HINKLEY, LAURA L.

Charlotte and Emily - The Brontes

London, Hammond, Hammond & Co. 1947. Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 6 x 8.75"; 296pp; brown cloth with gilt title to spine; dustwrapper; g/g;. Good/Good.

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Book number: 1166

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Bronte Literature Authors Haworth Parsonage Biography

HOLBROOK, STEWART H.

Age of the Moguls, The

London, Victor Gollancz. 1954, Fifth Printing. Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 373 pages. A fascinating look at the 'tycoons' of America - Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockfeller, Carnegie... Good/Good.

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Book number: 20094

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: America Tycoons American Biography

HOME, LORD

Way the Wind Blows

London, Fontana. 1978. (ISBN: 0006353266) Paperback. Book, Fair.

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Book number: 12854

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0006353266 Autobiography Politics Prime Minister Parliament

HONG, YING

Daughter of the River

London, Bloomsbury. 1999. (ISBN: 0747544050) Paperback. Book, The daughter is Hong Ying, a Chinese poet and novelist whose Summer of Betrayal (1997) was banned in the People's Republic. The river is the Yang". As New.

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Book number: 11916

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0747544050 China Chinese Mao Memoir

HOSKYNS, BARNEY

James Dean - Shooting Star

London, Virgin. 1990. Paperback, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Loehr, David. Book, fully illustrated large format paperback. Biography; Theatre & Performing Arts. Good.

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Book number: 84

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Loehr, Davidbiography Film Actor Star Legend

HUGHES-HALLETT, PENELOPE

Home at Grasmere: The Wordsworths and the Lakes (The Illustrated Letters)

London, Collins and Brown. 1993. (ISBN: 1855851113) Hardcover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, This is a collection of the writings of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincy and others, describing the life of the Wordsworths and their circle when they lived at Grasmere in the Lake District. The book starts with a description of William's early life, but its main focus is on the years 1799-1813, that period of sustained creativity when William and his sister Dorothy returned to the lakes and mountains of their childhood memories. Penelope Hughes-Hallett interweaves photographs and her own descriptions with extracts from William's poems, Dorothy's journals and the writings of a host of other contemporaries, to evoke a place and a time which became inspirational in the development of English literature. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 13263

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1855851113 Wordsworth Writer Poet Poetry Poem

ISAACSON, JUDITH MAGYAR

Seed of Sarah : Memoirs of a Survivor

Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Press. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0252016513) Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 171 pages. This absorbing tale moves deftly from the author's idyllic childhood in Hungary through her terrifying coming-of-age as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps.. Good/Good.

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Book number: 24269

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0252016513 Hungary Nazi Germany Prisoner Concentration Camp

JACKSON, JOHN WYSE WITH COSTELLO, PETER

John Stanislaus Joyce - The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father

London, Fourth Estate. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857024176) Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 6 x 9.5"; 493pp; blue cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, small closed tear to top edge of spine; very good copy;. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 7693

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1857024176 Ireland Irish Cork Dublin Literatrue Biography

JOHNSTON, BRIAN

Someone Who Was - Reflections on a Life of Happiness and Fun

London, Mandarin. 1993. Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 4.25 x 7"; 275pp; paperback; illustrated; good clean copy;. Good.

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Book number: 7297

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Sport; Cricket; Radio; Commentator;

KENDALL, ALAN

David Garrick: A Biography

London, Harrap. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0245542523) Hardcover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, David Garrick - rose from obscurity and relative poverty to earn a final resting place in Westminster Abbey. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 13264

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0245542523 Biography Garrick Theatre Actor

KLEIN, CAROLE

Doris Lessing: a Biography

London, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 2000. (ISBN: 0715629514) Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, Throughout her life, Doris Lessing broke the rules in both her personal life and within the accepted mores of literature. A trailblazer of the women's movement and an early experimenter with drugs, she gained notoriety in the sixties with her first novel "The Grass is Singing", and subsequently with her explosive "Golden Notebook" and the "Children of Violence" series. At the age of eighty she remains part of the avant garde. Doris Lessing has always resisted appointing an official biographer. In this unofficial biography, Carole Klein, separates fact from the fiction with which Dories Lessing has surrounded herself. Using the private correspondence between Lessing, her long-standing editor Tobert Gottlieb and her agent John Cushman, she reveals a complex woman who is both self-assured and remarkably fragile. Beginning with Lessing's birth in Persia to a cold and spiteful mother, Carole Klein follows Lessing through her many reincarnations: an isolated childhood in Africa, lonely years at a distant boarding school, a rebellious and promiscuous young adulthood, years at a menial job as a telephone operator, a brief marriage, motherhood, her flight from her husband and children, her political activism, fame and, always, her writing. Carole Klein attempts to reveal the spirit of a woman who was never afraid to challenge the status quo, who always sought a deeper truth, ending up losing the battle with her own identity. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 12244

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0715629514 Biography

KNOWLSON, JAMES

Damned to Fame : Life of Samuel Beckett

Bloomsbury Books. 1997, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780747531692) Soft cover. Book, 1 x 2000 Author Signed and inscribed to me when I went to France to look for property. He signed for me especially. Never read. As New. Inscribed by Author(s).

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Book number: 028026

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 9780747531692 Samuel Beckett, Biography

KOHLER SMITH, VALERIE

Lenny - The Real Story of Lenny Bruce

London, Tandem. 1975. (ISBN: 0426164164) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 4.5 x 7"; 176pp; paperback; illustrated; good copy;. Good.

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Book number: 8002

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0426164164 Comic; Prophet; Fraud; Actor; Acting; Biography; Actor;

KURTZ, IRMA

Dear London - Notes from the Big City

London, Fourth Estate. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857025539) Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 5.5 x 9"; 212 pages; black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, slightly bumped to top edge; vg/g; title page has been stamped 'Fourth Estate Ltd, 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU, Tel 0171 727 8993 - LIBRARY COPY;. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 11474

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1857025539 London; Kurtz; Capital; Metropolis; Carrier; Journalism; Journalist; Agony Aunt; America; American; Woman;

KUUSISTO, STEPHEN

Planet of the Blind

London, Faber and Faber. 1998, Third Impression. (ISBN: 0571193617) Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 5.25 x 8"; 194pp; orange cloth with black in fine condition; dustwrapper in fine condition; this is a story of a the life of a half-blind man, struggling through life pretending he could see;. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 10759

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0571193617 Blindness; Loneliness; Handicapped;