Biografia

Fanfare for Elizabeth

SITWELL, EDITH · 1946 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Macmillan, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp vii + 202 + frontis and 3pp b&w plates. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The protected dust jacket is soiuled and l...

Dear Departed

YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE · 1991 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1991. First English language edition. Hardcover. First impression. Translated from the French by Maria Louise Ascher. 8vo. Pp 346 + 18pp b&w plates. Quarter bound in green cloth stamped in gilt on the spine with sides of green paper boards bli...

The Dictionary of National Biography: 1961-1970

WILLIAMS, E. T. AND NICHOLLS, C. S. (EDS) · 1981 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 745 biographies with an Index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series. 8vo. Pp xviii + 1178. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped...

Claude Barrès: A Hero in Revolt

LYAUTEY, PIERRE · 1962 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Macmillan, 1962. First English language edition. Hardcover. First impression. Translated from the French by Humphrey Hare. 8vo. Pp vii + 215. Red cloth boards stamped in gvilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket. The top corner o...

Adventurer: Being the Autobiography of One Frank Tarbeaux

TARBEAUX, FRANK · 1933 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, John Long, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first impression. 8vo. Pp 254. Tan cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. The cloth is marked and stained including a white paint stain on the spine. Spotting to the book block edges and the cloth is a little rubb...

Reluctant Archer

PAINTING, NORMAN · 1982 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Cambridge, Granta Editions, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp viii +184 + 24pp b&w photographs. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Printed label on the front free endpape...

Westminster Blues: Minor Chords

CRITCHLEY, JULIAN · 1985 · The Glass Key

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London, Elm Tree, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 134 illustrrated with cartoons by Colin Wheeler. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and price-clipped dust jacket. Very Good/very good.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I'Ve Learned

ALDA, ALAN · 2006 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hutchinson, 2006. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp viii + 224 + 16pp b&w photographs. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Very Good/very good.

Fun Was My Living

GILBEY, QUINTIN · 1970 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hutchinson, 1970. Second Impression. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 312 + monochrome frontis. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Very Good/very good.

Whitman

MASTERS, EDGAR LEE · 1937 · The Glass Key

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 342 + b&w photofrontis. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt and black on the spine and upper panel. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, unma...

Freud

MANNONI, O · 1974 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York, Vintage, 1974. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this mass market paperback edition. Pp 215. Translated from the French by Renaud Bruce. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

In Search of a Past: The Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-1945

FRASER, RONALD · 1985 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Verso, 1985. Second Impression. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 187. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket. Very Good .

The Illustrated Cider with Rosie

LAURIE LEE · 1999 · The Glass Key

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London, Cresset Press, 1999. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to (260 x 190mm). Pp 224 illustrated in full colour throughout. Glazed printed paper boards. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket. Very Good .

My Fathert and Myself

ACKERLEY, J.R. · 1999 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

New York, NYRB, 1999. Later printing. Paperback. Introduction by W.H. Auden. 4th printing of this trade paperback edition. 8vo. Pp xxiii + 283 with 9 b&w illustrations. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

A Precocious Autobiography

YEVTUSHENKO, YEVGENY · 1965 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1965. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this mass market paperback edition. Translated from the Russian by Andrew R. MacAndrew. Pp 136 + 8pp b&w photographs. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch

BAYLEY, JOHN · 1999 · The Glass Key

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London, Abacus, 1999. Later printing. Paperback. 3rd printing of this trade paperback edition. Pp 294 + 16pp monochrome halftone photographs. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887-1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan

KELLER, HELEN · 2007 · The Glass Key

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

Charleston, BiblioBazaar, 2007. No edition stated. Paperback. 8vo paperback edited with a preface by John Albert Macy. Pp 399. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. This book was produced as a print on demand item. Very Good .

Lauren Bacall by Myself

BACALL, LAUREN · 1978 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York, Knopf, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 418 + 32pp b&w photographs. Grey cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket. Very Good .

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

HUGHES, KATHRYN · 2006 · The Glass Key

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London, Harper Perennial, 2006. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this trade paperback edition. Pp xvi + 525 with 39 b&w illustrations in the text. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

David Rivett: Fighter for Australian Science

RIVETT, ROHAN · 1972 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Australia, Rivett, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp ix + 225 + frontis and 12pp b&w photographs. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Gift inscriptioin on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped ...