DUDGEON, PIERS

Breaking out of the Box - the Biography of Edward de Bono

London, Headline. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747271429). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A near Fine copy with a near Fine dustjacket which is complete and has a slight crease to top. Uninscribed copy. An excellent biography of the Cambridge don who created the concept of "Lateral Thinking", whose background is in medicine, psychology and research and who travels some 200,000 miles a year across the globe lecturing to effect a change in the way we think. 16 photographic illustrations. 22. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 002246

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: 0747271429

DUDGEON, PIERS

The Girl from Leam Lane - the Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson (Revised and Expanded Centenary Edition)

London, Headline. 2006. (ISBN: 0755314972). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.xv11 + 302 pages. 64 illustrations. Catherine Cookson (1906-1998), the illegitimate daughter of an Irish barmaid, was born in a two room apartment in a run-down area of dockland on the south bank of the Tyne. Forty four years later her debut novel 'Kate Hannigan' was accepted by the first publisher to whom it was submitted. It established her as a powerful creator of character and a storyteller of rare talent. Piers Dudgeon was granted many hours of exclusive interviews over a 15 year period until Catherine's death. Now, in the company of her family and others who declined to be interviewed during her lifetime, he sheds new light on the tortured drama of her personal life and final days, and on her legacy to the nation. D4F. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 010440

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: English Authors, Biography 0755314972

FRASER, AMY STEWART

The Hills of Home

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1974. (ISBN: 071007414X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. x + 240 pages. Map of Glen Cairn endpapers. First published in 1973. 'I do not recall putting my dolls into mourning at the time of Queen Victoria's death as did some children.' Most memories of childhood long ago are dimmed by time. But not Amy Stewart Fraser's. She lived as a girl in Glen Cairn, near Balmoral, the daughter of the parish minister: she recreates the life of those days as accurately as a photograph. Nothing escaped her sharp eyes, whether the indiscretions of a country girl , the clothes, the way of life. the characters of the people she knew. A1B. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 009671

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Autobiography, Glen Cairn Scotland 071007414x

GARDINER, JULIET

The World Within - the Brontës at Haworth - a Life in Letters, Diaries and Writings

London, Collins and Brown. 1992. (ISBN: 1855851415). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 160 pages. Fully illustrated with contemporary pictures, including many sketches and watercolours by the Brontës themselves. 'Quoting as much and fully as possible from the letters, diaries and other writings of the Brontës and their circle, Juliet Gardiner brings to life the topography both of their external environment and their imaginative world within.' 15. Fine/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 009382

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Bronte Sister, Branwell 1855851415

GLENDINNING, VICTORIA

Jonathan Swift

London, Hutchinson. 1998, First. (ISBN: 0091791960). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 324 pages. 22 illustrations. Facsimile letter of Swift to endpapers. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'. In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry of controversy and paradox. 15. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 011290

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: 0091791960

PAYN, GRAHAM AND MORLEY, SHERIDAN (EDITED BY)

The Noel Coward Diaries

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297781421). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has age toning to closed edges with dustjacket that is not price clipped. 698 pages. When Noel Coward died in 1973, he was as old as the century, and its most renowned dramatist, director and star. He left behind him over fifty plays, twenty five films, hundreds of songs, two autobiographies, a novel, several volumes of short stories and countless poems, sketches, recordings and paintings, not to mention the memories of three generations of playgoers for whom so long he had set the style on and off stage. Fortunately he also left diaries chronicling the last thirty years of his life. These are the years from 1940, when he was starting out on the wartime troop concert tours that were to give him a whole new career as a cabaret entertainer, through the private and professional depression of the early 1950's, when his beloved England seemed to turn almost against him and his work, to the 1960's when he returned in triumph to receive his knighthood. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.25 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Very Good/Good.

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N° du livre: 009982

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: 0297781421

HALL, N. JOHN

Trollope - a Biography

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0192830716). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked copy with a light crease to front top corner and a crease to rear top corner. xv and 581 pages. 27 illustrations and 4 in-text illustrations. A large scholarly work and a compelling biography by Professor Hall which weaves Trollope's two careers into a single coherent narrative and presents the true personality of the writer. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST C3C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 006413

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Anthony Trollope Biography 0192830716

HAWKINS, DESMOND

Shelley's First Love - the Love Story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Grove

London, Kyle Cathie. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 1856260488). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page 'Inscribed by the author with best wishes - Desmond Hawkins Sept, 1992'. A near Fine copy which has a small previous owner 's inscription to front endpaper with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. The story of Shelley's early love for his Wiltshire cousin, Harriet Grove, has suffered particularly, not only from a lack of first-hand information but from Thomas Love Peacock's uninformed prejudice and Thomas Jefferson Hogg's downright forgery of Shelley's correspondence (the pair had established the broad outlines of Shelleyan biography in 1858). The existence of Harriet Grove's diaries for 1809-10 had been known in 1898 but they were not accessible until a leading American collector, Carl Pforzheimer, authorised their publication in 1961. The discovery of Shelley's diary for 1810 and of Harriet's sister Charlotte for 1811, now published here for the first time, throws new light on a passionate teenage romance. 14 illustrations, 1 map and genealogical chart. NOT EX LIBRARY C3A. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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N° du livre: 005461

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Carl Pforzheimer 1856260488

HILLIER, BEVIS

John Betjeman - the Biography

London, John Murray. 2006. (ISBN: 0719564433). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with light creasing to spine and one back corner tip. 590 pages. 61 illustrations. Originally published in three volumes, this book is a distillation authorized by Betjeman himself. It takes the reader from Betjeman's troubled childhood in North London, through his blossoming at Oxford; a gay fling with W.H. Auden; a clandestine marriage to a field-marshal's daughter; pranks as a film critic; wartime service and probable espionage in Ireland, to the glory days of his later years as a much loved poet. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST C3B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 007573

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: English Poets, Poet Laureates, W.H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh, Osbert Lancaster, Archibald Ormsby-Gore, Lord Clonmore, Pamela Mitford, Joan Hunter Dunn 0719564433

HOLROYD, MICHAEL

Bernard Shaw - Volume I - 1856-1898 - the Search for Love; Volume II - 1898-1918 - the Pursuit of Power; Volume III - 1918-1950 - the Lure of Fantasy

London, Chatto and Windus. 1988. (ISBN: 0701133325). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3 VOLUME SET. Gilt title and facsimile signature on black boards. All volumes Fine and unmarked with Fine dustjackets, one of which is price clipped. Volume I - viii + 486 pages. 37 illustrations ISBN 0701133325 Second Impression 1988. Volume II - ix + 422 pages. 38 illustrations ISBN 0701133503 First Impression 1989. Volume III - ix + 544 pages. 43 illustrations ISBN 0701133511 First Impression 1991. In Vol. I with sympathetic insight Michael Holroyd takes us from Bernard Shaw's birth in 1856, his early days in Dublin, through a series of love affairs, to his marriage in 1898. Then following his mother to London tried his hand at writing novels; elected himself a leading member of the Fabian Society; established a reputation, with his championship of Wagner, as a brilliant music critic; and composed his famous 'pleasant and unpleasant plays'. Vol. II is the story of Shaw in his prime and by 1914 the author of 'Pygmalion' has become the most popular writer in England. Vol. III brings the author's Olympian life of Bernard Shaw to a climax. The story opens with G.B.S. campaigning at the 1918 General Election and gradually reveals him as a conjuror, fabulist and seer. Here is Shaw in old age, a mysterious, comic, but above all moving portrait of one of the greatest men of letters of the 20th century. The reluctant recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a Hollywood Oscar, Shaw became an international icon. In the early 1930's he set off on a series of world pilgrimages. Shaw was to outlive almost all his contemporaries: Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and most poignantly of all his wife Charlotte. But in vigorous old age he still had the power to attract new friends, both among the famous - Lady Astor, Lawrence of Arabia, Elgar - and the unusual including an enclosed nun, a heavyweight boxer and a wayward girl, forty years his junior. A most magnificent biography. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY SET THAT WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 010259

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: George Bernard Shaw, Wagner, Ellen Terry, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lady Astor, Elgar, Lawrence of Arabia, 0701133325

HUTH, ANGELA

Not the Whole Story - a Memoir

London, Constable. 2018, First. (ISBN: 9781472127068). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As new copy in As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 311 pages. 26 photographs. The novelist, who, at the age of five, decided that she would become a writer, describes her idiosyncratic childhood. Her father was a famous actor and film director , her mother was known for her humour, fluency in foreign languages and her penchant for giving memorable parties. But in spite of her parents' initial happiness they parted after the war. Eleven years later they got back together, happily, though each would have a lover for decades. A candid portrait of Angela Huth's early life. 23. As New/As New.

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N° du livre: 010974

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: 9781472127068

HUXLEY, ELSPETH

Gallipot Eyes - a Wiltshire Diary

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297770780). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Delderfield, Delia. Gold title on brown boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there are some minor light marks to fore edge. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a small repaired closed tear to to and is price clipped. The well known author has lived in Oaksey in Wiltshire for 35 years and kept this diary from April 1974 to March 1975 and recorded her daily preoccupations and village life, and in this delightful cameo she has captured the charm and the changes of the village. Illustrated by Delia Delderfield. NOT EX LIB NOT BOOK CLUB C3D. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 004655

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Wiltshire, Oaksey, Village Life, Biography 0297770780 Delderfield, Delia

ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER

My Guru and His Disciple

London, Eyre Methuen. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0413469301). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from an inscription to front endpaper) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 338 pages. The book is not a conventional sequel to Christopher and His Kind but it begins in 1939 when Christopher Isherwood arrived in America where he was to meet Swami Prabhhavananda, the head of a Centre in Hollywood for the study and practice of Hindu philosophy. The sometimes funny, always moving account of the Hindu monk who became Isherwood's spiritual mentor for over thirty years until his death in 1976 offers a loving but in no way pietistic account of their friendship. During the 1940's Isherwood lived for a time at the Centre and contemplated becoming a monk, a step much encouraged by the Swami, with whom he was translating the Gita at the time. C3A. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 010005

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Hindu Philosophy, Swami Prabhavananda 0413469301

JOHNSTON, KENNETH R.

The Hidden Wordsworth - Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy

New York, W.W. Norton. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0393046230). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some light creases to 6 pages possibly caused in production) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. xxii + 965 pages. 87 illustrations. 9 maps. Map of Wordsworth's London 1791-1795 and Paris 1791-1793 endpapers. In this fascinating account, Professor Kenneth R. Johnston portrays a Wordsworth different in crucial ways from the one that the poet intended us to know. Taking advantage of unprecedented access to government archives in England and France, family papers, school and university records, and intimate letters, he brings little known aspects of Wordsworth's life and character to the fore, revealing for example: that Wordsworth was more sexually experienced than he let on, exploring the poet's contradictory accounts of the dancing girls he met on the shores of Lake Como in 1790 and his detailed knowledge of prostitution in Cambridge; the true story of his affair with Annette Vallon during his year in France 1791/2, the illegitimate child he fathered with her, and the impact of her frank eroticism on his poetry; his clandestine return to France in the fall of 1793, and his continuing contact with Annette Vallon; and, most astonishing of all, Wordsworth's likely spy missions for the newly formed British Secret Service in Germany and at home. Johnston unfolds a life that Byron might have envied, and Wordsworth's attempts to hide his 'juvenile errors' from his contemporaries and history, but they did not disappear, and many of them stare us in the face from the lines of his greatest poetry. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.5 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST NOT EX LIB 12. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 008211

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Annette Vallon, 18th Century, Paris, Lake Como, Germany, English Poet, British Secret Service 0393046230

KEATING, H.R.F.

Agatha Christie - First Lady of Crime

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297772953). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Very Good + unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket which is protected by a plastic cover. Agatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known and a creator of mysteries that have delightedly baffled millions, indisputedly the 'First Lady of Crime', but she was mystery herself. A mystery in that she eschewed personal publicity for most of her long life. The crime novelist Keating has assembled a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this mystery and the approaches are various - penetrating, affectionate, enthusiastic, analytical, funny even critical. Numerous illustrations highlight many fascinating aspects of Agatha Christie's career. A1A. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 004213

Catalogue: Biography - English Authors

Mots-clés: Crime Writers, Biography, Agatha Christie 0297772953