, Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979) completed the remarkable sequence which he called 'The Sensual World'. The subject is basically his return home after many years abroad. In 1974 Croft-Cooke suffered a stroke and found walking and writing difficult in his remaining years and no longer able to right in cursive script, he completed 'The Green, Green Grass', his last published work, by laboriously writing pages in block letters and having his long time companion Joseph type it. Very uncommon to find in such very good condition with a dustjacket. 11. Very Good/Near Fine.

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Book number: 009106

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: 0491018363

HART-DAVIS, RUPERT (EDITED BY)

More Letters of Oscar Wilde

London, John Murray. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0719541743). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 215 pages. The Letters of Oscar Wilde were highly acclaimed when they appeared in Rupert Hart-Davis's magisterial edition in 1962. They won new admirers, and naturally over the years further letters have come to light and these are presented here for the first time, with Sir Rupert's faultless editorial care. As well as 164 new letters and better texts of some old ones, this book contains two conversations with Wilde which have not been in print for a great many years. 11. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009911

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Keywords: Oscar Wilde Letters 0719541743

HART-DAVIS, RUPERT (EDITED BY)

More Letters of Oscar Wilde

London, John Murray. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0719541743). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. a near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small indentation to lower front) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 215 pages. The Letters of Oscar Wilde were highly acclaimed when they appeared in Rupert Hart-Davis's magisterial edition in 1962. They won new admirers when a selection was published in paperback in 1979. Naturally over the years further letters have come to light and these are presented here for the first time, with Sir Rupert's faultless editorial care. As well as 164 new letters and better texts of some old ones, this book contains two conversations with Wilde which have not been in print for a great many years. 11. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 009993

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: 0719541743

DEVAS, NICOLETTE

Susannah's Nightingales

London, Collins and Harvill Press. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002627582). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good + unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. The author had no formal education as her father Francis Macnamara, Irish landowner, poet and friend of Yeats believed that women were here to adorn life and give comfort to men's needs, and she and her two sisters were brought up by their mother, mostly in the New Forest. Apart from a close friendship with the Augustus John circle, their neighbours, they lived in considerable isolation. Nicolette went to the Slade School of Art subsequently marrying Anthony Devas, the painter, and during the war started to write, her mother's Irish-French background influencing her. This book took four years to research and write and is a follow on to her autobiography 'Two Flamboyant Fathers', which spotlights the French forbears alluded to in her autobiography. 18 illustrations and a map. NOT EX LIB NOT BOOK CLUB B2B. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003882

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Keywords: Biography, William Butler Yeats, Augustus John, New Forest, Anthony Devas 0002627582