Biografi

Betjeman. [A biography]. (WITHDRAWN FIRST STATE)

JOHN BETJEMAN. A. N. Wilson. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Hutchinson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing with the hoax letter). 8vo. 375pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Decorated endpapers. With over seventy illustrations. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. This is a scarce first st...

Young Betjeman.

JOHN BETJEMAN. Bevis Hillier. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) of the first volume of Hillier's three-volume Betjeman biography. This copy from the library Betjeman scholar and bibliographer Peter Gammond with his neat ink stamp to the head of the front free endpaper. 8vo. x...

Dylan. The Nine Lives of Dylan Thomas.

DYLAN THOMAS. Jonathan Fryer. · 1993 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Kyle Cathie Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 276pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-two black and white photographs. A tiny area of near-invisible soiling to the upper board, else a fine copy in virtually ...

Christopher Isherwood. A Personal Memoir.

JOHN LEHAMNN. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1st Edition, First US Edition (first printing), issued a year after the UK edition. 8vo. viii, 150pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with photographs, and with five portrait drawings of Isherwood by Don ...

Caitlin. A Warring Absence [Life with Dylan Thomas].

DYLAN THOMAS. Caitlin Thomas and George Tremlett. · 1986 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 212pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-nine photographs and reproductions. Top edge very slightly spotted, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A p...

A Dangerous Liaison. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. A biography.

CAROLE SEYMOUR-JONES. · 2008 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Century, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 574pp. With forty-three captioned photographs. A touch of bruising to the spine ends. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little light corresponding chafing to the spine panel ends.,...

F. W. Harvey. Soldier, Poet.

F. W. HARVEY. Anthony Boden. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1st Edition, First edition, a paperback original (never issued in casebound format). 8vo. 359pp. Glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with over fifty photographs and reproductions. A single very light readership crease to the spine. A very good copy of th...

Writing at the Kitchen Table. The Authorised Biography of Elizabeth David.

ELIZABETH DAVID. Artemis Cooper. · 1999 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Michael Joseph, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xix, 364pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-two captioned black and white photographs. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Near Fine

A Wilder Shore. The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Camille Peri. · 2024 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Viking, New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 470pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in pink at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-nine captioned photographs and reproductions. A touch of bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy...

The Life and Letters of Edward Thomas. With a foreword by D. Lloyd George.

EDWARD THOMAS. John Moore. · 1939 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 343pp. Reddy-brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a photographic frontispiece and three plates. Top edge dust soiled, and with some toning to the endpapers, and some spotting to the margins o...

Joyce Grenfell. A biography. (INSCRIBED)

JOYCE GRENFELL. Janie Hampton. · 2002 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Anne [Harvey] love from Janie (Hampton)" 8vo. xvii, 381pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated wi...

Now All Roads Lead to France. The Last Years of Edward Thomas. (INSCRIBED)

EDWARD THOMAS. Matthew Hollis. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Anne [Harvey] - with kindness and care Matthew x" and with his printed name struck-through. 8vo. 389pp. Paper-covered boards ...

Burning Boy. The Life and Work of Stephen Crane.

PAUL AUSTER. · 2021 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition. 8vo. 783pp. Light grey paper-covered boards lettered in black at the spine. A vritually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a tiny closed tear to the head of th...

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends.

PENELOPE FITZGERALD. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Collins, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny trace of bruising to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly faded at the spine panel...

A Shadowed Man: Henry Williamson 18951977. With a foreword by Richard Williamson

HENRY WILLIAMSON. Lois Lamplugh. · 1991 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

The Exmoor Press, Somerset, 2nd Edition, The revised second edition, and the first casebound issue. 8vo. 2020pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with eighteen photographs, none of which appeared in the first edition. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped ...

Mr. Lear. A Life of Art and Nonsense. (SIGNED)

JENNY UGLOW. · 2017 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. viii, 598pp. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. With a place marker ribbon, decorated endpapers, and...

Dostoevsky in Love. An Intimate Life.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY. Alex Christofi. · 2021 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Bloomsbury, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 236pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A novelistic biography Dostoevsky "from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling hall of Europe; fro...

Pow! A novel. Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.

MO YAN. · 2012 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Seagull Books, London, New York & Calcutta, 1st Edition, The first printing of the first English-language edition. 8vo. 386pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with a single miniscule closed tear to the base of t...

Cyril Connolly. A Life. (INSCRIBED)

CYRIL CONNOLLY. Jeremy Lewis. · 1997 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Peter & Fiona. Well done on 30 yrs - old Connolly never managed half as well - & best wishes for the next. ...

Eugene O'Neill. The Man and His Plays. (INSCRIBED)

EUGENE O'NEILL. Barrett H. Clark. · 1925 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author (Clark) to the English playwright and critic Allan Noble Monkhouse, and dated the month of publication. 8vo. 214pp. Blue clo...