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Faber & Faber, London, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. introduction, a note on the text, sources, index of letter-writers, index of recipients, index of selected subjects, acknowledgements. Blue coloured boards with white coloured titles to the spine. Photographic dustwrapper, showing stamps and letters, with blue and black coloured background with white coloured titles on the front panel and spine. A book of letters written in English -- a fascinating collection of insights into the lives of the famous and gifted, from Austen to Woolf, from Burns to Yeats, from Lowry to Van Gogh, from Queen Victoria to Churchill. Over 200 letters. Rubbing of the book edges with heavy tanning of the textblock edges and lighter tanning of the pages. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front end page. Creasing of the dust wrapper with rubbing of the panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], VII - XVI, [2], 3 - 319,… Leer más

Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 1.5 kg; XXVI, 542 pages, includes chronology, and index. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photography. In original dustwrapper. Slight rubbing to the base edge of the boards, a couple of spots on the front edge of the text block, and offset tanning of the front end pages from a newspaper clipping. Grainger was one of those people who could impress a great deal of himself into the letters he wrote. These 500 odd pages are full of jokes, daily events, confessions, sexual fantasies, musical reported, linguistic speculations, racism and affection. The race talk is an interesting phenomenon, being in part that neo-scientific speculation which was so widespread in the first third of our century, but having subjective quirks energetically built in. -- "the farthest north of humanness " is a model of scholarship, at once clear and thorough. The letters are… Leer más

Abbeville Press, New York, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Frederic Remington. 1.025 kg.; XVI, 492 pages, last three pages blank,foreword by Atwood Manley, acknowledgements, introduction by authors, selected bibliography, letter collections concerning Frederic Remington, illustration credits, index and about the authors. Rose coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations by Frederic Remington. Maroon coloured boards with a gilt illustration of a cows' skull on the lower right hand corner of the front panel with gilt titles to the backstrip. Light bumping and rubbing to the backstrip edges and book corners. A small red remainder spot to the top text block edge. Light age toning of the text block edges and of the internal text. There is a small red remainder spot to the top right-hand corner of the free front end paper, commensurate with removal of a tear. Illustrated dust wrapper, again by… Leer más

William Reeves, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. XX, 540 pages, last page blank, includes frontispiece with a fox to tissue guard, and 43 other illustrations (mostly full page) of persons mentioned, with, nine facsimile letters including several affixed with linen to enable them to fold out. Includes also a list of articles, and index. Bound in the original blue cloth of the publisher, with gilt titling to the spine and top edge of text block gilded. The front and blower edges of the text block untrimmed, and shows signs of Browning. Foxing/offset tanning to both end pages, scattered foxing throughout the book, rear hinged where being exposed, flecking of both the front and rear panels, with rubbing of the corners and head and tail of the spine. "James William Davison was a critic of music and musicians who worked from about the year 1835 until within a week or two of his death in 1885. For over 30 years of that… Leer más

Macmillan, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Edited by Leon Edel. This volume covers the first 32 years of Henry James life, looking at his youth, education, and gives an informative account of his attitudes and activities during the period in question.The book is illustrated with a single frontispiece illustration of Henry James at the age of 17. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; letters; ISBN: 0333172345. ISBN/EAN: 9780333172346. Inventory No: 0125174. . 9780333172346

Leslie Frewin, London, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. introduction by compiler and acknowledgements. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine along with some rubbing. Shelfwear to the lower book edges and dust marks to the top paper edge. Browning of the paper edges has also occurred. Browning and handling marks to the end papers and browning of the internal pages. Plain text dust wrapper, with ornate frame on the front panel with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Rubbing and chipping to the dust wrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the spine. The dustwrapper is rubbed, quite yellow and very grubby. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. To celebrate 200 years of the Royal Academy of arts in London the author compiled the most vitriolic, horrendous scandals, bitchy correspondence… Leer más

Macmillan London Ltd, London, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. (4) 5-267 pages (5), introduction by Katherine Moore. Purple coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photographic dustwrapper, showing Joyce Grenfell, against a purple coloured background with white and silver titles to the front panel and backstrip. Authored by Katharine Moore this book is a record of some of the correspondence that she had with Joyce Grenfell. These letters provide a complete record of their invisible friendship, (they never met) and convey not only a vivid picture of their lives (and from a keen enjoyment of) but also illustrate and explain a philosophy of life, which they largely shared, and which was perhaps the chief reason for Joyce Grenfell's enduring appeal. -- front fold over blurb. Rubbing to the backstrip edges and book corners. Some staining to the top text block edge and browning to all text block edges. Light browning to the internal text. Minor… Leer más

Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. 80 pp.,(last 3 blank), editors note, introduction, chronology and list of illustrations. The text illustrated with 4 plates in black and white. Beige covers with gilt titles to the backstrip. The corners are slightly bumped and there is some minor bumping on bottom edge of the book along with some shelf wear. There are some dust marks to the top edge of the paper. Previous owners name on the ffep, and on front paste down, booksellers sticker. Plain text dustwrapper with a feather on the front cover on a yellow background. Black titles on the front panel. The covers are rubbed and faded on spine and back cover. There are is some foxing along the back and front fold over crease. These letters, published here for the first time unedited, are from Adam Lindsay Gordon's last years and the and give an insight into his thoughts and thought processes to just prior to his suicide. Size: 8vo - over… Leer más

Burns & Oates Limited, London, 1977. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. foreword by the translator, a Few Dates, notes and index. At the beginning of the text there is a map showing Algeria and its environs. Photographic paperback binding with dark brown and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. During the five years that the author spent at Our Lady of the Snows in Algeria, he corresponded with his fellow brethren back in France. This is a selection of "... the most important letters of the period of trial, discovery, spiritual art and expiring example has only recently been made available in the original French and now appears in English for the first time." -- from rear panel blurb. Minor rubbing of the book edges and panels with fading of the top edge of the front panel and back strip – with complete fading of the white coloured titles. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 151, [3] pages,.… Leer más

Random House, Milsons Point, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 1.1 kg; X, 678 pages, +4 pages of facsimile handwriting by Patrick White, with someone in text line drawings, and 90 black-and-white photographs. Includes notes, acknowledgement, index. Illustrated softcover binding is slightly rubbed at the corners of the covers, but internally clean and with a sound binding. "These are the letters of a great artist speaking his mind, a wise man who could be stubbornly wrong. Occasionally I have given other versions of events, reported dissenting views and corrected facts, but I have not tried to adjudicate all the row is all balance every one of White's sharp sometimes partial judgements. My aim in editing the letters is to allow the man to speak, as much as possible, for himself" page IX. Size: Trade Paperback. Marking pen stripe on bottom edge.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity… Leer más

Random House, Milsons Point, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. X, 678 pages, +4 pages of facsimile handwriting by Patrick White, with someone in text line drawings, and 90 black-and-white photographs. Includes notes, acknowledgement, index. Illustrated softcover binding; internally clean and with a sound binding. Small black spot on the bottom edge. "These are the letters of a great artist speaking his mind, a wise man who could be stubbornly wrong. Occasionally I have given other versions of events, reported dissenting views and corrected facts, but I have not tried to adjudicate all the row is all balance every one of White's sharp sometimes partial judgements. My aim in editing the letters is to allow the man to speak, as much as possible, for himself" page IX. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Essays… Leer más

Thames & Hudson, London, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. The book is individually paginated – each era the pagination starts again: – Early and High Renaissance, Late Renaissance and Mannerism, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, then Letters of the Great Artist from Blake to Pollock, again the various time periods are individually paginated: – Early Nineteenth Century Mid-Nineteenth Century, Impressionism and After & Twentieth Century. Introduction by author, notes to the plates, sources and references and index. The text is illustrated with both colour and reproductions of artists and their work. Red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. The title says it all – letters from 1425 through to 1951 by artists.  Softening of the back strip edges and rubbing of the book corners. Some rubs and stains to the book panels with… Leer más

Black Sparrow Press, San Francisco, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. There is a sticker shadow on the first page, and on the rear cover, the lower corner of the rear cover has been creased, as has the upper left-hand corner. a couple of handling marks to the edges of the pages, internally clean, and free of damage. Illustrated with a number of black photographs. This book has the letters from 1929 through to 1939 with an appendix – The Line of the Branch – two 30s Journals Traces albeit faint of insect damage to the spine section. Size: Trade Paperback. 224 pages. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Letters; Gay & Lesbian. ISBN: 0876854692. ISBN/EAN: 9780876854693. Inventory No: 0272944. . 9780876854693

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. xxii, 538 pp., black and white photographs, indexed. Slight age toning of the top edge of the text block, otherwise the 17-year-old book shows no damage. Nancy Mitford died in 1973 before she could write her autobiography, but she was one of the great letter writers of the century, and her letters show her at her provocative and teasing best. They reflect a wide reading and insatiable curiosity. Love from Nancy is the first published collection of her correspondence and draws from over 8000 surviving letters spanning a period of over 60 years. It includes an important selection of letters to Evelyn Waugh. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Letters; ISBN: 0340537841. ISBN/EAN:… Leer más

Hurst and Blackett, publishers, London, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Reading Copy/No Dust Jacket. combined weight, volume 1: -- XII, 300 pages, introduction by editor. Green coloured endpapers. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece of William Berwick, which is protected by a tissue guard, which has become almost completely brown. Brown cloth covered boards with black decoration to the front panel with lack titles to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Both books are showing their age and wear. Volume 1:-- Heavy bumping, rubbing, fraying and slight discolouration to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. Underlying board is visible at the book corners. Heavy rubbing and marks to the book panels and there is a small split in the cloth of the rear spine gutter measuring 0.5 " , 2 inches from the lower backstrip edge. There is a white stain to the backstrip, 4 inches long. The book edges have been hand cut. A previous owner has over sewed the text block to… Leer más

BBC, London, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 550 g; 160 pages, indexed, with bibliography, text is illustrated with 16 pages of colour photography and 16 pages of contemporary black-and-white photography. Slight rubbing and crinkling of the head and tail of the backstrip section of the jacket, otherwise in very good order. This remarkable book is based on the recently discovered letters that Lizzie wrote home to her family. They chronicle her extraordinary 4000 mile journey to Orton, a rubber settlement in the heart of the Bolivian jungle, and her experiences there as a manager's wife. -- front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Biography; Letters; America; ISBN: 0563204249. ISBN/EAN: 9780563204244. Inventory No: 0214918. .… Leer más

The Miegunyah Press At Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Australia, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. XVIII, 438 pages, last page blank, includes eight illustrations, family trees, references, index. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The book has no damage whatsoever. The letters, written to people who had left Melbourne but were interested in its progress, describe all kinds of social and political developments Victoria. When the recipients were friends or family members, Graham's comments develop a delightfully gossipy, personal tone. Historian Paul de Serville describes the correspondence as "a social history in miniature of Melbourne and the country districts written by an insider". The letters cover the period from 1854 to 1864, and follow on directly from those previously published in Pioneer Merchant. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.… Leer más

Angus & Robertson, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Edited by Irving Drutman. xxiv, 232pp incl. index. tiny illustrations are dotted throughout the book, of an average 1 inch sq..each. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Top edge of text block tinted yellow. Janet Flanner's journalistic and news letters to the Statees under the nom de plume 'Gentet' Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Letters; ISBN: 0207955085. ISBN/EAN: 9780207955082. Inventory No: 0238902. . 9780207955082

Angus & Robertson, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Edited by Irving Drutman. xxiv, 232pp incl. index. tiny illustrations are dotted throughout the book, of an average 1 inch sq..each. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Top edge of text block tinted yellow. Janet Flanner's journalistic and news letters to the Statees under the nom de plume 'Gentet' Previous owner's name and bookplate on the front end paper, no other damage to describe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Letters; ISBN: 0207955085. ISBN/EAN: 9780207955082. Inventory No: 0281274. . 9780207955082

Angus & Robertson, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Edited by Irving Drutman. xxiv, 232pp incl. index. tiny illustrations are dotted throughout the book, of an average 1 inch sq..each. Photographic illustrated dust jacket. Top edge of text block tinted yellow. Janet Flanner's journalistic and news letters to the Statees under the nom de plume 'Gentet' Nice clean copy, very slight rubbing at the corners of the dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Letters; ISBN: 0207955085. ISBN/EAN: 9780207955082. Inventory No: 0272044. . 9780207955082