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Simenon__ A Biography
London: Chatto & Windus, 1997. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 447 pp. More
What it Used to be Like_A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. black papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 356 pp, ex library dust jacket flaps glued to boards. More
Who was Sinclair Beiles?
South Africa: Dye Hard Press, 2009. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 135 pp. More
Prisoner Of Love
London: Picador, 1989. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 375 pp first edition. More
The Life of George Combe, Author of the 'Constitution of Man" 2 volumes
London: Macmillan, 1878. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. brown cloth gilt lettering no dust jacket 331, 404 pp two volumes. More
The Life and Ideas of The Marquis de Sade
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1953. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 244 pp. More
Robertson Davies__Man of Myth
New York: Viking Press, 1994. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 787 pp pencil notes on front endpaper. More
The House of Mitford
London: Hutchinson, 1984. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. blue cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 604 pp. More
Barrie_ The Story of a Genius
New York: Dodd Mead, 1929. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. blue cloth, gilt design and lettering to spine and cover, dust jacket, 500 pp, tearing to dj, tearing to bottom of front endpaper. More
Lytton Strachey_ A Critical Biography__Volume II: The Years of Achievement (1910-1932)
London: Heinemann, 1968. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. brown cloth, gilt lettering to black label, no dust jacket, 754 pp, previous owner's signature to front end paper, some marks to boards... More
Casting off the Veil__The Life of Huda Shaarawi Egypt's First Feminist
London: I. B. Tauris, 2012. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. purple cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 308 pp. More
Roger Zelazny
New York: Twayne, 1993. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. blue cloth gilt lettering, 166 pp. More
Chateaubriand
London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. red cloth, silver lettering, no dust jacket, 360 pp, signature of previous owner on front endpaper, wearing about the edges of boards... More
A Different Person__A Memoir
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1993. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. brown cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 271 pp signed first edition owner's name on front endpaper... More
D.H. Lawrence__His Life and Works
New York: Twayne, 1964. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. gray cloth red lettering dust jacket 330 pp dj worn at edges. More
W. H. Auden
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 336 pp, light wearing at base of book. More
Tete-a-Tete___ The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
London: Chatto & Windus, 2006. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. blue cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 429 pp spine slightly cocked. More
Romancing__The Life and Work of Henry Green
New York: Random House, 2000. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. gray boards, black lettering, dust jacket, 340 pp. More
C. S. Lewis: A Biography
London: Collins, 1990. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 334 pp, spine cocked. More