SPAIN, NANCY

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way

London, The Quality Book Club. 1964. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy with Very Good dustjacket which is not price clipped. 224 pages. Nancy Spain put the finishing touches to this enchanting book only a few days before the tragic day of the Grand National, when she took off in a small plane with Joan Werner Laurie, and they crashed near the race-course. Her friends and countless admirers will be grateful that she left this memorial behind her. Only Nancy could have written this blend of autobiography, humour and travel book, with its anecdotes about the famous and lack of reverence for everything and everybody. A1D. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 011022

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Travel Autobiography

THOMAS, AERONWY

My Father's Places - a Portrait of Childhood by Dylan Thomas' Daughter

London, Constable. 2009, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781849010054). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which has a crease to inner flap and is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. 218 pages. Illustrations in the text. Photograph endpapers. In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, six-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace - a place to settle and work, and here Dylan Thomas wrote some of his most famous works. A deeply moving portrait of growing up and an insight into the origins of Dylan Thomas' poetry. D4E. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 008893

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Dylan Thomas, Laugharne, the Boat House 9781849010054

WAITE, HELEN ELMIRA

Dear Miss Barrett - the Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

London, Lutterworth Press. 1955, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black title on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with a small bump to front lower corner tip. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked apart from a small ink bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown. A Very Good + copy. Coloured frontispiece. Uniform with The 'Famous Life Stories' Series. Compiled from various correspondence to her sister and to Robert Browning. FAIRLY SCARCE C3B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 002897

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

WILLIAMS, DAVID

A World of His Own - the Double Life of George Borrow

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0192117629). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a touch of light foxing to top and fore edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 178 pages. 17 illustrations. George Borrow was an unorthodox man, over six feet tall and white haired by the age of 25, he cut a striking figure as he wandered the roads of Britain and Europe to escape the trammels of a routine and respectable existence and to seek out those to whom he felt most kindred - the people on the margins of society, above all the gipsies. He had a remarkable facility for learning languages, despite being rabidly anti-Catholic, and unaffiliated to any established church, he brought a kind of faith to the gipsies, and his one serious spell of employment was as a spreader of the word for the evangelical Bible Society. His linguistic ability, combined with his courage, stamina, and tenacity made him a valuable, if unconventional representative in Russia and Spain. D4C. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 007891

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: English Authors, Gipsies, Gypsys, Gypsies, Bible Society, Russia, Spain 0192117629

WILSON, A.N.

Iris Murdoch - As I Knew Her

London, Hutchinson. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091742463). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with age darkening to page edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. 275 pages. 25 illustrations. In 1988, Iris Murdoch asked the author to be her biographer. This book is a tribute to the novelist he knew for 30 years - this is not Iris Murdoch the Alzheimer's patient, but Iris the Murdoch the witty conversationalist, the emotional chaotic and, above all, the writer. Both sad and farcical, this completely personal attempt to set the record straight gives us back the fiercely intelligent novelist and professional philosopher, and will cause amusement as it ruffles feathers. NOT EX LIB B2E. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 007286

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Biography, Alzheimer's Disease 0091742463