Johnson, Samuel; George Birkbeck Hill (Ed.)

Lives of the English Poets (Three Volumes); with a Brief Memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill, by His Nephew Harold Spencer Scott, M.A. , New College, Oxford

New York, Octagon Books, Inc, 1967. Hardcover. pp. xxvii, 487; 440; 568. 8vo. Uniformly bound in burgundy cloth with gilt aperture decoration to front boards and lettering to spines. Light wear to spine ends, age-toning to edges, occasional pencil underlining and marginalia with notations to endpapers of volumes one and three. Faint smoky odor. Overall, good+ to very good. Originally published in 1779-81 as "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets", these volumes contain bibliographic information of 52 poets (most of which were contemporaries of Johnson) including Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Butler. .

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Book number: 059561

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Milton; Dyer; Collins; Poetry; Dryden; Cowley; Hughes; Addison; Poets; Literature; Lives of the Poets; 18th century;

Johnson, Joyce

The Voice Is All; the Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

New York, Viking Press, 2012. Hardcover. pp. 489. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 088580

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Jokinen, Tom

Curtains; Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training

Toronto, Random House of Canada, 2010. Hardcover. pp. 277. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 087009

Catalogue: Biography

Judt, Tony

The Memory Chalet

New York, Penguin Press, 2010. Hardcover. pp. 226. 8vo. Light shelfwear, rare underlining or marginalia, notation to rearmost blank pages; good+ in very good- dustjacket showing chipping and creasing to edges. .

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Book number: 072129

Catalogue: Biography

Judt, Tony

The Memory Chalet

New York, Penguin Press, 2010. Hardcover. pp. 226. 8vo. Green binding with gilt lettering to spine; near fine in near fine dustjacket protected with plastic brodart sleeve. .

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Book number: 082830

Catalogue: Biography

Kafka, Franz; Max Brod (Ed.)

The Diaries of Franz Kafka (Two Volumes)

London, Secker & Warburg, 1948. Hardcover. pp. 345; 343. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering, publisher's yellow topstain. Sunning to spines, owner's name to ffeps, Vol. I shows small indentations to top edge of textblock; overall very good in good dustjackets showing age-toning, minor creasing to Vol I, and 1" shallow chip to front panel of Vol. 2. .

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Book number: 081216

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Karlinsky, Simon (ed.)

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters; Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson 1940-1971

New York, Harper & Row, 1979. Hardcover. pp. 346. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to title page. Dustjacket slightly age toned with sunning to spine; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085458

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Kashner, Sam

When I Was Cool; My Life at the Jack Kerouac School

New York, Harper, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, faint dampstain to bottom corner; good+ in good+, rubbed dustjacket. .

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Book number: 058588

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Sinclair-Kaspick, Frances Mae

The Mountain Within

Peguis First Nation, Self Published, 2018. Paperback. pp. 280. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. SIGNED by Sinclair-Kaspick. .

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Book number: 079533

Catalogue: Biography

KATAYEV, Valentin

A Mosaic of Life Memoirs of a Russian Childhood

Chicago, IL, J. Philip O'Hara, Inc. 1976. 1st English ed. Hardcover. pp. 447.8vo,Bottom edge of frt bd rubbed; else vg in sl. soiled, o/w vg dj, The first printing of the English language edition of this memoir of life in pre-Revolution Russia. .

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Book number: 9900021798

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Russia;;;;;;;;

Kavanagh, Julie

Nureyev; the Life

New York, Pantheon, 2007. First American edition. Hardcover. pp. viii, 782. 8vo. Light general shelfwear; very good in very good- dustjacket. .

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Book number: 063510

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Dance;

Keane, John

Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts

New York, Basic Books, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo. Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 043972

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: History; Soviet Union;

Keiger, J. F. V.

Raymond Poincare

New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Hardcover. pp. 413. 8vo. Owner's notes to rear endpaper and infrequent underlining and marginalia to frontmost pages; very good-. .

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Book number: 077740

Catalogue: Biography

Keller, Helen

The Miracle of a Life; the Autobiography of Helen Keller

London, Hodder and Stoughton, N. D. Hardcover. No publication date. 8vo. Boards scuffed and shaken with loss to edges, soiling to boards, some age-toning; good-. .

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Book number: 074265

Catalogue: Biography

Keller, Betty

Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson

Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre, 1981. Ed. not stated. Hardcover. 317 pp.8vo,,G to vg in scuffed but g dj. Ill.: B&w photos.

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Book number: 9900000738

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Poet;Canadian Poet;Indian;Native;Johnson, Pauline;;;; B&w photos