KINKEAD-WEEKES, MARK & GREGOR, IAN

William Golding: A Critical Study

London, Faber and Faber. 1967, Review Copy. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 257pp. Red boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped dustjacket. A very good pre-publication Review Copy of this first full-length study of Golding work to date, with typed review slip announcing publication on 20th April, 1967 at 35/-. Fine/Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 9138

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Essays, Criticism, British Writers

MARRS, SUZANNE

Eudora Welty: A Biography

Orlando, Harcourt. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xx, 652pp. (+ 16pp. plates). White-beige boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of this complete and involving portrait of one of the finest writers of short fiction. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 010080

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, American Writers, Eudora Welty

MARSH, EDWARD

Rupert Brooke: A Memoir

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1918, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (6), 159 pp. (+ frontispiece plate with tissue guard). Blue cloth with paper title label to spine. Spare title label tipped in to rear. First separate edition of Sir Edward Marsh's famous biographical memoir of Rupert Brooke, which prefaced Brooke's Collected Poems in the same year. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 9818

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, Memoirs, War Poets, British Writers, Rupert Brooke

WAGNER-MARTIN, LINDA

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life

Houndmills, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan. 2004, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 251 pp. Grey boards with silver titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this riveting and provocative portrayal of Zelda Fitzgerald's professional and emotional conflicts. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 9919

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, Lost Generation, Jazz Age, American Writers, Zelda Fitzgerald

MATTHEWS, T.S.

Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T.S. Eliot

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1974, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xx, 219 pp. (+ 8 pp. plates). Green boards with gilt to spine. Clipped dustjacket. A very good copy of this acclaimed biographical literary study of T.S. Eliot. Fine/Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 9731

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, Criticism, T.S. Eliot

MCCOURT, JOHN

James Joyce: A Passionate Exile

London, Orion. 2000, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Various. Book, 4to. (6), 112 pp. Red boards with gilt to sipine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of this revealing account of the life, times and writings of the twentieth century's most distinguished novelist. Combining text with an extraordinary collection of contemporary photographs and other images. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 10040

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: VariousLiterature, Biographies, Irish Writers, James Joyce

MELLOW, JAMES R.

Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company

London, Phaidon Press. 1974, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. [x], 528 pp.(+ 32 pp. plates). Half-cloth with gilt to spine. Clipped pictorial dustjacket. Fine first edition of this biography of one of the most influential American expatriates to have settled in Paris. Fine/Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 9803

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, Lost Generation, American Writers, Gertrude Stein

MELLOW, JAMES R.

Invented Lives: F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1984, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xxi, 571 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Blue cloth boards with silver and red titles to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. A very good first edition of this enlightening dual portrait of the complex and ultimately destructive career of the Fitzgeralds. Very Good/Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 9922

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, Lost Generation, Jazz Age, American Writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald

MENDELSON, EDWARD

Early Auden

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press. 1983. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. xxiv, 407 pp. Illustrated wraps. An excellent copy of Mendelson's acclaimed critical biography of W.H. Auden up to about 1942, portraying the complex loneliness of the poet and the relation of his character to his poetry. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 9841

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, British Writers, W.H. Auden

MERTON, THOMAS

The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

New York, New Directions. 1981, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. xvi. 549pp. Blue cloth boards. Blue dustjacket with photograph to rear. Very scarce first edition of the trappist monk's literary essays. Pencil annotations by unknown hand to final blank pages. Good/Good.

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Boeknummer: 9315

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Essays, Criticism, American Writers

MEYERS, JEFFREY

Hemingway: A Biography

London, Macmillan. 1985, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xviii, 646 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Blue boards with gilt to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An excellent first edition of this acclaimed biography by one of the most respected scholars in his field. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 9903

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, American Writers, Ernest Hemingway

MILFORD, NANCY

Zelda: A Biography

New York, Harper & Row. 1970. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. xvi, 425 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Green cloth with silver titles to front and spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Nancy Milford's acclaimed, bestselling biography of Zelda Fitzgerald. Very Good/Fair.

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Boeknummer: 9923

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, Lost Generation, Jazz Age, American Writers, Zelda Fitzgerald

MILLER, LUCASTA

The Brontë Myth

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 2004. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 352 pp.Brown boards with silver to spine. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine copy of Lucasta Miller's fascinating insight into the lives of the Brontës and how they became cultural symbols. As new. Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 010103

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biography, Criticism, Brontës

MILLER, HENRY (ED. JOYCE HOWARD)

Letters by Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller

New York, Freunlich Books. 1986, First Edition. Half-Cloth. Book, 8vo. x, 163 pp. (+ 16 pp. plates). Blue half-cloth. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Fine first edition of Miller's intimate letters to his fifth and last wife, Hoki, laying open his feelings about eros and love. Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 10063

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Correspondence, Biography, American Writers, Henry Miller

LEES-MILNE, JAMES

Harold Nicolson: A Biography (2 Volume Set)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1980, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xii, 429 pp.; xii, 403 pp. Blue boards with gilt to spines. Illustrated unclipped dustjackets designed by John Woodcock. A very fine first edition set of this excellent biography of Harold Nicolson, told 'with intelligence, tact, frankness and charm' by his intimate friend James Lees-Milne, who was appointed for the task by Nicolson's son Nigel. Illustrated throughout. Vol. I: 1886-1929; Vol II: 1930-1968. Very uncommon in this state. Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 9618

Catalogus: Literature (Secondary)

Trefwoorden: Literature, Biographies, Bloomsbury, British Writers, Nicolson