JOHN ROWLAND 1925-1996. A MEMENTO
Canberra: Compiled by The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Historical Documents Branch. 1996. Tall 4to in printed wrappers. pp.43. Fine.
Literary Biography
A WOMAN OF PASSION. The Life of E.Nesbit 1858- 1924.
London. Published by Hutchinson, 1987. 8vo. pp.xx + 473. black & white illustrations and photographs. index. small booksellers ink stamp oat foot of the pastedown,original green cloth hardcover in rear marked pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Explores the complex relationship between Nesbit's life & her fiction.
MATES. The Friendship That Sustained Henry Lawson.
London & Sydney, New Holland, 2018. Royal 8vo.pp.viii + 488. Illustrated throughout.Original quality softcover. Very Good Near Fine copy. Henry Lawson & Jim Gordon [ Jim Grahame].The story of two remarkable lives and enduring mateship.
FRANK RICHARDS. The Chap Behind The Chums.
London, Viking Press, 1988. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.xiv + 258, bibliography, index. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings.Original green hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper. Fine Copy. Mary Cadogan discusses the literary quality and social attitudes of the stories and some of the reasons for their resilient appeal. In.....
A GLIMPSE OF ANCIENT SUNLIGHT. Memories of Henry Williamson
The Aylesford Press, 1986. Original printed wrappers.pp.34 + 1 Limited to 460 numbered copies.Photographs. Very Good.
CAPOTE. A Biography
New York. Published by Simon & Schuster. 1988. Royal 8vo. pp.v + 632 , index. bibliography photographs in black & white. Second printing. green quarter cloth hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper. Very good copy. Truman told Clarke he would not respect him unless he told the whole truth.
D.H.LAWRENCE IN AUSTRALIA.
Macmillan,Melbourne, 1981. First Edition, 8vo.pp.xiiii + 130. illustrated in black & white,index. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dustwrapper.loosely inserted a gift card from the author. Lawrence wrote two books during his brief stay in Australia.He wrote Kangaroo in NSW between June and July 1922.,dismissed as unreal and a figment.....
OTTOLINE. The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell.
New York. Published by Coward McCann, 1975. First US Edition, 8vo. pp. 288, index illustrations in black & white. uncut edges. some foxing to foredges. hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. some toning.
A LITTLE ORIGINAL SIN. The Life and Work of Jane Bowles.
New York. Published by Holt Rinehart & Winston. 1981. Royal 8vo. pp.xiii + 464, notes, index. photographs in black & white. Original hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.
LATE HARVEST
Lindsay Drummond, London,1946. First Edition.8vo.pp.viii + 132. Near fine hardcover in Near fine dust wrapper.
MAEVE BINCHY The Biography.
The Robson Press, London,2013. 8vo.pp.xii+ 335.,index,,illustrated.very Good as new hardcover in Very Good as new dust wrapper. A life so familiar and yet so extraordinary. Played out against Maeve's favourite recurring character, Ireland.
HENRY JAMES. The Master 1901- 1916.
Philadelphia & New York. Published by J.B.Lippincott, 1972. Royal 8vo. pp.591.index, cloth hardcover in marked and price clipped dust wrapper. A very good copy in a good dust wrapper.
JOHN DONNE. Man of Flesh and Spirit.
Continuum , London, 2001. 8vo. pp. xiv + 368 + 10 illustrations. Original green cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Very Good Copy. ISBN 08264 51551.
V N The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov.
Macdonald,Queen Anne Press, london, 1987. First English Edition. 8vo.pp. ix+ 417,index,illustrations. uniform tanning of pages else Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 0356142345.
SYLVIA BEACH AND THE LOST GENERATION. : A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties.
New York. & London. Published by W.W. Norton. 1983. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.447 index, illustrations in black & white.Original quarter red cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.Fine.
OTTOLINE AT GARSINGTON :Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell 1915-1918.
London, Published by Faber & Faber, 1974/. First Edition. pp.304 index, illustrations in black & white. original cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. some tanning and some marks to the foredges.
THE DREAM AT THE END OF THE WORLD. Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangier.
New York. Published by Harper Collins, 1991. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp. xvi + 381, notes, sources,index.illustrated with black & white photographs. Original hardcover in original illustrated dustwrapper. Fine. Paul Bowles settled in Tangier, a wellspring for his fiction. For wife Jane, the Moroccan mecca was a place to explore.....
KENNETH GRAHAME. A Biography.
London, Published by John Murray. 1959. First Edition. 8vo. pp.xvi + 400. index black and white illustrations and photographs. some toning and offsetting with foxing to the foredges. Green cloth in soiled dust wrapper.
ALONG WITH YOUTH. Hemingway. The Early Years.
New York & Oxford. Published by Oxford University Press, 1985. Foreword by Jack Hemingway and with five new short stories. 8vo. pp.xiv + 258, index with black & white photographs. Original quarter black cloth with cream boards,hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine copy.
LESS THAN A TREASON. Hemingway in Paris.
New York & Oxford. Published by Oxford University Press, 1990. 8vo. pp.x + 197, index with black & white photographs. Original quarter grey cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine copy.
CONVERSATIONS WITH CAPOTE.
New York. New American Library, 1985. . First Edition; First Printing.The first US edition with first printing statement. Foreword by James Michener. 8vo. pp.ix + 244. photographs and illustrations in black & white. index. Quarter beige cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. near fine. In these extraordinary conversations recorded in.....
SELECTED LETTERS 1917-1961.
New York. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. Edited by Carlos Baker. Royal 8vo. pp. xxvii + 948 index, decorated endpapers. original cloth hardcover in complete dust wrapper. Very good copy. This generous selection of nearly 600 letters in which Hemingway reveals himself to friends and family enemies, editors and.....
SWINBURNE. Portrait of A Poet.
Routledge, London, 1974. 8vo. pp.x + 305 and black & white portrait of Swinburne. original black cloth hardcover . A Very Good copy in dust wrapper.
COLERIDGE. Early Visions & COLERIDGE. Darker Visions.
London, Harper Collins, 1998. Two Volumes. Royal 8vo. pp.xvi +409 with black and white illustrations & maps, index pp.xii + 622 with black and white illustrations & maps, index. Black hardcovers in pictorial dust wrappers.Ribbon markers in each volume.. Near fine set.
HENRY JAMES. The imagination of Genius. A biography.
London, Published by Hodder & Stoughton. A john Curtis Book. 1992. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp. xvi + 618, notes, index. Illustrations in black & white. Original black cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy.,