LIVES FOR SALE: Biographers' Tales.
Pp. xvi+220, frontispiece; demy 8vo; maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, the back flap slightly foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Continuum, London, 2004. First edition. *Essays by biographers including Robert Skidelsky, Michael Holroyd, Hilary Spurling, Claire Tomalin, Antonia Fraser, a.o. 'These biographers' tales, based on personal experience, tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of shocking discoveries and frustrating dead ends, strange literary hauntings and curses, bitter professional rivalries and problems with families and friends of biographical subjects and of ways in which the biographer's imagination can be inspired by a sense of place or touch or a letter' [wrapper blurb]. Item #163491
Price: $35.00