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Edward James. Poet - Patron - Eccentric. A Surrealist Life. A biography.
by EDWARD JAMES. John Lowe.
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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Collins, London, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xix, 262pp. Maroon boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with 45 black and white photographs. Edges just fractionally spotted and with a hint of soiling to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at the upper edge… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Nightmare of Reason. A Life of Franz Kafka.
by FRANK KAFKA. Ernst Pawel.
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1984
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- Hardcover
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Harvill Press Ltd., London, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the considerably more common US edition. xiv, 466pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty black and white photographs. A scattering of very light spotting to the top- and fore edge. A virtually fine… Read more about this item Item Price
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In Search of J.D.Salinger. A biography.
by J.D.SALINGER. Ian Hamilton.
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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Random House, New York, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing - with the number line starting at '2', as required for Random House publications of this period). 8vo. 222pp. Purple cloth, lettered and ornately ruled in silver at the spine, and in pink at the upper board. Top edge very lightly spotted, else a fine… Read more about this item Item Price
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Patrick Leigh Fermor. An Adventure.
by PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. Artemis Cooper.
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2012
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- Hardcover
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John Murray, London, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 448pp. Dark blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with fifty-two photographs and two holograph manuscript reproductions. Contemporary former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Radical Wordsworth. The Poet Who Changed the World.
by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Jonathan Bate.
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- Fine
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- 2020
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William Collins, London, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 586pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A biography of Wordsworth, issued to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth.. Item Price
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Edward Thomas. From Adlestrop to Arras. A Biography. Bloomsbury
by EDWARD THOMAS. Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2015
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Bloomsbury, London, 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 480pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers, one further map, a drawn portrait of Thomas by his brother Ernest, and 56 black and white photographs. A near-invisible speckling of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy dust wrapper,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Charlotte Mew and Her Friends.
by PENELOPE FITZGERALD.
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1984
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- Hardcover
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Collins, London, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny trace of bruising to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly faded at the spine panel and with a hint of corresponding creasing. A critical… Read more about this item Item Price
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Charlotte Mew and Her Friends.
by PENELOPE FITZGERALD.
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1984
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- Hardcover
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$44.50
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Collins, London, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel. A critical biography of the noted English poet.. Item Price
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Radclyffe Hall. A Woman Called John. A biography.
by RADCLYFFE HALL. Sally Cline.
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1997
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- Hardcover
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John Murray, London, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 434pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty black and white photographs. A tiny trace of toning to the paperstock, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little creased at the head of the spine panel and with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Robert Bridges. A Biography. (PLUS ALS)
by ROBERT BRIDGES. Catherine Phillips.
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 364pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Illustrated with seventeen black and white photographs and reproductions. A little light fox-spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Hand-written letter from the author… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Shadowed Man: Henry Williamson 18951977. With a foreword by Richard Williamson
by HENRY WILLIAMSON. Lois Lamplugh.
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- Fine
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- 2nd Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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The Exmoor Press, Somerset, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The revised second edition, and the first casebound issue. 8vo. 2020pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with eighteen photographs, none of which appeared in the first edition. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper.. Item Price
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Mr. Lear. A Life of Art and Nonsense. (SIGNED)
by JENNY UGLOW.
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- 1st Edition
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- 2017
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- Hardcover
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Faber, London, 2017. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. viii, 598pp. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. With a place marker ribbon, decorated endpapers, and various colour and monochrome reproductions in the text. A single tiny smudge to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Robert Lowell. A Biography.
by ROBERT LOWELL. Ian Hamilton.
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1983
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- Hardcover
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Faber, London, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. xiv, 527pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-three black and white photographs. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly creased at the upper edge.. Item Price
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Dostoevsky in Love. An Intimate Life.
by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY. Alex Christofi.
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2021
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- Hardcover
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Bloomsbury, London, 2021. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 236pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A novelistic biography Dostoevsky "from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling hall of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alone in the Dawn. The Life of Adelaide Crapsey.
by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY. Karen Alkalay-Gut.
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 364pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-one captioned photographs. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner, and a hint of spotting to the top edge. A very good copy in dust wrapper,… Read more about this item Item Price
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E.E.Cummings. A Life.
by E.E.CUMMINGS. Susan Cheever.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2014
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- Hardcover
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Pantheon Books, New York, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 213pp. White boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nearly fifty black and white photographs and reproductions. A touch of minor bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Not published in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pow! A novel. Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.
by MO YAN.
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2012
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- Hardcover
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Seagull Books, London, New York & Calcutta, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first English-language edition. 8vo. 386pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with a single miniscule closed tear to the base of the front panel-spine panel join. The author's ninth novel,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Henry Williamson. Tarka and the Last Romantic.
by HENRY WILLIAMSON. Anne Williamson.
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 2nd Edition
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The corrected second edition, issued the same year as the first edition. 8vo. xiv, 368pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece of Williamson by C.F.Tunnicliffe, and various photographs, maps and reproductions. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper.. Item Price
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Lafcadio Hearn. A biography.
by EDWARD THOMAS
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Fair
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- 1st Edition
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- 1912
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- Hardcover
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Constable 'Modern Biographies' series, London, 1912. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, second issue, with a leaf of advertisements tipped-in before the half-title but otherwise identical to the first issue (which was itself preceded by the American issue, published six days earlier). Small 8vo. 96pp including five pages of publisher's advertisements. Green cloth, gilt lettered and decorated at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cyril Connolly. A Life. (INSCRIBED)
by CYRIL CONNOLLY. Jeremy Lewis.
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1997
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- Hardcover
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Peter & Fiona. Well done on 30 yrs - old Connolly never managed half as well - & best wishes for the next. Jeremy". 8vo. xvii, 653pp. Black boards lettered… Read more about this item Item Price
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