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London: Hutchinson, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 346 pages. 54 photographs. The publication of Kingsley Amis's Memoirs is, of course, a major literary event. But reading them is also like a fascinating evening's talk in the pub in the most congenial and entertaining company. 5. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Fourth Estate, 2008. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. viii + 278 pages. Illustrations in the text. For almost half a century J.G. Ballard has been one of this country's most important writers. In this revelatory autobiography, bookended by time spent in Shanghai - the city of his childhood and internment in a World War II prison camp, and setting of his novel Empire of the Sun - he charts the course of his remarkable life. L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 1985. a near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small indentation to lower front) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 215 pages. The Letters of Oscar Wilde were highly acclaimed when they appeared in Rupert Hart-Davis's magisterial edition in 1962. They won new admirers when a selection was published in paperback in 1979. Naturally over the years further letters have come to light and these are presented here for the first time, with Sir Rupert's faultless editorial care. As well as 164 new letters and better texts of some old ones, this book contains two conversations with Wilde which have not been in print for a great many years. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 215 pages. The Letters of Oscar Wilde were highly acclaimed when they appeared in Rupert Hart-Davis's magisterial edition in 1962. They won new admirers, and naturally over the years further letters have come to light and these are presented here for the first time, with Sir Rupert's faultless editorial care. As well as 164 new letters and better texts of some old ones, this book contains two conversations with Wilde which have not been in print for a great many years. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable, 2009. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which has a crease to inner flap and is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. 218 pages. Illustrations in the text. Photograph endpapers. In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, six-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace - a place to settle and work, and here Dylan Thomas wrote some of his most famous works. A deeply moving portrait of growing up and an insight into the origins of Dylan Thomas' poetry. D4E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from an inscription to front endpaper) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 338 pages. The book is not a conventional sequel to Christopher and His Kind but it begins in 1939 when Christopher Isherwood arrived in America where he was to meet Swami Prabhhavananda, the head of a Centre in Hollywood for the study and practice of Hindu philosophy. The sometimes funny, always moving account of the Hindu monk who became Isherwood's spiritual mentor for over thirty years until his death in 1976 offers a loving but in no way pietistic account of their friendship. During the 1940's Isherwood lived for a time at the Centre and contemplated becoming a monk, a step much encouraged by the Swami, with whom he was translating the Gita at the time. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has age toning to closed edges with dustjacket that is not price clipped. 698 pages. When Noel Coward died in 1973, he was as old as the century, and its most renowned dramatist, director and star. He left behind him over fifty plays, twenty five films, hundreds of songs, two autobiographies, a novel, several volumes of short stories and countless poems, sketches, recordings and paintings, not to mention the memories of three generations of playgoers for whom so long he had set the style on and off stage. Fortunately he also left diaries chronicling the last thirty years of his life. These are the years from 1940, when he was starting out on the wartime troop concert tours that were to give him a whole new career as a cabaret entertainer, through the private and professional depression of the early 1950's, when his beloved England seemed to turn almost against him and his work, to the 1960's when he returned in triumph… Leer más

London: Constable, 2018. An As new copy in As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 311 pages. 26 photographs. The novelist, who, at the age of five, decided that she would become a writer, describes her idiosyncratic childhood. Her father was a famous actor and film director , her mother was known for her humour, fluency in foreign languages and her penchant for giving memorable parties. But in spite of her parents' initial happiness they parted after the war. Eleven years later they got back together, happily, though each would have a lover for decades. A candid portrait of Angela Huth's early life. 23. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. xiv + 386 pages. 36 illustrations. The first comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, the writer whose lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was banned as obscene in a sensational court case in 1928. The book draws on much unpublished material as well as her poetry and novels. Ladye (Mabel Batten) and Una Troubridge, the wife of an admiral, formed with John, as Radclyffe liked to be called, an uneasy menage a trois, until Ladye's death in 1916, thereafter John and Una kept in touch with her through a medium. Hall saw herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. A fascinating picture of a remarkable woman and her world. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 386 pages. 36 illustrations. The first comprehensive biography of Radclyffe Hall, the writer whose lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness' was banned as obscene in a sensational court case in 1928. The book draws on much unpublished material as well as her poetry and novels. Ladye (Mabel Batten) and Una Troubridge, the wife of an admiral, formed with John, as Radclyffe liked to be called, an uneasy menage a trois, until Ladye's death in 1916, thereafter John and Una kept in touch with her through a medium. Hall saw herself as a man trapped in a woman's body. A fascinating picture of a remarkable woman and her world. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with a touch of wear to lower edge and light bumping to lower corner tips. Internally there is a light crease to one page top corner else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a touch of light wear to top and lower edges and is not price clipped. The Countess of Longford is a leading historian who only began her writing career in her fifties. Before that she had combined her roles as wife of Frank Pakenham, the Labour Cabinet Minister and future Earl of Longford, as mother and as prospective Labour candidate. She was the eldest daughter of a distinguished Harley Street doctor, niece of Joseph Chamberlain, and first cousin to Neville Chamberlain. These delightful memoirs cover the first sixty years of her eventful life. 16 pages of photographs. **** NOT EX LIB **** 20. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable, 1979. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 208 pages. 74 illustrations. Second impression corrected for errors in the first edition. Lord David Cecil's book is intended neither as a straightforward biographical narrative of Jane Austen's life, nor as a study of her as author; but rather as an attempt, with the help of material drawn from her letters, her novels and other people's memories of her, to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art. Auberon Waugh, in reviewing the book, states '..is a masterpiece which ought to be in every educated home.' 4. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 1952. Gold title on beige cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. 29 illustrations including many early photographs. An excellent biography of the poet's life from the days of his Camberwell home, his stay in Italy to his later life and death. Detailed bibliography and index. 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Doubleday, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 524 pages. 43 illustrations. Robert Graves (1895-1985) was one of the greatest poets and polymaths of the 20th century whose long life matched the intensity of his imaginative output. This new biography, published to mark the centenary of his birth, is made with the full cooperation of the Graves family, who have made available previously unseen papers and photographs. The author's research has also uncovered many important letters in private and public collections. Her interviews with many people who have not previously discussed Graves in public contribute to a rich and complex portrait of an extraordinary and troubled man and a great creative artist. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Doubleday, 1995. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 524 pages. 43 illustrations. Robert Graves (1895-1985) was one of the greatest poets and polymaths of the 20th century whose long life matched the intensity of his imaginative output. This new biography, published to mark the centenary of his birth, is made with the full cooperation of the Graves family, who have made available previously unseen papers and photographs. The author's research has also uncovered many important letters in private and public collections. Her interviews with many people who have not previously discussed Graves in public contribute to a rich and complex portrait of an extraordinary and troubled man and a great creative artist. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some minor marks to fore edge) with Fine dustjacket. 416 pages. After Byron's death in 1821 his memoirs were burned as they were considered too scandalous and for over 150 years were therefore considered lost. The author claims that he has discovered in Greece an ancient manuscript in Byron's handwriting which could be the long lost memoirs. Whether this book is the literary discovery of the century or an ingenious forgery, it remains a vivid and bawdy recreation of Byron's life. An intriguing and entertaining book. D4F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Kyle Cathie, 1992. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page 'Inscribed by the author with best wishes - Desmond Hawkins Sept, 1992'. A near Fine copy which has a small previous owner 's inscription to front endpaper with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. The story of Shelley's early love for his Wiltshire cousin, Harriet Grove, has suffered particularly, not only from a lack of first-hand information but from Thomas Love Peacock's uninformed prejudice and Thomas Jefferson Hogg's downright forgery of Shelley's correspondence (the pair had established the broad outlines of Shelleyan biography in 1858). The existence of Harriet Grove's diaries for 1809-10 had been known in 1898 but they were not accessible until a leading American collector, Carl Pforzheimer, authorised their publication in 1961. The discovery of Shelley's diary for 1810 and of Harriet's sister Charlotte for 1811, now published here for the first time, throws new light on a passionate… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. The biography of William Somerset Maugham which was approved by by his literary executor Spencer Curtis Brown. A thoroughly researched large work which covers the entire life - as prolific playwright, world traveller, one time spy in Russia, World War II propagandist and intimate of many from the Duke of Windsor to Aleister Crowley. A Very Good copy with dustjacket which is shelf worn with chipping to head and tail of spine although complete. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.25 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST B2D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 2009. A near Fine unmarked copy in a dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xiv + 706 pages. 102 illustrations. A diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful obesrvation, providing a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Brandreth's unusual life. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiii + 178 pages. 17 illustrations. Famous in his time as 'the handsomest young man in England' and the heroic soldier-poet of World War I, Rupert Brooke is a classic example of a man undone by his legend. Having inspired an orgy of praise after his tragic death en route to the Gallipoli campaign, and the publication of his patriotic '1914' sonnets, he seemed to have scaled the heights of poetry's Olympus. But in the disillusionment of the post-war era, his reputation tumbled and has never recovered. In this skillful blend of biography and literary criticism, John Lehmann draws a fascinating portrait of the man and the legend, separating the complex reality from the romantic fantasy, the meretricious from the meritorious in his verse. He evokes the Edwardian age in which Brooke flourished and the hectic first months of the war in which he perished. B2C. First… Leer más