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SASSOON Siegfried
The Old Century and seven more Years. [With a title-vignette by Reynolds Stone]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, endpapers very lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, green top, an unusually bright, clean copy. This 'daisy of a book' was Sassoon's personal favourite of all his prose works. It is dedicated to Max Beerbohm who materially assisted Sassoon by punctuating the text at proof stage. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Keynes, A42a.
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OSBORNE S.
Germany and her Jews.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original navy blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Includes summary biographies of many notable German Jews. Scarce in this condition.
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GREEN Daniel
Great Cobbett. The Noblest Agitator.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CONN Peter
Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. A Cultural Biography. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS WARM SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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DE LA MARE Walter
Lewis Carroll. FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original brown cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the publisher's promotional postcard loosely inserted. De la Mare's classic study first appeared as the final essay in 'The Eighteen-Eighties' (1930); this is its first appearance in book form. Green notes that the reference to 'Dr. Paget' on p.49 is a mistake for Dr. Thomas Fowler. It was Hudson who discovered the error and so clarified the supposed 'incubation' of Alice at Whitby in 1854 which caused subsequent biographers so much trouble. Scarce in this condition. Crutch 509a; Williams & Madan, III, ix.
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
His Father's Son. The Life of Randolph Churchill. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 29 plates on 16; original red cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GOLLANCZ Victor
Journey towards Music. A Memoir.
8vo., First Edition, with 2 coloured plates, 33 plates in monochrome and 2 illustrations by Du Maurier in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HARCOURT-SMITH Simon
The Marriage at Ferrara.
8vo., First Edition, with a full-page map and 4 plates, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, uncut, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Harcourt-Smith's classic biography of Lucrezia Borgia is based entirely on the correspondence of the period and drawn from Italian archives of the sixteenth century. With a personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Uncommon in this condition.
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BOWLE John
John Evelyn and his World. A Biography.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first biography based not only on the Diaries but also on a full account of Evelyn's lesser-known writings.
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FAULKNER John
My Brother Bill. An Affectionate Remembrance.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities.
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GRAVES Richard Perceval
Robert Graves and the White Goddess, 1940-1985.
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 16; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Third and final volume of Richard Graves's epic biography of his uncle.
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KETTON-CREMER Robert Wyndham
Thomas Gray. A Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 7 plates, , frontispiece yellowed at edges; original burgundy cloth, gilt back, grey top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ketton-Cremer's classic 'life' remains the definitive biography. VERY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Clarke & Gretton A17; Gretton A15.
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LINDSAY Jack
George Meredith. His Life and Work.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The best critical and biographical study to date.
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HEATHCOTE T.A.
The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734-1995. A Biographical Dictionary. With a Foreword by Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, Chief of the Defence Staff.
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 8; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Good, thoughtful (and often entertaining) extended summaries of the 115 officers appointed to the Royal Navy's highest rank in the three hundred-odd years of its existence. Undeniably useful and certainly handy, it would benefit from more and better pictures (particularly of the lesser-known individuals). A similar treatment of British admirals is a greater need.
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IRWIN Margaret
That Great Lucifer. A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 7 plates; cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip.
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LEES-MILNE James
The Enigmatic Edwardian. The Life of Reginald, 2nd Viscount Esher.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 8; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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REYNOLDS Aidan
Arthur Machen. A Short Account of his Life and Work. With an Introduction by D.B. Wyndham Lewis.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 8 plates on 4, and 2 illustrations (one a full-page caricature) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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MAYS Spike
Reuben's Corner. An English Country Boyhood. Foreword by Richard Church.
8vo., Second Edition, with endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This minor classic, first published in 1969, tells of the author's upbringing at Bartlow Hamlet near Ashdon in Essex. It was followed by a sequel 'Return to Anglia' in 1986.
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MAYS Spike
Reuben's Corner. An English Country Boyhood. Foreword by Richard Church. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., with endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. This minor classic, first published in 1969, tells of the author's upbringing at Bartlow Hamlet near Ashdon in Essex. It was followed by a sequel 'Return to Anglia' in 1986. Signed copies of any of Mays' works are scarce.
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READ, pseud. Miss
Time remembered. Illustrated by Derek Crowe. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second volume of the author's autobiography, following 'A Fortunate Grandchild' and covering her school years at Chelsfield, Kent, from 1921-1924.
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COLEMAN Terry
Nelson. The Man and the Legend.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 20 coloured plates on 8, 41 monochrome plates on 16 and pictorial endpapers; navy blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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PEARSON Hesketh
Extraordinary People.
8vo., First Edition; with 10 plates, faint tape-marks on free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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EMDEN Cecil S.
Pepys Himself.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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DUNBAR Janet
Flora Robson. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM DAME FLORA ROBSON
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 40 plates on 22, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, first few leaves lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM DAME FLORA ROBSON WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Flora Robson (1902-1984), outstanding British character actress, was born in South Shields but her theatrical training took place at RADA where she was awarded a bronze medal in 1921. From a long and most distinguished career she is probably best remembered for her portrayal of Elizabeth I in William K Howard's feature film 'Fire Over England' (1937) in which she starred with Laurence Oliver and Vivien Leigh, and as the Mother Superior in Michael Powell's cult classic 'Black Narcissus' (1946). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Sam Wood's 'Saratoga Trunk' (1943) and awarded the DBE in 1960.
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WILLMOTT Phyllis
Coming of Age in Wartime.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Final volume of the author's remarkable autobiographical trilogy, following 'Growing up in a London Village' and 'A Green Girl'. Already scarce, especially in this condition.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Flower Show Match and other Pieces.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly browned, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned to a lighter shade but crisp and complete. Uncommon in the dustwrapper. Keynes, A47.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Weald of Youth. [Illustrated by Reynolds Stone]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted, browned and frayed at edges, and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering). The second volume of Sassoon's factual autobiography. Increasingly elusive in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Keynes, A49; V&A Catalogue 124.
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SETH Vikram
Two Lives.
8vo., First Edition, with patterned endpapers; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SOLZHENITSYN Alexander
Lenin in Zurich. Chapters. [Translated by H.T. Willets].
8vo., First English Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small loss at front fold-in. Second volume of Solzhenitsyn's projected multi-volume account of Russian revolutionary history. First published in Paris in the previous year.
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YOUNG, Geofrey Winthrop
Snowdon Biography.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates and endpaper maps in red; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and well-illustrated account of Snowdon, Snowdonia and its climbers during the 'golden age'. Uncommon in this condition. Neate 943.
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SASSOON Siegfried
Siegfried's Journey 1916-1920. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece by Glyn Philpot and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Third and final volume of Sassoon's non-fictionalised autobiographical sequence. Keynes, A51.
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CRAIK H.
The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present), titles in red and black, and 16 plates, titles lightly spotted; original dark red cloth, upper boards lettered in black, gilt backs, red tops, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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JAMESON Storm
Journey from the North. The Autobiography of Storm Jameson. [Complete Set].
2 vols., 8vo., First Editions; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in price-clipped dustwrappers
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MAYS Spike
Reuben's Corner. Foreword by Richard Church [with] Return to Anglia. Drawings by Rene Eyre. SPIKE MAYS COMPLETE
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text (of the second volume) and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in the dustwrapper. This minor classic, with its long-awaited and equally enjoyable sequel, tells of the the author's upbringing at Bartlow Hamlet near Ashdon in Essex. Elusive in this condition and seldom offered for sale as a set.
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WALTON Izaak
The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr.George Herbert and Dr. Robert Sanderson. A New Edition, with illustrative Notes and Plates. IN CONTEMPORARY FULL CALF
16mo., with engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 5 fine copper-engraved portraits and plates and 51 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; attractively bound in contemporary full calf, sides with Oxford frame border in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with black leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, backstrip gilt (save label) faded, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. A scarce edition based on the first Major of 1825. A useful feature is the printing of the latter's extensive notes at the foot of the relevant pages rather than collectively at end. There are also several alterations and additions.
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CARNELL R.
A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
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KNIGHT C.A.
A Political Biography of Richard Steele. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy.
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POGUE Forrest C.
George C. Marshall. Education of a General, 1880-1939. With the editorial Assistance of Gordon Harrison. Foreword by General Omar N. Bradley.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; red cloth gilt, blue cloth back lettered in gilt and silver, red top (lightly faded), a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter worn and frayed at edges. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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CHURCHILL Randolph S.
Winston S. Churchill. Volume II Companion Parts 1-3. [The Official Biography. Complete Set of Companion Parts to Volume Two]. VOLUME II COMPANION SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt backs, red tops, all very good, bright, clean copies in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly browned at edges and with one short closed tear. Companion Part 1 1901-1907; Companion Part 2 1907-1911; Companion Part 3 1911-1914.
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MURRAY Gilbert
Gilbert Murray. An Unfinished Autobiography. With Contributions by his Friends. Edited by Jean Smith and Arnold Toynbee.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 3 plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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FRASER David
Frederick the Great. King of Prussia. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 34 plates and facsimiles on 16, and 2 double-page maps and double-page pedigree in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of a detailed and authoritative biography.
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GITTINGS Robert
John Keats. [Second Impression]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece, numerous plates and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The most comprehensive biography of the poet to date, compiled by arguably the greatest Keatsian scholar of the twentieth century. A notable complement to his 'John Keats: the Living Year' (1954). Scarce in this condition.
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LENNON F.B.
The Life of Lewis Carroll. FIRST UK EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First UK Edition, with title-vignette and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Lennon's detailed biography was first published as 'Victoria through the Looking-Glass' in New York, 1945. Williams & Madan, III, xvii.
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CLAYTON Tim
Trafalgar. The Men. The Battle. The Storm. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in bronze, brown endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MACHEN Arthur
The Autobiography of Arthur Machen. With an Introduction by Morchard Bishop. [First Collected Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Collected Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 2 plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, red top, uncut, a near fine copy. First collected edition, combining 'Far Off Things' (1922) and 'Things Near and Far' (1923). VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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JAMES William M.
The Durable Monument. Horatio Nelson.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and charts coloured in outline; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy. 'catches most understandingly the professional side…Admiral James is the only Nelson biographer who himself held high executive command in war, and so can view, as it were, Nelson's command-problems through his own eyes (Prof. Michael Lewis). As Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, the author lived for more than year in Nelson's cabin on the VICTORY, after his official residence had been bombed. NMM II/1, 999.
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POWER Brian
The Ford of Heaven. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates; brown cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Author's biography set in Tientsin, China, during the 1920s and 1930s.
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ALDINGTON Richard
Lawrence of Arabia. A Biographical Enquiry. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 11 plates on 9, and 3 full-page maps and a fill-page pedigree in the text; original black buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Arguably the most important of the early biographies, and the first really to begin to penetrate the myth. With extensive list of sources. O'Brien E192.
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CORRIGAN Felicitas
Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage. Assembled with an Introduction. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 8 plates on 6 and several illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head of backstrip. SCARCE.
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SASSOON Siegfried
The Old Century and seven more Years. Illustrated by R. Stone. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, some very light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original grey tweed cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip. This 'daisy of a book' was Sassoon's personal favourite of all his prose works. It is dedicated to Max Beerbohm who materially assisted Sassoon by punctuating the text at proof stage. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUST-WRAPPER. Keynes, A42a. This 'daisy of a book' was Sassoon's personal favourite of all his prose works. It is dedicated to Max Beerbohm who materially assisted Sassoon by punctuating the text at proof stage. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Keynes A4
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