ACKROYD, PETER

Chaucer Brief Lives

London, Vintage, 2005. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 042213

Catalogue: Literary Biography

ADCOCK, F. E.

Thucydides and His History

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown, stamp to ffep, card to rfep, bookplate to rear pastedown, spine label, no other library markings; overall very good-. .

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Book number: 037148

Catalogue: Literary Biography

ALEXANDER, PAUL

Rough Magic A Biography of Sylvia Plath

Cambridge, Da Capo Press, 2003. Paperback. 8vo. Black and white photographic reproductions. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 046133

Catalogue: Literary Biography

AMBURN, ELLIS

Subterranean Kerouac The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac

New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 041660

Catalogue: Literary Biography

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD

A Story Teller's Story

Cleveland, Ohio, Case Western Reserve Press, 1968. reprint. Hardcover. 360 pp.8vo,,Nf in sl scuffed but vg+ dj. A quality reprint of Anderson's first autobiography, first published in 1924. Edited by Ray Lewis White.

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Book number: 9900011116

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Biography;Tar;Winesburg, Ohio;;;;;;

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD

Tar: A Midwest Childhood

Cleveland, Ohio, Case Western Reserve Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. xx, 257 pp.8vo,,Nf in sl scuffed but vg+ dj. A quality reprint of Anderson's second autobiography, first published in 1926. A critical text, edited by Ray Lewis White.

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Book number: 9900011117

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Biography;Anderson, Sherwood;;;;;;;

ANDERSON, J. K.

Xenophon: Classical Life and Letters

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Hardcover. pp. 206, 8vo. Black and white photographic plates. Light shelfwear, previous owner's embossed stamp to ffep; very good in lightly scuffed, very good Brodarted dustjacket with sunning to spine. .

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Book number: 050759

Catalogue: Literary Biography

DE ASSIS, MACHADO; GROSSMAN, WILLIAM L. (TRANS.)

Epitaph of a Small Winner

New York, The Noonday Press, 1998. Fifth printing. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Ill.: Frisch, Shari. Foreword by Susan Sontag.

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Book number: 038428

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Frisch, Shari

ATWOOD, MARGARET; EARL G. INGERSOLL (ED.)

Margaret Atwood: Conversations

Willowdale, Ontario, Firefly, 1990. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 057245

Catalogue: Literary Biography

QUINN, DAVID B. AND NEIL M. CHESHIRE, EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY

The New Found Land of Stephen Parmenius the Life and Writings of a Hungarian Poet, Drowned on a Voyage from Newfoundland, 1583

Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo, pp. 250. Faint spotting to top page edge; very good in lightly edgeworn, vg dust jacket with sticker residue to front. black & white illustrations.

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Book number: 013783

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Hungarian scholar, Hungary, Hungarian poet, Poetry, Poems, Stephen Parmenius, Expeditions, Travel, Shipwreck

BAIR, DEIRDRE

Simone de Beauvoir A Biography

New York, Summit Books, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, top corner of ffep excised; very good in very good, edgeworn dustjacket. .

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Book number: 058367

Catalogue: Literary Biography

BAKER, MICHAEL

Our Three Selves A Life of Radclyffe Hall

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear; very good in good+, sunned dustjacket. .

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Book number: 058368

Catalogue: Literary Biography

BALLARD, J. G.

The Kindness of Women

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 056143

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Empire of the Sun;

BALLARD, J. G.

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton An Autobiography

London, Harper Perennial, 2008. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 037085

Catalogue: Literary Biography

BAYLEY, JOHN

Elegy for Iris

New York, Picador USA, 1999. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 035478

Catalogue: Literary Biography

BEAUMAN, NICOLA

E.M. Forster: A Biography

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First American edition. Hardcover. pp. x, 404. 8vo. Bound in quarter navy cloth over paper boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board. Black and white photographic plates. Light shelfwear; very good in lightly rubbed, very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 052182

Catalogue: Literary Biography

DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE

Adieux A Farewell to Sartre

New York, Penguin Books, 1985. Paperback. 8vo. Creasing and scuffing to extremities; good. Translated by Patrick O'Brian.

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Book number: 054043

Catalogue: Literary Biography

DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE

The Prime of Life

London, Penguin Books, 1994. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear, creasing to spine; good. .

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Book number: 058663

Catalogue: Literary Biography

BEERBOHM, MAX

Seven Men

London, William Heinemann. Hardcover. pp. 219, ads.8vo,,,Biographies of Enoch Soames, Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton, James Pethel, A. V. Laider, and 'Savonarola' Brown. Armorial bookplate of 'Casa de Aldrich' to front free endpaper. Bookbinder's stamp to bottom right of second preliminary blank page. Binding shows a touch of rubbing to extremities; else tight and in very good condition. No date of publication shown, but it was probably issued in its original cloth binding in 1919 or 1920. Four pages of publisher's ads at the end of the book. Re-bound in full book calf with morocco spine lables and marbled endpapers. Quite a handsome presentation.

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Book number: 9900043724

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Enoch Soames;Hilary Maltby;Stephen Braxton;James Pethel;A. V. Laider;Savonarola;;;

BELFORD, BARBARA

Violet

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1990. 1st printing. Hardcover. 351 pp.8vo,,Vg in vg dj. Ill.: B&w photos. The story of the irrepressible Violet Hunt and her circle of lovers and friends - Ford Madox Ford, H.G. Wells, Maugham etc.

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Book number: 9900011569

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Biography;Feminists;Women writers;;;;;; B&w photos

BELL, QUENTIN

Virginia Woolf, Volume Two Mrs. Woolf: 1912-1941

Triad/Granada, 1982. Paperback. 8vo. pp. 300. Contains black and white photographs. Minimal edgewear; very good. .

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Book number: 039871

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Non-Fiction; English Writer; Mrs. Dalloway; A Room of One's Own

BLAIR, DEIRDRE

Anais Nin A Biography

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good in lightly shelfworn, very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 039906

Catalogue: Literary Biography

BREDSDORFF, ELIAS

Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work 1805-75

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 026804

Catalogue: Literary Biography

O'BRIEN, EDNA

James Joyce A Penguin Life

New York, A Lipper / Viking Book, 1999. Hardcover. pp. x, 179. 8vo. 1/4 cloth over pictorial boards. Silver lettering to spine. Previous owner's embossed stamp to half-title, otherwise contents clean and unmarked; very good+ in lightly rubbed, very good dustjacket (protected in brodart sleeve). Penguin Lives.

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Book number: 055448

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Penguin Lives;

BRINKLEY, DOUGLAS, ED.

Windblown World The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

New York, Viking , 2004. Hardcover. pp. xliv, 387. 8vo. Light shelfwear, smokey odor, underlining throughout, ink mark to bottom page edge; good+ in a good+ dust jacket with light shelfwear and rubbing to panels. .

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Book number: 020162

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Journals; Biography; Memoir; Beat Author