RICHARD HOLMES. — Sidetracks. Explorations of a Romantic Biographer. (SIGNED)

HarperCollins, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 420pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge and half-title lightly spotted. A very good copy in just fractionally edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper. This copy from the collection of Poetry-next-the-Sea festival co-founder and award-winning memoir writer Alan Byford, with his bookplate to the front free endpaper. The follow-up to the author's acclaimed biography-memoir 'Footsteps', comprising a selection of twenty of his shorter biographical pieces, the subjects including Boswell, Chatterton, Voltaire, Mary Wollstoncraft, M.R.James and Zelda & F.Scott Fitzgerald., Very Good, Very Good