Biography from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1941. 8vo. First Macmillan edition. 392 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing and some bumping to extremities. Slight spine lean and light spotting to edges. Generally clean internally. Churchill writes about his education, military service and his entry to the House of Commons. Originally published in 1930. . Good. Cloth.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1949. 8vo. First Edition. 271 pp. Teal cloth with lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine in illustrated and clipped jacket. A number of tears and areas of loss to the jacket. Minor bumping and rubbing to book extremities and front joint a little loose . Ink ownership mark, otherwise quite clean internally.… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1995. Large 8vo. x, 486 pp. Brown hardback in illustrated dust jacket. Light marks to edges and minor bumping to spine ends. Light tanning to top edge of jacket but overall in clean and very good condition. Internally clean with no markings and many black-and-white photographs in the middle section. 0297812998 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber 1946. Large 8vo. 489 pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering to spine. Foxing to spine, sunning to top edge and spine. Pages slightly yellowed but internally clean with 76 illustrations. Gift ink inscription to FFEP. . Good. Hardcover. Second Impression. 1946.

Basingstoke: Privately Printed by Macmillan 1984. Small 8vo. Privately printed for Macmillan Publishing staff. 41 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. This memoir of Harold Macmillan was published to mark his ninetieth birthday in February 1984, with the late Prime Minister being the grandson of the co-founder of the publishing company, Daniel MacMillan.… Read more about this item

London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson 1928. 8vo. First edition. xiv, 317 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine, in paper dust jacket (not price clipped). Clean boards. The binding is very slightly slanted with light bumping to spine ends. Laid paper with deckle edges; internally fresh and clean. Light shelf wear to extremities of jacket, some discolouration to spine and to… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1942. 8vo. First Edition. 278 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Some fading and sunning to jacket, which has a few small tears. Foxing to edges, but internally clean. Jacket is not price clipped. The second portion of Sassoon's autobiography covering the years 1907-1914 and the author's exploration of the literary world in… Read more about this item

London: Cassell. 8vo. First edition. 210 pp. Minimal rubbing to spine and to edges of jacket. Small tear to top edge of back panel. Clean boards and jacket. Foxing to edges. Clean internally. "By repute he was Winston Churchill's fire brigade chief par excellence: the man who was always despatched to retrieve the most desperate situations" wrote Lieutenant-General Sir Brian… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus 1932. 8vo. Scarce. First Edition. xiii, 296 pp. Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight marks to boards. Internally clean. Frontispiece portrait of Lawrence. The book's first printing contained passages regarded as libelous by John Middleton Murry; his threats to sue for libel resulted in the publisher withdrawing unsold copies of the first edition from… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph 1963. 8vo. First edition. 192 pp. Very light shelf wear, foxing to fore-edge. Small tear to top edge of front panel, small white paint marks to spine. Internally clean and bright. In this memoir, Alice Toklas documents, among others, her close friendship with Gertrude Stein. Stein had previously encouraged Toklas to write an autobiography, which Toklas had… Read more about this item

London: John Murray 1930. 16mo. xxxvi, 659, [10 ads] pp. Hardcover with gilt decoration and lettering to boards and spine. Minor rubbing to extremities. A few creased pages. Clean internally. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1930.

London: Hamish Hamilton 1969. 8vo. First Edition. 219 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. Jacket has some rubbing and wear, with a few short tears. Minor bumping and marking to boards and spine. Generally internally clean. Uncommon. Dent was a friend of Leigh's. 0241018064 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1969.

Norwich: Michael Russell Publishing Ltd 2004. 8vo.Presentation Copy. Presentation copy. 381 pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. Slight creasing to jacket extremities, but otherwise a clean, fresh copy. Includes black and white photographic and illustrated plates. Author's inscription to ffep. 0859552853 . Fine. Hardcover. 2004.

London: The Folio Society c. 2011. 8vo. xviii, 270 pp. Cloth with an illustration by Yann Le Bec based on a design by Gavin Morris, brown slipcase. Light fading to top edge of slipcase. With an introduction by A. N. Wilson. Includes 7 plates reproducing photographs from the Mitford family archives. . Near Fine. Cloth. 2011.

London: The Folio Society circa 2010. 8vo. xx., 308 pp. Shrink-wrapped. As this is shrink-wrapped, we have not determined which printing this is. Originally published in 2009, there was a reprint in 2010. . As New. Hardcover. 2010.

London: Jonathan Cape 1946. 8vo. 282 pp. Elegant moss green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, gilt snake decoration to front board and a green top-edge in a pretty illustrated jacket, not price clipped. Book in near immaculate condition with the odd spot or mark. Jacket lightly worn and scratched but still nice-looking. An autobiography of English writer and historian,… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber 1963. 8vo. First edition. 308 pp. Light blue hardcover in pictorial jacket, not price clipped. Gilt lettering to spine. Light marks on boards and wear to extremities; small tears to panel edges. Internally clean and bright. Black & white illustrations throughout. Memoirs of society hostess and patron of the Bloomsbury Group, Lady Ottoline Morrell, with particular… Read more about this item

London: John Murray 1923. 8vo. x, 146, [4 ads] pp. Dark blue hardcover in pictorial jacket. Fraying to jacket, marks and dents to boards, and small amount of loss to corner of front panel. Some foxing to edges and throughout. An account of the career and travels of the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency. . Good. Hardcover. 1923.

London: Ward Lock Limited 1980. 8vo. Signed presentation copy from Jim Fox. 144 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket (not price clipped). Some rubbing to jacket, with spotting to verso. Light bumping to spine ends. Internally clean. Inscription by Fox to title. 0706359828 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1980.

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press 1911. 8vo. First Edition. lxxxiii, 215 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Internally clean, with a loose subscriber's list at front. Furnivall was educated partly in Turnham Green and founded Hammersmith Sculling Club for working class girls in 1896 - Furnivall Gardens is named for him. An advocate for vegetarianism, sculling, spelling… Read more about this item