Literary Biography
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Jonathan Swift- Victoria Glendinning
Biography
Hardback with dj,1998,324 pgs
ISBN- 0091791960
Condition- A
Price:
NZ $20.00
Jane Austen- Brian Wilks
Illustrated biography.
Hardback with dj,1978,144 pgs.
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $20.00
James Boswell And His World- David Daiches
Illustrated biography.
Hardback with dj,1976,126 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
Lewis Carroll
A biography by Morton N Cohen.
Softcover,1995,577 pgs.
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $15.00
The Life Of Tolstoy
A biography by Aylmer Maude.
Softcover,2008,928 pgs.
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $15.00
The Brontes And Their World- Phyllis Bentley
Illustrated Biography.
Hardback with dj,1969,144 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
George Elliot And Her World- Marghanita Laski
Illustrated biography.
Hardback with dj,1973,119 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
Hans Christian Anderson And His World- Reginald Spink
Illustrated biography.
Hardback with dj,1972,128 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
E.M.Forster And His World- Francis King
Illustrated biography
Ex-library hardback with dj,1978,127 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
Ezra Pound And His World-Peter ackroyd
Illustrated biography.
Ex-library hardback with dj,1980,119 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
James Joyce And His World- Chester G Anderson
Illustrated biography.
Ex-library hardback with dj,1967,144 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
Lauris Edmond Autobiography
NZ novelist and poet.
Trade pb,1994,410 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $15.00
Boris Pasternak His Life And Art- Guy de Mallac
Illustrated biography.
Hradback with dj,1981,448 pgs.
Condition-C
Price:
NZ $20.00
Luck Him- The Life Of Kingsley Amis - Richard Bradford
"An original and stimulating biography"
Hardback with dj,2001,432 pgs.
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $18.00
The Genius Of Shaw- ed by Michael Holroyd
A group of distinguished writers look at the life and work of George Bernard Shaw.
Hardback with dj,1979,238 pgs.
Condition -B
Price:
NZ $20.00
Hardy Country- Tom Howard
A look at the towns ,villages and countryside that influenced Hardy's writing.
Hardback with dj,1995,80 pgs.
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $18.00
Will In The North- Stephen Greenblatt
How Shakespeare became Shakespeare.
Softcover,2005,430 pgs.
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $15.00
Tolkien's Gown- Rick Gekoski
& other stories of great authors and rare books.
Hardback with dj,2004,240 pgs.
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $15.00
Iris murdoch As I Knew Her- A.N.Wilson
Biography.
Hardback with dj,2003,275 pgs.
ISBN- 0091742463
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $18.00
Thomas Hardy- Robert Gittings
Biography
Softcover,1980,693 pgs.
ISBN- 0141390530
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $18.00
Bernard Shaw- Michael Holroyd
1.The Search For Love 1856-1898.
Hardback with dj,1988,486 pgs.
ISBN- 0701133325
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $20.00
The Concise Oxford Chronology Of English Literature- ed. by Micahel Cox
A comprehensive year-by-year digest of 15,000 significant and representative works of literature published by English and British authors since 1474.
Trade pb,2004,823 pgs.
ISBN- 0198606346
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $18.00
The Cambridge Guide To Literature In English
Writers,-novelists,poets,playwrights,critics,journalists and essayists and their works from the English speaking world.
Hardback with dj,1996,1054 pgs.
ISBN- 0521440866
Condition- A
Price:
NZ $25.00
The Oxford Companion To English Literature- ed. by Margaret Drabble
Encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of English literature.
Hardback with dj,2000,1172 pgs.
ISBN- 0198662440
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $25.00
The Fry Chronicles- Stephen Fry
Autobiography.
Hardback with dj,2010,438 pgs.
ISBN- 9780718154837
Condition- A
Price:
NZ $20.00
Wrestling with The Angel- Michael King
A life of Janet Frame.
Ex-library hardback with dj,2000,583 pgs.
ISBN- 0670893714
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $15.00
Women's Literature A-Z ed. by Claire Buck
Over 5000 A-Z entries covering individuals,works and movements.
Trade pb,1992.
ISBN- 0747519536
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $15.00
The Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes
Almost 500 anecdotes collected from 1000 years of memoirs,reminescences and letters.
Hardback with dj,1976,382 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
The Dickens Encyclopedia- Arthur lL.Hayward
The A-Z of all things Dickens.
Hardback,1995,174 pgs.
ISBN- 1856482596
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $12.00
Ngaio Marsh- Margaret Lewis
Biography.
Ex-library trade pb,1991,276 pgs.
ISBN- 0908912064
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
Walter Scott- Hesketh Pearson
His Life And Personality.
Hardback with dj,1954,295 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
D.H>Lawrence- F.R.Leavis
Biography.
Hardback with dj,1957,318 pgs.
Condition - C
Price:
NZ $10.00
Fiona Kidman- Palm Prints
A collection of non-fiction writing and speeches.
Softcover,1994,245 pgs.
ISBN- 0869412281
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $10.00
Poet Triumphant- Asclepius
The life and writings of R.A.K.Mason (1905-1971).
Ex-library softcover,2004,336 pgs.
ISBN- 1877228796
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $15.00
Austen Country -Tom Howard
The villages,towns and countryside that inspired Jane austen.
Illustrated hardback with dj,1995,79 pgs.
ISBN- 1856277836
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $18.00
Katerina- Joanna Woods
A biography of Katherine Mansfield, which exposes her life-long obsession with Russia - its music, literature, fashion and people.
Trade pb,2001,320 pgs.
ISBN- 0143018051
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $12.00
Ginsberg- Barry Miles
The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most colourful and dynamic poets.
Softcover,1989,533 pgs.
ISBN- 0140119124
Condition- C-
Price:
NZ $10.00
The Life Of Ian Fleming- John Pearson
Biography of the creator of James Bond.
Hardback with dj (tatty at edges).
1966,351 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $12.00
Ernest Hemingway- Selected Letters 1917-1961
Edited by Carlos Baker.
Hardback with dj,1981,947 pgs.
ISBN- 0684167654
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $15.00
The Life Of Irene Nemirovsky- Philipponnat & Lienhardt
The extraordinary story of a woman born into a wealthy Jewish family in Kiev 1903 who fled the revolution with her family to France where she became a successful author before being sent to die in Auschwitz.
Illustrated trade pb,2010,466 pgs.
ISBN- 9780701182892
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $15.00
Days That Have Been- Mary Scott
Autobiography NZ author Mary Scott 1888-1979.
Hardback with dj,1966,207 pgs.
Dj tatty around edges.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
Agatha Christie Autobiography
2 volumes published by Planet Three,London in 2003.
ISSN- 14730022
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $20.00
Wild Women And Books- Brenda Knight
Bibliophiles,Bluestockings,and prolific pens- from Alpha Behn to Zora Neale Hurston and from Anne Rice to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Softcover,2006,274 pgs.
ISBN- 1573242713
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $10.00
The Trial Of Lady Chatterley- ed.by C.H.Rolph
The story of the first novel to be prosecuted under the new 1959 Obsene Publications Act taken from official Old Bailey transcripts.
Paperback,1961,249 pgs.
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $5.00
The Autobiography Of Arthur Ransome
English author 1884-1967.
Softcover,1985,368 pgs.
ISBN- 0712607269
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $12.00
Proust A Biography- Ronald Hayman
Biography of literary giant Marcel Proust.
Trade pb,1990,564 pgs.
ISBN- 0881848182
Condition- B
Price:
NZ $19.00
The Shakespeare Conspiracy- Graham Phillips & Martin Keatman
There are no records of Shakespeare's daily life, and no one in his home town seems to have known that he was a successful London playwright while he was alive. Seeking to cast off Shakespeare's cloak of secrecy, this book depicts a bizarre double life of conspiracy, treason and murder.
Trade pb,1994,230 pgs.
ISBN- 0712658831
Condition- C
Price:
NZ $10.00
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