Biography from Adelaide Booksellers

London: 4th Estate. 2008. Very Good+ condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 302 pages. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

London: Faber & Faber/ Harvill Secker. 2013. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 248 pages. Letters between these two highly regarded writers. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

London: Secker & Warburg. 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjackets - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. The dustjackets are age-toned with some small stains and chipping to spine ends. Vol IV has closed tear to front spine edge. Previous owner's… Read more about this item

Ventura: Pathfinder Publishing. 1993. Octavo Size [approx 15x22cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Signed by Frankie Laine. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 227 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Edinburgh: Canongate Books. 2007. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 285 pages. A searingly honest memoir of heroin addiction and prostitution. . Reprint. Softcover.

Auckland: Random Century New Zealand Ltd. 1994. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Presentation plate to front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 435 pages. To the Is-land. An Angel at my table. The Envoy from Mirror City. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury. 2018. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 323 pages. Anita Leslie's [cousin of Winston Churchill] war memoir. She was a fully trained mechanic and albulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy France and Germany. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2016. Near Fine condition. Very nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Includes Family Tree, Notes, Bibliography and Index. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiii, 403 pages. . 1st thus. Trade Paperback.

Hutchinson of London. 1959. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is age-toned with light damp stain to spine and adjacent lower edge. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Aspasia. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs and plates. 315 pages. In 1969 Heide was home to John and Sunday Reed who were close friends of the author’s parents, John Sinclair and Jean Langley. In February of that year, Jean escaped her difficult marriage and went to live in London, taking her children… Read more about this item

North Melbourne: Arcadia. 2024. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 252 pages. There is more to Frances Sinnett's secret pain than the loss of her children - including the author - to an orphanage. Battalions of sorrows begin when her grandfather at 11 years old is imprisoned on a hulk in 1865. Then… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: John Grant. 1906. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in dark blue boards. Some mild age-toning to page edges. Minor marks to boards. Gilt top edge. Leading and bottom edge untrimmed. Gilt title etc to spine. Crest blind-stamped to front boards. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages of all volumes.… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head. 1962to 1971. 12mo [approx 13x20cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ spins very slightly age toned & now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice set. This is a heavy set and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press. 1958. Octavo Size [approx 15x22cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. Top edge lightly foxed. Dustjacket has some insect damage to front panel and flap folds & is now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve.DJ spine is age toned. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 239… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press. 1967. Octavo Size [approx 15x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. Price clipped DJ age toned & now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Two fold-out maps. B/W frontispiece. Arranged and Edited by Ernest De Selincourt. Revised by Chester L. Shaver. Robust,… Read more about this item

London: The Quality Book Club. 1967. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 192 pages. Gerald Durrell's wife, Jackie describes her entry into the Durrell menagerie and her subsequent encounters with beasts both human and animal. Robust, professional packaging and… Read more about this item

London: Collins. 1955. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ age-toned and a little grubby with some chipping to spine ends and corners. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 384 pages..… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph. 1970. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 197 pages. Autobiography of famous French aviator who took up a career in flying after… Read more about this item

Wheaton, Illinois: Quest Books. 2015. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 358 pages. An intimate view of an influential clairvoyant and a pioneer of alternative healing. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 1991. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Some faint, scattered foxing to edges and endpapers (very mild). Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 426 pages. The first dual biography of the Queen and Prince Philip.… Read more about this item