Biografia

Portrait of a Genius, But... : The Life of D.H. Lawrence, 1885 to 1930

ALDINGTON, RICHARD · 1951 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Readers Union and William Heinemann, 1951. Book Club. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp vi + 367 + 4pp b&w photographs. Red cloth boards stamped in silver and black on the spine. Contents clean and tightly bound without dust-jacket. Cloth is spine sunned and somewhat soiled. near Ver...

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill. A Portrait with Letters

CHURCHILL, PEREGRINE AND JULIAN MITCHELL · 1974 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Collins, 1974. Second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 285 + 32pp monochrome halftone photographs. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust-jacket. Very Good +/very good +.

Pasternak: A Biography

HINGLEY, RONALD · 1983 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

New York, Knopf, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp x + 303 + 8pp b&w photographs. Brown cloth spine stamped in metallic copper with sides of cream paper boards. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust-jacket just a little rubbed at t...

The Fred Dibnah Story

HAWORTH, DON · 1993 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Godalming, Ted Smart, 1993. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 192 with b&w photographs throughout. Glazed printed paper on boards. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust-jacket. Very Good +/very good +.

Memories of a 'Twenties Child

JONES, DOUGLAS V. · 1981 · The Glass Key

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Sutton Coldfield, Westwood Press, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 8vo paperback. Pp 112 with b&w photographs throughout. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good + .

André Malraux: La Création D'Un Destin

BIET, CHRISTIAN · 1987 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Paris, Gallimard, 1987. First edition. Paperback. First printing of this paperback edition. Pp 176 with illustrations printed in colour and b&w throughout. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Text in French. Near Fine .

Hammett: A Life at the Edge

NOLAN, WILLIAM F · 1983 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Arthur Barker, 1983. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp xiv + 276 inc 12pp b&w photographs. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust-jacket. Very Good +/very good +.

Through Prison Bars: The Lives and Labours of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry

RENDER, WILLIAM H. · 1895 · The Glass Key

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, S. W. Partridge, nd (1895?). No edition stated. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 160 + 16pp publisher's catalogue at the rear. Pictorial blue cloth boards. Cloth is soiled and a little rubbed at the extremities. Contents are clean and tightly bound. Printed sunday school prize label...

The World Is Full of Charlies Recollections of a Lifetime in Showbusiness

CHESTER, CHARLIE · 1974 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, New English Library, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 233 + 8pp b&w photographs. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust-jacket. Signed To Tom and Ruth All the Best ...

A More Difficult Exercise

MORAN, DIANA · 1989 · The Glass Key

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London, Bloomsbury, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 177 + 16pp b&w photographs. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust-jacket. Very Good +/very good +.

Bloomsbury: A House of Lions

EDEL, LEON · 1979 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Book Club Associates, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 288 + frontis and 8pp b&w photographs. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust-jacket designed by Will Carter. Dust-jacket is a little rubbed...

Fire Under the Snow

GYATSO, PALDEN WITH TSERING SHAKYA · 1997 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Harvill Press, 1997. Second impression. Hardcover. 2nd impression. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Translated from the Tibetan by Tsering Shakya. 8vo. Pp vi + 232 + 8pp b&w photographs. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight bindin...

A Muse in Love: Julie de Lespinasse

MITCHINER, MARGARET · 1962 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Bodley Head, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Pp 222 + frontis and 4pp b&w plates. Claret cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Contents clean and tightly bound without dust-jacket. Very Good .

Writers and Rebels: From the Fabian Biographical Series

KATANKA, MICHAEL (ED) · 1976 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London, Charles Knight, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Introduction by Dame Margaret Cole. 8vo. Pp 238. 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.

Fires of Spring

BARBER, NOEL · 1952 · The Glass Key

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp viii + 181 + frontis. Red cloth boards stamped in silver on the spine. Contents clean and tightly bound. Light spotting to book block edges. Soiled dust-jacket has closed tears at the folds. Very Good/good +.

Matthew Arnold

RUSSELL, G.W.E. · 1904 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Literary Lives series edited by W. Robertson Nicoll. 8vo. Pp xvi + 269 + tissue protected frontis and 16pp b&w photographs. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. Cloth is showi...

Almost in Camera

BROWN, PERCY · 1944 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hollis and Carter, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp x + 238 + frontis and 8pp monochrome halftone plates. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Contents clean and tightly bound. Cloth is soiled and there is no dust-jacket. Good + .

The Farthing Poet: A Biography of Richard Hengist Horne 1802-84 A Lesser Literary Lion

BLAINEY, ANN · 1968 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Longmans, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 286 + 8pp b&w plates. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding with clipped dust-jacket rubbed at the top edges and with a touch of red ink stain. Very Good/near very good.

A Letter

FANE, JULIAN · 1960 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: John Murray, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by John Betjeman. 8vo. Pp 58. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Ownership name in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, bright copy in a soiled, unclipped dust-jacket a little rubbed at the extr...

Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763

POTTLE, FREDERICK A. (ED) · 1951 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: William Heinemann, 1951. Hardcover. 3rd impression. 8vo. Pp xiii + 370 + monochrome halftone frontis. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. Very Good without dust-jacket. .