Biografia

Iris Murdoch: A Life

CONRADI, PETER J. · 2001 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

HarperCollins. 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, Iris Murdoch: a Life by Conradi is some 706pp with 4 photo sections & 1.3kg to post. The previous owner has removed the first blank coloured page(endpaper), perhaps it had a gift inscription or ??? - invent own inter...

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. Audrey Hepburn and Breakfast at Tiffany\S

WASSON, SAM · 2010 · Little Lane Books

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,163)

UK, Aurum. 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket, 20.5cm. Book, This is both a review & a contents-tempter > In "Fifth Avenue, 5 A. M.: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Audrey Hepburn, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman", Sam Wasson offers the reader more than just an insider's look into the ...

Virginia Woolf

KING, JAMES · 1994 · Little Lane Books

A$28.00 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,028)

UK, Hamish Hamilton. 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, ex-Cheshire lib with usual indicators, 700pp & 1.3kg packed to post. review & jacket blurb says >>"..This biography is the first to fully explore the relationship between her troubled life and her novels, essay...

Some Like It Hot: Me, Marilyn and the Movie

CURTIS, TONY;VIEIRA, MARK A. · 2009 · Little Lane Books

A$21.00 (€12.91 | $14.23 | £10.77 | ¥2,271)

UK, Virgin Books. 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, review >>> Read Tony Curtis' memoir, Some Like It Hot: Me, Marilyn and the Movie on the making of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, and it's hard to believe that the final film product is such a sparkling example o...

The Generations of Men

WRIGHT JUDITH · 1967 · Little Lane Books

A$12.00 (€7.38 | $8.13 | £6.15 | ¥1,298)

Oxford University Press. 1967, Reprint. Card Cover with dust jacket, 19.5cm. Ill.: Alison Forbes. Book, Good condition. Clean pages. Inscription on fly. Very pale foxing on compressed page edge. Clean boards are a little yellowed. Unclipped dustjacket has two small tears and b...

One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis Combat Cameraman 1934-1985

BOWDEN TIM · 1988 · Little Lane Books

A$14.00 (€8.61 | $9.49 | £7.18 | ¥1,514)

Collins. 1988, Reprint. (ISBN: 0732224187) Paperback with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, Good condition. Clean cover. 436 crisp clean pages, 650 g to post. The biography of one of the world's greatest cinecameramen and an extraordinary Australian. For over twent...

Nigella Lawson the Unauthorised Biography

SMITH, GILLY · 2005 · Little Lane Books

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,163)

Andre Deutsch. 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 250 crisp pp & 450g to post, several photo sections Strikingly beautiful and with an unashamed passion for food, Nigella Lawson continues to fascinate and inspire. Her cookery books are international bestsellers, s...

Voyage of the Damned

THOMAS GORDON AND MORGAN-WITTS MAX · 1976 · Little Lane Books

A$10.00 (€6.15 | $6.78 | £5.13 | ¥1,082)

Coronet Books uK. 1976, 1st. (ISBN: 0340213140) Card Cover , 18 Cm. Book, On 13th May 1939 the luxury liner St Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War 11 erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews some had already been in concentration camps ...

My Life

DUNCAN ISADORA · 1938 · Little Lane Books

A$12.00 (€7.38 | $8.13 | £6.15 | ¥1,298)

Victor Gollancz London. 1938. Hardcover , 18 Cm. Book, For many years Isadora Duncan had planned to write an autobiography and she completed the work a few months before her tragic death. Good.

Flaws in the Glass a Self-Portrait

WHITE PATRICK · 1984 · Little Lane Books

A$8.00 (€4.92 | $5.42 | £4.10 | ¥865)

Penguin Uk. 1984. (ISBN: 0140062939) Card Cover , 20cm. Book, With candour, force and emotion, Patrick White writes of his yough in Australia, his English boarding-school, his life at Cambridge and trips to Germany, London during the Blitz, RAF wartime intelligence in the Midd...

Fred Williams 1927-1982

MCCAUGHEY, PATRICK · 1987 · Little Lane Books

A$80.00 (€49.18 | $54.20 | £41.03 | ¥8,653)

Bay Books. 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket, 32cm. Book, 384 well illustrated pp & under 3kg for posting. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt design on front board. Repaired small tear at base of dj spine. This scholarly and highly illustrated study of Fred Williams was originally...

A Private View

SELZNICK, IRENE MAYER · 1983 · Little Lane Books

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,163)

USA, Alfred A. Knopf. 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 384pp & 800g to post. Irene Mayer came to Hollywood when she was ten. Her childhood was populated with legendary names as her father, Louis B. practically created the movie industry. But life at the Mayers' w...

The Colonel of Tamarkan : Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai

SUMMERS, JULIE · 2006 · Little Lane Books

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,812)

UK, Pocket Book Publications. 2006. Paperback with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 410 crisp pp, 400g packed for post, photo mid-section, illust endpapers. Written by Toosey's granddaughter, The Colonel of Tamarkan draws on both private archives and many original interviews with Sec...

Damned in Paradise. The Life of John Barrymore

KOBLER, JOHN · 1977 · Little Lane Books

A$14.00 (€8.61 | $9.49 | £7.18 | ¥1,514)

USA, Atheneum Publishers. 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket, 21.5cm. Book, DAMNED IN PARADISE. The Life of John Barrymore by Kobler is over 500g to post & 418pp. The central mystery of the life of John Barrymore is his epic self-destruction. Barrymore, it would seem, willed, em...

Rogue Bull: The Story of Lang Hancock King of the Pilbarra

DUFFIELD ROBERT · 1979 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

Australia, Fontana. 1979, 1st Soft Cover Edition. Soft cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, Great condition throughout the 231pp, less than 500g to post. Dan Denning comments on the book in the Daily Reckoning, this may/maybe not an extract > Implicit in t...

Tony Curtis: Nobody\S Perfect

MUNN, MICHAEL · 2011 · Little Lane Books

A$28.00 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,028)

UK, JR Books. 2011. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 312pp & 800g, photo section amidships; faults? bump on lower board edge. This biography by Michael Munn, who met Curtis several times and interviewed him at length, tells the definitive story of the one of the last ...

Tony Curtis: Nobody\S Perfect

MUNN, MICHAEL · 2011 · Little Lane Books

A$28.00 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,028)

UK, JR Books. 2011. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 312pp & 800g, photo section amidships. This biography by Michael Munn, who met Curtis several times and interviewed him at length, tells the definitive story of the one of the last matinee idols from the Golden Age ...

Audrey Style

KEOGH, PAMELA CLARKE - INTRODUCTION BY HUBERT DE GIVENCHY · 1999 · Little Lane Books

A$35.00 (€21.51 | $23.71 | £17.95 | ¥3,786)

U.K. Aurum Press. 1999, 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, With more than ninety color and black-and-white photographs, many of which have never before been published, and original designer sketches from Edith Head, Hubert de Givenchy, Vera Wang, Manolo Blahn...

The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

STEIN, GERTRUDE · 1981 · Little Lane Books

A$12.00 (€7.38 | $8.13 | £6.15 | ¥1,298)

UK, Penguin. 1981. Paperback with dust jacket. Book, Crease to lower corner, o/wise 272 clean well bound pp, For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly t...

Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years

NOURMAND, TONY · 2006 · Little Lane Books

A$46.00 (€28.28 | $31.17 | £23.59 | ¥4,975)

UK, Boxtree. 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 28.5cm. Book, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Paris When It Sizzles, Breakfast at Tiffany's; these early films established Audrey Hepburn as the epitome of stylish grace and playful elegance. This collection of legendary and n...