Criticism, Biography from Richard Beaton
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George Meredith His Life and Art in Anecdote and Criticism
by Hammerton, J. A.
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- 1911
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Edinburgh: James Grant, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Illustrated. New & Revised Edition. Original maroon cloth. Bookplate and inscription (1945) on front endpapers, light foxing, very good. A heavy volume which will require additional postage outside the UK.. Item Price
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Letters from Limbo With 63 Reproductions of Letters (1936)
by Rhys, Ernest
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- 1st Edition
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- 1936
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London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original red cloth. Spine faintly sunned, strip cut from top edge of front free endpaper, cancelled signature on front pastedown, good. Reproduces letters collected by Rhys from many literary (and other) figures, including: Byron, Browning, George MacDonald, Olive Schreiner, Arnold Bennett, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, H. G.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Calamities and Quarrels of Authors; with Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoirs for Our Literary History... A New Edition Edited by His Son, The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer
by Disraeli, Isaac
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- 1859
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London: Routledge, Warnes & Routledge, 1859. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. Original beaded green cloth with blindstamped framing on boards; lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Most (but not all) pages unopened. Scuffed with tiny nicks on spine ends, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), good. Disraeli senior's two books (Calamities....Quarrels) had originally appeared in from 1812 to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Diana's Discipline (1885), The Love That Lives (1880). Williamson: Her Own Sister (1887)
by Several Authors: Charlotte Mary Brame & Emma Williamson
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- 1890
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London: William Stevens, 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Brame: Diana's Discpline (1885), The Love That Lives (1880). Williamson: Her Own Sister (1887). The Family Story-Teller. Three volumes, all undated (c1890), bound as one in late C19th maroon leather over purple cloth covered boards. Light scuffing, light foxing, very good. All titles are anonymous: Brame's novels were published as "by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Gleams of Memory With Some Reflections (1894)
by Payn, James
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- 1894
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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1894. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; blue endpapers. Lightly scuffed, very good. Autobiographical anecdotes and musings: a sequel of sorts to Payn's earlier title Some Literary Recollections.. Item Price
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Marie Corelli, the Writer and the Woman by Thomas F. G. Coates & R. S. Warren Bell (1903)
by Corelli, Marie] Thomas F. G. Coates & R. S. Warren Bell
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- 1903
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London: Hutchinson & Co, 1903. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Illustrated. Original crimson cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned, endpapers browned, light foxing, good. A friendly appreciation of the novelist.. Item Price
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Lytton Strachey A Critical Study
by Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa
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- First British Edition.
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- 1939
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original green cloth. no dustwrapper. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise clean, tight copy, good. The author was Professor of English at Lingaraj College, University of Bombay. Item Price
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Exemplary and Instructive Biography for the Study of Youth
by Chambers, William & Robert (editors)
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- 1836
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Edinburgh: William & Robert Chambers, 1836. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Mid C19th green cloth on light boards; hand-cut leather title label on spine. Corners scuffed, some faint marking on edges on rear board, very good. Item Price
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Vacation Rambles (1896)
by Hughes, Thomas
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- 1896
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London: Macmillan & Co., 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Original green cloth; dark blue endpapers. Light scuffing, private library plates on front endpapers, very good. Edited by the author's daughter. A work of non-fiction travelogue, by the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays.. Item Price
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The Life of Paris (1900)
by Whiteing, Richard
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- 1901
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Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. Late C19th binding in green cloth, leather title label on spine; patterned endpapers. Corners bumped, bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise very good. Todd [3481]. First/only issue. Half-title bound in. Non-fiction. A survey of contemporary Paris and Parisian life by the author The Yellow Van, The Island & Number 5 John Street..… Read more about this item Item Price
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America at Home Impressions of a Visit in War Time (1920)
by Swan, Annie S. [Annie Shepherd Swan]
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- 1920
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Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated first edition [1920]. Original flecked blue grey cloth, lettered in red. Corners scuffed, otherwise very good. It appears that the title was changed after the book was printed: the running title on each page is "As Others See Her", but the British Library only holds… Read more about this item Item Price
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From Stage to Cross. The Record of a Rolling Stone (1902)
by Vernon-Harcourt, F. C. [Frederick Claude Vernon-Harcourt]
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- 1902
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London: S. Partridge, 1902. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Undated first edition [1902]. Illustrated with photographs. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. Endpapers tanned, a little foxing, otherwise a bright copy: very good. Vernon-Harcourt -- apparently a junior member of an aristocratic family -- was born in Edinburgh Castle, witnessed Louis Napoleon's coup in France in 1850 (aged 5),… Read more about this item Item Price
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Fiction of New Regions (1976)
by Christensen, Allan Conrad
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- 1976
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Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth. Spine endds scuffed, otherwise very good. No dustwrapper. Academic study of the novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton.. Item Price
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One Thing and Another (1954)
by Phillpotts, Eden
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- 1954
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London: Hutchinson & Co., 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Original pink cloth, lettered in gilt. Small area sunned at foot of spine, otherwise a clean tight copy, very good. Original green dustwrapper. Tiny chips on spine tips, otherwise good+. A bedside book of anecdotes, and short essays, published when the author was over 90 years old.. Item Price
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Robert Buchanan Some Account of His Life, His Life's Work and His Literary Freindships (1903)
by Jay, Harriett
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- 1903
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth. Chipped and repaired at head of spine, small nicks at foot, thus only good copy of this scarce biography of the Scottish poet and novelist. A heavy volume which will require additional postage outside the UK.. Item Price
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Flying Visits (1892)
by Furniss, Harry
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- 1892
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Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1892. Book. Illus. by Harry Furniss. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Undated first edition [1892]. Volume XII of Arrowsmith's Three-and-Sixpenny Series. Original decorated brown cloth, publisher's adverts on endpapers. Spine ends a little rubbed, and faint trace of removed label ta foot of spine, school name stamp on title page, and bookseller's stamp on half-title, a little… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sister Dora. A Biography (1880)
by Lonsdale, Margaret
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- 1880
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Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1880. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. Frontispiece of Dora. Late C19th maroon leather over beaded black boards; raised bands and dark brown title label on spine; patterned grey endpapers. Lightly scuffed otherwise very good. Todd [1911]. First/only issue: series half-title bound in. Biography of a nurse, best remembered for her valiant work during a major smallpox outbreak in… Read more about this item Item Price
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My Italian Year (1911)
by Bagot, Richard
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- 1924
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Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1924. Book. Good. Soft cover. Copyright Edition. Original plain printed card wrappers. Dated 1912 on title page, but November 1924 on rear cover. Foxing on covers, some wear to spine ends, page ended lightly tanned, inscription (1924) on half-title, good. Todd [4313d]. Fourth issue. . Item Price
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Villiers de l'Isle Adam. His Life and Works
by Heussy, Vicomte Robert du Pontavice de; translated from the French by Lady Mary Loyd
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- 1st Edition.
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- 1894
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London: William Heinemann, 1894. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Biography and study of the French symbolist writer Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838 - 1889). Original green-gilt moire cloth; untrimmed fore-edges; top edge gilt. Corners bumped and scuffed, spine a little darkened, signatures on front endapers, good+. Scarce.. Item Price
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs Gaskell. The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. An Illustrated Edition in Seven Volumes, Volume VII (7)
by Gaskell, Mrs [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]; Charlotte bronte
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- 1887
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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. With 8 illustrations. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine. Corners scuffed, tiny nicks at head of spine, a couple of page corners creased, very good.. Item Price
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