Biografia

Frank Harris

PULLAR, PHILIPPA · 1975 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp xii + 419 + 16pp of monochrome halftone plates. Gift inscription on the ffe else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and spine-sunned price-clipped dust jacket. Very Good/very good.

Grand Inquisitor: Memoirs by Sir Robin Day

DAY, SIR ROBIN · 1989 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp xv + 296 + 16pp b&w photographs. Blue cloth boards stamped in silver on the spine. A clean unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Very Good +/very good +.

Chameleon's Dish

NICHOLSON, NORA · 1973 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Paul Elek, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. Foreword by Sir John Gielgud. 8vo. Pp 170 + 8pp monochrome half-tone photographs. Claret cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. .

A Book of London Yesterdays

WILLIS, FREDERICK · 1960 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Phoenix House, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Foreword by The Rt Hon Lord Morrison of Lambeth. 8vo. Pp 314 + frontis and 48pp b&w plates. Mauve cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Name and address of ownership stamped on the ffe else a clean, unma...

Manouche

PEYREFITTE, ROGER · 1973 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. Second impression. Hardcover. 2nd impression. Translated from the French by Derek Coltman. 8vo. Pp 255 + colour frontis. Royal blue cloth boards stamped in silver on the spine. Very Good in Very Good dust-jacket. Very Good/very good.

Life of Richard Cobden

MORLEY, JOHN · 1906 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. 12th edition. Hardcover. 12th edition. 8vo. Pp xxiii + 985 + monochrome halftone frontis. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Heckmondwike Grammar School Library label on ffe, but no other ex-lib markings. Cloth rubbed at head and tai...

Siegfried Sassoon 91886-1967)

ROBERTS, JOHN STUART · 2000 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Richard Cohen, 2000. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this trade paperback edition. Pp xiii + 370 + 16pp b&w photographs. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. The upper wrapper is a little rubbed at the bottom corner. Very Good .

The Life of the Heart. George Sand and Her Times

WINWAR, FRANCES · 1946 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. Hardcover. 1st edition. Grey-blue cloth boards stamped in red and gilt on the spine. Pp 331 + 8pp half-tone illustrations. Good+ without dust-jacket. .

The Children of Shallowford

WILLIAMSON, HENRY · 1959 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Faber & Faber, 1959. Second edition. Hardcover. New, revised edition with additional scenes. 8vo. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy an a tight binding without dust jacket. near Very Good .

Oscar Wilde: An Illustrated Biography

FIDO, MARTIN · 1985 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

New York, Peter Bedrick, 1985. First printing of this edition. Paperback. 4to (295 x 216mm). Pp 144pp with 162 b&w illustrations and 24 colour plates. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers - appears unread. Near Fine .

Discourses and Letters of Hubert Murray Burge: Edited with a Memoir by Lord Charnwood

BURGE, HUBERT MURRAY · 1930 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp302 + b&w frontispiece (portrait). Orange brown cloth boards stamped in black on the spine, without dust jacket. Name, date and place in ink on ffep with address sticker. The text is clean and the binding tight. S...

The Great Delusion: The Autobiography of an Ex-Communist Leader

SHARPLEY, CECIL H. · 1952 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: William Heinemann, 1952. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp 155 + frontis and 4pp monochrome half-tones. Black cloth boards stamped in grey on the spine. Very Good without dust-jacket. .

Boswell's Life of Johnson (2 Vols)

BOSWELL, JAMES · 1961 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Heron Books, 1961. No edition stated. Hardcover. Introduction by Sir Sydney Roberts. Pp xxii + 638 + 7pp b&w illustrations and 646 + 7pp b&w illustrations. Brown leatherette boards decoratively stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. A clean, unmarked copy in a t...

Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict

SEYMOUR-JONES, CAROLE · 1992 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London, Allison & Busby, 1992. First edition. Paperback. First printing. 8vo paperback. Pp xiv + 369 + 16pp b&w photographs. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers - appears unread. Near Fine .

Don't Wake Me at Doyles: The Remarkable Memoir of an Ordinary Irish Woman and Her Extraordinary Life

MURPHY, MAURA · 2005 · The Glass Key

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London, Headline, 2005. Later printing. Paperback. 2nd printing of this trade paperback edition. Pp 406. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

Hemingway: Last Days of the Lion

NOLAN, WILLIAM F. · 1974 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Santa Barbara, Capra Press, 1974. First edition. Paperback. Includes Now Never There (a poem) and Hemingway: A Biographical Checklist. No 24 in the Yes! Capra Chapbook series. Pp 38. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Never one to pull his punches, Nolan's brief comme...

The Flowering Moment

GARDINER, WREY · 1949 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Grey Walls Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp 118. Canvas cloth boards stamped in red and gilt on the spine. Near Very Good without dust-jacket. .

My Story

SARAH THE DUCHESS OF YORK WITH JEFF COPLON · 1996 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Simon & Schuster, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp 295 + 32pp photographs in colour and b&w. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Gift inscription on the ffe else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. Very ...

Honest

JONSSON, ULRIKA · 2002 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover. 5th printing. 8vo. Pp xiv + 417 + 12pp b&w and 8pp colour photographs. Grey cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket is a little ...

Mary Curzon

NICOLSON, NIGEL · 1977 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8vo. Pp xii + 227 + 16pp b&w plates. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and price-clipped dust jacket. The dust jacket has a couple of closed ...