Pp. viii+228, 4 plates, references and bibliographies; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges split, with one closed tear from lower flap into back panel tape-repaired; a little light foxing and occasional soiling;Secker & Warburg, London, 1957. First edition. *Baden-Powell, Leverhulme, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, E. D. Morel, and Edward VII..... More
Memoirs of a writing life. Pp. [vi]+278(last blank), text decorations, index; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; fore-edges of leaves a trifle marked; Heinemann, London, 1981. First edition. *Memoirs of various writers, including W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Henry Green, Desmond MacCarthy, Wyndham Lewis, Joyce Cary, a.o. More
Pp. viii+424, 9 plates, list of works, index; price clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle worn; Oxford University Press, London, 1936. First edition. *Autobiography of the nineteenth century humorist. More
An enquiry into the social views of Elizabeth Bowen, L. P. Hartley, Rosamund Lehmann, Christopher Isherwood, Nancy Mitford, C. P. Snow. Pp. 284, index; dust wrapper, corners a trifle rubbed, the backstrip faintly faded; free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Calder, London, 1977. First edition. *A study of..... More
The Life of a Poet. Pp. 336 frontispiece portrait, plus 48 plates (within pagination), index; med. 8vo; maroon papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip slightly faded and with 2 small tape marks on reverse; Eyre Methuen, London, 1980. First U.K. edition. More
Pp. x+296, frontispiece, bibliography, index; bottom fore-corner of boards slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, back panel lightly foxed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1955. First edition. *Alfred Austin is remembered as the writer of some of the worst verse..... More
The Life of Balzac. Translated by Norman Denny. Pp. 574 frontispiece portrait, plus 32 plates, bibliography, chronological list of works, index; bottom fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; top edges red; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, with stains from several tape repairs on reverse; bookseller's sticker at foot..... More
With sixteen photographics. Pp. 192, 16 plates, index; cloth a trifle bubbled; dust wrapper; free endpapers a trifle offset; Phoenix House, London, 1951. First edition. *Includes a chapter entitled Edward Thomas: Critic and Poet (pp. 177-188, with portrait); also studies of W. B. Yeats, "A.E.", Arnold Bennett, Havelock Ellis, Aleister..... More
A memoir. Pp. [viii]+338, 26 illustrations, mostly full page, index; med. 8vo; price-clipped dust wrapper; inked initials on upper free endpaper; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1972. First edition. *Includes memories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. Somerset Maugham, Arnold Bennett, Noel Coward, a.o. More
A Biography of William Blake. Pp. xxviii+532, 72 plates (36 coloured in part or whole), black & white pictorial half-title and title pages, text illustrations, coloured pictorial endpapers, full page genealogies, appendices, endnotes, addenda, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; published for the Paul Mellon..... More
His life and work. Pp. xviii+334, frontispiece portrait, plus 16 plates, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; top edges red; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip slightly faded; a couple of leaves lightly creased; Constable, London, 1978. First edition. Bentley, Blake Books Postscript (2000) p. 27; Arnold Checklist 149..... More
Pp. 380, notes; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, top fore-corner of boards lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and chipped, the back panel slightly soiled and silverfished; lower hinge tender, a little light foxing; Jonathan Cape, London, 1936. The Life and Letters Series No. 76..... More
Pp. xviii+426(last blank) frontispiece portrait plus 5 plates, appendices, notes, index; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the top edge of lower board, head of spine, and bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised, spine cloth slightly faded; top edges brown; endpapers faintly offset, a couple of light spots of foxing;..... More
With a portrait by George Dance. Pp. x+338(last blank)+[2](advertisements), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, index; post 8vo; green cloth, lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale on upper pastedown, scattered light foxing and soiling; Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1912. First edition. More
Some recollections. With a Foreword by G. A. Wilkes. Pp. x+54; edges of boards a trifle flecked; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970. First edition. More
The life of Mary Grant Bruce. Pp. [viii]+150(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (some full page), text map, chronology, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in white, bottom fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, the backstrip and bottom edge of front panel faded; bookseller's..... More
The life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924. Pp. xii+274, 16 plates, bibliography, notes, index; med. 8vo; boards slightly flecked; dust wrapper; Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. First edition. More
Her Life and Work 1844-1926. Pp. xii+320(last blank), 4 plates, text map, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1991. First edition. *In some twenty-five novels, five volumes of verse and other writings, Ada Cambridge explored the social, economic and other pressures that propelled women into unhappy..... More
In three volumes. Pp. xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index; nineteenth century half calf, the spines with gilt lettered contrasting maroon & green title and volume labels, marbled papered boards, lightly rubbed, the edges and spines grazed; matching marbled edges and endpapers; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedowns, occasional faint soiling; Edward..... More
Pp. [viii]+416, appendices, bibliography; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Continuum, London, 2001. First edition thus. *Edmund Campion was originally published by Longman, in 1935; Ronald Knox was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1959. More
A biography of Thomas and Jane Carlyle. Pp. [x]+186, frontispiece, plus 8 plates, bibliography, index; price-clipped dust wrapper; occasional slight soiling, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1971. First edition. *Inscribed by the author on the upper free endpaper and signed by him on the title page. More
The life of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Pp. [xiv]+618, frontispiece plus 6 plates, appendix, bibliography, references, index; boards a trifle rubbed and flecked; top edges red; free endpapers faintly offset, tint chip from bottom edge of plate opposite p. 344; Constable, London, 1952. More
Pp. 302, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full or double page), pictorial endpapers, appendix, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; teal cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, a couple of tiny bruises to edges of boards; top edges purple; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Michael Joseph..... More
A portrait of Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Pp. [xii]+398+[4], 16 plates, notes, bibliography, chronology; med. 8vo; qr. cloth, papered boards; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, back panel lightly soiled, front flap creased; Random House, New York, 1971. Second printing. More
A biography. Volume One (1768-93). The Longed-for Tempests. Pp. [x]+322(last blank), 8 plates, endpaper maps, notes, select bibliography, references, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle split; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Chatto & Windus, London, 1977. First edition. *Biography of the French romantic writer and statesman. More