Biography from Eric James

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1906. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket, 264 pages, plus full colour reproductions including frontispiece of Constable with tissue guard;---elegant book in green cloth covers with front cover floral decorations in reddish brown, bright and clear gilt lettering to front cover and spine, top edge… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, xxxiii + 268 pages including maps and black-and-white illustrations; elegant book in black cloth with very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, very gently read, if at all, not a trace of shelf wear other than the gentlest of bumps to spine ends, very clean… Read more about this item

Derby, Connecticut: New International Library Gold Star Book, 1964. Mass market paperback, cover price 40 cents, 127 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition, uncredited front and back cover art bright and colourful (publisher's yellow edges; pages age toned as usual), but there is light foxing… Read more about this item

Derby, Connecticut: New International Library Gold Star Book, 1965. Mass market paperback, cover price 40 cents, 125 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition, uncredited front and back cover art bright and colourful (publisher's yellow edges; pages age toned as usual). … Read more about this item

New York: Belmont Books, 1962. Mass market paperback, 157 pages; three felt tip remainder marks to top edge, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition. See also our listings for W. C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts and Articles, and for W. C. Fields:… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 1958. Mass market paperback A1888, cover price 35 cents, undated 2nd printing thus, x + 182 pages; gently read, spine rubbed along edges but flat/uncreased, still very tight in binding, light reader's crease to front cover along spine hinge, severe diagonal crease across front cover… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1967. Mass market paperback, 304 pages; very gently read, if at all, spine and back cover flat/uncreased with only traces of light shelf wear to edges, just a hint of a readers crease to front cover (possibly from peeking at Twiggy), very tight in binding, but there is a corner crease at page… Read more about this item

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Seraphim Editions, 2005. AS NEW trade paperback, 149 pages including black-and-white photographs. See also our listings for Charles Ashman's Nazi Hunters: Behind the Worldwide Search for Nazi War Criminals, and for Gitta Sereny's German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938 To 2001. … Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library Hardcover without dust jacket, undated (c1970s/1980s), 370 pages. red covers with bright and clear rectangular decoration in gilt on front cover, more decoration and lettering in gilt on spine, red silk page marker, usual style for this publisher, hardly a trace of … Read more about this item

South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Currey O'Neil, 1985. Trade paperback, x + 110 pages including 2-page "Map of the Forced Landing", plus black-and-white photographs; very gently read, but only tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, tight in binding, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, … Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown, 1973. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, second printing, 308 pages, plus laid in an undated unknown Canadian newspaper clipping of a review of this book upon its publication; very gently used, not a traces of shelf or reading wear, tight… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 2000. Trade paperback Advance Reading Copy Uncorrected Proof, 248 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition. PLEASE NOTE: the Stock Image provided by next to my listing is of the hardcover edition, not an image of my softcover ARC.. Soft Cover. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

Toronto: McArthur & Co, 2002. AS NEW trade paperback, 223 pages including black-and-white photographs. See also our listings for William Arthur Bishop's The Courage of the Early Morning: A Son's Biography of a Famous Father, The Story of Billy Bishop [Canada's Great Flying Hero Billy Bishop, V.C.] (buy… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1966. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 255 pages with "---187 illustrations, which includes 56 plates in colour---"; elegant book in royal red with a very bright and clear gilt crest to front cover and equally brilliant decoration and lettering to spine, very gently used, tight in binding, not a trace… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. Hardcover without dust jacket, second impression 1951, 318 pages; gently used ex-library copy with only light shelf wear to cover edges, corners and spine ends, part of DJ glued inside front cover, library stamps to fore edge, free front endpaper, title and copyright pages and in margin of… Read more about this item

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Hounslow Press, 1999. Trade paperback, 218 pages plus contemporary (1933) black-and-white illustrations; very clean and unmarked unread condition.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Atheneum Temple Books, 1970. Trade paperback, second (1975) printing, xx + 361 pages; very gently used, spine creased but flat, tight in binding, tiny traces of shelf wear, one-word ink name on half title page, underlinings in ink on three pages, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout,… Read more about this item

Toronto: Pitt Publishing, 1966. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 237 pages including many illustrations in black-and-white and full colour; elegant book in orange cloth covers with very bright and clear gilt lettering to front cover and spine, overall very gently used, gentle bumps to spine ends, but otherwise hardly a trace of shelf or… Read more about this item

München (Munich), Germany: Ehrenwirth Verlag, 1971. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 241 pages including 261 black-and-white illustrations with captions (and many with fuller captions in section at back, "übertragungen anmerkungen";--- text in German;---elegant book in red cloth covers with bright and clear silver/grey lettering to spine, very gently read, if at… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: The Reprint Society, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket, reprint of the Longmans, Green edition of 1962, 415 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; not a trace of shelf wear to cover edges other than gentle bumps to spine ends but corners crisp and square, otherwise very gently used, tight in binding, some slight… Read more about this item