Category: Biography

The King in Love : King Edward VII's Mistresses : Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick, Alice Keppel and Others

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1988

Seller ID: 1838

ISBN-13: 9780060160333

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper

B&W Illustrations; 301 pages; Front endpaper has been torn out. First edition stated but no price on dust wrapper indicates a book club edition. Page edges have pale splash marks (tea? ) interior pages are clean and bright. Cover edges lightly faded with one soil spot. Dust wrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, flap edges yellowed, rear flap creased.
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Elsie and Mairi Go to War : Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front

By: ATKINSON, Diane

Price: $12.50

Publisher: NY, Pegasus Books : 2010

Seller ID: 7410

ISBN-13: 9781605982571

Binding: Softcover; Trade PB

Condition: Very Good+

An unread copy received with slight edgewear and light soil marks on top edge.; "When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home borrowing tools from her brother. Theirs was to become one of the most extraordinary stories of the First World War.In 1914, they roared off to London 'to do their bit', and within a month they were in the thick of things in Belgium driving ambulances to distant military hospitals. Frustrated by the number of men dying of shock in the ba...
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Enid Bagnold

By: BAGNOLD] SEBBA, Anne

Price: $10.75

Publisher: NY, Taplinger Publishing Company : 1987

Seller ID: 5366

ISBN-13: 9780800824532

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper

B&W Photographs; 317 pages; Bumped spine ends and a few smudges to page edges. A nice copy. Unclipped dust wrapper is lightly edgeworn and slightly yellowed with a few short closed tears and faint soil.; An interesting biography of the author of "National Velvet" and "Chalk Garden" amongst others. It gives more insight into her life and explains some events that Bagnold glosses over in her memoir. Bagnold's family authorized this biography allowing Sebba to use journals, unpublished notes, and several other sources so it is not just a repetition of Bagnold's autobiography.; If ...
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In Extremis : The life of Laura Riding

By: BAKER, Deborah

Price: $14.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton : 1993

Seller ID: 5108

ISBN-13: 9780241128343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper

B&W Photographs; 478 pages; A lovely copy. Spine head faintly bumped, page edges pale yellow. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly creased at top edge.; The author draws heavily on unpublished works for this 'first major biography of one of the most provocative, prolific, and influential figures in British-American literary history. In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding, the author of twenty-three books, tackled feminism, communism, sexuality, Freud, language and belief, and the coming-of-age of the American dream. In her personal relationships she was often at the cent...
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Cecil Beaton : a biography

By: BEATON] VICKERS, Hugo

Price: $14.75

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company : 1985

Seller ID: 5226

ISBN-13: 9780316902441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper

B&W Photographs; 656 pages; Spine ends lightly bumped, page edges faintly yellowed and smudged. Unclipped dust wrapper very lightly edgeworn and creased. A nice copy. ; 'Beaton occupies an honored position as one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. Before his death in 1980, he appointed the author as his official biographer. The result is a painstakingly researched volume, profusely illustrated with Beaton's own photographs. Beaton also achieved fame as an Oscar-winning costume and set designer, illustrator, portraitist, writer, and court photographer. Vickers looks closely at B...
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Max and the Americans

By: BEERBOHM] MIX, Katherine Lyon

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Battleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press : 1974

Seller ID: 4558

ISBN-13: 9780828902090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust wrapper

210 pages; Spine ends and corners bumped and lightly rubbed (not to boards), a few smudges on page edges. White dust wrapper, unclipped, is yellowed, soiled, and has a bit of edgewear and rubbing. ; Illustrat ed with b&w photographs and drawings. This biography of Max Beerbohm focuses on his relations with the US, "its politics, its culture, and its people: especially its people, of whom his wife was one." (He didn't think much of the country but loved the people.)
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Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton, The

By: BEETON] HUGHES, Kathryn

Price: $12.50

Publisher: NY, Knopf : 2005

Seller ID: 6568

ISBN-13: 9780307263735

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper

Basis for the film "The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton". ; Spine ends bumped, one corner bumped revealing boards, a few page edges creased; pages clean and bright, no binding problems. Cream unclipped dust wrapper very lightly soiled, faint edgewear. A nice copy.; "In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beeton’s Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes pulls back the lace curtains to reveal the woman behind the book--Mrs. Bee...
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Writer by Trade : A Portrait of Arnold Bennett

By: BENNETT, Arnold] Barker, Dudley

Price: $13.75

Publisher: NY, Atheneum : 1966

Seller ID: 6450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper

Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, page edges faintly browned; interior pages clean, no binding problems. Unclipped dust wrapper lightly edgeworn, white flaps faintly yellowed. A nice copy. ; This biography of the prolific writer (author of "Old Wives Tale" and "Anna of the Five Towns") draws upon 'intimate recollections, as well as documents and letters-some never before published. Barker has created a full-scale portrait of the man, his curious writing habits, his place in the literary circles of his time, and the effects of his emotional life on his books.' Black and w...
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Elizabeth Bowen : Lives of Modern Women

By: Bowen] CRAIG, Patricia

Price: $7.75

Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Penguin : 1986

Seller ID: 3300

ISBN-13: 9780140087109

Binding: Softcover; Trade PB

Condition: Good+

B&W Photographs; 143 pages; An ex-library copy with the expected stamps, markings, and pocket. Cover edges reinforced with tape by library. Pages lightly age browned, light spine creases, a touch of soil to covers. Interior pages clean, none loose. ; 'Born in 1899 into an Anglo-Irish family of the old Protestant ascendancy, Elizabeth Bowen's heritage lent a special complexity to both her life and her work. Intelligent, vital, independent and generous she could also bo haughty, authoritative and caustic. She was immensely sociable and her numerous friends included Virginia Woolf, Lord David Cec...
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Testament of Friendship : The Story of Winifred Holtby

By: BRITTAIN, Vera

Price: $9.50

Publisher: NY, Wideview Books : c1940, 1981

Seller ID: 5391

ISBN-13: 9780872236806

Binding: Softcover; Trade PB

Condition: Very Good

442 pages; Edgewear and rubbing, faint spine and cover creases, page edges faintly yellowed and lightly soiled.; Second in the 'Testament' trilogy, this is a tribute to VB's dear friend Winifred Holtby and the story of their friendship. They first met while attending Somerville College at Oxford after World War I. This edition has an introduction by Carolyn Heilbrun.
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Testament of Friendship : The Story of Winifred Holtby

By: BRITTAIN, Vera

Price: $14.75

Publisher: London, Virago Press : c1940, 1992

Seller ID: 7279

ISBN-13: 9780860681502

Binding: Softcover; Trade PB

Condition: Very Good+

Second in the 'Testament' trilogy, this is a tribute to VB's dear friend Winifred Holtby and the story of their friendship. They first met while attending Somerville College at Oxford after World War I. This edition has an afterword by Rosalind Delmar.; A very nice copy with faint edgewear, white rear panel faintly soiled. Pages pale tan, edges a bit darker. ; Image is actual copy on offer.
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Lucy in the Afternoon : an Intimate Memoir of Lucille Ball

By: Brochu, Jim

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1990

Seller ID: 1369

ISBN-13: 9780688086466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper

Top of back board dented as if knocked on a table edge. Dust wrapper, not price cut, has a few faint smudges. A very nice copy indeed.
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Prince and the Lily, The

By: BROUGH, James

Price: $9.75

Publisher: NY, Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan : 1975

Seller ID: 6385

Binding: Hardcover; Book Club Edition

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper

"The story of Lillie Langtry -- The Greatest International Beauty of Her Day" Lillie Langtry was the first acknowledged mistress of the Prince of Wales, Edward VII; their affair lasted three decades. One of the professional beauties of Edwardian England, she was hailed by Oscar Wilde as 'the new Helen'. Basis for "Lillie" the 1978 mini-series starring Francesca Annis, Anton Rodgers, and Denis Lill.; Red leatherette spine lightly bumped and worn, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. Page edges pale yellow, interior pages clean, no binding problems. Dust wrapper a bit ...
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Julia Margaret Cameron : A Victorian family portrait

By: CAMERON] HILL, Brian

Price: $27.75

Publisher: NY, St. Martin's Press : 1973

Seller ID: 5528

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper

Spine head very lightly bumped, page edges pale tan. A very nice copy indeed. Unclipped, white dust wrapper lightly yellowed and soiled. ; 'Julia Margaret Cameron, (1815-79) had an immense influence on nineteenth-century photography. Her portraits and tableaux-vivants (many posed to illustrate poetry or represent literary figures) were produced in the 1860s and 1870s within the most important artistic circles in Victorian England and have enjoyed almost continuous popularity for over a century. Closely connected with the Pre-Raphaelite group, her work shares their nostalgia and love of litera...
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Lucky Eyes and a High Heart : The Life of Maud Gonne

By: Cardozo, Nancy

Price: $15.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill : 1978

Seller ID: 1046

ISBN-13: 9780672520808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper

468 pages; Small red mark on front cover. Dust wrapper has very faint soil on back, is not price cut; Gonne was known as the "Irish Joan of Arc". From a review by Carolyn Heilbrun; " a first-rate biography of Maud Goone. . . . Cardoza reveals her as a marvellous individual, the very model of a woman of action as well as beauty. She is no longer merely an event, however major, in the life of Yeats. . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in Maud Gonne, Ireland, or Yeats. "
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Anthony Blunt : his lives

By: CARTER, Miranda

Price: $14.75

Publisher: NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux : 2001

Seller ID: 4694

ISBN-13: 9780374105310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper

B&W Photographs; 590 pages; Spine ends bumped, a few page edges creased. Unclipped dust wrapper is lightly edgeworn and rubbed with a short closed tear at front flap corner. A nice copy.; A comprehensive and engrossing look at the multiple lives of Anthony Blunt, art historian, author, director of the Courtauld Institute, and MI5 agent during WWII. Blunt was also a member of the "Cambridge Spies" group (along with Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean) that passed secrets and documents to the Soviet Union.The book attempts to separate facts from the many incorrect stories publi...
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The Carlyles : A Biography of Thomas and Jane Carlyle

By: COLLIS, John Stewart

Price: $14.00

Publisher: NY, Dodd, Mead & Co : c1971, 1973

Seller ID: 5140

ISBN-13: 9780396066378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper

B&W Photographs; 186 pages; A very nice copy. Pages pale yellow, edges have a few smudges. Unclipped dust wrapper has light edgewear and rubbing, and a crease on front flap.; This biography puts Thomas 'Carlyle's complex character in the context of his all-important relationship with Jane' Carlyle (nee Welsh). ;
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Goodbye Again : The Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

By: COOK, William (Editor)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Century : 2004

Seller ID: 6289

ISBN-13: 9781844134007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper

Spine ends bumped, a few smudges on page edges. Unclipped dust wrapper has very light edgewear. A very nice copy.; 'Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are still commonly regarded as the greatest comic double act that Great Britain has ever produced. Today it's impossible to imagine modern sketch shows without them. If you're a fan of Monty Python, The Comic Strip or The Fast Show, then you're a fan of Cook and Moore. This collection of their works is a comprehensive compilation of the finest sketches that Cook and Moore ever wrote together - from the beginning of their partnership, in the groundbreak...
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Nancy Cunard, a biography

By: CUNARD] Chisholm, Anne

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Penguin : c1979,1981

Seller ID: 5569

ISBN-13: 9780140055726

Binding: Softcover; Trade PB

Condition: Good+

B&W Photographs; 480 pages; White covers and pages age browned; creased spine very sunned, covers edgeworn and creased, remainder mark bottom edge; interior page clean, none loose.; Cunard's love of freedom and belief in racial and gender equality did not endear her to her parents, an American society hostess and an English baronet. She was friend and lover to many literary figures of the day and came to epitomize the 1920's for some. 'She was an Aldous Huxley character in "Antic Hay" (also in stock). A poet and a writer, she was the avant-garde publisher who "discovered" Samue...
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Roald Dahl, a biography

By: DAHL] TREGLOWN, Jeremy

Price: $9.75

Publisher: San Diego, Harcourt Brace & Company : c1994, 1995

Seller ID: 7107

ISBN-13: 9780156001991

Binding: Softcover; Trade PB

Condition: Very Good

No spine or cover creases, light edgewear and rubbing, a few smudges to page edges.; 'Misogynist, anti-Semite, misanthrope--Roald Dahl was reputed to be these as well as war hero, devoted father, and philanthropist.' This unauthorized biography is "an honest yet deferential biography... Born in England to Norwegian parents, Dahl (1916-90) was a difficult and opinionated man whose life was riddled with tragedy... Although Dahl achieved success through his novels, stories, and screenplays, he found his niche in writing for children. His tales were sometimes criticized as too gruesome, yet t...
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Life of a Provincial Lady; a Study of E.M. Delafield and her Works

By: DELAFIELD] POWELL, Violet

Price: $37.75

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1988

Seller ID: 6986

ISBN-13: 9780434599585

Binding: Hardcover; Ex-Library

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper

Ex-library book with usual stamps and markings.Spine ends and corners bumped, page edges pale brown (seen before in this edition, a few page corners creased; interior pages clean, no binding problems. Unclipped dust wrapper with no library markings, is wrinkled and edgeworn.; In this rather scarce study of E. M. Delafield and her works, the reader discovers how the talented novelist's own life provided the fodder for the enchanting Provincial Lady series and many other highly successful volumes. (Included in this biography is Delafield's account of her time in a Belgian convent.) Like the Pro...
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Bloomsbury : A House of Lions

By: EDEL, Leon

Price: $6.75

Publisher: NY, Avon Books : c1979, 1980

Seller ID: 5590

ISBN-13: 9780380500055

Binding: Softcover; Mass Market PB

Condition: Very Good-

333 pages; Spine creases, very light edgewear, pages age browned but not brittle; pages clean, none loose.; The author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Henry James, 'brings together nine extraordinary persons' ( Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy, Lytton Strachey, and Leonard Woolf) 'into a tapestry. He makes each of them vivid, yet shows their interconnections and their power as a group that transformed our picture of English culture."; "A very great pleasure to read."--Malcolm Cowley.
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A Remarkable Woman : A Biography of Katherine Hepburn

By: EDWARDS, Anne

Price: $8.00

Publisher: NY, William Morrow : 1985

Seller ID: 299

ISBN-13: 9780688045289

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper

Previous owner name on front free endpaper, spine ends bumped, front board faintly flared. Dust wrapper, unclipped, is lightly edgeworn and rubbed. White flap edges a bit yellowed. ; An early biography of the wonderful actress. Interesting to contrast with the new biography published in 2003 after Miss Hepburn's death.
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Edith Sitwell, A Biography

By: Elborn, Geoffrey

Price: $8.50

Publisher: NY, Doubleday : 1981

Seller ID: 275

ISBN-13: 9780385134675

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust wrapper

322 pages; Book is in lovely condition. Dust wrapper is edgeworn and rubbed, top edge chipped.
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Oscar Wilde

By: ELLMANN, Richard

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books : c1984,1988

Seller ID: 3883

ISBN-13: 9780394759845

Binding: Softcover; Trade PB

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Photographs; 680 pages; No spine creases, a bit of edgewear and rubbing, page edges lightly yellowed with some smudges. ; Extensive and definitive biography of Wilde. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize.
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Category: Biography