Indian Diary 1952-53. Introduction by Malcolm Muggeridge.
London: The Bodley Head, 1984. 4to. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Diaries and Letters
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett. Volume 1: 1929-1940. Edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 8vo. Second impression. Original black cloth, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell.
London: William Heinemann, 1951-60. 8vo. 6 volumes. De luxe limited editions. Original quarter vellum with navy buckram boards, stamped with Boswell's coat of arms in gilt on the upper covers and leather labels on the spines. Top edges gilt. Deckle-edge antique laid paper. Silk marker ribbons. 'London Journal' (1951) #423...
The Bukowski / Purdy Letters 1964-1974. A Decade of Dialogue. Edited by Seamus Cooney.
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original paper covers. Covers faded on spine and along the top edge of the front panel. Near fine. Private correspondence between Charles Bukowski and Al Purdy.
The Letters of William S. Burroughs. 1945-1959. Edited and with an Introduction by Oliver Harris.
London: Picador, 1993. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter black cloth with paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Letters of Charles Dickens. The Pilgrim Edition. Edited by Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, K.J. Fielding, Nina Burgis, Angus Easson et al.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, [2002]. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First published between 1965 and 2002. Four volumes are third impressions, the others are fourth impressions. No dates are given for the reprints but publication of the set was completed in 2002. Original red buckram, gilt. D/ws uniformly slightly faded on...
A World of my Own. A Dream Diary.
London: Reinhardt Books in association with Viking, 1992. 8vo. First edition. Original grey paper boards, gilt. Jacket design after Carol Carson. The author's own selection from more than 800 pages of dream diaries kept between 1965 and 1989.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Lettering faded on spine, else fine in fine dust-wrapper.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Corners pushed. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Ink ownership of Frances Partridge on fly leaf.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Light spotting to top edge of text block. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Gymnasium of the Mind. The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933-1963. Edited by John Goldsmith with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark and a Portrait Memoir by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece in black and white. Bookplate on front paste down. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Selected Letters of Henry James. Edited with an Introduction by Leon Edel.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Slightly rubbed d/w with a few nicks along the top edge.
The Letters of Samuel Johnson. With Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him. Collected & Edited by R. W. Chapman.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1952. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original maroon cloth, gilt. D/ws price-clipped, faded on spines and edge worn. Tear to d/w of volume 1 at the top of the spine. Near fine in very good + dust-wrappers.
In Tearing Haste. Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
London: John Murray, 2008. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, silvergilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Duchess of Devonshire, and by the editor Charlotte Mosley 'To Michael' on the title page. A nick to the top edge of the front panel of...
The Letters of Samuel Pepys and his family circle. Edited by Helen Truesdell Heath.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1955. 8vo. First edition. Original maroon cloth, blind-ruled, gilt. End papers and d/w lightly foxed. D/w tanned on spine with short closed tear to upper edge of lower cover. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Journals. 1982-1992.
London: William Heinemann, 1995-7. 8vo. 3 volumes, set. First editions. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Mint in dust-wrappers. Begun when a novel had become stuck, these journals make interesting companions to the four volumes of autobiography.
Selected Letters. Volume 1 1880-1903; volume 2 1904-1909; volume 3 1910-1917; volume 4 1918-1922.
New York & London: Doubleday, Oxford University Press & HarperCollins, 1983-2000. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Original cloth. D/w of volume 1 worn at head and tail of spine. D/w of volume 3 is price-clipped with publisher's price sticker for £40. Volume 4 is foxed along the fore edge...
Selected Letters. Volume 1 1880-1903; volume 2 1904-1909; volume 3 1910-1917; volume 4 1918-1922.
London & New York: Collins, Oxford University Press & HarperCollins, 1983-2000. 8vo. 4 volumes, set. First editions. Original cloth. Heads and tails of spines gently pushed with light wear to d/ws. D/w of volume 3 is price-clipped. Near fine in near fine dust-wrappers. Volume 1 is published by Collins, volume...
The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 of Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. 8vo. Second impression with corrections. Original red cloth, gilt. Maps and black and white photographic plate section. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page. D/w slightly faded on spine (as usual). Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Labels. A Mediterranean Journal. With an Introduction by Kingsley Amis.
London: Methuen, 1991. 8vo. Reissue. First thus. First published in 1930. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
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