Resultados de búsqueda: Biography - literary from Godley Books

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1994. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 296pp. An in-depth illustrated biography of American writer Edith Wharton, who was also an art scholar, the builder and decorator of stately mansions, landscape architect and gardener, heroic war worker, hostess of brilliant salons and an indefatigable tourist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 10.5 x 8.75 inches.

London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1891. Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, stain to lower half of page fore-edges- no effect on pages - and no bumping to corners. 192pp. Literary critiques of the works of Burns and Scott.. Hard Cover. Very Good (-)/No Jacket. 5.75 x 3.75 inches.

London: Headline, 2004. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tiny dint to rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with dint to rear and minor traces of storage. 472pp. The story of the literary Waugh family whose members have been writing books since the nineteenth century.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good (+). 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: The Bodley Head, 1974. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor rubbing and tiny nick to upper rear edge. 362pp. Biography of the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater which was published in 1821.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing. 499pp. Biography of the author of The Playboy of the Western World which provoked riots at its Dublin premiere in 1907. McCormack details the complex religious and social environment in which Synge slowly refined his talents as a writer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.

London: Sheed & Ward Ltd, 1945. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black boards, well-foxed slightly dusty page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with sunned spine and small tears to upper rear edge and spine foot. Fold-out map of Paris in 1530 in excellent condition. 355pp. Biography of Francois Villon, French poet of the late Middle Ages who had many encounters with the law, was born in 1431 and vanished from history after 1463.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good (+). 8.25 x 5.5 inches.

London: Little, Brown, 2003. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards, slightly rubbed spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slighty creased spine ends. 495pp. A fascinating of George Orwell, the man behind 1984, Newspeak and Big Brother as well as many other classic works including Animal Farm and Keep the Aspidistra Flying. His life is told in detail - his Eton upbringing, as a policeman in Burma, fighting the fascists in Spain and as one of the most famous writers of the 20th century.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: The Bodley Head, 1955. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but otherwise in excellent condition, not marked or torn or creased. 158pp. Concise biographies of Samuel Johnson, Izaak Walton, Josiah Wedgewood, Arnold Bennett and Lord Jervis, Admiral.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Near Fine. 8.5 x 5 inches.

London: Collins, 1937. Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks and no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked matt brown cloth unevenly sunned boards, tanning to page edges and very minor bumping to lower front corner. Sixteen plates plus 134pp. Autobiography of humorous cartoonist HM Bateman who usually depicted someone involved in a social gaffe over much of the early 20th century. As well as the cartoon plates at the end, the book has many more of Bateman's drawings throughout. Newspaper obituary from 1970 tucked in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 10.5 x 8 inches.

Berlin: Minerva - Verlag, 1947. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with lightly rubbed and foxed boards, tanning to pages and page edges, bumps to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Paper used appears a slightly greyish post-war type. 162pp. Thoughts from author Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863). All text in German.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.

London: Atlantic Books, 2010. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor rubbing/creasing to upper and lower edges. 435pp. An autobiography of Christopher Hitchens, an intellectual of the poitical left and later of secular liberalism.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Bromsgrove: The Housman Society, 1995. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 128pp. The ideal companion for those who would travel England and wish to know more of the life of A. E. Housman (1859-1936), classical scholar and poet and the author of the poems 'A Shropshire Lad'. Well illustrated.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 9 x 6.5 inches.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to spine ends and tiny nick to top. 598pp. Biography of the academic and writer who erroneously authenticated the forged 'Hiter Diaries'. Tucked in is a newspaper article on another biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Melbourne, Australia: Macmillan, 1978. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint indenting to front and rear and rubbing to upper edge. Scarce in the UK. 143pp. Biography of the Australian literary hero who wrote both prose and poetry. He was the first articulate voice of the real Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 10.5 x 7.5 inches.

New York: Random House USA Inc, 1989. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Fore-edge page edges untrimmed. 262pp. The Nigerian novelist, playwright, critic and professor of comparative literature tells the story of his upbringing in a small Nigerian town in the first part of the 20th century. The 'Essay' in the sub-title was the author's father.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.

Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire: Pomona, 2010. Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny nick to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nicks to top of spine. 423pp. Biography of the famously reclusive author of 'The Catcher in the Rye' who died in 2010.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: Constable, 1986. No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower fore-edge of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 323pp. The story of novelist and playwright JM Barrie (who wrote Peter Pan), and his involvement with three young boys whom he encountered in Kensington Gardens. He and his wife were childless so he became their guardian when their father died.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 9.25 x 6.5 inches.

London: John Murray, 1984. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with general traces of handling and storage and fading to spine. 160pp. The public and the private life of Poet Laureate John Betjeman 1906-1984 set out in captioned photographs.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 9.75 x 8.5 inches.

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 1994. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge and very minor traces of storage. 305pp. Biography of JM Synge, one of Ireland's great writers. Illustrated.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.75 x 5.5 inches.

New York: Random House, 2012. No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very clean very tight pages with slightly finger (?) marked boards and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight bumping to lower corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 636pp. Salman Rushdie's own account of the nine years he spent undercover using the name Joseph Anton in order to shield himself from the threat of the Fatwa issued by Ayatolla Khomeini following Rushdie's having written 'The Satanic Verses'. Scarce edition in the UK.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.