Dickens.
London: Guild Publishing, 1990. 8vo. Published simultaneously with the Sinclair-Stevenson edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Biography
Lawrence of Arabia. A Biographical Enquiry.
London: Collins, 1955. 8vo. First edition, second impression (reprinted in same month). Original black cloth, gilt. D/w has one short closed tear at rear turn in, otherwise fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Billy Baldwin Remembers.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 4to. First edition. Original grey cloth. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. John Cornforth's bookplate (by Reynolds Stone) on front paste down. Inscribed by the author to John Cornforth "with boundless admiration" on half-title. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page...
Anthony Powell. A Life.
London: Duckworth Overlook, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Behind the Image. - Profiles.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. The essay on Lord Boothby has corners folded down and highlighting in blue and black ink. D/w creased on spine and faded. Very good + in very good + dust-wrapper. From the library of The Right Honourable The Lord...
Tolstoy. A Russian Life.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Threads. The Delicate Life of John Craske.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2015. 8vo. First edition. Original black boards, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Edward Bawden.
Loxhill: The Pendomer Press, [1980]. 4to. De Luxe limited edition. #139 of 200 copies. Quarter black leather, gilt, with patterned paper boards. Top edge gilt. Issued in paper-covered slipcase. With a folder containing the lithograph 'Nekayah, the Prince and Imlac in Cairo' drawn in four colours and printed in an...
The Last Love of George Sand. A Literary Biography. Translated from the French by Allison Charette.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2013. 8vo. First US edition. First published in French in 2010. Original black and tan hardcovers, gilt. A few pages creased towards the top corner. Near fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Life of Johnson 1709-1784. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Revised and Enlarged Edition by L. F. Powell.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971-5. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. Reprints. Volumes 1-4 originally printed in 1934. Volumes 5 & 6 first printed in 1950. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. D/ws uniformly faded on spines. The heads of the spines of volumes 1-3 have very short closed tears. Near fine...
Life of Johnson 1709-1784. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill. Revised and Enlarged Edition by L. F. Powell.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1934-50. 8vo. 6 volumes in 3, set. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. India-paper edition. With black and white plates, some folding. Bookplate of John Fuggles on front paste down of each volume. Very slight foxing to end papers. D/w spines uniformly tanned and with very...
Maeve Brennan. Homesick at the New Yorker.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2004. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth. Black and white photographic plate section. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Goethe. The Poet and the Age. Volume I The Poetry of Desire, 1749-1790.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. D/w faded on spine (as usual) else fine in fine dust-wrapper. The first of a projected three volume study of Goethe and his times. Magnificent.
Virginia Woolf. An Inner Life.
London: Allen Lane, 2005. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Mint in dust-wrapper.
The Architectural Outsiders. Introduction by Kerry Downes.
London: Waterstone and Company, 1985. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Subjects include Sir Roger Pratt, John Vardy and Ernest Newton.
Mad World. Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead.
London: Harper Press, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original dark blue hardcovers. Colour and black and white photographic sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Brideshead Generation. Evelyn Waugh and his Friends.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
George Orwell. A Life.
London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1980. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Black and white photographic sections. Neat ink ownership on front paste down. Crease to turn in of d/w. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
John Soane. An Accidental Romantic.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1999. 4to. First edition. Original maroon hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Transferred Life of George Eliot. The Biography of a Novelist.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 8vo. First edition. Original cream hardcovers. Photographic plate section. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Outlandish Knight. The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman.
London: Allen Lane, 2016. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth. Black and white photographic plate sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Evelyn Waugh. A Life Revisited.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Younger Pitt.
London: Constable, 1969, 1983 & 1996. 8vo. Three volumes, set. First editions. Original brown, green and burgundy buckram, gilt. Volume 1 d/w toned on spine, rubbed and nicked at head of spine and with a small patch of abrasion to the leading edge of the front panel. Volume 2 d/w...
Cyril Connolly. A Nostalgic Life.
London: Macmillan, 1995. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Price-clipped d/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Thomas Hardy. Half a Londoner.
Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter black cloth with paper-covered boards. Mint in dust-wrapper.